The Secret Service chief has stepped-up security outside the White House after a man with a knife who jumped the fence made it into the presidential residence before being apprehended, officials said Saturday.This was reported by the huffingtonpost.com
Seriously the man had time to Jump a fence, cross the lawns and enter the residence of the President of The United States of America , and by the way it is reported that the man was armed with a folding knife. There are so many things wrong with this picture that I will come back to it.
It is reported that President Barack Obama insisted he still has confidence in the beleaguered agency’s ability to protect him and his family.
What else is he going to say? He still has to depend on them to protect him for not only the remainder of his tenure in office but for the remainder of his life. It is not the first time that there has been foul-up by this Agency, involving this President.
in March Agents were in the Netherlands as part of a contingent preparing for President Obama’s visit. According to officials, one Secret Service agent was found intoxicated and passed out in the hallway of his hotel. Hotel staff subsequently alerted U.S. authorities. This agent and two others — who were his companions on a night out drinking in the Dutch capital — were disciplined by being sent home for not exercising better judgment.
Nearly two years ago an advance team ahead of an Obama visit to Colombia for the Summit of the Americas got drunk. In that case, Secret Service agents hit the clubs of Cartagena for a night of drinking that ended with them bringing prostitutes back to their hotel. The agency immediately pulled 11 agents allegedly involved in the scandal from Obama’s security detail, put them on administrative leave and removed their security clearances.
How much is enough? The media is engrossed in a feeding frenzy surrounding the Ray Rice Elevator incident , They just won’t let it go. Yes what Rice did was despicable, but now it’s much larger than Rice . Every little Racist turd has now crawled out of their hole and is now passing Judgement. This is an issue of National Import. Where is the coverage? Or are we to assume that the Nation’s first black family in the White House is undeserving of the protection commensurate with the office? The same protection afforded previous occupants of the White House.
President Barack Obama and his daughter had just left the White House by helicopter on Friday evening when the Secret Service says 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez scaled the fence, darting across the lawn and through the unlocked North Portico doors before officers finally tackled him. Officials had originally said that Gonzalez appeared unarmed as he sprinted across the lawn — potentially one reason agents didn’t shoot him or release their service dogs to detain him.
This is a ridiculously absurd statement, designed only to cover their asses? How could they make that determination while he was running toward the President’s Residence? It must be construed that anyone who unlawfully breaches the fence surrounding the White House and tries to enter the Building has mal-intent ! What if he had a bomb strapped to his body ‚or simply had one in his possession? How could they tell he didn’t have a gun? Did they see the knife while he was running ? Isn’t a knife a weapon capable of killing someone? Did they think about that statement before they concocted it? Who made that decision not to take out that intruder? Would a black intruder have been given that benefit? The answer is no!
That statement does not stand scrutiny. They had no problem killing 34-year-old Miriam Carey, of Stamford, Conn. on Friday Oct 4th Last year. The incident began at about 2:30 p.m. at the White House gates at 15th and E streets NW. Police say Carey had attempted to ram a temporary security barrier outside the White House with her car, then struck a Secret Service uniformed division officer. She then fled the scene, leading police on a chase. Carey had her one year-old baby in the car at the time, This did not stop Secret Service and Capitol Police from killing her. Carey’s mother said her daughter was suffering from post-partum depression.
If someone breached the private sanctum of my home without my permission I would be livid. This guy breached the Residence of the leader of the free world and there is no consequences. What if this is a dry run? The President and his family were not at home at the time. What if they were? As the Media spotlight blazes and the pontificaters
grandstand about Ray Rice and whether Roger Goodell should be fired the real serious issues are receiving no attention . As I said in a previous Article, all of this noise about the NFL, though of some merit, is being done to drown out the calls for attention to the killing of black men across America by Police.
With all of the hype surrounding the Secret Service , I am yet to be convinced that this is a professional agency which takes the safety of the Nation’s chief executive and his family seriously. Those wishing to do the President and his family harm only has to be right once. They seem to be getting a hell of a lot of opportunity toward that end.