DC Prepares for "the Invasion of the Body Snatched"

The DC-based blog Rox Populi promises a "mondo post that'll explain the use of the subway system, what to do if you encounter Black folk, and how to exhibit kindness towards people who don't speak English but are responsible for all your creature comforts for the next 5-7 days", in anticipation of the Invasion of the Body Snatched.

According to the Scripps Howard news service,

Parade performers said they also have been warned to expect unprecedented security.
Thousands of performers - marching bands, color guards, pompon dancers, hand bell-ringers, drill teams on horseback and Civil War re-enactors - will be bused early in the morning to the Pentagon parking lot across the Potomac in Virginia. While performers disembark and go through metal detectors, bomb-sniffing dogs will search the buses.
Then everybody will get back on the buses for a trip to the National Mall, where they will spend most of the day in heavily guarded warming tents. Participants have been warned that they will not be allowed to leave the tents except to go to portable toilets accompanied by a security escort.

Other instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand, not to look to either side and not to make any sudden movements.

I guess they'll just have the media film from distant cages and sharpshooters lined up to take out any unruly tapdancers from Pine Bluff High School or some such place.