Anger over police plans for G8 summit

[struggle4progress]

PROTESTERS hoping to march past the G8 meeting of world leaders at the Gleneagles Hotel reacted furiously yesterday at police plans to bar access to the event.

Tayside Police disclosed traffic plans which include roadblocks in place during the three-day meeting, preventing public access within several miles of the Perthshire venue.

Among those who will be turned away are up to 30,000 demonstrators who had planned to march past the hotel. Public causeways crossing the resort's golf courses, where anarchist groups planned to dig up turf as part of a "people's golf tournament", will also be barred.

G8 Alternatives, a collection of human rights activists, politicians and demonstrators, which is organising the march on July 6, branded the plans a "disaster for democracy". <snip>

http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/39486.html

[Chicago Democrat]

1. Golfing reminds me of Repukes and Nazis now....

I used to enjoy it.

[PartyPooper]

2. Amen to that!

Why do they have to desecrate absolutely everything?

[applegrove]

3. Now come on. Canada's leaders are not freaks. You have to

be smart about economics. You cannot spend what you do not have. I would imagine that nobody there would want to be seen near Bush. We all hate him too.

And remember, Bush got called a moron or an idiot at one of these events. It could be interesting.

[struggle4progress]

5. Canada? eom

[Spazito]

6. Huh? This is not taking place in Canada

This is taking place in Scotland, I believe.

[applegrove]

7. No - but someone was painting golf & all the attendees as Nazis.

And we are not. That was my point. G8 has tried to focus on African ore the years but Bushasshole keeps taking over the agenda and being a moron.

[carnie_sf]

4. What else is new?