It begins...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2009/01/inauguration_the_million_thing.html

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2009/01/the_folly_of_inauguration_isla.html?wprss=rawfisher

I completely stand by my earlier statements and predictions. This is going to be the ugliest thing since the '68 riots. What's interesting is how vulnerable DC is and always will be to terrorist attack. It's the 900 pound gorilla in the room, that everyone tries to ignore. You can't make this place or event "safe". Despite the police-state mentality that's grown around here over the past 35 years, it's childishly simple to freeze this town. I, and anyone who has lived here any length of time can easily come up with a half a dozen ways, and cheaply too. I won't go into them here. But I will point out a mini-example: the infamous DC snipers. Two losers, (openly aided by the ultra-incompetent egomaniac of a police chief of Montgomery County) put this town into a tizzy for weeks. They were poor and they were crazy wankers. Think of what a bunch of truly smart and prepared people could do, (even if Chief Moose is history...). Sorry police staters - you can't stop it if they want it to happen; you can only gridlock the entire region in your futile quest to do so.