There weren’t that many people there, surprisingly. I got the feeling most of them were just passing by or were locals who weren’t really disrupting their routines to be there or were garden variety kooks who show up at everything to deliver their incoherent schpiels. Even the Communist, who did not seem enchanted with 0, appeared to be phoning it in. The fellow in the picture with him was totally cool – he was on rollerblades and he glided around loudly saying 0 was stealing from us and our children and was stifling our free speech – then he sped off and the Communist didn’t offer even a perfunctory rebuttal. The security wasn’t even that strict – the police were friendly and had a decidedly ho-hum attitude about the whole deal. I think this is progress – gone are the shrines ( and I’m talking actual shrines – with candles and talismans and stuff) and the fainting fools who so feverishly prostrated themselves in his service at every opportunity – and they’ve been replaced with a bunch of bored looky-loos on their lunch break. LOL! When Clinton was here the streets were blocked off for two hours…. after he left! These were the most interesting people we saw:

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