The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported yesterday that Gov. Perdue has appointed Maj. Gen. William T. Nesbitt Georgia's director of Homeland Security"
"Nesbitt is the commanding general of the Georgia Army National Guard. In 2004, he commanded Joint Task Force G8, a force of more than 7,000 from all services that provided military support operations for the Group of Eight Summit at Sea Island, Ga." Story: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/05/01/daily35.html?f=et50&hbx=e_duOverkill: State of Emergency in GeorgiaThe $25 million worth of "security" - local police, state sheriffs, army national guard, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, etc. -- was a logistical problem for the State of Georgia, which had no legal right to oversee and coordinate all these anti-terrorism forces. To solve the problem, on May 7th Governor Perdue signed (but did not make public) a pre-emptive state of emergency for Georgia's six coastal counties which would was to remain in effect until June 20th.
This allowed him to sidestep the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the government from using the military for domestic law enforcement. By declaring a pre-emptive state of emergency, Gov. Perdue was able to place all the various arms of the law and the military under a single command, that of Brigadier General Terry Nesbitt of Georgia's Army National Guard....The governor declared that homeland security required a state of emergency, which, among other provisions, allowed the commander of the policing forces to announce, in extreme cases, a
"shoot to kill" order. Such an order
could apply to any individual the police felt was threatening the lives of the G8 leaders -- or their own --
at any gathering that took place during the state of emergency.
On May 24th, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a press release regarding the 'National Security Special Events' (NSSE), for terrorist attacks in the summer of 2004. He stated that such attacks were highly likely, and that three highly visible events would be likely targets. These were the G8 Summit, the Democratic National Convention in Boston, and the Republican National Convention in New York City.
By identifying the G8 Summit as a possible Al Qaeda target, Ashcroft provided the opportunity for Gov. Perdue to make public the state of emergency he had signed on May 7th. The "Miami model" of law enforcement was being applied in Georgia with a new twist - the declaration of a pre-emptive state of emergency.
Attorney General Ashcroft and Georgia's Republicans were imposing a new system of laws that was fundamentally incompatible with the rule of law established by the Constitution of the United States.Source:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:vL6CcdCtHf0J:newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/806617.shtml+G8+summit+%22Sea+Island%22+Nesbitt&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=16 
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