The "Freedom Walk" isn't Free

Does anybody else appreciate the irony that the "Freedom Walk" isn't free?

Clips from the WaPo.

Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.

...a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," ....

The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford. ....

"It's a permitted event. That means [organizers] are allowed to say who is in and who's out," ....

One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall.

On the bright side, everybody gets a t-shirt, so they can all march in their lines in uniform.

And should our government really be paying for this?