If you feel the urge to protest at this year’s Democratic convention just know that the state sees you as a threat and therefore will have you behind a fence. Not just a fence, a fence made of chicken wire or chain link. I don’t know if it’s true but I heard they will also be implementing drug dogs and a riot squad. The last sentence is a lie but the truth remains, the DNC will have a “free speech” fence. Outside of it you may find some truth here and there, but inside it, there is no truth to be found.

The fence around the public demonstration zone outside the Democratic National Convention will be chicken wire or chain link, authorities revealed in U.S. District Court today.

That may allow protectors to be seen and heard by delegates going in and out of the Pepsi Center during the convention.

But the American Civil Liberties Union and several advocacy groups have filed an amended complaint to their lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service and the city and county of Denver that says protectors and demonstrators may have their First Amendment rights violated by security restrictions.

The ACLU has said it wants to avoid the conditions that existed during the 2004 convention in Boston, where protesters were caged, infuriating First Amendment advocates.

The first phase of the lawsuit asked the court to compel the city and the Secret Service to disclose the information on protest restrictions.

During today’s hearing before Judge Marcia S. Krieger, the attorney for the groups, Steve Zansberg, said the city and the Secret Service had provided the information sought in Phase One.

The second phase of the lawsuit will address whether the restrictions are unconstitutional. Zansberg also represents The Denver Post on First Amendment issues, though the paper is not a party in this dispute.

The groups agreed to go to trial on those issues on July 29 and the judge will visit the site the night before to assess the restrictions.

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Look, I don’t agree with most Democrats either but that’s no reason to put them in a cage. In this day and age we shouldn’t be locking people up for their crazy, but permitted, ideas. I don’t see why they’re locking them behind a cage to begin with. You ever seen a hippie perform an act of violence? You have? I thought they were supposed to be peace loving indivuals? Either way it’s interseting. If it we’re Republican behind a cage you’d see people celebrating not initiating lawsuites.

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