It’s time for the Secret Service to make some arrests
The Secret Service needs to start arresting people:
An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was only joking when he said he’d buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama…
Rammell isn’t the first Rexburg resident who has drawn attention for making an anti-Obama comment. In November 2008, second- and third-grade students on a school bus there chanted “Assassinate Obama” after his election, prompting the mayor of this eastern Idaho town to publicly apologize.
via The Associated Press: Idaho GOP hopeful jokes about ‘Obama Tags’.
These politicians obviously think that talking about President Obama in this way will get them votes. What does it say about a political party when they rely on such repugnant rhetoric to engender support? Or, more to the point, what does it suggest about the mentality of the state’s residents that they respond favorably to such vile suggestions?
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How about the men carrying guns – some carrying assault weapons – outside events where the president appeared?
Apparently that was legal in the states in which the incidents occurred – Arizona and New Hampshire if I remember correctly – but it should not be.
The Secret Service should have the absolute right to secure a wide area where the president is to appear, regardless of the state. Federal security procedures for the president of the United States should trump warped stated laws that allow people to walk around with *assault weapons* in public. (I don’t care what the NRA nuts say, the framers of the Constitution could not in their wildest dreams imagine something like the AR-15 assault rifle).
After Brady was shot, there is no way the Secret Service would’ve let people pack heat during Ronald Reagan appearances, no matter what the state.
Why should it be different now?
If anything, given the current climate where an alleged major TV network happily fans the flames of extremist racism, the Secret Service should be tightening it procedures beyond what they were in the Reagan years.
Excellent points, Bob. It is ridiculous that the Secret Service does not simply crack down on gun-carrying at public events where any prominent federal officials are present, whether the President, Senators, Congressional Reps and Supreme Ct Justices.
Especially since anyone carrying a gun within a certain radius of the White House, Capitol Building or Supreme Ct gets taken away in cuffs. The safety of our nation’s leaders (whatever their political party) is of paramount importance.
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