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April 28, 2004
GEE, I'M STUNNED
Gosh, what a shocker. New York's Republican mayor's administration has denied people of their Constitutional right to free aseembly -- denying an anti-war group's request for a permit to hold an anti-war rally in Central Park during the GOP national convention here. Their reason? The rally would be "too big."
What? To paraphrase a line from our friend Pete last week (he was much more descriptive than I)... What the freaking freak?
Yep, that's the ruling. The anticipated rally -- 80,000 plus or more are expected -- would be too big, and thus cannot be allowed.
Lemme see if I have this straight. During a Republican convention that was cynically located and timed to exploit the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a very large group of law-abiding Americans wants to protest George Bush's lies, deceit, exaggeration, and the fact that he has caused the death of more than 700 American military with his Halliburton War... and this group isn't allowed to exercise its Constitutional rights because... the group would be too big? This from the same city that allowed a free concert by Dave Matthews last year with donations to benefit the NYC schools? And from the same city that allowed a concert by Simon and Garfunkel in the 80s that drew 400,000?
Just one more example of how the Republican Party operates outside of the US Constitution whenever it must, doing whatever it needs to do in order to hang on to its illegally gotten power.
