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Obama moves G8 summit to new location

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1Obama moves G8 summit to new location Empty Obama moves G8 summit to new location Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:53 pm

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(AP Photo/Cliff Owen) President Barack Obama addresses the American Israel Public Affairs …How will it play in Chicago?

As recently as January 25, Chicago's Chamber of Commerce was talking up the economic benefits of hosting the Group of Eight summit of economic powers and playing down the prospects for disruptions that could affect the talks and tarnish the Windy City's image.

On Monday, President Barack Obama pulled the plug on his adoptive hometown's hopes and announced he was moving the annual summit to the super-secure Camp David retreat on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain.


"To facilitate a free-flowing discussion with our close G-8 partners, the President is inviting his fellow G-8 leaders to Camp David on May 18-19 for the G-8 Summit, which will address a broad range of economic, political and security issues," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.


Asked why Obama had opted to move the summit, which is expected to focus on Europe's debt crisis and ways to boost the global economy, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor emailed that the president felt Camp David "would provide an informal and intimate setting to have a free-flowing conversation."

"He very much looks forward to coming to his hometown for a critically important NATO summit, as planned," Vietor added. That meeting will take place on May 20-21.

The Chicago Chamber of Commerce had no immediate comment. But in a late-February statement, President and CEO Jerry Roper and Lori Healy, executive director of the Chicago G-8 and NATO Host Committee, invited businesses to a briefing to highlight how the two summits "present an exciting opportunity to highlight our extraordinary city to the world."

CBS Radio's Mark Knoller, who keeps painstaking track of presidential doings, wrote on Twitter that "it will be the first time Pres. Obama has hosted foreign leaders at Camp David in his 22 visits to date." He also noted that Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, invited 19 world leaders over the course of 149 visits to the secluded retreat.

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Sounds like a good place to stick them all under arrest for corruption of the world economy...oh we can hope!

3Obama moves G8 summit to new location Empty Re: Obama moves G8 summit to new location Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:01 pm

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Quelling the Protest Movement: G-8 Summit Meetings Moved from Chicago to Secure Environment of Maryland’s Camp David.



by Danny Schechter



Did the Obama alumni Association in Chicago---David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Bill Daley---get nervous and call the White House, or was it Barack himself, having disposed/co-opted one threat by the name of Netanyahu, who recognized he had a more serious problem the horizon.

The President has been playing Ronald Reagan these days, talking tough while feinting towards the center. What he most decidedly does not want to do is play Hubert Humphrey and relive the summer of 1968 in Chicago.

That’s why the G8 meeting was shifted from contested ground there to safe space in the ultra secure, well-guarded environment of Maryland’s Camp David.

The last thing The President needs in the middle of his campaign is another police riot in the second city.

Someone must have pointed out that the Occupy Movement was already in the process of planning another battle ala Seattle in the very heartland of the Obama Empire. Even the editor of Adbusters, who issued the call to occupy Zuccotti Park last September, now had his megaphone fixed on the Second City.

The world movement that has mobilized to confront so many G8 had this one in its crosshairs for month.

Sweet Home Chicago was in line to become a sweet home for a world of angry protesters, not just Americans.

That has to be stopped or diverted, and it was.

But first, there was the passage of a draconian new anti-protest law with bi-partisan support and little press attention.

The National Lawyers Guild explained:

“Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it

The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal

Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. In the bill, Congress officially makes it illegal to trespass on the grounds of the White House, which, on the surface, seems not just harmless and necessary, but somewhat shocking that such a rule isn’t already on the books. The wording in the bill, however, extends to allow the government to go after much more than tourists that transverse the wrought iron White House fence.’

Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country.”

Next, The law, coming on the heels of the NDAA, had to be broad enough cover most contingencies:

“The new legislation allows prosecutors to charge anyone who enters a building without permission or with the intent to disrupt a government function with a federal offense if Secret Service is on the scene, but the law stretches to include not just the president’s palatial Pennsylvania Avenue home. Under the law, any building or grounds where the president is visiting — even temporarily — is covered, as is any building or grounds “restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance."

It’s not just the president who would be spared from protesters, either.

While some are demanding that the President veto it, it may be that he was part of the network that signed off on it and the change of venue.

While the G8 is moving, plans for a large NATO meeting in Chicago are continuing, and protest activists told the Chicago Tribune, they are not going to be deterred:

“Early word from protest organizers was that if the move was intended to slow them down, that wouldn't happen.

“The main thing is, the protests will go forward,” said anti-war protest leader Andy Thayer. “We believe that NATO is, frankly, the de facto military arm of G-8 and anybody who’s upset with G-8 should be upset with NATO.”

“Because G-8 is being moved to a remote, highly secure location, Thayer said Chicago would still be a magnet for large demonstrations.

“I believe that people will very much focus on Chicago. So much organization has already gone into this,” he said, adding that groups will tinker with their demonstration plans rather than abandon them. “We’re going to have a quick consultation to see whether we need to move our demonstration from the 19th to the 20th.”

Unless martial law is imposed—or the first amendment is suspended, as it was in that Transformers movie shot in Chicago, activists will be showing up and in what promises to be a growing spirit of confrontation.

Alderman Joe Moore says he anticipates more street heat.

“Moore said many of the protesters opposed to G-8 policies might still show up, because “they are so geared up to do it. “NATO is still going to attract demonstrators,” Moore said.

“We are still going to need a lot of security for these world leaders, including the president. All it’s doing is lessening a little bit of the international luster.”

Ald. Scott Waguespack, speculated that the president ultimately was more comfortable with the security and tranquility at the presidential retreat. “Nobody can get near Camp David,” he said.

But he said the city should still expect a large contingent of protesters — to both G-8 and NATO policies.”

Years ago, when I was at The London School of Economics, I received a letter inviting me to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic convention.

No it wasn’t from then Mayor Daley but from my Yippie friend Abbie Hoffman who predicted a hot time in the old town that was burned down by Mrs., O’Leary’s famous cow.

To this day, I regret not going, but I asked Abbie to look after my London friend John Froines who planned to be in town that month.

Abbie did—and John, a scientist and fellow anti-Vietnam War protester quickly became one of the defendants in the Chicago Conspiracy Trial.

He never let me forget it.

I am hoping to be there this time because it promises to showcase the revival of the Occupy Movement that so many are hoping for.

60’s veteran News Dissector Danny Schechter wrote Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street. (Cosimo), He blogs daily on Newsdissector.net and hosts a weekly show on Progressive Radio Network (PRN.fm) Comments to dissector@mediachannel.org


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