The Tennessean has a poll, Should the Occupy Nashville protesters be removed?

84.76% (2,815 votes) say NO. Go add you support for Occupy Nashville.

From Occupy Nashville live feed. Government contacts to request freedom for Occupy Nashville protesters to be heard at Legislative Plaza.

Occupy Nashville live feed.

...and Bill Haslam continues to predictably disappoint.

Police in riot gear cleared Occupy San Diego protestors out of Civic Center Plaza early Friday, making some arrests in the process, a police officer said.

OccupySD says their media team was also arrested while their video camera was streaming and the cops were trying to figure out how to turn it off.

...when I started referring to the governor as "Il Duce". Fascist creep.

Ilissa Gold:
"Sign that the world is coming to an end--I just retweeted Bill Hobbs."

State troopers waited to 3 a.m. to raid #OccupyNashville, hoping media would be gone. Cowardly anti-1st Amendment move by Gov. Haslam.

"We don't have the resources to go out and in effect babysit protesters 24-7 ... at the level that would have been necessary to address their concerns," [Safety Commissioner Bill] Gibbon said.

It is unclear how the overnight curfew will be enforced against pedestrians who frequently cut through the area after leaving nearby performing arts and concert venues.

"That's a good very question," Gibbons said. "And we're going to take a reasonable approach on that: Was a person knowingly and intentionally violating the curfew, or was that person just unaware of it?"

Even if you're generous about the whole time and place argument for keeping a lid on public demonstrations, it would seem that Gibbons is treading on thin ice with inconsistent application of the law.

First, to justify clearing the protesters out, he suggests a lack of resources to maintain security with the protesters in place, but then produces the resources to clear them out, and to maintain the presence necessary to keep the protesters from coming back.

Second, he suggests that people who are just passing through, and who might be unaware of the curfew restrictions would be allowed to pass unhindered, but those who are there to protest would be treated differently. Revisiting item #1, it seems obvious that it would take a significant ongoing presence on the plaza to sort these differing circumstances out.

I don't think this will pass muster if it gets in front of a judge.

Between football stories and making sure everybody is aware of the need to wear black and orange this weekend, WBIR ran a snippet with Il Duce saying they called out the brownshirts because "We had received complaints from legislators and citizens and from Metro Nashville as well".

Yeah, I bet we had a lot of complaints from legislators.

I wonder if it's still okay for Campfield to park his Honda on the sidewalk.

when KPD dispatched its 'platoons' during the local nazi rally, i think i posted that this was a 'dress rehearsal' for things to come ...

That was a shameful abuse of executive state power. I'm heartened by the impartial magistrate's refusal to sign warrants.

Way to do your job, Judge.

Round II

A fellow reporter asked the trooper arresting Meador if he really intended to lock up a journalist there to cover the events. According to the reporter, the trooper replied, "You want to be next?"

Developing.

In the second round of arrests at Legislative Plaza in Nashville, the judge once again dismisses the charges against the protesters and sets them free.

Night Court Magistrate Tom Nelson said, "I have reviewed the regulations of the state of Tennessee, and I can find no authority anywhere for anyone to authorize a curfew anywhere on Legislative Plaza."

Also, two arrested protesters were injuried.