CANDID CAMERA EDITION

"When it's least expected, your elected. You're the star today! SMILE! You're On Candid Camera!"

There was a television show in the sixties (so I'm told) where they use to place a hidden camera somewhere in a city, usually in a talking mail box or phone booth. (Yes, we use to have them) They would film the reaction of unsuspecting passersbys as the mail box would talk. They also did other crazy things to solicit some really funny reactions. The man behind this was the genius named Alan Funt. He would always start out each segment with: "We wondered what it would be like if....."
I can almost hear ALan Funt now. "We wondered what it would be like if we put 4,000 Police Officers in a city and told them there were 15,000 protesters on their way. We'd let them mobilize, get into their riot gear and no one would show up! I bet it would make for some fun. Let's watch"
What if you threw a protest and nobody came?

Word on the street (and in the media) is the big protest that was planned for this afternoon, may not be happening at all! They were suppose to be gathering in Lawrenceville for their march of about 30 blocks to the Convention Center. One of the protesters from Colorado (they all are from somewhere else) said that the "Thug Cops" scared everyone away. All the news crews are there and filming maybe 40-50 protesters. The estimates are now there will be maybe a "couple hundred" protesters marching in this "un-permitted" walk. Some are breathing a sigh of relief.

This correspondent for now isn't buying it. These freaks didn't schlep their way across the country to sing a few songs, give a couple of interviews and leave.

I just got off the phone with my source in the PD and he told me (what I have been thinking) the feeling is they are gathering somewhere else, perhaps dividing up into groups and coming from different directions. Of course they hope they are wrong and the the freaks have moved on, but that seams highly unlikely.

The one thing that would make this more fun is if Muammar Gaddaffy Duck would come to the city and set his tent up with "Everybody's Kitchen." I would pay to see Muammar with a ladle in his hand passing out soup.

More as it warrants.