The Second Coming of Bush: Mainz prepares for *

[Kellanved]

As a follow-up to this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3115995

• Four major highways on the outskirts of the city will be closed in both directions from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and again from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
  
  
• Local hospitals have already been inspected by a dozen members of Bush's security detail. The university clinic has been declared off-limits to "normal patients" during Bush's visit (except for the emergency room) and is reserved for the president should something happen to him.
  
  
• All schools in Mainz and three schools in the nearby town of Wiesbaden will be closed on Wednesday of next week -- the day of Bush's visit -- because of disrupted transportation and because many of them are located in the closed-off center of Mainz.
  
  
• A number of Mainz businesses will remain closed and many others will operate with only a skeleton crew due to difficulties most employees will have getting to work.
  

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http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,342443,00.html

[Oreo]

1. Das ist verbotten!

Residents in the city center are forbidden to go out onto their balconies during Bush's visit and some 1,200 Mainz residents who live near the palace where Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are to meet will only be allowed to enter their apartments after having undergone security checks. Strategically important balconies, roofs and windows will be manned by American snipers.


I'm sure they really appreciate being treated like common criminals to insure the safetry of... a common criminal

[Ironpost]

2. maybe they could or would arrest his sorry ass

[Kellanved]

4. charming, isn't it?

School-aged children will love him, all others: not so much.

[charlie]

3. Should've gone last week

He could've enjoyed the lovely Bush float Mainzers made for him: