Posted on 07/28/2008 12:58:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A college-age protest group that wants to camp overnight in City Park during the Democratic National Convention next month is going to have to find another place to sleep.
Mayor John Hickenlooper told radio host Mike Rosen, who writes a column for the Rocky, that Tent State University's plans for a sleepover for as many as 50,000 protesters are out of the question.
The mayor also told Rosen that the city might turn on the sprinklers if the protesters don't abide by Denver's 11 p.m. curfew.
Councilwoman Carla Madison, whose district includes City Park, said overnight camping is not an option.
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Adam Jung, an organizer and spokesman for Tent State, could not be reached for comment.
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Madison said other protest groups could make similar requests if Tent State were given permission.
"My concern is all the Re-create '68 folks who've been wanting to sleep in Civic Center Park," she said, referring to the group that promised to make the bloody 1968 Democratic convention "look like a small get-together."
"If we say yes in City Park, I'm not sure how we could say no in Civic Center Park," she said.
Madison also is worried about the precedent it could set.
"Right now, we don't even let the Boy Scouts sleep in the parks. It isn't political. It doesn't have anything to do with any message or anybody. It's just that we don't do that," she said.
"Once you let one group do it, even though (the DNC) is an extraordinary circumstance and all that, I think that it opens up the door to a lot of people just thinking that they should be able to do it, and then if we say no, they can sue us for it," Madison added.
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I like the sound of sprinklers in the night, it sounds like.. victory.
Maybe some skanky hippies will finally get a shower...
watch out for the ones that melt. :-o
Pour some Ivory soap into the sprinkler system first.
chukk chukk chukk chukk ..
Sprinklers, good. Sprinklers and clubs, better.
In all honesty I bet they look at this as a challenge and will do it anyway so they can brag how “The Man” couldn’t keep them down.
Ivory soap......not strong enough !!!
Need some serious degreaser/disinfectant/deodorizer for this motley lot.
Their first in a long time.
Throw in a little tear gas and a few rubber bullets and some union construction workers with clubs and some beer and we’ll have a party!
I forget. What izzit that floats on water?.....
Oh, NO!
The water will cause their make-up to run.
Will this turn into another
TENT STATE MASCARA?
I'll bet they let homeless people sleep in the parks all the time.
Damned! I wish he hadn't warned them.
??? They would just break/block the sprinklers and cause localized flooding like the morons they are.
whatever happened to ‘Get a room?’ ? outlying areas should ‘benefit’, letting this many folks trash a public area is nuts..
You all know that this would be, in reality, 40% protest and 60% “excuse to get high/drunk”, right? lol
This is a no-brainer. The best way to maintain control is to clear the parks out on a daily basis. If the people are allowed to camp there, there will be no effective way for the police to maintain control of the parks. If they lose control of the parks, they lose control of the city.
NYC went through this in 2004. The City denied requests to camp in Central Park during the RNC, and the protesters howled at the grave injustice, and threated to sleep there anyway. For the weeks preceding the convention, there was a constant drumbeat of how hundreds of thousands of people were going to show up to camp in the park, and there was nothing the NYPD could do about it.
When the Republicans arrived for the convention, maybe 20 people refused to abide by the curfew, and they were promptly arrested.
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