A firm, but small, nip upon the buttocks of the first amendment.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tim O'Reilly <tim () oreilly com>
Date: June 27, 2005 2:52:29 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] A firm, but small, nip upon the buttocks of the  
first amendment.


Dave,

I forwarded this item to my brother, who lives in Palo Alto, to find  
out if he had heard anything about this.  His comment:

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> Yes. The police put on a big show because the last time this  
> happened, the kids ("anarchists" the papers called them but I think  
> they are mostly teenagers and 20-somethings with nothing to do),  
> they smashed a lot of windows and turned over cars, stuff like that.
>
> Of course had the police not done much, they would have been  
> excoriated for being ill-prepared. They prepared for a lot of  
> trouble, there wasn't any, and so they are ridiculed for being  
> members of the police state.

So it sounds like it was not as much out of the blue as one might  
expect, if there was a bad experience with the same event the  
previous year.
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