Those Who Can't Do, Protest

Landing the 2008 GOP convention means that the Twin Cities will also have to deal with the wretched refuse that such events invariably attract:

With nearly two years to go before the gavel falls at the 2008 Republican National Convention, anti-war demonstrators already are planning to march on the convention arena in St. Paul.

The Anti-War Committee, based in Minneapolis, has applied for marching and demonstration permits from the city of St. Paul.

Delegates "have 17,000 hotel rooms; I hope we have numbers at least as many," said Jess Sundin, a member of the Anti-War Committee.

As many what? Tents? Cardboard boxes? Giant puppet heads?

But even worse than crowds of decaying hippies and mush-minded youth, our zone is going to be flooded with liberal law-talkers:

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU) says it expects more protest groups to sign up for the Twin Cities convention, and is getting ready to help them get access to the convention site.

"We've already started discussions and lining up attorneys," said Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the state ACLU. "They have these conventions every four years and they take away the First Amendment rights of everybody except the people they agree with."

Yeah Chuck, because if these brave voices of dissent (from hygiene) aren't allowed to go wherever and whenever they want to harass and hurl obscenities at convention goers, then their free speech is being crushed. Never mind the rights of the citizens who are peaceably gathering to do their civic duty by legitimately participating in the political process. The scraggly man on the street is the hero, the successful man in the hall is the bum.