Yellow Dog

Check out these news-stories on the so-called FREEDOM walk that is being sponsored by the military on 9/11:

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch:

"A 'Freedom Walk' on Sunday in honor of the military, from the Pentagon to the Washington Mall, is open only to those pre-registered - and the U.S. Park Police has warned that it will arrest anyone who shows up without a pass."

Threats of arrest if you don't register for the Freedom Walk? Hooray for Freedom!

From the Washington Post:

"Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police.

The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.

The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.

One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall."

Okay, let's see if I've got this straight. The FREEDOM walk is not open to average citizens and will take place within a 4-foot high fenced area patrolled by cops on horses, motorcycles and circling in helicopters above (wonder how much that is costing the taxpayers). Anyone who tries to join in the FREEDOM walk will be arrested, and the media will have limited access to the event. Are we sure this is taking place in the US and not USSR?