I have nothing but the utmost respect for Appeasers. 
Uh, is there a copyright lawyer in the house?
Posted on 06/08/2004 10:55:43 AM PDT by JOAT
Not allowed to post the story per lawsuit, check the link.
Huh?
Follow the link and read it
Could there be a terror warning behind it?
"President Bush would be hosting the 2004 G8 Summit on Sea Island (Sea Island as in cotton, as in slaves)"
un f'n beleivable..... who is this moron?
I think it's just what they do; this has been known in that area for a few weeks.
I love GA
Must be Presbyterian USA, not Presbyterian PCA. I don't claim them.
The writer seems to have a feces fetish.
Fair use clause allows us to excerpt for purpose of discussion.
I just read it - a bunch of "merde" with a very "low" vocabulary - written especially for the DNC, MoveOn.org, ANSWER and the rest of that herd.
I don't know, but he's evidently higher than middle management in the moron heirarchy.
I don't know, but he's evidently higher than middle management in the moron hierarchy.
Hmmn. Bringing in body bags and setting up detention centers is 'just what they do' in preparation for protesting?
A State of Emergency granting extra powers to local law enforcement was announced by the State Governor on 7 May, and while nowhere has yet been "set aside" for the protesters to protest (a quaint notion in itself), a playing-field over on the mainland has been fenced for use as a detention centre.
Sounds like a leftist's paradise to me.
he he he,
It is the truth too. There are lots of good ole boys around here who wouldn't think twice whoopin' a protestor's a$$.
Been the subject of many a great discussion at the local Swamp Fox.
I guess the body bags are for all the dead turtles washing up on the beach. What a whiny POS article.
Yes, it is; it's called being prepared.
Do you have a problem with that?
Is it possible you don't recognize the magnitude of this meeting and those who might disagree with it?
Well, many of the security are what the Georgia penal system calls their "Goon Squad", which is usually tasked with quelling prison riots.
They are mostly a very rough bunch of rednecks.
And with the small size of the necks of those protesters...Well...mistakes may be made.
FYI.
Proof this is all rubish.
Are you down that way? I'm up towards Central GA.
"Boy, youinaheepah trubble"
World Heritage beaches? Does not mean the beaches were included in the treaty that Clinton made with the UN turning over oversight of our National Parks to the UN?
I'm listening to the Huntsville area station that runs Rush (770 WVNN) and they run ABC's news at the top of the hour. They just had a little blurb about the measly amount of protestors, and in the background was some lonely shmuck drumming on a can of some kind. Sounded like some lice farmer trying a miserable imitation of a Tibetan or something.
Anyone remember Joe Piscopo and his HBO special from around '84, and the bum drumming on a cardboard box for money?
Wonder how many bags we're talking about?
This turd doesn't realize that the body bags are for when the gun-totin' locals get sick of the smelly, lice-infested communist wannabes that have descended uipon them like a plague.
What do you call a 'peace protestor'?
Target practice!
Perhaps the more appropriate question would be "Does the Constitution have a problem with killing protesters?" and the answer is unequivocably 'yes.'
Just because I disagree with a bunch of hippies doesn't give me the right to kill them. And that is even more true with the government.
Be careful about what you endorse, under a Kerry/Hitlery administration they may be bringing in the body bags for a freep-fest they don't like.
Ping. Can you shed any light on this subject? The pucker factor seems to be elevated. What do you think?
uhhhh, OK... I'll bite...
What does a man who grows lice for a living actually sound like??
scratch...scratch...scratch ???
Hey man, I heard they are also shipping in guillotines and inward facing barbed wire! Yahhhhh mahhhn! (/sarcasm).
omg, a new screenname LOL
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Posted by Jim Robinson
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Just following the good old Boy Scout Motto.....
BE PREPARED
Why don't you keep this trashy propaganda over on the DU site?
"The responsibility of host rotates throughout the summit cycle at the end of the calendar year, as follows: France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. Throughout the year, the leaders' personal representatives - known as sherpas - meet regularly to discuss the agenda and monitor progress." *
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I don't know. Kinda
seems like the sorta thing we
should be protesting . . .
