[IP] 9/11 walk celebrating "freedom" with threat of arrest?
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From: Jeremy Epstein <jeremy.epstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 9, 2005 12:55:08 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 9/11 walk celebrating "freedom" with threat of arrest?
For IP, if you like:
It strikes me as somewhat perverse that a "freedom walk" is so un-
free that
you're at risk of being arrested if you try to join without
registering, and
media are being largely excluded.
Excerpts from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/
AR2005090802
140_pf.html
Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are
taking
extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and
concert,
with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to
anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today. The march,
sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the
Pentagon
to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be
lined with
four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said
Allison
Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.
[...]
[Park Police Chief] Pettiford said officers would patrol to keep
interlopers
out because the Pentagon restricted the event in its permit application.
[...] What's unusual for an event on the Mall is the combination of
fences,
required preregistration and the threat of arrest. Park Police
officials
said security and safety were concerns, especially because Secretary of
Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will participate in some of the day's events.
They said they have approved a permit for a small group of protesters
that
plans to stand along Independence Avenue.
[...]
One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be
allowed to
walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to
three
enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside
participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to
the
Mall. [...]
--Jeremy
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