… that they’ll have to shut down most of uptown to pull off the DNC convention. As in dead zone, no access, ghost town.

Or at least at this time they believe they will. That’s got to be why they are redacting stuff from city emails that merely refers to the DNC’s expectations that the courts will be totally shut down during the convention.

The blacked-out sentence read: “I have heard from various persons within each of your organizations that the federal authorities you are working with expect that courts will be shut down completely.” the Observer reported.

… “I don’t see anything in my email that needs to be kept secret or would be detrimental to law enforcement’s planning for security at the DNC,” the judge said. “All I’m trying to find out is if the courthouse is going to be open or closed during the DNC.”

There is a reason that Judge Lisa Bell hasn’t been able to find out whether the court system she runs will be shut down. None of the powers that be want this information out yet.

Uptown is so compact with respect to everything’s distance from the football stadium and the arena that logic would tell you it all had to be shut down. Securing the transit center, which is slammed on the best of occasions, would be chaos if everyday travelers weren’t first emptied out. On two occasion over the last decade, crowds thousands of people strong amassed at the transit center, departed on foot and participated in violent riots. The most recent of these was so violent it made national news. They would be insane not to shut it down.

The reason that the powers that be don’t want the public to know they are going to have to shut uptown down completely or close to it is that so many people will be forced to go several days without pay or access to their jobs. The negative PR fallout of that, and not security, is why they are keeping these pending closings so secret.

If folks knew that now, there would be time for anger to build. By keeping it under wraps until the last minute, there will be less fall out for city leaders and they Democrat leaders they are protecting. It’s that simple and it has nothing to do with security.