[IP] A firm, but small, nip upon the buttocks of the first amendment.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Tim O'Reilly <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 27, 2005 2:52:29 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] A firm, but small, nip upon the buttocks of the
first amendment.
Dave,
I forwarded this item to my brother, who lives in Palo Alto, to find
out if he had heard anything about this. His comment:
Begin forwarded message:
Yes. The police put on a big show because the last time this
happened, the kids ("anarchists" the papers called them but I think
they are mostly teenagers and 20-somethings with nothing to do),
they smashed a lot of windows and turned over cars, stuff like that.
Of course had the police not done much, they would have been
excoriated for being ill-prepared. They prepared for a lot of
trouble, there wasn't any, and so they are ridiculed for being
members of the police state.
So it sounds like it was not as much out of the blue as one might
expect, if there was a bad experience with the same event the
previous year.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------
Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly Media, Inc.
1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
707-827-7000
http://www.oreilly.com (company), http://tim.oreilly.com (personal)
-------------------------------------
You are subscribed as roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To manage your subscription, go to
http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip
Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/