Okay, this is just too freakin' much:
The Tent State University organizers say they believe they have resolved questions about what to do once the curfew strikes at 11 p.m. at City Park: Pack their belongings and tents and march every night to the Pepsi Center's protest zone.
While at the Pepsi Center's demonstration site, organizers said during a news conference Wednesday, they plan to continue to demonstrate against the Iraq war and then feign sleeping as part of their act of protest. The protest zone will be open 24 hours.
Adam Jung, an organizer for Tent State University, mocked the city's allocation of the protest zone for demonstrators at the southeast corner of the arena's parking lot, near Seventh Street and the Aurora [sic] Parkway. Nonetheless, he said, the demonstration site would be the location in which hundreds — or thousands — of protesters would converge on [sic] once they're booted out of City Park and they begin the 2-and-a-half-mile trek to the Pepsi Center.
"We have felt that the city's stance on this issue was based on their desire to suppress the demonstrations and any message that exposes the Democratic Party's refusal to end the war," Jung said as another protester, Karen McGuire, clad in full Revolutionary War regalia, played the "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" on a fife.
And it's even more awful than you imagine:
Freedom toast. That'll do it. The MSM loves freebies.
"But we were not seeing the big picture. The city of Denver does not oppose free speech. They love free speech so much they just want to protect and secure it with razor wire and caging. Because of their passion for the First Amendment the city has provided one place for demonstrators to be overnight — the freedom cage. Each night demonstrators will take the freedom cage and transform it into the 'Freedomville Shantytown.' "
Got a ring to it.
By morning, protesters plan to pack up their gear and head back to City Park where they will set up their camps, continue their anti-war messages and be entertained by music and speeches.
Jung, clad in an Old Glory scarf, said his group has spoken with Denver police representatives but has not talked to Mayor John Hickenlooper about the plans to walk every night to the Pepsi Center.
The demonstrators plan to occupy City Park's southwest corner, along East 17th Avenue, from Aug. 24-27. They say they expect about 50,000 people to be at the park during the four days.
One of the protesters will be Jared Hood, 25, who served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Kuwait in 2004. "To see protestors that want to have peaceful demonstrations be shamed by the city I live in, I think that's despicable," Hood said.
Sue Cobb, the mayor's spokeswoman, said structures, including tents, would be banned at the Pepsi Center's demonstration zone because of "security considerations and the need to ensure everyone's right to free expression." However, Cobb said that demonstrators wouldn't be violating any laws if they bring in tents into the public demonstration zone but don't erect them.
But don't erect them.
The city says it will keep talking to the group and try to find somewhere for them.
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