[af_vet_rr]

Why not hold the summit in a small town where it is easier to secure an area. Like maybe Plattville or Helmar?

Entertainment and accessibility. I saw more than a few summits, conferences, whatever you want to call them, with high-ranking government officials during my time in the military, from the '70s through the '90s, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the US and Canada.

They aren't going to travel all that way just to visit Podunkville. Everything they discuss in person could most likely be conducted via email and teleconferences (and probably already has been discussed on some level). This is all about taking advantage of their positions.

[lentulusgracchus]

This is all about taking advantage of their positions.

So this is just an exercise of pre-empting the People for the sake of pre-emption, for putting on a big show of self-consequence and "walking wide" and swinging their elbows to catch people, just like Saddam used to.

Wonder if they'll have a special balcony built where they can fire rifles and Browning High Powers over the ordinary people's heads? The image politics would be priceless, the ego-boost positively ithyphallic.