Protest organizers are advising would-be troublemakers over the Internet to use gunpowder or ammonium nitrate-laced tablets to confuse the bomb-sniffing Labrador retrievers that will be patrolling Madison Square Garden and surrounding areas, the New York Daily News reported earlier this week.

One Internet message urged Bush-hating activists to "go to a rifle, pistol or skeet shooting range, spend an hour shooting to saturate clothing with smell of gunpowder, go directly to a New Jersey Transit, LIRR or subway train headed for Penn Station" - which is directly below the Garden.

"Try to have at least two people on a train in different locations," the would-be disrupter advised. "Sit or stand near the doors as the train approaches the station, try to get near police and dogs, loiter as long as possible around the dog, try to pet it if possible.

"If the dog alerts on your scent, do not leave or resist; the situation will cause a major disruption of the train schedule. ... If there is more than one person on the train that causes a dog to alert, you can bet that the train will not be going anywhere for a long time ... neither will any trains behind it."

"It is important that the police call in all possible resources to investigate the situation," the protest organizer explained. "With any luck, Madison Square Garden will be evacuated."

The message made no mention of any similar strategy for the Democratic Convention in Boston at the end of this month.

King told WABC: "It's really immoral and disgraceful to [try and disrupt security preparations] at a time when you know foreign terrorists may want to attack us at the convention. They make it that much easier for terrorists to be successful."

The New York Republican said Democrats are playing a cynical double game by not condemning the dangerous tactics.

"They want to get the advantage of that anti-Bush hatred that's out there but at the same time not have their fingerprints on it," he told WABC, "There's going to be blood on all their hands if anything happens."

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