[palmer]

why can't we all just walk into NORAD, maybe we just want to people watch there? why are they stopping us from entering? after all, our tax dollars paid for it.

You can. It's cumbersome and politicized but the public is allowed to visit.

[oceanview]

without being stopped and searched? so I could carry a suitcase with a bomb right into NORAD, or the Pentagon, is that right?

[Naspino]

You can. It's cumbersome and politicized but the public is allowed to visit.

The point is you cannot demand to walk into the planning center of the Pentagon and see what they are doing. Its public but closed. What is the difference in saying its public, not closed, but secured.