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2007-06-05 Europe

G-8 security fence troubling for Germans

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-06-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 For the record, I made some lighthearted comments here but the security afforded to eight men (yes, yes, Angela, etc etc) and their retainers and remoras is absolutely ridiculous.

They (by which I mean we) are paying over $250 million to keep their inflated heads attached to their necks. I am appalled by the motives, tactics, and justifications of the anarchists/ islamists/ indymidiots who arrive to speak truth to power and heave grapefruit size paving stones at cops while wearing black hoodies and kefiyyehs.

*BUT*

If hordes of angry commoners, braying about Justice and literally bearing pitchforks and torches and buckets of tar, can be held at four miles' worth of arm's length from their Excellencies, how can we normal peaceable folk hope to change anything by writing letters and making phone calls?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-06-05 02:06|| 2007-06-05 02:06|| Front Page Top

#2 They could solve the problem easily - simply meet in Smolensk in the middle of December.

Posted by Glomoger Guelph3150 2007-06-05 02:34|| 2007-06-05 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 If hordes of angry commoners, braying about Justice and literally bearing pitchforks and torches and buckets of tar, can be held at four miles' worth of arm's length from their Excellencies, how can we normal peaceable folk hope to change anything by writing letters and making phone calls?

we can't. please pass the ammo.

Posted by RD ">RD 2007-06-05 03:08|| 2007-06-05 03:08|| Front Page Top

#4 They should hold these things on Cruise ships at sea and just put a naval escort around them it would be cheaper.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-06-05 05:30|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2007-06-05 05:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Sock - your suggestion is the theme of a recent (and rather bad) Frederick Forsyth novel ('The Afghan').

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-05 08:08|| 2007-06-05 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm telling you a good round of head cracking will go a long way toward shrinking the crowds numbers. It's one thing to rant but another to rant after a baton whacking on the head/leg/back/etc. Truly the problem is that we have let these rabble rousers too much freeedom and they have taken it and infringed on the freedom of others. Also these meeting have little use anymore because everyone is connected by the WWW and video conference. If they didn't hold one for five years these groups would simply dry up and blow away. Also almost all of these groups are way WAY out there on the fringe, it just looks spectacular when you get them all in a small space.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-06-05 19:06|| 2007-06-05 19:06|| Front Page Top

#7 A mislaid 480 volt cable and a water main break will take care of these anarchists.

Posted by ed 2007-06-05 19:10|| 2007-06-05 19:10|| Front Page Top

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