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June 21, 2005
UPDATE: Five Protesters Still in Bredesen's Office
CAUTION: This news update contains editorial elements. (But heck, what on this blog doesn't?)
Blogger Sharon Cobb reports that five of the TennCare protesters are still chillin' in Philly McSpendthrift's office. Still no food or water being offered. I think. That part seems a trifle vague to me; I can't quite tell if no one is allowed to bring them snacks, or if they're not allowed to eat things they've brought, or what would happen to them if they ate (would some guard choke them 'til they spit it back up?).
But Cobb is definitely upset about it. "Clergy were not allowed in unless one person left and then another would enter," she writes, not explaining why random priests were needed at a sit-in. "Troopers talked all night, according to Smith, so they got no sleep. (Now where have we heard of sleep deprivation as a torture technique?)"
Then she asks for volunteers to relieve the current five. See, I don't think it counts as prison torture if you're allowed to ask for subs.
Anyway, enough quibbling with the enthused. Good cause and all. Looks like at least one Chattanoogan was in the building: Michael Bennett, a Fisk University student who has three family members on the TennCare rolls.
If all of this seems a mite hazy, well, it is; we've got a reporter looking into the story, and the whole thing will likely clear up as soon as Bredesen realizes the people in wheelchairs are pleading for water in his office. What's that? You think he knows? No way!
By the way: Where are the Hamdems in this craziness? I thought this sort of thing was their bag.
| By mesh | 03:42 PM
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