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It won't come to that. The media would love to have you believe that these losers shut the city down. Sorry, but that didn't happen.

Police officers were waiting for them. We were warned to expect them in my office. As a matter of fact, we have been under a code-red lockdown in my particular building since last Wednesday.

This morning, less than twenty protestors laid down on Fifth Avenue some time after 8:00am. They did this in front of Sacks, which did not disrupt business, as the store hadn't opened yet. They were immediately arrested. Police had one lane of traffic opened up a couple of minutes later. There were a couple of hundred other protestors, who were contained by the police presence. None of these poeple believed in their cause enough to get arrested, and they all went home in an hour or so. I just went out to get lunch. Police have roped off a designated protest area. There is one pathetic middle-aged man carrying a sign. That's it. The rest of Rock Plaza is filled with high school kids on class trips, and mothers taking young children skating. It is a beautiful day. Life goes on. They accomplished nothing. Except that mocked-up pictures of their "protest" are sure to get to our boys in Iraq. But, maybe that's the point. A lot of the hard-core old-school radical protestors make no apology for the fact that they are rooting for Iraq in this war. Why?

One other point. There was one thing that struck me about the protestors this morning. There were two prominent groups. Kids from the age 16 to 20, and adults 45+. Interestingly they two groups share a common fashion sense. The latter group are aging hippies happy to find a protest. The former are the typical impressionable adolescents happy to defy authority in any form. I was one of them once myself. There was nobody between the ages of 20 and 40. Why? Because we have jobs, we understand what this war is designed to accomplish, and we are two young to remeber Viet Nam.