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In reply to the discussion: Secret Service oath [View all]

Sympthsical

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20. Still a hard no
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 04:00 PM
Mar 2024

For reasons previously explained. Once you give security forces interpretive powers about national security, you have opened the door wide to all kinds of problems. How would you feel about a Secret Service spying on and interpreting a Democratic President, just waiting for the moment to clamp down on them?

Just like Al Qaeda did when America went goofy with the security state, we cannot allow Trump to break us by indulging some of the wilder and more authoritarian - and ahistorical - impulses just because of him.

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Secret Service oath [View all] birdographer Mar 2024 OP
All former presidents get SS protection. Elessar Zappa Mar 2024 #1
Will that include him multigraincracker Mar 2024 #2
We never had an ex president in jail before. We Emile Mar 2024 #6
No, the most logical thing is that Secret Service would replace prison guards. brooklynite Mar 2024 #10
Or just deputize prison guards into the Secret Service C_U_L8R Mar 2024 #12
I'm guessing the SS has a different training protocol. brooklynite Mar 2024 #15
Oh please. As if SS agents would be living with him in jail NanaCat Mar 2024 #21
No. 2naSalit Mar 2024 #14
That's the tradition, yeah jmowreader Mar 2024 #16
Yes, I know birdographer Mar 2024 #17
They go where they're assigned. It's not their job NanaCat Mar 2024 #22
No judgments birdographer Mar 2024 #32
Exactly the same oath evert Federal agent takes n/t CanonRay Mar 2024 #3
The oath every federal employee takes NanaCat Mar 2024 #23
I suggest we change the role that secret service agents have... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #4
I highly reccomend reading Roman History Sympthsical Mar 2024 #18
As most adults know... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #19
Still a hard no Sympthsical Mar 2024 #20
I don't agree... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #28
Are you saying he shouldn't be protected from "harm"? brooklynite Mar 2024 #5
Finger crossed, maybe ? republianmushroom Mar 2024 #7
As a side note, what do you get when you mix Lassie with a Pit Bull? Uncle Joe Mar 2024 #8
Oaths aren't magic. They don't actually bind or guide behavior. RockRaven Mar 2024 #9
What evidence do you have that any Secret Service agent in Trump's detail has violated their oath? brooklynite Mar 2024 #11
"So help me God" RSherman Mar 2024 #13
No one's ever had to add the G-d part to the oath NanaCat Mar 2024 #24
That's good RSherman Mar 2024 #25
he's not going to jail NoRethugFriends Mar 2024 #26
Just wondering if TFG was IMPEACHED, like he should have been bluestarone Mar 2024 #27
Send the rat to ADX Florence, it should be safe & need minimal Secret Service guards. He's cost us enough already Attilatheblond Mar 2024 #29
RSO rso Mar 2024 #30
Still trying to reconcile that oath with not alerting the FBI and homeland pre Jan6 JT45242 Mar 2024 #31
Apparently many government staff also sign another oath that isn't public. erronis Mar 2024 #33
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