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http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=13070&ic=Off+the+RecordThe main demonstration, packed in behind metal police barricades, was more numerous—about 70 heads at its peak—and substantially louder. A treble-heavy public-address system sent the speakers’ remarks clattering across the hard, charmless space between the Hilton Theater (where Hot Feet is playing) and the sullen pile of The Times. Occasionally, a bus bound for the Port Authority would pass in front of the sound rig, gently muffling the blast.
But there was plenty left to blast The Times about between buses. The speakers, using the bed of a black Ram 1500 pickup as their podium, had convened the demonstration to denounce The Times for publishing news of the government’s secret bank-monitoring program. “What The New York Times is doing borders on treason,” announced Rabbi Aryeh Spero, of Caucus for America.
It was an oddly delicate choice of wording—but what Mr. Spero was seeking was a prosecution under the Espionage Act. Most of the signs and slogans didn’t bother with “borders on.” Either way, the banking story was only the jumping-off point for a sort of jazz improvisation of grievance. The building across the way, various orators said, was “a temple of Babylonian decadence,” a bastion of the “smug” and the “arrogant,” people with “transnational” loyalties, people who “think Americans are rednecks.” The word “latte” came up frequently.
“You go around in your fancy limousines—liberal limousines,” Mr. Spero declared. The protesters, by implication, took the subway: “We have to worry about terrorism and you’re aiding the terrorists.”
The Times folks were in limousines—that is, if they were in Manhattan at all. “I’m sorry, it’s July,” Mr. Spero said. “They’re out in the Hamptons!”
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