I thought there was something bizarre happening on the eve of the Republican Convention

(Digging into my achieves after recently reading the story below about NYC cops targeting innocent people to investigate before the GOP convention) On the eve of the Republican Convention I was eating at one of my favorite restaurants in NYC, Bubba Gump, watching the world go by by through Times Square as kids and adults alike were posing with Spiderman Recently I read that the NYC Police, in preparations for the GOP convention, had investigation operations, run by the department's "R.N.C. Intelligence Squad," to prepare for people who might cause problems. The police identified a handful of groups and individuals who expressed interest in creating havoc during the convention, as well as some who used Web sites to urge or predict violence. But potential troublemakers were hardly the only ones to end up in the files. In hundreds of reports stamped "N.Y.P.D. Secret," the Intelligence Division chronicled the views and plans of people who had no apparent intention of breaking the law, the records show. I guess Spiderman was on the hit listkids and adults were horrified when Spidey was unmasked and taken away in handcuffs http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/25infiltrate.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss