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Man from Pickens

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43. They are correct

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 04:16 PM

Sep 2014

and even if you do dispute them and believe entirely the cops' version of events (key evidence which would prove or disprove that version has been withheld to this day), there's no consistency between the treatment of Carey and the treatment of this latest WH intruder.

Every justification you raise with respect to the killing of Carey applies double to the intruder, whose actions were objectively far more intrusive than hers. If the same standard were applied in both cases, the intruder should have been lit up like a Roman candle as he approached the building.

He wasn't shot even while actually entering the WH itself. She was hunted down and killed a mile away. There's no reconciling the two events with any consistent RoE.

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Am I the only one who's wearing a tin foil hat here on the lax WH security? [View all] Drunken Irishman Sep 2014 OP

Wasn't he caught fairly quickly? ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #1

Too long. elleng Sep 2014 #3

For me, knowing the actual duration ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #5

Sure is. elleng Sep 2014 #23

Close to thirty seconds, if that. former9thward Sep 2014 #27

Capturing someone within 30 seconds seems reasonable to me. nt ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #34

Me also. former9thward Sep 2014 #35

No tin foil here, elleng Sep 2014 #2

so what's your conspiracy theory? That the Secret Service, headed by an Obama cali Sep 2014 #4

I don't know what to believe... Drunken Irishman Sep 2014 #8

if this breach was an inside job what would be the reasoning m-lekktor Sep 2014 #12

Complacent or compliant? tularetom Sep 2014 #21

I think it's a passive-agressive attempt to get less overtime/more SS people hired. winter is coming Sep 2014 #16

that makes a lot of sense. cali Sep 2014 #19

I wondered about it at first, but I don't think CJCRANE Sep 2014 #6

Very possible. Drunken Irishman Sep 2014 #9

In many organizations there is too much reliance CJCRANE Sep 2014 #11

No, you are not get the red out Sep 2014 #7

I was surprised he made it through the mine field whistler162 Sep 2014 #10

You mean that he wasn't hunted down and summarily executed like Miriam Carey was? Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #13

Except that a car can be a deadly weapon and she did injure a cop. If she was on foot, FSogol Sep 2014 #18

Actually she was on foot when executed Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #36

Not true: "Actually she was on foot when executed" FSogol Sep 2014 #38

When the car stopped Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #40

Sorry, but your "facts" and analysis are incorrect. Ciao. n/t FSogol Sep 2014 #42

They are correct Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #43

Nope. Feral Child Sep 2014 #14

Looks more like good old-fashioned incompetence to me (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #15

Yup, someone was slacking off at work. n/t FSogol Sep 2014 #17

Agreed. And some people need to lose their jobs because of it. Paladin Sep 2014 #25

Pass the tin foil. It crossed my mind. Vinca Sep 2014 #20

well, since joe scar has been pounding away at this for days now, my sense is that CTyankee Sep 2014 #22

The first family had already departed TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2014 #24

I think they're being deliberately complacent. Tatiana Sep 2014 #26

"they just do not take the job of protecting this President seriously." former9thward Sep 2014 #30

A simple cost effective solution.... Historic NY Sep 2014 #28

Sometimes a thing is not fraught with more drama than Skidmore Sep 2014 #29

see my thread from yesterday grasswire Sep 2014 #31

Ditto n/t malaise Sep 2014 #32

Take off the tin foil Proud Public Servant Sep 2014 #33

It was incompetenence on the part of the Secret Service. NuclearDem Sep 2014 #37

No, you are not. Hekate Sep 2014 #39

i think it could be that the amount of threats this President gets have been more than Previous JI7 Sep 2014 #41

After watching Rachel last night, it was confirmed as to how I feel. So no, DI, as usual you and I Liberal_Stalwart71 Sep 2014 #44

My tinfoil hat is still firmly on my head. Drunken Irishman Oct 2014 #45