Sadly, this has characterized pretty much every major summit since 1999, when the Battle of Seattle scared the pants off all the corporate bigwigs at the WTO conference. The police presence at the 3rd Summit of the Americas (in Quebec City 2001) demonstrated how tight security became in only two years.
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Date: 2010-06-23 08:19 pm (UTC)9/11 probably didn't help much either...