[quote name='David85'][quote name='JSweeney']It's amazing how quickly people seem to forget the "Free Speech Zone" at the DNC.
Those areas penned in with fencing and razor-wire is still more offensive to me than just about anything else from either side that I've seen in this dirty campaign. At the moment, I don't want to vote for either of them.[/quote]
That was not done by the Democrats that was done because the Bush people said that there could be terror attacks then (there can always be a terror attack!) and the city biuld the "Freedom Cage" for it. The best part was that no one went in there and people protested done the streets and instead of the police arresting them they marched in front of them to move the traffic out of the way.[/quote]
The protesters taking part in civil disobedience by refusing to protest in the free speech zone is great. You trying to put the blame for the free speech zone on Bush isn't.
Considering that the DNC and RNC are high profile high visablity events make them automatically more attractive as targets for a terrorist attack. The fact that you could get high visablity, rattle some of the politicians, and possibily even create enough case to create a period of instablity for long enough to launch a few other attacks makes them even moreso.
It'd be foolish NOT to think that the DNC and RNC wouldn't be attractive targets.
I still fault the people that ran the DNC however, as they could have very easily told the city that the "free speech zone" was ridiculous as it was, and they should reconfigure it so that it looked more like standard barriers and police barricades (like you'd see at just about any major event in a big city), and less like an internment camp.
If any fool in New York tries to do the same thing, I'll be just as angry.
It may be naive of me, but I find it hard to believe that everything that every agency of the federal government does is politically motivated.