Adbusters — Occupy Claims Victory as Obama Relocates G8 Summit

The Showdown in Chicago has turned into a G8 Backdown. In a stunning about-face, the Obama administration has moved the Chicago G8 summit to Camp David, an ultra-secure military base in rural Maryland. Despite the tough talk of anti-Occupy technology, ordinances and paramilitary preparations, this is perhaps the first time that a major world summit has been relocated due to anticipated protests. And with only two months left before the summit was to begin, the change of venues is clearly a humiliating decision and a surprising victory of the Occupy movement. The specter of 50,000 nonviolent occupiers flooding the windy city with a list of demands for the world’s political elites was apparently too powerful.

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Surprise G8 Backdown
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Did Occupy just run the most powerful governments in the world out of town?

I guess the Obama administration did not want to chance a repeat of Chicago 1968 in an election year. Wise move. It certainly played a significant role in underming the candidacy of Hubert Humphrey.