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Police investigate security breach after protester flies microlight within yards of US president
The Independent | July 14, 2018 | Tom Embury-Dennis

Posted on 07/13/2018 9:26:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: oblomov

Or, telling one another that they wouldn’t take a bullet.

Seems to be the norm, these days.


21 posted on 07/13/2018 10:21:12 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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To: cpdiii

When I worked at an Air National Guard base as a civilian security policeman a Secret Service agent took me to the top of the big hanger overlooking Air Force 2 and Marine 2 since I had the M-16 that shift instead of a revolver. He said “if you see something you don’t like, shoot it.” Thinking he was pulling my leg, I laughed. He said, “no, I’m serious. On my authority.” Okay. Whatever you say.


22 posted on 07/13/2018 10:21:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

GOD only knows....


23 posted on 07/13/2018 10:22:14 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: shanover

This was Greenpeace.


24 posted on 07/13/2018 10:22:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Should have shot this guy out of the sky. No reason to allow this!?

This guy could have taken Trump out with ease. He was right on top of him.


25 posted on 07/13/2018 10:25:16 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"“Snipers watched”

Those Europeans sure cranked security up for Trump's visit, tight as a rat's patoot.

We're lucky the snipers didn't shoot Trump to keep him from saying something harsh about the microlight pilot.

26 posted on 07/13/2018 10:40:31 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: nopardons

Just like the Sheriffs Department of Parkland, Florida holding pattern, in which they also just watched as the event unfolded.


27 posted on 07/13/2018 10:40:54 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Ozark Tom

Sadly very true.


28 posted on 07/13/2018 11:10:02 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
I used to be a gigantic Anglophile, have been to England many times

I lived there for a year in '89/'90. I got so rooted to the place, that I was seriously considering legally emigrating there.

I truly loved the land and its people, but in the end, I chose to come home to the USA.

It was one of the most fortuitous decisions I ever made.

29 posted on 07/13/2018 11:11:03 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And he committed a faux pas when meeting the Queen by failing to bow, and walking in front of her as they inspected troops arrayed to greet him.

Wow, I really like President Trump! Bows to no one, unlike that piece of crap Obama on his apology tours.

30 posted on 07/13/2018 11:22:48 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Windflier
I've love that nation ( its history, art, culture, music, literature, operettas, plays, movies, music halls,politics, T.V. shows, hotels, restaurants, hotels, even their food ( especially desserts ...EVERYTHING !) since I was a tiny child and probably know more about it than most people who live there today!

Never lived there, but have friends who did/do still; so even though I have done "touristy" stuff, I've also been fortunate enough to see and do what only the locals know about.

You were there when England was STILL ENGLAND, writ large!

In the end, you did make the right choice; all things considered.

31 posted on 07/13/2018 11:24:31 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: roadcat

We don’t believe in inherited nobility and royalty so why should we bow to it?


32 posted on 07/13/2018 11:24:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: roadcat
Out of ALL of the American Presidents,the Queen has met and know, only the damned Obamas didn't act properly, when they met and had tea with her.

Americans and especially our presidents are NOT supposed to bow to anyone!

33 posted on 07/13/2018 11:26:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Protester should have immediately been gunned down.


34 posted on 07/13/2018 11:36:05 PM PDT by boycott
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To: shanover; 2ndDivisionVet
I always marveled at the brazen bravery Greenpeace would show against western powers during the cold war. The Soviet Union? Not so much.

Wake me up when they are pulling stunts in China, North Korea or Red Square.

35 posted on 07/13/2018 11:37:03 PM PDT by BBell (es-tu stupide):>()
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To: shanover; 2ndDivisionVet

The same can be said about those brave souls at amnesty international.


36 posted on 07/13/2018 11:37:53 PM PDT by BBell (es-tu stupide):>()
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It seems that the “No Fly Zone” around President Trump’s security is just about as meaningful as the mayor of London’s “gun-free” and “knife-free” zones of his crime-infested capital city.


37 posted on 07/13/2018 11:38:54 PM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: BBell

I always marveled at the brazen bravery Greenpeace would show against western powers during the cold war. The Soviet Union? Not so much.
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Probably because the Soviets wouldn’t put up with that crap.

SHOOT TO SINK... or something like that....

In the 60s and so a bunch of foreign diplomats were being kidnapped and held for ransom, including US.

Somone made a mistake of kidnapping a Russian and the Russians ‘snatched’ up one of the kidnapper sympathizers and started sending him back home, a piece at a time.

A finger, a toe, a finger, an ear etc etc wasn’t long before the Russkie was back home and a new ‘handicapped’ person showed up in his homeland as a lesson of who not to fornicate with.

Once you stop treating dangerous animals like dangerous animals, they start overrunning you...best to stay a step ahead of the troglodytes.


38 posted on 07/13/2018 11:46:46 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: xrmusn
I thought that was Lebanon during the 80's when kidnapping was all the rage.

Israel knows how how to handle terrorist kidnappers as well.

39 posted on 07/13/2018 11:53:06 PM PDT by BBell (es-tu stupide):>()
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They would have been justified to drop that aircraft, end the threat. I’m surprised they didn’t.


40 posted on 07/13/2018 11:56:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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