But these flotillas cannot provide adequate security over two million square miles of ocean.
Since 1989, security around the square has been tightened: it would take great courage to defy the authorities again.
I'm sure we can all imagine how Granary Square security might respond to a homeless Londoner making their woes public on their private AstroTurf.
Since the five Falun Gong members set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square nearly a month ago, security in the square has been extremely tight, with police officers blocking the entrances and inspecting identification cards and packages to check for gasoline.
As they tried to make their way to the square, security forces opened fire, killing six people and wounding dozens.
The news was announced with little fanfare by Square Security Lead Sam Quigley during a panel at the Visa Security Summit.
The mariachis have always been the security on the square; the police not so much.
For security, tie another square knot ending on the front of the braid.
I do know he will be judged a failure if he refuses, now, to make a good-faith effort to see if Israel's security can be squared with Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza.
"This is why homeland security must be squared away, why our military must be invincible," he added.
