k wrote:
] ] By the tens of thousands, demonstrators marched, chanted
] ] -- "No More Years!" -- and danced through the streets of
] ] Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their anger with President
] ] Bush, the war in Iraq and the Republicans' decision to
] ] hold a national convention in this most Democratic of
] ] urban bastions.
] ]
] ] Hundreds of police officers in riot gear lined the
] ] sidewalks, SWAT vans idled, and police helicopters
] ] whirred overhead. But the protest was as peaceful as it
] ] was vast. More than 200,000 demonstrators, according to a
] ] police estimate, packed dozens of blocks along Seventh
] ] Avenue and snaked down side streets.
]
] [ I've seen scattered estimates up to 500,000, though that's
] probly over the top... Really an incredible thing that
] happened, for so many people to be able to demonstrate
] peacefully. There were only some scattered arrests for things
] like impeding traffic, and a minor fire some anarchists set.
] Not getting the coverage it deserves i think. -k]

I am suprised none of the democrat-party-line didacts on memestreams have blamed the fire on the cops, or some republican operative. Possibly Karl Rove? Well, maybe I just gave them the idea. Guess I will expect some Weathermen at my front door tomorrow.

RE: 200,000 in N.Y. Protest Bush (washingtonpost.com)