Originally posted by Bobboau
ugh, you know what you call a protest that isn't organised like that, a RIOT,
you... people... 
if Bush so much as sneazes you scream oppresion and "1984"!
you realize that by the time dark lord Ashcroft brings about his truely evil powers nobody is going to listen to you becase of this bullcrap
this is how protests have been organised for DECADES
GOD DAMNIT
Actually, Bob, in this you are wrong. Only a few presidents have isolated protestors the way the bush administration has. Notably, these have been, in recent years, the senior Bush administration, the Nixon administration and the Reagan administration. The Clinton administration did not isolate protestors out of the president's sight, nor did Kennedy or Carter. Hell, even Johnson, for all the horror of a president he was, didn't.
Now, as for the riot thing: I hardly call holding a sign with a slogan of dissent
where the President of the United States can see it a riot. It doesn't even fit the definition of the word riot ("a public act of violence by an unruly mob", according to Google). Its free speech and is protected, or it used to be.
I'm all for keeping the dissenters seperate from the supporters. I'm completely against hiding the dissenters away where the President and his cronies--or the press--can't see them.
Originally posted by Bobboau
ok, the way it works is before the protest, all sides get togeather and decide, were are the protestors going to demonstrate, were is the 'whatever it is that there protesting' going to take place, how can the demonstrators demonstrate while at the same time not chocke the city, or cause actual damage, or not actualy get around to doing something physical to the 'whatever', and if they still decide to try (ie if a riot breaks out) they can still be brought under controle.
ACtually, if you RTFA, you'll see that this is NOT the way it works. The Secret Service tells the local police to arrange "free speech zones" and the dissenters are hidden.
the people were alowed to demonstrate, they wern't shot or run over with tanks, this isn't an infrengment, please tell me when something important actualy happens, (like someone getting arrested for telling there kid 'Bush is a dolt') and quit freaking out everytime something normal happens.
One can hardly call it a demonstration when the President can't see that the people are dissenting. Also if you'd like to be told when something happens, RTFA. People are hogtied and dragged away for dissenting ("they might wander out in front of the motorcade and get hurt", my ass). Some people HAVE BEEN arrested and put on trial for approaching "too close to the president" (that was in South Carolina). So yeah, here goes:
BOBBOAU: SOMETHING IMPORTANT HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. NOW GO READ THE ****ING ARTICLE.
