NATO in Chicago

[freeAgent]

I've gotta say, the protests are pretty lame.  There was an anti-capitalism march that went by my condo (that's what I get for living on the site of the Haymarket riots) which had probably 100 people in attendance, total, shouting the tired "whose streets?..." line.  If I hadn't looked up what they were actually marching about, I would never have known.  There were NO signs of any kind aside from one communist/anarchist flag I saw.

The only excitement around here was the police arresting three people for "terrorism".  The police claim that they were manufacturing molotov cocktails in their apartment.  The three (one is from Keene???) claim they were just homebrewing beer.  One of the local news outlets also had a window broken, but that's about it.  For all the hyperventilating on the part of the police and city officials, it's been a real dud so far.  I half-suspect they're just trumping up these "terrorism" charges to justify the insane number of police they've deployed around the city.

[Diogenes The Cynic]

Did you read about the wile-e-coyote set of armaments those guys are accused of having?

Makes me believe the cops are retarded for even arresting them.

[freeAgent]

Yes, actually.  One person reported on Everyblock that he may have seen one flying over the lake just east of the city and another thought they saw them over the West Loop.

[freeAgent]

The protesters just marched over to Boeing, protested there for maybe 30 minutes, and headed east.  They passed a block away from me and I couldn't hear or see them (I only know they were there due to Twitter).  All I heard were a few police cars hitting their sirens a bit.