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'This is America!' The moment a Secret Service agent confronts Turkish president's bodyguards [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 2, 2016 | Chris Pleasance

Posted on 04/03/2016 8:10:48 AM PDT by C19fan

This is the incredible moment a secret service agent was filmed scolding one of the Turkish president's bodyguards after clashes with protesters and reporters in Washington D.C. on Thursday.

Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in the capital for this week's nuclear summit with other world leaders when scuffles broke out outside the Brookings Institution.

Bystanders captured video of the president's security detail tearing anti-Erdogan banners from protesters' hands, while journalists claimed they were also pushed and kicked.

Seeming to echo the concerns of many onlookers, one secret service agent was filmed telling the Turkish security detail: 'This is America!'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: brookingsinstitution; erdoganusvisit; turkey
/src on/The Secret Service needs to attend diversity training as he's obviously suffering from jingoism and lack of appreciation and understanding of how other cultures work./src off/
1 posted on 04/03/2016 8:10:48 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

He’ll be fired or assigned to guarding Joey.


2 posted on 04/03/2016 8:12:24 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: C19fan

It’s good to see a real American every once in a while.

Reminds the rest of the world we are still here... and we will NOT go away.


3 posted on 04/03/2016 8:17:20 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: C19fan

This whole thing shouldn’t have been happening on American soil


4 posted on 04/03/2016 8:23:02 AM PDT by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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To: Williams

“..This whole thing shouldn’t have been happening on American soil...”

A portion of the electorate asked for it, and they got it.


5 posted on 04/03/2016 8:25:53 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: C19fan

Well. Funny we have to get this news from a foreign source..the irony.


6 posted on 04/03/2016 8:26:55 AM PDT by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: SueRae

The Daily Mail is awesome.


7 posted on 04/03/2016 8:32:05 AM PDT by golux (Requiescat in Pace Msgr. Kenny Bunk!)
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To: golux

“The Daily Mail is awesome.”

It has many advantages over U.S. publicaitions. It also has many biases. It has the great advantage of not being in the middle of U.S. politics.

Think what an actual freedom loving publication, that did not have to worry about political correctness, would be like. I cannot think of one that exists.


8 posted on 04/03/2016 8:35:43 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: NFHale
Really good post!........ Puts perspective of the story exactly where it belongs....One of the reasons this is a Great nation is because people, individually and voluntarily, and at every level of society, make conscious decisions every day to look out for the liberty of others, and protect the liberty of others.


9 posted on 04/03/2016 8:39:57 AM PDT by caww
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To: C19fan

Whereas if this was one of the many Diplomatic Security Special Agents, they’d be the ones tearing down the signs and kicking people. Thankfully for protesters it was at a conference; the DSS agents are the ones you get to see escorting despots from around the world through your local cultural or entertainment venue.

Disbanding the state department’s diplomatic security is just one of the many many many private armies that need to be eliminated from the various federal agencies.


10 posted on 04/03/2016 8:45:23 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: C19fan

Why is this criminal even in the US?


11 posted on 04/03/2016 9:04:53 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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This is America, where only obama’s armed goons get to shoot unarmed black women in their cars with babies in the back seat, after we’ve returned from the local watering hole and a bit of liquid refreshment. So stop kicking these folks before we’ve had a chance to zero our sights.


12 posted on 04/03/2016 11:30:19 AM PDT by DPMD
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