It's kind of a surreal feeling to be sitting inside an auditorium with a few hundred people who decided to buy a ticket for a night out to hear someone speak who is responsible for the death of over one million people.  As if the metal detectors and x-ray machines on the way in weren't enough there are security officers in every corner of the room continually scanning the audience along with a wall of police officers, with flex-cuffs dangling from their belts, lined up in the back of the auditorium.  It's a true testament to the system of oppression under which we live when city-paid police officers are ordered to protect a war criminal with my tax dollars.