People are reflecting on the Bush administration's callous response to the hurricane and asking what's all the money and material and people doing in Iraq when it could have been used to prepare here.
We had a counterculture then, a huge block of people who differed with the values of our society. In that era, things were polarized to the extent that a person would wear either a peace sign or a flag.
These regulations strike a serious blow against the constitutional rights of a large group of people to get across their point of view. The Bloomberg administration conjured up the specter of damage to the lawn without thinking about the threat to civil liberties.
The terrible tragedy of Katrina brought a silver lining and that's more scrutiny of Bush's foreign and domestic policy,
It's a completely fascinating array of people being arrested,
It's the next big thing for the anti-war movement.
It's good. This represents an escalation by the peace movement. It's really sending a message to the White House.
But he has thrown obstacle after obstacle in the course of protesters, including stopping us from holding a rally in Central Park, a very basic constitutional right.