Protestors Need To Conform

You sure can tell times have changed...the St. Paul Police announced today that during the Republican National Convention Sep. 1-4 at the Xcel Center, there would be a single route and a set area where the protestors will be confined too. At the end of the article it also says that permits to march on the convention will be available starting this Monday. Is it just me or has protesting gotten to be to commercial? First of all, if you are protesting something and you actually follow the route and remain in the set area for you to protest in...are you really doing effective protesting? And where are the true protesters? The ones that are willing to ignore the 'man' and disobey the route and abandon the set area and do some actual 'protesting'. Of course that may mean they will get arrested so that is likely out of the question... I think when 'routes' and 'areas' are set for protesting then the protesters that adhere to these rules are just sheep from a different flock then the one that they are actually protesting.