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...providing ready access to the artists. There's a presidential inauguration-like, Puffy Daddy-esque amount of security at the festival. For example, each day VIPs were given different credit card-like swipe cards to gain access the festival and the various restricted tents. I think the almost paranoid amount of security has something to do with the fact that right before the last Rock in Rio, in 1991, Roberto Medina, the festival's founder and guiding spirit, was kidnapped. But that's just a guess. In any case, there's so much security and so many restrictions, at most...
...gates of the City of Rock It's a little after three o'clock on Friday and I catch a VIP shuttle from the Hotel Inter-Continental to the festival site about an hour away. The afternoon is still bright and sunny and hot. At the site, the paranoid Gaza Strip-y security is still in effect. There, our identification cards are swiped and we are allowed into the facilities. We're also supposed to be wearing ridiculous t-shirts identifying each us as VIPs, but, given the history of revolutionary activity in rock 'n roll in general and Latin...
...Prediction: Rumsfeld won't take too much heat over this; while it's certainly pleasant to imagine an underling taking Nixon to task for his paranoid rantings, it's not exactly realistic...
...lends itself to demonization, and the air this week is thick with paranoid e-mail to the effect that a second Bush administration will end civilization as we know it. The wretched of America will be turned out in the snow on Christmas eve. Bloated middle-aged white men will ride about the town on the backs of blacks and Hispanics, as if on the backs of burros; back-alley coathangers will return women to the reign of an American Taliban. (In the privacy of their own minds, most conservatives, I suspect, believe that as a matter of practical politics...
...that Hillary was elected by "a very biased media who anointed her queen." When they are not engaging in serious or comic bombast, they and their callers verge on the delusional. It's hard to think of another part of American society that is both so powerful and so paranoid...