Neo-Feudalism Has Officially Arrived

[Will E Worm]

Congressman suggests building moat around White House in wake of security lapse

Rep. Steven Cohen (D-Tenn.) mentioned the idea to Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy at a House Judiciary Committee meeting about intruder Omar Gonzalez managing to get away from Secret Service agents on Sept. 19.


Imagine a moat around the White House.

Rep. Steven Cohen (D-Tenn.) broached the idea to Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy at a House Judiciary Committee meeting Wednesday in the wake of a stunning security lapse at the White House.

Clancy diplomatically suggested that a taller fence would be smarter.

"We recognize the historic nature of the White House and how the American people should have access to the White House," Clancy said.

He indicated that agents were "an arms-length or two" from a man as he jumped the White House fence on Sept. 19 but still couldn't stop him from entering the front door.

They were also unable to adequately warn nearby colleagues and trigger a simple system to stop the man, Omar Gonzalez, who ultimately was subdued in the East Room.

They were hampered in part by faulty radio communications between a command center and agents on the ground.

Clancy, who once ran the presidential protection unit, said a desire to "restore operational excellence" prompted his temporary exit from the private sector.


He conceded that the Secret Service also displayed a "break in our procedures" when a security guard with a gun was unexpectedly in an elevator with President Obama during a September visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Clancy complained of budget cuts and resulting understaffing that has affected training.

When we're not properly trained, sir, we fail," Clancy told Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.).

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) accused the Secret Service of intentionally misleading the public about the Sept. 19 incident.

Clancy denied that was the case but conceded "we gave bad information and that is something we cannot do."

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) asked Clancy about an apparent internal directive that female agents wear their hair in a bun.

Clancy said he had not heard of anything about that.

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[Mayhem]

Neo-Feudalism is nothing new.

At the start of Washington's administration, Adams became deeply involved in a month-long Senate controversy over the official title of the President. Adams favored grandiose titles such as "His Majesty the President" or "His High Mightiness, the President of the United States and Protector of Their Liberties." The plain "President of the United States" eventually won the debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams#Constitutional_ideas


And I can go along with the moat idea. But only if it comes equipped with...see what I'm about to do here?....I mean, if you think you know me, you should really expect this.....one could even say that it was inevitable.....as long as it comes with (tee hee).....SHARKS WITH FRIKKIN' LASERS ATTACHED TO THEIR HEADS!



OK, c'mon...who didn't see that one coming?

 

[Legzman]

I'm damn disappointed the last guy didn't make it further.

 

[bobjustbob]

Neo-Feudalism is nothing new. But only if it comes equipped with...

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Mayhem again.

But I'm allowed to give you this...

 

[Anonyne#017]

Are they trying to say that a country which spends trillions on weapons and armies have no enough budget to train couple security guys to take down one pantyflasher running around the white house? I don't think this is a problem of training at all, but person responsible of hiring these guys from the very first place must have been more interested in having his cock sucked than caring to pick the real security guys for the job. That might happen when one lives in a place where sucking a cock gets you a job... no offense for those who suck cock as a job...

 

[Rey C.]

Seems kinda odd to me that in a country where city cops will shoot a kid who is either unarmed or carrying a BB gun, we have Federal agents who trip over their dicks (or in the case of the female agents, their phantom dicks) and won't put three rounds in the chests of people who make threatening attacks on the White House.

Leave the next oxygen thief in a pool of blood and I guarantee these incidents will stop happening.