"Mull that over and then we'll talk again."
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Presumptious to assume that that angle had not occurred to me. The nets control most of what a significant % of the American public sees, witness Iraq coverage. If they choose to do so they can make the NYPD and any other crowd control unit (NG) look like the proto-typical jack-booted thugs. And they can do it with Bush/Cheney posters in the background while invoking the "constitution trashing" elements of the "Bush" Patriot Act. I'm not so naive as to believe that the NY based liberal press would not do this.
In support of this theory...an earlier post on this same thread had a freeper with one foot already out of the country because of how he perceived NYPD outside his hotel when he visited a while ago. He saw it as a step toward a police state, and he's on our side.