{"id":443,"date":"2004-01-08T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/bush_invades_knoxville\/"},"modified":"2004-01-08T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T08:53:07","slug":"bush_invades_knoxville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/bush_invades_knoxville\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Invades Knoxville"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Knoxville News-Sentinel<\/i> covers the free-speech zone angle<\/a>. Interesting police spin:<\/p>\n

Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said people with signs – whether for or against the president – will be restricted to designated areas. Anyone who ignores officers’ commands to honor those restrictions will be subject to arrest.
\n. . .
\nPolice officials, DeBusk said, established the “First Amendment zone” after several meetings with Secret Service agents. The agents told police what areas would be off limits for security purposes, and police selected the most appropriate locations for protesters.
\n“People can come and go as they please,” DeBusk said. “This is a service for them<\/i> where they can be seen and be safe.”
\n[Emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice of the police to provide this service<\/i> of herding those exercising their rights into a government-approved areas.
\nBush is scheduled to trumpet his “No Child Left Behind Act.” But many local educators–the ones actually doing the teaching–don’t like the law<\/a>.
\nUndoubtedly Bush will also make a bunch of claims about what his administration is doing to support education. But Misleader<\/a> (via Musings of a Philosophical Scrivener<\/a>) reminds us that the rhetoric often doesn’t match what really happens away from the cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Knoxville News-Sentinel covers the free-speech zone angle. Interesting police spin: Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said people with signs – whether for or against the president – will be restricted to designated areas. Anyone who ignores officers’ commands to honor those restrictions will be subject to arrest. . . . Police officials, DeBusk […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}