The US employed a “pre-emptive strike” in Iraq in March 20, 2003, which didn’t go so well, not to mention being a crime against humanity. But at home during the conventions, so-called “pre-emptive strikes” have done a good job of stifling protest and minimizing media coverage. These occurred during marches and even before the Convention began.
One of the protestors at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul said, “the whole world is watching,” but that’s just not the case today as it was in 1968.
[Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6al8Q7pRK8%5D
Mainstream media coverage:
Police raid RNC protest sites in Twin Cities
Mass show of peaceful dissent soon makes a violent descent
Police fire chemical agents, projectiles at RNC protesters
Chip's journey 
I’m left wondering why so little media coverage about this. The world wasn’t watching. Was Amy Goodman’s arrest from “Democracy Now!” a significant enough threat to the competing, mainstream media that they didn’t want to draw attention to it? Makes me wonder.
http://www.democracynow.org/
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