BTW, the federal judge hearing the case on the NY demo/march planned to go past the UN has denied the permit for the march, citing "heightened security." Around 60 anti-war protestors who showed up at a library in Massachusetts to protest an appearance by compassionate hawk, Sen John Kerry, were forcibly pushed back from the picket line they had formed near the library. When asked why by the media, the police claimed "heightened security" as the reason.

Seems "heightened security" is now the justification being used to kill off the Bill of Rights, starting right there with #1, the constitutional right to peaceful assembly. I think the Bushites fear that if the hundreds of thousands of people marching in the street might make people question the results of their propaganda wing's polls that say Americans are all for this war.