This is the "Ramsey Plan". Yes, Police Chief Charles Ramsey of the Wsahington, D.C. Police Department ordered the arrest of an eintire group of people who were participating in the IMF demonstartions in October. It made the front page.
Two months later, a judge chastized the arrests since no one had been ordered to move on bu the police. The story made the 4th page of the Metro section.
Most recently, Ramsey has made a statement to the IMF protesters that the next time they come to D.C. he has some new things in store for them.
Bottom line. Pre-emption is is. The supreme Court pre-empted the American democracy. Then Bush said he was gonna just go and whack folks who *might* someday pose a threat to the US. And now when the *true* Patriots take to the streets, much the way our ancestors did against the Brits, the government decides to ahhh, guess?
Yep, pre-empt the rights guarenteed by folks who had a lot more courage than these friggin cowards, the Founding Fathers.
Bush/Ashcroft/Ramsey/Rice/Cheney/Rumsfelf are a bunch of sissies. Yaeh, it's real easy to *act* tough when you got the big stick!