Comment on FR Doc # E8-18412

While I am glad to see the government expanding the space available to the general public and demonstrators along the Inaugural parade route in Washington DC, I would like to see the federal government make even MORE of that space open to the public. This is the public's space and the first amendment to the Constitution guarantees our right to peaceably assemble and speak our piece -- not the right to jumbotrons or VIP viewing stands or media access or special ticketed areas for the powerful as the new rule envisions. Americans' civil rights are paramount and should be treated as such.