There's a Riot Going On!!!

Well a couple of big stories in the news on the upcoming Republican Convention.  It's already well known that dozens of protests are planned during the convention which is being held to tie in with the remembrance of September 11th (so that Team Bush controls the news cycle for quite a little while). 
 
Well it turns out that some Conservative groups are planning counter protests.  According to AP Reporter Sara Kugler, "Activists planning to demonstrate against the upcoming GOP convention should be on the lookout for young conservatives gearing up to protest the protesters." 
 
These brave young conservatives are apparently called the Protest Warriors (and in a 100% unrelated story, the good folks at Make me a Commentator!!! are considering changing their name to Commentary Warriors).  
 
This is at the top of their website.  "Welcome to ProtestWarrior.com, a website created to help arm the liberty-loving Silent Majority with ammo -- ammo that strikes at the intellectual solar plexus of the Left. "
 
The intellectual solar plexus of the Left.  There's a phrase that's rife with possibilities. 
 
In other happy news is this editorial, by Adam Cohen, at the New York Times.  Apparently Mayor Bloomberg in 2004 is somewhat similar to Mayor Daley, Mayor of Chicago in 1968.  The 1968 Democratic Convention was somewhat of a debacle, as anti-war protestors clashed with the Chicago City Police Force.  Could such a debacle happen in 2004?  
  
While it doesn't seem likely that we will see a repeat of 1968, according to Mr. Cohen, it also seems unlikely that the Protesters will receive a warm welcome. 
 
"Mayor Bloomberg's roots lie in a social organization that's very different from the clubhouse, but equally intolerant of spontaneous outbursts. Until he ran for mayor he had spent his life in the corporate world, where ? as in a political machine ? people pursue a common goal by working through the system. Employees who try to harangue leaders into changing corporate policy are not engaging in free speech. They are being insubordinate."

Mr. Cohen calls on Mayor Bloomberg to welcome the protesters, provided they stay within the law.  At any rate, we got Protesters, Counter-Protesters, and a Mayor who prefers silence to dissent.  I'm not saying anything is necessarily going to happen, but it probably could.