Monday, September 22, 2014

Label this: "My obligatory comments on the "Man Over the White House Fence" news of the day....

While many of us make jokes and remarks (snide or innocent) about Mr Gonzalez having earned the right to settle in and live in the White House since he successfully jumped the fence and entered the house.... and Obamanation's policy along our Southern Border is just that.........

I am still a little concerned by stuff I am not reading on the front pages....   Obviously, Rhambo Rahm's exhortation "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go To Waste" has been neither forgotten nor missed by the Administration and the Secret Service..  


I am reading that: The Secret Service may establish screening points several blocks away from the White House, wherein they will check bags, purses, and I guess upswept hairdos for weapons bombs, armored personnel carriers, and the like! 

By their good graces, they are currently precluding body and cavity searches for the time being. 

Now let me get this straight, the obviously troubled Oscar Gonzalez - "had been questioned in the past few months by Secret Service personnel outside the White House after they noticed him loitering. Mr. Gonzalez had not been arrested, nor was he told to stay away from the White House, as the Secret Service often warns people it is concerned about.'

Over the years, both in the military and in civilian industry -- I have noted that the surest sign of weak managers and weak management  was the habit of addressing the crowd, instead of the culpable when somebody breaks the rules or somebody fails to perform their duty.  A memo to everybody to 'Stop putting sandwiches in their desk drawers and drawing ants.' when only one is guilty and everybody knows who it is.   A General Order (GO) to all troops on guard watch to remain at an alert parade rest during their watch..... when everybody knows that it is only Private Slouch that dozes off.

So now we have a case of a disturbed citizen, recognized by the Secret Service and yet not warned away, climbing the fence, making it across a broad lawn and entering the White House unstopped..... and the Administrations answer is......  Memo to all American tourists visiting THEIR NATION'S CAPITAL: "We will stop you and frisk you before you get within blocks of the White House. Wear clean underwear without holes in them like your mother always advised!"

I know the world has changed from Lincoln's day when the White House was the People's House...or when Harry Truman would step out the gate for a brisk walk down Pennsylvania Avenue every morning without Six SUV's, a Tank, and four fighter planes circling overhead...

But.....   who was at fault here? Mr Gonzalez? the Secret Service agent on duty?  or John Q Public from Peoria who will be bringing his grandson to see the White House over Thanksgiving Vacation?

For the source and more on this, click here.

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