JBT's? Sorry...
A few observations:
1) Ridiculous to compare the actions of these cops to totalitarian police-state goons. JBT's beat you to death in the dungeon of the Lubyanka, or send you off to Siberia as slave labor to be worked to death in a coal mine. These cops were misguided, misinformed, and rude, and they abused their authority by hassling someone. That's bad, but not quite as bad as what real JBT's do.
2) That said, the conduct of the officers was wrong and unprofessional. They should be subject to some kind of disciplinary action and should also be required to learn the laws they are supposed to be enforcing. They should also be required to practice proper safe gun handling.
3) The open carrying guy (we'll call him OCG) is a fool. Yes, apparently, under Georgia law what he was doing was perfectly legal, and like most people on THR, I agree that open carry should be legal and it should be accepted. But obviously, in this part of Georgia, there is a discrepancy between what is right and legal, and what the actual prevailing conditions are.
It does often occur in life that there are such discrepancies between "correct" and "actual." When such discrepancies occur, we have two choices: 1) undertake effective political action to change the acutal prevailing conditions until they are in alignment with what is legal and right, or else 2) comply with the actual prevailing conditions. OCG did neither, and accomplished nothing.
If OCG's goal was to protest against the discrepancy between Georgia law and the actual conditions, to undertake a political action, to raise awareness of this issue and win people's opnions to his side, and to change the way things are, he went about it all wrong. The people in Ohio who organized an open-carry march are an example of how to do it right.
If OCG's goal was to go to the 7-11 and get an Icee, he should have made himself aware of the local conditions and either concealed his weapon, or else not carried.
In actuality, all he did was buy himself a lot of hassle, which although it is not ideal, legal, right, or correct, is a forseeable consequence of carrying openly in a community where open carry is not accepted. If his aim was to get an Icee, he made it a lot more difficult than it needed to be. If his goal was to make a political statement, he did a very poor job of it. If his goal was to go about his business with the ability to defend himself, he did it in a way that was forseeably likely to generate a hassle.