The wonderful thing about the world of protesting is that nothing needs to make sense. It just needs to sound good. If we were to pull out of Iraq, the war would not stop but would degenerate into civil war.

If the US was a police state, you'd think that it would be pretty easy for it to round up people like this. After all, they got a protest permit from the government, published their agenda in the paper and on the Internet, and have a squadron of police guarding their demonstration. It doesn't get easier to catch dissidents than that for opppressive governments. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

It's that other world the protestors are hoping for that worries me far more than the imaginary police state they think they are living in.