| Sumario: | The article reports that in the lead-in to the Republican National Convention in New York City this summer, the Republicans made it clear that both of these things were more important than the First Amendment to the Constitution. The United for Peace and Justice coalition wanted to have a massive rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park, a space big enough to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators expected to gather to protest the Bush agenda. However, the Republican Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, backed up and pressured by the Bush Administration, insisted that so many people in the park would kill the grass.
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