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* "What is the G8?
Since 1975, the heads of state or government of the major industrial democracies have been meeting annually to deal with the major economic and political issues facing their domestic societies and the international community as a whole. The six countries at the first summit, held at Rambouillet, France in November 1975, were France, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan and Italy. They were joined by Canada at the San Juan Summit of 1976 in Puerto Rico, and by the European Community at the London Summit of 1977. From then on, membership in the G7 was fixed, although 15 developing countries' leaders met with the G7 leaders on the eve of the 1989 Paris Summit, and the USSR and then Russia participated in a post-summit dialogue with the G7 since 1991. Starting with the 1994 Naples Summit, the G7 met with Russia at each summit (referred to as the P8 or Political 8). The Denver Summit of the Eight was a milestone, marking full Russian participation in all but financial and certain economic discussions; and the 1998 Birmingham Summit saw full Russian participation, giving birth to the G8 (although the G7 continued to function along side the formal summits). At the Kananaskis Summit in Canada in 2002, it was announced that Russia would host the G8 Summit in 2006, thus completing its process of becoming a full member. (See Delegations & Documents for a list of all summits since 1975.)
The G7/8 Summit has consistently dealt with macroeconomic management, international trade, and relations with developing countries. Questions of East-West economic relations, energy, and terrorism have also been of recurrent concern. From this initial foundation the summit agenda has broadened considerably to include microeconomic issues such as employment and the information highway, transnational issues such as the environment, crime and drugs, and a host of political-security issues ranging from human rights through regional security to arms control.
The responsibility of host rotates throughout the summit cycle at the end of the calendar year, as follows: France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia (as of 2006), Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. Throughout the year, the leaders' personal representatives - known as sherpas - meet regularly to discuss the agenda and monitor progress.
In addition, the G7/8 has developed a network of supporting ministerial meetings, which allow ministers to meet regularly throughout the year in order to continue the work set out at each summit; these include the meetings of the finance ministers, foreign ministers and environment ministers, among others. G7/8 ministers and officials also meet on an ad hoc basis to deal with pressing issues, such a terrorism, energy, and development; from time to time the leaders also create task forces or working groups to focus intensively on certain issues of concern, such as a drug-related money laundering, nuclear safety, and transnational organized crime.
The G7/8 provides an important occasion for busy leaders to discuss major, often complex international issues, and to the develop the personal relations that help them respond in effective collective fashion to sudden crises or shocks. The summit also gives direction to the international community by setting priorities, defining new issues and providing guidance to established international organizations. At times it arrives at decisions that address pressing problems or shape international order more generally.
The summit members comply modestly with the decisions and consensus generated by and codified at their annual meeting. Compliance is particularly high in regard to agreements on international trade and energy, and on the part of Britain, Canada, and Germany (for analysis of compliance, see Analytical Studies). Summit decisions often create and build international regimes to deal with new international challenges, and catalyze, revitalize and reform existing international institutions.
In recognition of its centrality in the process of global governance, the summit has always attracted the attention of thousands of journalists at each leaders' meeting, and of a number of countries seeking admittance to this exclusive and powerful club. It has also become a prime occasion for non-governmental and civil society organizations to advocate on behalf of their concerns. The annual meeting has been an opportunity for anti-globalization demonstrations since the Birmingham Summit in 1998; the protests turned violent in 2001 at the Genoa Summit, resulting in the death of a protestor. "
I work in Savannah and live 25 miles NE.
1... What is a shipping injury?
2... Why has a whole Department been "suspended"?
3... How does the Dept. of Natural Resources keep the dead turtles from washing ashore when they're NOT "suspended"?
4... What's killing the turtles?
5... Doesn't anybody know how to write anymore?
Last I heard the body bags were empty.
Would it make you feel better if the body bags were meant for the potential victims of a terrorist attack?
Preparing for a catastrophe is not unconstitutional. Paranoia is not always a good thing.
The peaceful protesters are usually infiltrated by the traveling brigands and anarchists.
