prev ::: next The big metal gates had been draped with some sort of tarps so you couldn't even see what was going on outside, and people outside couldn't see in. My largest concern about all this security theater is that the conclusion may be, once people have packed up and gone home, is that it worked. Nothing blew up, no one was killed, relatively few people were arrested, the subway wasn't bombed. Howard Dean likes to talk in his speeches about the old lady in the wheelchair who came to him with a bag of quarters and donated it all to his campaign because she believed in his message. |