Actually, every year congress votes itself huge security funds for the conventions of the two parties. They bring about the harassing environments by purposely isolating themselves and having a ridiculous police-to-protester ratio.
Back to "freedom of the press" for a moment, there isn't a single arabic nation that has that. Not saying it's right, but it certainly isn't a surprise to walk around among thugs and be harassed and threatened. If they are trying to prove the thugs are thugs, well we already knew that from all the video from the previous few days.
To me it smacks of the idiot weatherpeople who have to go stand out in a hurricane to prove it's windy. Every darn year, every darn storm, every network throws someone into danger saying "ooh look at us, we are in danger, but don't do what we are doing".
Back to "freedom of the press" for a moment, there isn't a single arabic nation that has that. Not saying it's right, but it certainly isn't a surprise to walk around among thugs and be harassed and threatened. If they are trying to prove the thugs are thugs, well we already knew that from all the video from the previous few days.
To me it smacks of the idiot weatherpeople who have to go stand out in a hurricane to prove it's windy. Every darn year, every darn storm, every network throws someone into danger saying "ooh look at us, we are in danger, but don't do what we are doing".