This is an interesting strategy that Occupy Honolulu seems to be employing to maintain a presence at Thomas Square in spite of the city ordinance that bans the storage of personal belongings on sidewalks and in parks.

Apparently, tents marked yesterday for removal today were instead taken off-site to priviate property overnight, and new tents were brought in their place. Now that city workers have given 24-hour notice on those new tents, they’ll be “rotated” out as well.

This is what protester H. Doug Matsuoka wrote about the strategy on his blog and in a press release sent to media. He said it “thwarted” the city’s “property seizure raid.”

Although furniture for the Public Forum was seized and thrown into a garbage truck, the City was unable to seize the tents tagged yesterday which had been rotated out to private property. Tents in service today were tagged but will rotated out to private property thereby making them ineligible for seizure under Bill 54 (ordinance 11-029) which requires that property must be stored on public property for 24 continuous hours. The area is being used for protest and peaceable assembly rather than tent storage.

Will the protesters run out of tents, or will the city run out of patience?

Read Matsuoka’s op-ed in Civil Beat last week: ‘Extraordinary Costs’ In Occupy Honolulu Raids