Well, I'm pretty sure they were hoping for help from the pokes. However, now that they realize that Georgia is better than all the media painted us, I think the humility and sense of impending doom is beginning to set in.
Either that, or they can't find anyone in Georgia willing to type for them.
"The freedom of individuals to verbally to oppose or to challenge police actions without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."