Security blanket
The upcoming presidential inaugural will be the first since 9/11. So there's plenty to worry about <snip>
The Department of Homeland Security may preposition Urban Search and Rescue and Nuclear Incident Response teams. Also on alert are the approximately 4,000 armed forces personnel who are part of the Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region, which was created in 2003 to firm up what had historically been ad hoc coordination among military units in the Washington area.
Backs turned. Planned protests will raise security stakes, too, as tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected.
Supporters of the antiwar A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, for instance, will line the parade route, while the anti-Bush Citizens For Legitimate Government is organizing an "Un-Auguration Parade." A Turn Your Back on Bush protest calls for people to wait silently along the parade route and, at a special signal, turn their backs on the president (sic). The total cost of inauguration security is a secret.
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Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/
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