True enough.
Over the past year I’ve been to two tea parties and a health care protest. At the health care protest there were a dozen cops and a whole bunch of bussed in SEIU/ACORN clowns. The police were facing the leftists and had their backs turned to the conservatives. The only time the police came to our side of the road was to take out their earplugs and relax for a few minutes.
At the first tea party I went to there were a couple of cops directing traffic at the road. At the second tea party there weren’t any police to be seen.
The last tea party I attended was 8-10K people. The only problem was caused by some leftist shill. (the reason why I know he was a leftist shill is that the news gave him more coverage than the other 10K people at the tea party, but I digress....)
He wore some sort of a Klan hood and went up beside the stage and started shouting something about racism. He was promptly ignored.
When no one would pay attention to him, he took of his hood and shoved the nearest police officer. Cop basically was like, "OK, if you really, really want to get arrested, I'll oblige you." and carted him off.
As a side note, there was a cop standing next to me shortly after the incident. He was in a pretty good mood, more watching the girls than anything else, so I commented something like "you know that guy wasn't with us, right?"
He just said "This is easy duty", then winked at me and showed me the Gasden "Don't Tread on Me" button, pinned on the inside of his vest. :-)