G-8 in Georgia: Model for repression at Democratic and Republican party conventions is martial law, negating the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbidding federal troops from deployment in domestic policing
The Summit of the Group of Eight (G-8), the US and other wealthy “democracies,” networked from June 8-10 in Georgia to advance their free market plans while a state of emergency led to the suspension of basic constitutional rights. Not the “Miami model” of repression but the logical next step of domestic repression.
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has reviewed tapes and transcripts of traders from various companies, and says they took the song Rawhide, wrote new lyrics, and sang it on the trading floor. . .