The long arm of Sen. Frist? Did Sen. Frist pull a little nuclear option (sort of a tactical nuke, I guess) on the students filibustering outside the Frist Campus Center?
Earlier this evening (or morning, whatever), we brought you word that the students on the Princeton campus were going into their second day of ‘filibustering’ outside the Frist Campus Center — the building the senator’s family paid a bunch of money to have named after him. And we linked to the impromptu, outdoor webcam they’d just set up to allow believers in constitutional government around the country to observe their on-going effort.
But at 2:52 AM this morning, just under two hours after we pointed to their webcam, we received a rushed email from one of our correspondents on the scene telling us that the campus police had arrived, trying to shut it down and asking to see paperwork showing they had permission to operate the webcam.
Not long after, said protest webcam went dark. No word yet on whether the filibusterers have been taken to an undisclosed location or perhaps extraordinarily rendered.
Late Update: They’re back online. When we find out what transpired, we’ll let you know. (ed.note: Do you know what really happened? Believe me, not a clue.)
Truly Late Update: I’m told that as yet not a single member of the school’s faculty has deigned to join the students in reading from the podium. A TPM Privatize This! T-Shirt for the first three faculty members to take a turn at the filibuster!
