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 A Semi-Private Parade
 
    THERE WERE, in the end,  protesters along the route of President  Bush's inaugural parade. It is conceivable that the president might have even  caught a glimpse of them. What there were not nearly enough of, however, were ordinary people: Washingtonians, out-of-towners or anyone at all who was neither a Bush donor with tickets to the bleachers nor a demonstrator with a permit to wave a sign. This was not an accident. In advance of the inauguration, the National Park Service granted the Presidential Inaugural Committee exclusive rights to nearly all of the sidewalk space along Pennsylvania Avenue, space to which the public had no access. When Post reporters asked the Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security and the  D.C. police  this week where the public would be able to stand, no answer was forthcoming. Grudgingly, a Park Service spokesman said on Wednesday that the public might be able to find some open areas  east of Seventh Street or  west of 12th Street, a statement that did not exactly encourage casual parade-goers.
 
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