Yahoo News - NY Court Rules Against Anti-Bush Rally in Park
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday declined to order city officials to give an anti-war group permission to rally in Central Park on the eve of the Republican convention, leaving uncertain where thousands of protesters will go after a march past the venue.

The United for Peace and Justice coalition has permission to march under the banner "The World Says No To The Bush Agenda" past Madison Square Garden on Sunday but the city denied a permit for the protest to continue with a rally in Central Park of an estimated 250,000 people.

The group rejected an alternate site and went to court seeking to have the permit granted. But the ruling by New York Supreme Court Justice Jacqueline Silbermann favored city officials who said they feared the grass on the park's Great Lawn would be damaged and security could not be ensured for the massive crowd.

So let me get this straight- you have a quarter of a million protesters with nowhere to go after they march? What makes you think that you can keep them out of Central Park?

This might turn out to be very interesting.