Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Osama Would Be Proud

Over the weekend, the Pentagon sponsored a march and concert to remember the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Extraordinary measures were taken to control participation. It was closed to anyone who did not register, and the route was blocked off with four-foot high snow fencing in order to keep it “sterile,” said a Pentagon official.

The U.S. Park Police had its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. The Park Police chief said that officers were prepared to arrest anyone who joined the march or concert without a credential and refused to leave.

The media was restricted to three enclosed areas along the route and was not allowed to walk alongside the march participants.

The event was billed as the Freedom Walk.

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