Fencing Out the Weirdos

There's a court battle raging in Denver over the presence of a fence to keep the weirdos from disrupting the Democrat Convention:

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 protestors 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 protestors 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

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

We definitely want to be able to see and hear these people in all their glory, though putting them in a cage has its attractive qualities as well.