With any kinda luck, they'll carry one of the protesters off . . . that should scare the rest away.
Posted on 06/06/2004 4:40:20 AM PDT by snopercod
They couldn't find an RV park or campground that would take "overnighters", due to security concerns. Apparently, the federal government decreed that they could not rent spaces to anyone who had not made a reservation months ago.
The campgrounds were mostly empty, and the owners were not happy about losing two weeks of business at the peak of the season.
You've probably already seen this, but just in case...
I just stumbled upon it... crosslinking:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1140331/posts
G8 and Its Protesters- Loyal Opposition, or Anarchy?
various FR links | 05-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
Just FYI, FWIW, these scruffy characters were originally claiming to muster 10,000 or more, but time, distance, heat, and money seem to have deterred most of them.
Thank God, the last thing my small town needs is a pile sixties leftovers scaring the horses and children...
Yeah, and then there's the smell.
Anybody want to comment on the situation where small business owners are being "asked" to give up their income for a period of time to serve the public interest and without compensation?
It reminds me of all the aviation-related business that were forced into bankruptcy when the TSA banned general aviation from urban areas after 9-11.
I'm not saying that closing down RV parks (or airports) is necessarily a bad idea under certain circumstances, but what ever happened to the 5th Amendment? Isn't this a taking of private property for public use?
I have often said that the Bush administration has violated every single one of the Bill of Rights except the Third.
Maybe this will make the list complete if soldiers are to be quartered at these RV parks.
(Lynerd Skynerd)
With any kinda luck, they'll carry one of the protesters off . . . that should scare the rest away.
Naturally, there more to the story about businesses being closed than is apparent from news stories. The curtailing of boat rentals, tours, and overflights can at least be excused over security concerns, and speaking as a former retailer I can tell you the loss of business, while unwelcome, should not be too harmful. But you do have a point about uncompensated loss- everyone else who stays open will probably make money hand over fist.
Naturally, the local authorities are claiming- at least unofficially- that this will be compensated by the surge in publicity. IMO, that's hogwash- a week from now, the site of the G-8 summit will be a distant memory to most people. Bear in mind we were all promised that the spillover from the 1996 Olympics would make us all rich & famous, and I am still waiting for my share of either...
As a matter of fact, I passed a group marching into town Thursday, just south of the Lanier bridge, and a hotter, tireder, more strung-out, sorry-looking bunch you have never seen.
They carried signs bearing nonsense like "Peace before Profits!" and I guesstimated there were 12 to 15 of them, a far cry from their claims of thousands.
I strongly suspect that they had no earthly idea of the distances and heat and isolation involved in their little march from Jacksonville.
It takes a couple of hours merely to walk from the county line south up to Brunswick, and longer walks and times are involved getting from Jacksonville to Kingsland to Woodbine. I don't think they knew what they were getting in to.
"I have often said that the Bush administration has violated every single one of the Bill of Rights except the Third."
yawn
"My neighbors were returning from Florida yesterday in their motor home and wanted to spend the night in the area. "
Wish there'd been a way to know about that- my wife's conference center has limited ( to about 6 ) RV hookups:
http://www.honeycreek.org/
The Georgia Episcopal Camp and Conference Center (Honey Creek)
Might it be because lawyers from Texas are more full of themselves than the basic history making up the foundations of our worthy American Heritage ... that is, they are Yale'ees in big hats? There may be some connection, also, with how "influential" Lyndon Baines Johnson & Co. were, too.
How nice! </ sarcasm> The globalist powers to be meet again to map out our future!
Did you join FR last month just so you could dismiss the U.S. Constitution before a group who still cares for it?
I hope there were as many deerflies along the march as there have been in my neighborhood.
Did you join Free Republic years ago just so that you could dis Republican Presidents?
I believe in the U.S. constitution and will "dis" any president or other member of our federal government who violates it, thank you very much.
I believe in the U.S. constitution and will "dis" anyone who thinks that often saying that the Bush administration has violated every single one of the Bill of Rights except the Third makes it true.
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