> Peaceable assembly's overrated anyway. (RNC '04) You mean the assembly whose Wikipedia page has... ? "Expected security expenditures reached $70 million, $5

> Peaceable assembly's overrated anyway. (RNC '04) You mean the assembly whose Wikipedia page has... ? "Expected security expenditures reached $70 million, $50 million of which was funded by the federal government." "The NYPD infiltrated and compiled dossiers on protest groups (most of whom were doing nothing illegal), leading to over 1,800 arrests and subsequent fingerprinting." "Over 1800 individuals were arrested by the authorities, a record for a political convention in the U.S. However 90% of those charges were eventually dropped." Wow! Indeed, a great failure of the right to peaceful assembly! (Who were they protesting against, anyway? An illegal act of war? Their leaders, who had lied to them into said war? Minutiae.)