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Posted on 09/20/2015 8:16:33 PM PDT by Nachum
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 groups 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 Secret Service and National 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 couldnt believe people were acting like they dont 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.
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They should have brought a clock in a brief case.
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Maybe Zero thought they were protesting the cancer in the White House.
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