Police concerned about order to stop screening

Email Print posted by awforrest 02/21/2008 05:49:46 PM EST

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It would appear everything has been politicized by the bushies.

DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.

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omg (none / 0)
Thats scary and pisses me off.

by Chinese Democracy on 02/21/2008 07:35:46 PM EST

How stupid do those cops have to be??? (none / 0)

Did they follow the order?  Did any of them have the brains that God gave a rock and say, "Hey, Lieutenant, I think that's a stupid order.  Maybe we should ignore it and not try to get Obama killed."

Jeezus.  They'd goddamned well better not kill Obama, too.  I will not sit still for this shit again.

Where do I go to sign up for the revolution?

by Juarez Traveller on 02/21/2008 07:52:02 PM EST

y'know (none / 0)
i'd actually be 100% okay with them pulling the race card on this one.  obama goes to texas and is not protected?  it sounds like a made-for-tv movie plot.

by mathcore on 02/21/2008 11:36:42 PM EST

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Just lovely (none / 0)
So Obama's safety is in the hands of an agency subordinate to the Homeland Security goons.  There's a conflict of interest for you: Shrub's Hounds assigned to protect the biggest danger to his "legacy."

SAM: What's new, Normie?
NORM: Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach and they're demanding beer.

by Spinny on 02/21/2008 07:59:47 PM EST

C'mon guys. (none / 0)
C'mon guys, it's not like anything bad ever happened in Dallas right?!

by awforrest on 02/21/2008 10:55:12 PM EST

nothing. never. (none / 0)
this post is made of win and success.

by mathcore on 02/21/2008 11:29:03 PM EST

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I disagree (none / 0)
Grandparent post is in fact made of win and god.

(Do you, in fact, liek mudkips?)

by jarett on 02/22/2008 02:43:41 AM EST

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as a lifelong member of the xenu liberatifon front (none / 0)
DO NOT WANT!

by mathcore on 02/22/2008 12:52:40 PM EST

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Bush Administration is TRYING to get Obama Killed! (none / 0)
Damn them!

It clearly stated in the article that this was a decision made by the federal authorities in charge of security.

by katherine on 02/22/2008 08:45:36 AM EST

I'm going to go out on a limb (none / 0)
I have a cousin in the Texas Secret Service.  He's a conservative goon, but he also has diamond-hard integrity and would never be complicit in any kind of plot to do less then his best at his job.  When I first posted on this thread I was pissed, but I've had time to think.

I'm chalking this up to the kind of crass incompetence I'd expect from an agency Shrub's Homeland Security numb nuts have taken over.  They showed piss-poor planning in not anticipating the bottleneck at the gate, and mind-numbing idiocy in the decided solution--but I don't believe in a deliberate conspiracy to get Obama killed.  

I might eat those words some day, but there they are.

SAM: What's new, Normie?
NORM: Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach and they're demanding beer.

by Spinny on 02/22/2008 08:52:54 AM EST

yea but (none / 0)
He may do his job well but if someone tells him not to do it. Thats the problem?

by Chinese Democracy on 02/22/2008 11:34:00 AM EST

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I don't buy it (none / 0)
He's not a robot, nor (I assume) are his colleagues.  They know their mission is to protect him, I don't believe they'd countenance an order not to do that mission.  Even in the military you're allowed to refuse an unlawful order.

I hate Shrub, hate his administration, and wouldn't put that kind of skulduggery beyond criminals like Cheney/Rove, but I just don't buy there's such a current going on here.

Feel free to dismiss me as a Pollyanna.

SAM: What's new, Normie?
NORM: Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach and they're demanding beer.

by Spinny on 02/22/2008 11:47:19 AM EST

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you made me think of something (none / 0)
Ya know what you bring up something I didnt see in the piece. Did the police stop screening when told to or was there resistance right there on the spot.

by Chinese Democracy on 02/22/2008 06:29:06 PM EST

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