I found this posting at The Annoyed Army. This person claims to have a son who works with the very agents who came to my door so I guess they were the real deal and they were ticked that I got ticked.
Oh well, last I checked citizens paid their salary. I was patient until the woman got rude and the man questioned my thoughts. That’s my limit.
“I cannot say too much without compromising my son but when I first got the e-mail about this (I’ve gotten it four times) I forwarded to him for his comments and he asked me not to quote him, for obvious reasons.
But, he did say I could tell people that (1) he has worked with these two agents on numerous occasions, as they are both also assigned to the Houston Office, and he has NEVER - not a single time - seen them be anything but polite and professional and that they all have it hammered into their heads from day one of their training that they MUST at all times be polite to keep from damaging the image and reputation of the service.
And (2) that the Service MUST - by law - investigate ANY allegation of a threat that is made to a public official they are responsible for protecting, even if does not APPEAR serious on the surface. They have NO CHOICE. If they just ASSUMED a threat was not serious and it turned out to be otherwise they would be - justifiably - crucified for not doing their job.
As I said, I can’t give you specifics but let me just say that there IS another side to this story but the difference is that the agents cannot publicly defend themselves while this lady is free to spread her accusations far and wide over the internet.
MY opinion? And remember.....this did NOT come from my son...the lady was ticked off (justifiably if she really did not make the comment) and took it out on the Agents, getting in their face with BOATLOADS of attitude, possibly refusing to cooperate. At that point the Agents probably stressed upon her the seriousness of a threat and they also probably mentioned that if she refused to cooperate with them their only alternative would be to talk to other people to see if they could find out if she might actually be a threat. But she turned their words around to say they THREATENED her, taking their innoculous comments and misrepresenting what they said.
Again, my son did not SAY that’s what happened but I’m BETTING that’s what happened. The lady called Sean Hannity’s show last Friday to tell “her story” and she was ranting and raving and I have no doubt that was her attitude with the Agents talked to her.
By the way, she got NOWHERE with Sean Hannity as he said he had been around a lot of SS Agents and that they had a difficult job and he had never seen any of them behave that way.
Just keep in mind......there IS another side to this story. Oh, and by the way, they don’t HAVE badge numbers!”
I still see a double standard here. Early in the year a Nobel Prize winner from 2007, a UK citizen made a prediction about Sen. Obama that if he wins the White House, he will be assasinated. Because she is a British citizen and a Nobel Prize winner, it was suprising that the Secret Service gaved her a pass. Not so if she was to have been an American citizen. Here is the FR URL link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967913/posts
“...possibly refusing to cooperate...”
If the truthful answer is “no, I didn’t say what I am being accused of saying,” how much more “cooperation” can there be?