I remember the Miami FTAA meeting last year. The Miami police show of force actually allowed more peaceful demonstrations than the Seattle police wimpiness.
Peaceful protesters need protection from trouble makers too.
Don't you worry, the Free Republic "free speech for me but not for thee" crowd will be back on the 1st Amendment bandwagon just as soon as a Rat is in office and not one moment sooner.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for Appeasers.
Uh, is there a copyright lawyer in the house?
I work in Milledgeville, and live 20 miles N.
The protestors are not allowed on the island proper but a park on the mainland was set aside for them. It is by a lighthouse and features public restrooms.
These "protestors" appear to be professional disrupters who follow the G-8 around the world carrying their protest signs, papier-mache heads, outlandish costumes and pink cardboard tanks.
Obviously they do not hold full time jobs as that would interfere with their globetrotting romps. Who pays for all their travel, food and lodging?
G8: Security Tight on St. Simons Island
By Jamie Muro
First Coast NewsST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA -- It's the first thing you notice once you enter the Golden Isles: the security net. It's vast, and its obvious.
Signs of law enforcement, from all levels of government, are present on just about all street corners once you drive over the causeway to Sea Island. The closer you get to The Cloister at Sea Island, the more security you see.
Lynn Crank's world is surrounded by security. She works at The Farmer's Market, which is just on the outskirts of the McKinnon St. Simons airport. The airport has been turned into a major military installation with President Bush now staying just down the road.
"At first it was a definite fear thing, when you saw them in bits and pieces," said Lynn.
Lynn says the fear factor had everyone on their toes initially.
"One day there was a racoon in the tree, a small group of us were looking at it and they came out of the woodworks, what's in the tree?"
But now, Lynn appreciates the extra eyes.
"Now that we're seeing the numbers and realize they're tne of them to every one of us, it's comforting, it's very comforting."
Created: 6/7/2004 9:15:41 PM
Updated: 6/8/2004 9:57:08 AM
G8 Security Forces Waiting For Something To Break
POSTED: 11:02 pm EDT June 7, 2004SAVANNAH, Ga. -- So many cops, so little to do.
The days leading up to the G8 summit on Sea Island have been so uneventful that the thousands of police officers and military men and women helping with security on adjoining St. Simons Island and up the coast in Savannah can only wait for something to happen.
In the meantime, they parade around in their patrol cars with the sirens on, lounge in lawn chairs at roadside checkpoints, swap stories and jokes, and try to stay on guard.
There are about 20,000 law enforcement officers and National Guard troops from all over Georgia here for the summit.
"Whatever can possibly go wrong, we're equipped to handle it," Jimmie Sams, a private security contractor brought in to help the Savannah police.
The overwhelming show of force apparently has scared away protesters. Only a few handfuls of activists had showed up by Monday -- the eve of the three-day meeting. There have been no arrests or disturbances.
But few locals or tourists are evident, either. One observer said that coastal Georgians used to seeing the streets patroled by military men in the humvees during hurricanes apparently responded to this event the same way and left town.
But those reponsible for the protection of some of the world's most powerful men say that after the Sept. 11, 2001, these measures are necessary for high-profile events like this summit.
"You have the eight most powerful economic countries coming here with their leaders," said Maj. Douglas Martin, a Canadian Army officer working with the North Atlantic Air Defense Command team in Savannah. "It's vital that people know we have a very good ... defense system in place.
True. But the legitimate protests tend to have insurrectionists and rioters tag along and engage in violence against (a) the legitimate protestors, (b) the residents of the community, and (c) the police.
Why don't YOU grow up?
I am not a leftist, as a cursory reading of my posts will attest, but I do love the Constitution.
It would appear from your mature 'retort' that you've fallen for the left/right diversion concerning the G-8, when the more important issue is whether or not pre-empting the rights guaranteed in the Constitution is a concern.
Pointing out that the right to protest has been suspended is not a left/right issue, so don't try to frame it that way.
CAPTION: Lone Bush Supporter/Veteran stands against G-8 wackos.
Pathetic. Dickson's left making sh*t up, since it's so quiet down there...
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