Security Issues
I really enjoy the “I Love the 80s” shows on Vh1. And the new set has this short segment — the “What the f#$%?!? Moment of 198x.” Yah. All those are pretty wacked.
But not as wacked as the What the f#$% moment of 2003, which has to be the President of the United States using 1/9th of the police force of England and Wales for his security detail while in London, insisting on structural changes to Buckingham Palace, and the right to tote a “minigun”:http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Machine-Guns/GE_XM214_Minigun.htm through the streets of London.
Furthermore, Bush — fearful of Anti-War protesters and hecklers — will only be making one speech in the country. To an invitation-only crowd.
We have a president of a democracy who is afraid to face the general public. Who feels he has to be allowed to carry a minigun. Who insists on a rolling “exclusion zone” no matter where he goes. This isn’t the behavior of a US President. This is the behavior of a Stalin or a Mao. Something is terribly wrong when it gets to this point.
“Artmachine”:http://www.art-machine.org/archives/003369.html and “Warblogging”:http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000764.php have more. Too, too much more.
