[Bob J]

You're taking a similar line of argument Ed Rendell gave, when he siggested that the union thugs in Philly did what was right and proper in beating up the diminutive Don Adams and his sister, Terri.

Baloney. It appeared the rally itself was covered, but the march down to meet the ANSWER people was crazy.

[bvw]

Despite that walk into the other-sides rally, it's doesn't mean that ANSWER had license to assualt and batter the group of counter-demonstrators. Yet -- careful Bob J -- for where (at this point, following that attack) you put your concern, is exactly the line of Rendell. Rendell was responsible for order in his city. Yet on the occasion of the visit of Democrat and President Clinton, he asserted that the Adameses were the ones at fault for even showing up. His presumption is one you'd seem to share. The public safety of obvious conservatives and Republicans ends when there's a liberal or Democrat rally in proximity.