Posted on 09/20/2015 6:29:49 PM PDT by TroutStalker
The U.S. Secret Service ordered hundreds of parents and their cancer-stricken children out of Lafayette Square on Saturday night, barricading the park for at least two hours and disrupting the group’s plans for a candlelight vigil to raise awareness and research funding for childhood cancer, participants said.
Some of the parents and children expressed hurt and disappointment that the Secret Service and Park Police, citing security precautions, virtually shut down part of a two-day event called CureFest for Childhood Cancer.
“We ended up waiting at the gates for two hours, and they never let us in,” said Natasha Gould, an 11-year-old Canadian girl who started a blog after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor this year. “And to be clear, the entire crowd was half kids. I cried last night in my hotel room because it was my first CureFest, and I couldn’t believe people were acting like they don’t care about children.”
Public information officers for the Secret Service and the Park Police were not able to comment immediately. Closures of Lafayette Square have occurred periodically since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and security incidents at the White House.
Organizers, aligned with The Truth 365 grass roots child-cancer advocacy program, had obtained a permit to hold “A Night of Golden Lights,” in which participants would light electric candles.
But as the closure dragged on, some of the sick children, fatigued by the wait or the need to receive medication, had to return to their hotel rooms, organizers said. Others began crying, and some parents became enraged. Attendees said the group of at least 700 people were not allowed access to personal items they left behind, such as chairs and blankets.
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They are there to beg money from the federal government?
So a fence and everything else can be utilized to protect the President, but if the rest of the nation wants protect, tough?
TYG.
Then senator obama voted against a bill that required medical treatment of babies who survived an abortion and were born alive, not once, not twice, but for three consecutive years.
So Natasha, you tell me, does he care about children?
maybe they found a clock in a box
If that happened when Bush was President (it never would) this would lead the news all next week. The headlines write themselves.
He wants to make sure his grandchildren are aborted. My theory is that he hates children. Many homosexuals are repulsed by children, because they are the product of icky, natural heterosexual interaction.
Many gasbians despise "breeders".
Oops, not tonight.
Not only that but it would be a part of comedy routines for 30 years, get mentioned in cartoons like “Family Guy” all the time and basically never end.
That, too.
I can’t imagine why these people would imagine that the Obama administration cares about their children, or why they’d imagine their park permit outweighed Obama’s whim.
shoulda made a clock!
Hey, they were just peaceably assembling* and petitioning the guberment for a redress of grievances ... what’s the big deal?
/DrippingSarc
* with a permit, no less, and there foreknowledge on the part of the SS. This was cold. Surely there was another route.
Back in the 60’s my friend’s mom had a gay friend we sometimes visited and he always used to say to us, “Run along, children, and go play in the road”. It was kind of funny actually. No, gays don’t like kids. That’s why when I hear about gay adoptions I always think of Bob the gay guy. There’s no way gays really want kids, or even a monogamous relationship like marriage.
They didn’t give enough $$$ to the Dempcraps.
They did the same thing to vets trying to visit memorials in D.C.
the DiC and his beard just don’t want to feel uncomfortable
King John had the sheriff run the peasants out of his forest.
Some homosexuals have “homemaking” relationships - most people like some domestic stability - but there’s no indication that sexual fidelity is an aspect.
We read about the celebrity homosexuals who have purchased children, but, like the celebrity heterosexuals, they’re not bringing up children like normal people. There’s a reason all the kids wind up in therapy and rehab.
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