Posted on 07/14/2024 4:55:59 PM PDT by janetjanet998
When I was in college President Bush (maybe then VP) came to campus.
My bike was in the bike rack, locked.
They came along and cut everyone’s bike in half. Mind you, not just cut the chain and moved it. Or better yet, put up a sign the day before saying “move your bike”.
They’ve always stuck me since as somewhat halfwits and heavy handed.
And, no, I got nowhere on getting my bike replaced.
Why didn’t they have spotters on that HUGE, tall, water tower?!
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Possibly... but don’t they have drones all over the place now?
Why didn’t they have spotters on that HUGE, tall, water tower?!
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Possibly... but don’t they have drones all over the place now?
That applies to "law enforcement" generally ... arrogant, ignorant, and not too bright. The exceptions to that description don't do very much to clean up their profession. We deserve better return on our tax dollars.
“So it was the perfect spot for the assassin.”
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I wouldn’t call it a perfect spot because so many people saw him long before he fired his first shot.
Of course became “perfect” because of the incompetence of the Secret Service.
A rifle can easily be planted behind or underneath metal siding against insulation that would conceal it from the other side.
“...to be completely politically neutral through force of law.”
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Not good enough. We’re gonna need a consent decree against the left the
way they had one against Republicans for decades.
They knew it and did nothing.
Criminal behavior.
Simple question: How did the shooter know that was his opportunity?
Trump needs to let the country know that there will be a full investigation into the assassination attempt - once he takes office. (i.e. He’s not going to rely on any investigation that’s done by this administration).
I know, I want that too, but realistically, any political agenda can be hijacked to become whatever it is the most politically devious desires. And where that is sourced within the government, by the government, then always it will become advantageous to the government’s political agenda. Which is never our agenda, because government is always evil. (But, a necessary evil.) The only way to prevent the agencies from ever again becoming weaponized against us is to require them to never be political in nature. And, of course, few in nature, only those constitutionally necessary.
Oh ain’t that the truth!
Why? Serious question. Everybody with a functioning brain knows it’s the direct result of an amplified political rhetoric equating the right to Nazism. I would argue murder is the intent, but that’s a case that cannot be proven without psychic abilities. And everybody who doesn’t know this would never listen to anything a Trump administration would say. It may be a bold statement, but there are far more important threats against us than crazed armed leftists.
No, you don't ask for anything. You confiscate everything immediately before they have time to fix them.
The ONE question I’d like answered is:
Why didn’t SAIC Kern, the only permanent SS agent on Trump’s protective detail (it is reported everyone else were temps), didn’t address the roofs?
He is the team leader. This is on him.
In answer to your question, I think there were serious instances of, at the very least, negligence on the part of someone or someones in the Secret Service to allow this to happen, and possibly more than negligence. Not to take away from those Secret Service agents on the scene who did their job admirably, but a serious breach of security was allowed to occur - whether by design or negligence. The country needs to know why the Secret Service failed - but for the grace of God - in their core job responsibility.
This assumes that the person who planned the assassination and the person who was made to look incompetent are the same person.
Fair point. We are, as a nation, suffering eroding confidence in our bedrock institutions, for good reason. Perhaps such an investigation could illustrate reasons for, in part, what I reckon needs to happen. To demonstrate that DEI is demonstrably engineered incompetence, which is probably the case here. Two birds with one stone? So long as it’s framed as the mechanics of the failure rather than the nature of the failing. (Incompetence vs. rhetoric.)
I saw their faces at that short Biden statement today at the White House. They walked out and looked like they were walking to the gallows.
Agreed. The incendiary rhetoric is a separate issue that needs to be dealt with on a different level. But as far as the organizational failure of the Secret Service, that needs to be investigated, and the degree to which diversity hiring may have been a contributing factor, also needs to be looked into.
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