What is with the double standard at rallies?

[Nightjock]

Forgive me if this was asked already but I just got home from work.
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

When Kerry or Edwards has a campaign rally Bush sends his Brownshirts to disrupt. But the police horde any Bush protesters at his rallies a half mile away.

And if the cops aren't helping this fascist administration spread their propaganda, I saw a story on the Daily Show where people have to sign a piece of paper stating they support Dick Cheaney before they can get into one of his rallies.WTF?!

I am pissed off and was wondering if anyone here can give me an answer of how they get away with this and why doesn't the media (besides Jon Stewart) even MENTION this double standard?!

Has anyone here tried to protest at a Bush rally and succeeded?
Am I wasting my time planning to get a baby sitter so I can protest the RNC convention? Where will we be able to protest? New Jersey?

[KurtNYC]

1. It is up to the campaigns I believe

B/C have been using ticketed private events (plus an oath now). Kerry is doing the middle of town free thing.

[jfxgillis]

2. FYI, Here's the documentaion and excerpts for your point:

How the Kerry campaign does things versus how the Bush campaign does.

Kerry lets dissenters in:

"With a Bush supporter chanting 'Four more years! Four more years!' through a bullhorn from the back of a park Monday evening, the candidate's wife stopped herself to respond. 'They want four more years of hell,' Heinz Kerry said."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040803/ap_on_el_pr/heinz_kerry_4

Bush doesn't:

"Nick Burkhardt and Matt Klaber of Mankato initially were denied rally tickets after making unfavorable comments about the president while waiting in line for three hours. They later were given tickets, but when they got off the shuttle bus at the quarry they were told they couldn't go in." http://www.kstptv5.com/article/stories/S1623.html?cat=64

[Still_Loves_John]

3. Exactly

Senator Kerry understands that a candidate should be accessible to everybody, including people who disagree with him.

[tom_paine]

4. Double-standards are the hallmarks of Totalitarian Societies like

Imperial Amerika.

It just is because it is, same as in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

Luckily our Nazis are Kinder and Gentler, forced to obey the tenets of the Old American Republic they lather.

SURE they'd like to make some lampshades from the sakin of the dead protestors, but they can't (yet).

So they have to satisfy themselves by merely arresting and harassing for the moment.

The double-standard itself is as odious and obvious and ironclad, varying only in mattrer of degree, severity and violence, as the Soviets or Nazis.