Yes, let us cage the protesters out of sight and view of the MSM, attendees and our dear presumptive nominee.

They still get the right of free speech, just out of sight and hearing distance of most attending the convention.

I don't know if I really would or not because protesting is hard work and I like to take the easy way out.  I'd be a complainer, which is what I am here.  ;-)

A vocal complainer.  

My mother used to be a protestor.  She tried to climb over the walls to the White House years ago.  I was just a kid at the time but I remember sitting in the Secret Service shack because they had carted my mother off to St. Elizabeth's mental hospital.  After that, my father and I spent four lovely days touring the museums in Washington due to my mother's status as an "inmate."

If I had to pick a "claim to fame" for my family, it was the fact my mother wanted to talk to Teddy Kennedy -- and she managed to catch him outside of the Senate offices.  She rode up in the Senate elevator with him (while my father and I had to take the public elevator) and when we got up to his office, my mother was sitting on one of the chairs in the outer office.  We sat around for awhile, until someone came out and said "Senator Kennedy is going out of town and won't have time to see you."  So, reluctantly we left.  

Two days later, Chappaquiddick was in the newspapers.  

Anyway, those are some hard family memories.  My mother was always a fighter.  She was a Hillary Clinton style fighter who always took on the challenge no matter how much the deck was stacked against her.  

At the time, she was protesting something that is in the news today -- which is the fact that the federal government has to "allow" soldiers and their families to sue the federal government for damages their doctors cause.  You need to get government approval to sue for medical malpractice.  And that is what my mother was fighting over.

I wish I was of "protestor stock" but I saw how little my mother accomplished and to great embarrassment to our family.  Hardly anyone had a "protestor" mom back in the late '60s and early '70s.  But my mother would not back down, she could not back down...  She just kept on going and going.  She fought for everything she saw as an injustice to anyone.  If you told her a sad story, she'd take up your cause and she'd fight for it.  

Denver is a biiiiig city. Delegates are staying all over town. They can't keep people away from all public places.

sen. obama and the DNC should be congratulated, for somehow managing to snatch defeat out of the near certain jaws of victory. it will take another 20 years for the democratic party to recover from them.

For several, The tone started okay, but declined as officers got grumpy after long shifts in the sun and heat.

1976 GOP KC A-
1976 D NYC B+
1984 GOP Dallas B+
1980 D NYC B
1988 GOP New Orleans C
1996 D Chicago C
2004 R NYC C- *
1972 R Miami Beach R D+
2000 D LA D
2000 R Phila F

* Monday, the pre-emptive mass arrests clearly F, but the Saturday before the Convention, and the last night, the NYPD contained, but didn't impede, expressive activity.

People were roped off. Caged.

To me, this is not a good image for the democratic party.