Poll: Protesters should be allowed(CNN 71% yes)

[Nambe]

NEW YORK (AP)

Seventy-one percent of the city's registered voters think protesters should be allowed to demonstrate in Central Park during the Republican National Convention, and 11 percent plan to go to a demonstration themselves, according to a poll released Thursday.

Most New Yorkers, 81 percent, approve of lawful demonstrations during the convention, and 68 percent approve of nonviolent civil disobedience, the Quinnipiac University Poll found. (Sources: NYPD, protest group agree on rally site) ..

"The city is rolling out the red carpet for the Republican delegates, but most New Yorkers would roll out the green carpet of Central Park for the anti-Republican demonstrators," Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement. ..

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[freetobegay]

1. You gotta love New Yorkers!

[Aunt Anti-bush]

9. You're right.

How do they think they're going to silence New Yorkers?

[SoFlaJet]

2. I saw these people had

a cloth sign hanging out a hotel window and they were ARRESTED!!!!!!!!WTF is with dissent and these people we got running the country.I'll bet you if ONE republican got arrested we'd never hear the end of it.Could you imagine Hannity?O'Rielly?Limbaugh?and how they'd be screaming every single day?

[Az_lefty]

3. Excellent

NYC :yourock:

[montana_hazeleyes]

4. I think they

know and resent that the scums are using them, and September 11th.

[Hobarticus]

5. Only 81% believe in lawful demonstrations?

I'd hope for better support for the First Amendment!

But, take what you can get, I guess.

[Barrett808]

6. 10% of 8 million = 800,000

That's a big protest.

[Hobarticus]

7. What's the estimated ratio of protestors to delegates?

Saw it somewhere on DU...

[mrbill]

11. 2509 delegates, 2344 alterrnates.

viva new york, spit in their food.

[Nay]

8. Why we love you, New York.

[Love Bug]

10. Well, it only makes sense

If all of the protesters are in Central Park they're not in the streets blocking traffic. The proteseters get to do their thing and New Yorkers can get where they need to go. Sounds like a win-win to me!

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Too bad, that nit-wit Mayor Bloomberg

refused to see it that way. He's more concerned about his precious lawn, than he is about human beings.

[Hekate]

13. Way to go, New Yorkers!

:hi: So you NYers are also definitely aware that the "Free Speech Zone" extends from Maine to Maui! :thumbsup:

Hekate