Sure would be a pity if Secret Service thought those eggs were hand grenades and responded appropriately.
How hard is it to paint a small hand grenade white? There do exist such miniature grenades (or they could be manufactured by a few dedicated people), right?
I wonder if there won't be a few real attacks mixed in with the fakes, in order to create chaos. The grenades would not be thrown at Bush (too hard) but at ordinary Republicans celebrating the inauguration.
If I was in al-Qaida, that's exactly what I would do. It would be awesome. Republicans would be dead, hippies would be blamed first, then al-Qaida, then the hippies would say we were really CIA agents as part of a master plan related to the "crushing of dissent." When the public turned away from the protesters, they would become even more radical. And al-Qaida would be free to mess with them next. Blowing up some protesters would convince them that Bush was behind the attacks, driving them to carry out attacks on Republicans. If it was all played right, it would get pretty ugly. There are at least tens of thousands of radicals in this country who, given the right circumstances, could carry out terror attacks on the rest of us. All al-Qaida has to do is play with hippie delusions.
The Secret Service should shoot anyone carrying out or simulating a terrorist attack. If it can't tell the difference, that's just too bad for the perpetrator, right?