Occupy Fairbanks erects warming tent; city objects

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Occupy Fairbanks protesters have defied regulations by setting up a small canvas tent with a wood stove for staying warm in a move that drew heat Tuesday from officials.

The protesters said the tent and stove are crucial for them to keep exercising their constitutional rights of free speech and assembly.

... Winter is upon Alaska's second-largest city, where overnight temperatures were expected to plummet to minus 35 degrees.

"We decided to go against the regulations," said Forrest Andresen, an Occupy Fairbanks protester and linguistics student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. "We believe the regulations are infringing upon our First Amendment rights."

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/11/15/2172465/warm-up-tent-could-get-occupy.html

[Magoo48]

1. How the he'll do they do this? WOW

[zbdent]

2. I thought that the Republicans were against excessive regulations ...

and all those "new laws" ... Oh, I forgot ... these laws and regulations aren't affecting the 1 percenters ...

[Arctic Dave]

3. Time to start a little word play.

It's not a "tent", it's a "warming cavity". A "warming cavity" is strickly used during exercising 1st amendment rights.

It is a little known fact I learned in school.

[sakabatou]

4. Wood stove...

What about the smoke?

[Macoy]

5. Don't Inhale

As long as they don't inhale, they will be fine. :P


Macoy