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When the Government Wants You Dead
Steyn Online ^ | 17 July 2024 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/17/2024 12:48:36 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Not long after I came to New Hampshire, decades back, a chap in Littleton decided to hold up the local bank. Unfortunately, he made the elementary mistake of rolling the ski-mask down over his face not just for the robbery but also to case the joint. A teller at the bank, strolling back from lunch, noticed the ski-masked bloke standing on Main Street peering through the windows for some length of time, and she thought it rather odd. So, when he entered the lobby to hold up the joint, they were ready for him.

That's pretty much what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania - except, instead of a perspicacious bank clerk acting swiftly to prevent the crime, there were vast numbers of Secret Service agents who instead let the guy go ahead and commit it.

In the last seventy-two hours, we have learned there were at least three government snipers in the very building whose rooftop the assassin was trying to access. They sat inside and watched him through the windows, as he arrived and peered up at the roof, and then wandered away.

They watched him when he came back and took out a laser range-finder to calculate the distance between the building and Trump's head, and then left again.

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1 posted on 07/17/2024 12:48:36 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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2 posted on 07/17/2024 12:53:59 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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The appropriate House committee should supeana every Secret Service person who was at the site and require them to take a lie detector test.


3 posted on 07/17/2024 12:58:06 PM PDT by gleneagle
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To: Rummyfan

I’m already pushing the limits with some of my comments recently...

Let’s just say, I’m furious about all of this.


4 posted on 07/17/2024 1:03:41 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: gleneagle

According to Dan Bongino (who was in the SS and has friends there) agents have been told to stay quiet or be fired.


5 posted on 07/17/2024 1:11:22 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Rummyfan

The Feds wanted another Zapruder Film in hi def for the whole world to see - and to send a totalitarian boot on the neck message to the masses.


6 posted on 07/17/2024 1:14:39 PM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Rummyfan
It's time to dust off Howard Baker's question during the Watergate investigation: "What did the President know and when did he know it?"

The assassination attempt on July 13 failed;, but that doesn't mean they won't try again.

7 posted on 07/17/2024 1:15:01 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Dead Corpse

I hear you…. And Cheatle should be fired… or worse!


8 posted on 07/17/2024 1:21:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: packagingguy
According to Dan Bongino (who was in the SS and has friends there) agents have been told to stay quiet or be fired.

I can see that in terms of social media and ragtag reporters, but under subpoena and if Congress will only enforce whistleblower protection, some of it will come out. Hope it's the thread that unravels the rest.

9 posted on 07/17/2024 1:21:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Rummyfan

Is “criminal negligence” a Federal offense? That would be the “most kind” description of the event.


10 posted on 07/17/2024 1:24:34 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: packagingguy

“stay quiet or be fired”

Deep State version: “stay quiet or be dead”.


11 posted on 07/17/2024 1:25:44 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Albion Wilde

For those with short memories Congress did have a three year long investigation of the JFK assassination in 1974-1976.

Sam Giancana was murdered just before the hearings.

John Roselli was murdered right after he testified.

The Deep State plays dirty.


12 posted on 07/17/2024 1:27:53 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: packagingguy

“According to Dan Bongino (who was in the SS and has friends there) agents have been told to stay quiet or be fired.”

Thus proving that we are already in a police (communist) state. So much for that 1st Amendment and whistleblower protections BS.


13 posted on 07/17/2024 1:42:36 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Rummyfan

I think at this point everyone with a room temperature IQ has figured out it was a gov’t hit job.


14 posted on 07/17/2024 1:54:23 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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IMO-—CHEATLE s/b charged with MALFEASANCE at least.


15 posted on 07/17/2024 2:07:05 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Rummyfan

My reply:
With all duerespect, same to you, Government.


16 posted on 07/17/2024 2:12:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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At what point does negligence become a criminal action that can be prosecuted? A lot of people need to be fired, starting at the top of the Secret Service. Criminal negligence seems to be the order of the day for the Biden Administration.


17 posted on 07/17/2024 2:43:11 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Rummyfan

They almost got their wish.


18 posted on 07/17/2024 2:47:20 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: cgbg
For those with short memories Congress did have a three year long investigation of the JFK assassination in 1974-1976.

You're getting the committees confused. You're referring to U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in which Johnny Rosselli testified to the Senate in 1975 about his involvement in Operation Mongoose, the CIA plot to kill Castro.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations (1976-1978) investigated the JFK assassination. Charles Nicoletti was murdered just before he was scheduled to testify before the House committee in 1977. According to James Files, Nicoletti was one of the gunmen who took part in the JFK assassination.

19 posted on 07/17/2024 3:17:42 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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His rangefinder didn’t do diddly to help him with windage.

Lucky for us all.


20 posted on 07/17/2024 8:49:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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