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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Unbelievable.
Absolutely unbelievable.
Kids with cancer.
Hey! Democrats!
This is your guy doing this.
Go hang yourselves.
Next Time disguise it as a Muslim Outreach gathering
At least they didn’t swap the sick kids for healthy ones for a better photo op like Hillary did! They just gave these the boot!
Precisely the sort of sensitivity we’ve come to expect from President *sshole over the past seven years.
Wow, people commenting at WAPO are venting on Obama.
Also, on the WH refusing to light up the White Hut for Victims of Childhood Cancer since it is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Especially, since the WH had no problem lighting up for the Rainbow Flag set.
If Bush had done this (which he wouldn’t have), this would be the lead story tomorrow on the morning and evening news. But because this is under Obama, it will not be mentioned.
Ughhhhhh! Terrible for the kids and families.
Wish Trump would jump on this and invite them to Trump Tower. Too many for helicopter rides.
The family must be Christian.
ping
Heartless..
That's makes it even worse! What horse dung!!!
Hillary stiffed a bunch of kids last week and left them crying.
Obama does this and I’m sure some kids were crying as well.
Trump spends his Saturday night at a HS telling kids to stay away from alcohol and drugs, yet the media focuses on some random yahoo, likely a plant, from a Town Hall 3 days ago.
The media and the dems, same thing, both evil.
I liked the Secret Circus better when they were shacking up with Colombian whores instead of chasing cancer-ridden children and their families from a public park.
Just so the Fuhrer could leave the Black House and meet with his peeps at some black caucasian bash America gala?
It is official - the media suck Obama’s dick, 24/7.
The candlelight vigil came about partly because of the group’s inability to persuade the White House to light up the mansion in gold as a symbol of support for the cause, as it has done for other causes, organizers said. So they decided to hold a candlelight vigil of their own.
Meanwhile, a 14yo reassembles a clock to make it look like an explosive device, and he’s given a personal invitation to the White House.
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This is what emperors do.
If this was a Bruce Jenner gender bender gathering, the emperor would have made a personal appearance.
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