Ring The Alarm

It’s simple and requires little discussion. If you jump the White House fence, you’re dead…period. How the hell does someone jump the fence, sprint across the White House lawn, run through the front door, which was left open, get “deep inside” the White House and over power a Secret Service  agent before being tackled by an off duty agent? As soon as he landed on the other side of that fence and took his first step, he should have been zapped to dust. Seriously, this is the 21^st century, where were the infrared beam detectors and electric ground plates? Where were the armed motion detector drones and the robotic dogs with the laser beam eyes? Apparently the alarms had been deactivated, which sounds hugely suspicious but shouldn’t a spy satellite from space have been able to detect and eliminate an intruder…WTF! I have a home security system which alerts me when someone deactivates the alarm and lets me know who deactivated it and at what time, I can arm and disarm it remotely and I receive both an email and a phone call if there is an intruder. It’s less than $50 a month and I gotta say it’s a hell of a lot better than the billion dollar White House security system.

The real problem seems to be that The Secret Service does not appear to be overly enthusiastic about protecting this president. Remember them partying with cocaine and hookers in South America when they should have been securing the President. Anyway, why there is ever a need for the alarm to be deactivated is my question and why was the front door left open?

Ding Dong!

Who is it?

Just me the intruder, here to kill the President.

Oh, come on in, it’s open.

Something doesn’t smell right. Weeks earlier the Secret Service allowed an armed felon to ride in the elevator with the President and the idiot refused repeated request to cease filming the President with his cell phone. (Can someone put the President in touch with the security detail Jay-Z had on his elevator ride?) They detained him after the President left the elevator ran a check on him and discovered he was a felon but they didn’t even know he was armed until he turned his gun in himself….again WTF! The head of the Secret Service, Get Smart Julia Pierson who has since resigned says of the agents, “they’re only human, people make mistakes”. Uh no Jules, a mistake is when you use their when you meant there (damn auto correct) you don’t make mistakes with the President of the United States which could cause him his life. You allowed an armed felon within reach of the President because you didn’t do a preliminary background check, that’s not a mistake that’s misconduct. You were tasked with protecting the leader of the free world and you’ve failed miserably.

According to the Washington Post this President has had three times the threats as past presidents, yet the Secret Service seems to be letting a lot of kooky dangerous people get very close to him including some questionable agents. Besides the two most recent incidents there were the reality show nut jobs from the Real Housewives of D.C. who were able to crash the President’s first state dinner in 2010, the fake sign language translator at Mandela’s funeral (actually he was kind of fun to watch) and of course there was the Secret Service agent who was found drunk in an Amsterdam hotel hallway a day before the President was due to arrive after an all-night drunken binge with two of his fellow agents. Thankfully all three were discharged immediately and sent home. By far the best was when there was reported gunfire outside the White House and the Secret Service shrugged it off stating they thought it was a car backfiring or gang activity. Uh, what now? So there’s gang activity outside of the White House and that’s ok? Too ridiculous for discussion. Days later a maid discovered bullet damage in the walls and broken glass on the floor. Seriously, who’s doing the cleaning in the White House, Agatha Christie? It was determined that at least seven bullets hit the building. One pierced a window on the second floor landing in the wall, another hit a nearby window frame and several more landed on the roof. The shooter was later apprehended and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Thankfully he wasn’t a member of the Crips or Bloods or he’d still be out there.

So you know somehow they’ll blame the President for this one too. NBC recently ran a story and the headline read Long List of Breaches and Scandals for Secret Service Under Obama. The implication of course is the scandals and breeches are his responsibility and he has somehow failed. This nonsense is generated and fueled by those suffering from incurable Obama Derangement Syndrome. You’ve seen and heard from these poor afflicted souls, they think that President Obama is responsible for everything wrong in the world.  If your chicken is over cooked in a restaurant, blame Obama. Got a hang nail, blame Obama and don’t get me started on tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. Heaven forbid, but if it happened they’d hold him responsible for his own assassination.

Of course the Republicans used the incident as an excuse to trot out they’re fake concern for our President. It was rather repugnant to see Congressman Darrell Issa and his fellow right wing extremists feigning distress over the safety of the President and his family.  The same self-serving Darrell Issa who has spent the last two years investigating the Benghazi cover up... the man couldn’t prove water is wet. They would have been more convincing had they said they were concerned about property damage caused by the gang member shooter. If they’re smart they’ll introduce a bill to increase the Secret Service budget, which they decreased during the last sequester and attach a rider to it to repeal the Affordable Care Act. When the President vetoes the bill, they would then be able to attack him for recklessly supporting the Affordable Care Act to the detriment of the Secret Service and his own family's safety. Crazy? Yeah, but so are President Obama’s detractors.