Great to live in a free country
A new city law in Brunswick gives police the power to halt protests during the G-8 summit now that the governor has declared a pre-emptive state of emergency in coastal Georgia through June 20.
Police empowered to halt G8 protests under Georgia’s state of emergency, via FindLaw.
Couple of things about this. First, everyone keeps complaining about how many protesters may come to this thing. Well if it’s so horribly, why in the world did we agree to host it? The people renting out venues and hotels to the press and visitors aren’t complaining too much about th emoney.
Second, this article points out the same thing was done in 96 for the Olympics. Good thing they did, too, or we might have had a bomb go off or something. Oh, wait…