Another UFO sighting

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
traffic is stopped in DC quite often

JM

Yeah which is my point. Why are we the tax payers put out so idiot boy can drive down the same hiway i am on??? Like i said put him in a car designed by ted striker out in the hood and nobody would have a clue the old man was in that car.. Its the 12 limos and the motorcade that gives him away no?

[KrazyHorse]

Man, I can guarantee you they don't block the 417 when the PM wants to take a trip...

[KrazyHorse]

Less than ten years ago some crazy person with a knife managed to slip into the prime minister's residence. Who stopped him from killing the leader of a G7 nation? The prime minister's wife. At the bedroom door. Why didn't the prime minister stop the crazy man himself? Because he saves his strength to strangle protestors.

[KrazyHorse]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Chain%C3%A9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawinigan_Handshake

Pictured above: the "Shawinigan Handshake"

[notyoueither]

The PM doesn't warrant it. Not sure POTUS does, but the PM sure as hell doesn't.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Less than ten years ago some crazy person with a knife managed to slip into the prime minister's residence. Who stopped him from killing the leader of a G7 nation? The prime minister's wife. At the bedroom door. Why didn't the prime minister stop the crazy man himself? Because he saves his strength to strangle protestors.

And then they put up gates and put RCMP on the property round the clock.

The Yanks have actually had a couple leaders knocked off. Want to see what would happen up here if the same conditions prevailed?

[KrazyHorse]

They put the RCMP on the property around the clock?



Compare that with thousands of man-hours every day expended in protecting the POTUS. With crazy **** like inconveniencing thousands of people at a time because the Prez wants to take a little road trip. They've had 4 successful attempts in 230 years. Only one in the last 100. They've gone overboard.

[KrazyHorse]

They follow up every crackpot who writes a letter even vaguely threatening the Prez. Can you imagine how much work that is? Can you imagine the security budget for him? It's not going to even close to compare to ours. Not going to compare to a hundred times ours. Maybe a thousand times.

[KrazyHorse]

I met Chrétien in 1996. He spoke and then he jumped into the crowd to shake hands. We weren't patted down for weapons. He was surrounded by a crowd with nary a uniform in sight.

I think there's something wrong when a leader has to be so isolated from his public that such a thing isn't even thinkable.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
They follow up every crackpot who writes a letter even vaguely threatening the Prez. Can you imagine how much work that is? Can you imagine the security budget for him? It's not going to even close to compare to ours. Not going to compare to a hundred times ours. Maybe a thousand times.

JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcom X, attempts on Ford and Reagan...

Maybe they have a reason?

The last time Canada saw political violence on any sort of scale as the Yanks have, the army was called out and an entire province 'occupied'.

Don't gloat over the misfortune of others. And don't cast stones when you live in a glass house.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm not gloating. I think it's unnecessary.

I think that the security budget is way too big and badly allocated.

AFAIK RFK, MLK and X were never POTUS.

And none of them would have been saved by blocking traffic.

[notyoueither]

RFK was a candidate. MLK and Malcolm X were victims of violence in a political system where violence has too often been an answer.

But yes, scorn on the Yanks for not wanting to repeat the burial of JFK is entirely understandable, from a citizen of a province where civil liberties were stripped, the army moved in, and 1000's detained without charge after an ambassador got topped.

[KrazyHorse]

It's funny you mention that, since AFAIK I'm the only one here who's still pissed about that, the only one here who has gotten his ass of his chair and protested against the RCMP's actions during the APEC summit and the only one here who would stand up for civil liverties were a similar situation to arise today.

I fail to see my inconsistency. We stepped well over the line on a number of occasions. But we've drawn back from it. Security fears down there are a beast which refuses to die, no matter how much time passes.

[notyoueither]

Let's see... POTUS #35 shot dead in motorcade. POTUS #38 had shots thrown at him. POTUS #40 was hit by a gunman's bullet, but survived.

Yep, no need for security there that I can see.

[notyoueither]

Gee. Driving a fuel tanker into the motorcade would be

A. A one way ticket to the 19 virgins
B. Really stupid, don't do that
C. Something that KrazyHorse says 'you need not worry about'