It was painful listening to the condescending,  ignorant characterizations of the Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday, late afternoon.  Particularly Eric Watson,  who mouthed the same elitist disdain for the expression of free speech and expression of outrage that we have been getting from the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.  Consider this:

state Rep. Eric Watson, R-Cleveland,  whose office at the Capitol looks out at the Occupy Nashville protest, said the restrictions are needed so others can enjoy the plaza.“I wouldn’t want my kids to come up here, either,” he said. “It’s very sad. This is a sacred ground.”

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“Sacred ground?”  Your office view is sullied, huh?  You want to insist that YOUR “governing” isn’t the cause of this unrest?  The disdain you show for us “common folk” is disturbing.  What makes this ground truly sacred in the context of the what being in America and in Tennessee is SUPPOSED to be about,  is that we see in the prescence of  occupyNashville,  the voice of the people who are saying “ENOUGH”.

The media in Nashville were wondering about your “peeing on the head” story.  They are wondering whether they missed that one.

Your rant about “lawlessness” and “all the arrests” reminds me of the  Southern city councils who said that the demands of the NAACP on the Montgomery Bus companies would “violate the law”,  “laws” which were put in place to limit the freedoms of  African Americans such as Rosa Parks.  The Supreme Court ruled those segregation laws on Montgomery buses unconsititutional   Many of those  “arrests” at the Occupy camp made were overturned by a judge,  therefore rendering your appeal to “the law” a bit silly,  since you conveniently sidestep the matter of whether that law is properly conceived and applied.  That judge who ordered the release of the arrested Occupiers spoke his word of judgment on your concept of “the law”.  You seem unable to grasp what civil disobedience is about.  People are in the plaza because of injustice.

Appealing to “the law” as if it dropped out of heaven is perhaps how you can consider it fitting to call the plaza you overlook from your comfortable spot inside your office window,  a “sacred space”.  You’ll have none of this “sullying” of that space with those “people”, who happen to be THE people.  In fact, Mr. Watson,  as I intimated earlier,  it is these people,  and their continued prescence,  that truly mark this place as what Americans would call “sacred”  if the Consitution is the final word,  as it relates to law in America.  I even consider it “sacred” in theological terms, but only because they ARE here,   as do many who hear the gospel message of  “setting at liberty those who are oppressed” and thus consider it a calling to stand and speak on behalf of the victims of injustice.   The “sacredness” of anything has to do with where God dwells,  and God is to be found not up in your comfortable office,  but “down below” where you look down with disdain on a significant prescence of those people who somehow have placed in YOUR hands the duty of representing them.  SHAME, sir.  SHAME!