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They're Testing the Secret Service

by: nonverbalcoma

Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 22:46:02 PM EDT
This, at least to me has become increasingly evident.  There's been an upswing of threats, a surge in right wing fringe groups and white supremacist groups since Obama took office.  dlh77489 had a diary calling for more money for the Secret Service.  FishOutofWater discussed the number of threats.  The Republican party has become both complacent and an instigator of violent rhetoric in an attempt to remain significant.
nonverbalcoma :: They're Testing the Secret Service
I'll attempt, if you will, to not be too corny, but like in Jurassic Park, the velociraptors are testing the defenses.  The scent of a bomb here, a man with a knife here.  They are honestly seeing what they can get away with.  What's been missed?  I don't think for a second that these deranged elements wouldn't take Obama's life if they had the chance.  They're laying the ground work.  For Republicans it's they're only hope and they'll placate and quietly nudge any group along that will show them any support.

Our President and the Secret Service obviously have a fine line to walk.  If they arrest every odd duck that shows up with a whacked out sign they run a certain risk of playing into the fucked up nazi and repression accusations levied at him.

But seriously.  How much longer can some of these people be allowed this free run outside of their asylum?

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There WAS an arrest in NH (4.00 / 1)
Another gunman was arrested at the Portsmouth Obama event for having an unlicensed, concealed gun.

That doesn't seem to be getting as much media attention - perhaps because the shin-strapped nutcase was a self promoter, perhaps because (as you suggest) there is coordination among the thugs.

ironic twist: (4.00 / 1)
If Richard Terry Young had left his loaded handgun out in plain view in his truck, instead of hiding it in a bag, he couldn't been busted on the illegal concealed weapon charge. NH allows open-carry without a license.

Of course, he passed up some simple ways of avoiding this problem.  He could have gotten a concealed-weapon permit, which is easy and very inexpensive (although us state legislators raised the price this summer when we passed the new budget.)  He could have carried the ammo and the gun in separate locked containers.  

He could also have left the gun at home on August 11.  Even if he thinks he routinely needs it for deterrence or self-defense, he was only going a few miles from home, to a venue with no shortage of armed police officers who were (as he found out the hard way) ready to arrest anyone who commits a crime on the premises.

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I imagine many more could have been arrested by now. (0.00 / 0)


"We Demand Rigidly Defined Areas of Doubt and Uncertainty" D. Adams
In my limited, dated experience (0.00 / 0)
Specifically the 1988 campaign -- the Secret Service does not mess around. For example, the guys with Lloyd Bentsen were a lot more easygoing than the guys with Dukakis when he was the nominee.

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