Ban Bad Guys

Yesterday a few thousand anti-war demonstrators marched in downtown Chicago, on the third anniversary of the war in Iraq.
The Tribune:

Bob McAnulty had protested on college campuses against Richard Nixon in the 1970s. His 16-year-old son Mac wondered what it had been like. Together, they walked in a noisy section near the front of the parade, occasionally joining the chants, the father pumping his fist in the air, the son's face blank and watching everything.

"I had no clue that it would be this big," Bob Mcanulty said, transported to his youth.

"Cool," his son said.

It was a cocktail of social causes. There were socialist groups, calls for Puerto Rican rights, gay and lesbian groups, nurses, civil rights workers and education activists.

The usual leftist odd assortment of special interest groups, the core of the Democrat party. Yes, it was a big tent. List of organizations here. And in the Sun Times:

More than 200 officers, including Chicago Police, Cook County sheriff's officers and State Police, lined the march route -- most in riot gear.

"They look like Darth Vader with clubs," Diane Handelsman, 63, of Lake View. "That is very scary, and intimidating."

At Union Park on the West Side Saturday afternoon, protesters held signs that ranged from the comical -- "Stop Mad Cowboy Disease" and "Paranoia is not a foreign policy" -- to the blunt -- "Stop the slaughter."

There were the familiar calls to end the Bush administration's "world domination" and "evil colonialism," and a more immediate sense of concern that Iran might be the president's next target.

Ah yes, of course, the Chicago police are the ones we should be worried about, they "look like Darth Vader" and are "scary". And the Bush administration is "evil" and we need to stop some kind of "slaughter" going on somewhere by the mad cowboys of America. Bush is paranoid and Iran is the victim here. I have an idea--- let's just ban bad guys! According to the liberal view, let's ban the police, let's ban the Bush administration and let's ban the American military. Yeah!
Well, let's see. Democrats recently came out in favor of port security and banning foreigners from managing our ports. Today on FoxNews Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 leader of Senate Democrats, would not rule out impeachment of President Bush for listening in on Al Qaeda's phone calls to this country, when the Democrats win in November. And prominent Democrats have been calling for quitting in Iraq. So everything's taken care of, problem solved. Except that we were attacked on Sept. 11th by a small group of terrorists and thousands of our citizens were killed. Congress did declare war on Afghanistan and Iraq and gave the President the power to prosecute the war. And Al Qaeda continues to fight us and the Iraqi people in Iraq, though with less success (according to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, "What We've Gained in 3 Years in Iraq", Washington Post via RCP here), and threaten us at home. Iran, the terror state, is threatening to completely destroy Israel with a nuclear bomb it is developing, and won't stop there. And how will we manage our port security if we can not even listen in on Al Qaeda?
Oh yeah. We'll just ban bad guys. And send some of the "good guys" down there to demonstrate. Senator Durbin will lead the movement.