I don’t know if I can stand to watch the coverage.
The OWS crowd has a float - actually a bunch of plastic bags shaped like an octopus, with people walking under it.
I can’t be in the parade - not being a float, and not being covered in flowers. However, the police are going to keep the parade route closed to traffic, and allow these idiots to follow the parade.
I remember all the loonies marching after the last float even back in the 70’s and 80’s when I used to go.
OWS will just follow the parade with all the other Walking Rabble that parade behind. No TV coverage, just a human tide. The local Tea Party is watching and waiting, but there are so darned many police and white suiters on the T of R that I suspect little will come of OWS.
Pasadena police have been explicit in what will happen. Following the parade (and the police cars and the tow trucks and whatever support vehicles are needed), the public will be welcome to, as has always been the tradition, to follow the parade for the rest of the route.
Pasadena police will not guarantee position for any OWS protest, they will not reserve a space for them, they will not kick out others from there, and the occupotty protesters, as of about an hour and a half ago, numbered just six - whereas the bicycles and signs were already stationed at the 'end of parade staging area' just waiting for their chance to follow the parade six hours later.
The occupotty bozos have garnered a lot of press, and that's about it. You can assume, however, that the liberals in the media will take every effort to show us the occupotty protesters, and imply the mass of humanity behind them is part of their paltry little group.