Staging a Police State

The NYT headline "An Antiwar Speech in Union Square Is Stopped by Police Citing Paperwork Rules" for the police stopping the Sheehan speech in NYC is either inexplicably uninformed, or deliberately deceptive. You have to read the NY Sun to realize that the event was obviously setup precisely in order to stage a police shutdown:

It was the third time Mr. Zulkowitz has been arrested in the past six months. His most recent arrest was on August 29 at Union Square, for leading a similar demonstration without a proper permit.

How did the NYT overlook this crucial piece of perspective. Either incompetance or bias. With job cutbacks at the Times, I guess things are likely just to get worse...