New 'status symbol' in D.C.: Bodyguards

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, February 15, 2003 | By Paul Sperry

[JohnHuang2]

Saturday, February 15, 2003

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[palmer]

Article didn't mention the mini-motorcades that I see around Northern Virginia when those "VIPs" have to go somewhere. It's another way to keep oneself informed of one's status.

[exnavy]

To bad we little people cannot be afforded the status of human being and granted our constitutional 2nd ammendment rights.

[backhoe]

Hello, John... this?

Interior Secretary Gale Norton, moreover, is protected by a phalanx of guards armed with MP-5 submachine guns, a weapon used by the president's Secret Service detail.

I always preferred Wilson Arms Company's Witness Protection shotgun... and no, I don't have a web-accessable picture, darn it! Mossberg 500 12 gauge, 12.5" Winchoked barrel ( to keep the pattern tight ) and curved pistol grip- you sling in under your left shoulder under a suit coat- the US Marshall Service used to favor them, which is where the name came from.

[AndyJackson]

This is insane on every front. Yes, Rumsfeld should be well guarded because the security of the country depends upon it and we shouldn't care a whole lot whether it is military or civilians who do it. But the secretary of the Interior? Gimme a break.

[Quilla]

I'm married to my bodyguard. Coincidentally, he bought two 12 gauge Mossberg cruiser grip just yesterday - one of which was my Valentine's present.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I wonder if these government dukes and duchesses have ever considered what the average American will think of them after they come out of their holes following a devastating attack we lesser mortals have endured.

[backhoe]

Very good, Quilla... I have one WP shotgun for myself, and Jim Wilson custom-built another for my wife many years ago- it's her "car gun." We never leave home without them, as the saying goes...

[Chemist_Geek]

Even the obscure National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, has started a wide-ranging security program.

The National Security Safeguards Program was implemented last May "to protect NOAA against espionage, sabotage and foreign or domestic terrorism, as well as threats by foreign powers, organizations or persons directed toward personnel, facilities, operations, or administratively controlled, export-controlled, national security classified or proprietary information," said Conrad Lautenbacher Jr., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, in a law-enforcement sensitive memo obtained by WorldNetDaily.

Well, the National Weather Service (which is a part of NOAA) provides on a 24 hour a day basis information which is critical to the safety of flight. Until the FAA grounds all aviation (like was done on 11 September 2001) I'm not at all upset that they're thinking of protecting that service.

[Quilla]

In planning for our "safe room" we have decided to seal off several ajoining rooms to include a bath and hubby's gun room. In the even of an emergency and if time permits, we will be able to choose from 90 different guns, every caliber under the son, and literally hundreds of boxes of ammo. Of course we have been collectors for years and I'm ashamed to admit [not] - we do profile. As backhoe described earlier, my new Mossberg will be a car gun as it fits perfectly between my seat and the console.

We've been invited to shoot clay pigeons later this morning at a nearby Boy Scout camp in preparation for an upcoming tournament. I can hardly hit some of the speeding Ritz cracker sized clays with my over and under, but it will be interesting to see how the Mossberg performs.

[freeper12]

>>unwittingly setting up a police state

I don't think there is anything "unwittingly" about it....more like deliberatly setting up a police state.

[Jason_b]

I think you are right. The servants have become the masters. The reason these officials feel they need such protection is that they know full well they are crowding the rights of the people, and they intend to continue. Most people sit there and fume, but a few take matters into their own hands. Hence the bodyguards.

Ask yourself how we got to this point. One thing is for sure, it cost money. Those body guards, those arms, the training, all the security, it costs money. And there is one place the masters go to get money: the Federal Reserve. Just monetize some debt and presto, mo money! Thomas Jefferson warned us that if we allow banks to control the issuance of money (...) our children would be as slaves in the land conquered by their fathers (paraphrasing). THIS is all part of that process. The only way to stop this process of creeping police state is to get back on honest money---a gold coin monetary standard. IMHO

[joesnuffy]

Interior Secretary Gale Norton, moreover, is protected by a phalanx of guards armed with MP-5 submachine guns, a weapon used by the president's Secret Service

The least they could do is to buy American....

"It's crazy," said a veteran U.S. official now involved in homeland security. </>

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta's security detail also is heavily armed, which is ironic considering Mineta opposed arming pilots after the Sept. 11 hijackings.

FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh, meantime, has a detail of deputy U.S. Marshals, who also provide protection for the U.S. drug czar.

If its so dangerous how come all the peasants (including the pilots of aircraft) are not allowed to protect themselves...even the residents of DC You Hippocraps... We dont have a republic we have an friggen oligarchy

[harpseal]

All these body guards in Washington, DC where absolutely no one but a law enforcement officer or Federal agenty may legally carry a firearm. The nobility gets armed escorts a peasent can not even carry his own unless he is escorting such nobility.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Around the time Congressman Delay moved from the House Republican Whip to Majority leader, his protection when he is home changed. While whip he traveled with a local Constable or deputy constable to public events. He now has Capital Police, though I will not say how many.

A few months ago one was stationed near my table at a black tie event and I saw him the next day at a BBQ. After talking awhile I told him to relax a little that DeLay was in little danger at either event since I could count at least 40 people with concealed handgun permits in the room. He got the funniest look on his face like he had not considered how many Texans are armed!

[Travis McGee]

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA: ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state.

~~Heinrich Himmler, apocryphal.

[Travis McGee]

Lords and peasants ping.

[coloradan]

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta's security detail also is heavily armed, which is ironic considering Mineta opposed arming pilots after the Sept. 11 hijackings.

That is infuriating. Bush should have demanded that his "pilots" were completely disarmed.

[Squantos]

I think it's really nice for these beancounters to all have bodyguards. I think they should triple the numbers now as the homeland security threat is orange ya know. What "would " we do as a nation if the director of OPM was to be killed ?!?!?! Ohhhh the friggin horror !!

I remember two special undercover police units in Detroit back in the early 70's that attacked each other once. Both teams saw the guns ect and thought it was a hit and opened up at the same time killing a whole lot of secret squirrel type cops.......this DC polidiot dog will catch it's own tail soon also IMHO.

Polidiots, presstitutes and all practicioners of elitism should be armed to the nth degree today :o) With all the bell curve educational and PC training standards imposed at all levels of our society the odds are that just one those bodyguard wannabes will have an ND and make America a safer place by removing some POS protectee from the gene pool accidentally.

Stay Safe !