Cranks and jokesters take US protest to the streets

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BOSTON, United States (AFP) — Anarchists comparing John Kerry to Hitler, theatrical pranksters parading as "Billionaires For Bush" and a self-styled porn king who wants to turn political protest into reality TV.

Welcome to the margins -- the far, way-out edges of the margins -- of the US Democratic convention.

As the carefully scripted four-day gala to crown Kerry as the Democratic candidate for president unfolds behind tight security, the misfits and oddballs left out of the process are taking their message to the streets of Boston.

Even though it's not always clear what that message is.

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