Belated G8

I know that G8 stuff is over, but I was in San Antonio and could not add these pics. When I was in Lausanne, Switzerland, the 2004 G8 conference was held across Lake Geneva in Evian, France. Lausanne became a mad house with protestors and police, here are some of things that I witnessed:Here is a bank boarded up to keep people from looting. Most stores did this, but left a wooden door to enter/exit the shop.

One of the many anti-G8 posters around town.

Cops in riot gear getting ready for the protests. There were many soliders patroling the town.

Graffiti: "I spend therefore I am!!!" It is a play on the famous words of Descartes, "Je pense donc je suis" or "I think therefore I am".

Normally, this was a lake-side street, but was barracaded. Notice the barbed wire on the top of the barracades.