MARK STEYN: ONE SIZE FITS ALL
http://www.steynonline.com/6521/one-size-fits-all
There being not much happening around the world at the moment, the President played golf today at the Vineyard Golf Club:
“While eating, overlooking the golf course, guests had to stand up and be wanded.” One asked if he could finish his hot soup first, and an Obama security man cracked, ominously, “So, you’re not cooperating?”
Funny. Even funnier if he’d had to be “accidentally” shot while refusing to “cooperate”. As the Instaprof points out:
YOU KNOW, THEY DON’T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO THAT
True. But Americans have lost the republican spirit. You have to have your genitals wanded at the airport, so what’s the big deal about extending it to the country club? As Professor Reynolds says:
If the President wants to go out in public, fine. If he can’t do it without assaulting the rights of citizens, then he should stay home.
Couldn’t they find a couple of bigtime Obama bundlers willing to pay for converting the White House and grounds into the clubhouse and course of the Barack Obama Golf Club? They don’t seem to be using the building for anything else.
The problem is that flood-the-zone overkill security is all American statism knows. One day we will all be policed like Ferguson, Missouri.
~As the Duke of Wellington is said (apocryphally) to have observed of his troops, “I don’t know what effect they will have on the enemy, but by God they frighten me.” The Pentagon doesn’t seem to have any effect on goatherds with fertilizer in the Hindu Kush or head-hackers in the Sunni Triangle, but by God it can frighten Main Street USA:
Michelle McCaskill, media relations chief at the Defense Logistics Agency, confirms that the Ferguson Police Department is part of a federal program called 1033 that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus military equipment to civilian police forces across the United States. The materials range from small items, such as pistols and automatic rifles, to heavy armored vehicles such as the MRAPs used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
For an example of how that corrupts domestic policing, look at this goon of a play-soldier arresting a Washington Post reporter in the Ferguson McDonald’s.
Jim Bennett proposes a twofer:
Have the feds take back all the armored vehicles they’ve given to police departments and send them to the Kurds.
But they won’t, will they? As I usually say around this point, where’s the Republican Party on the militarization of domestic policing?
Meanwhile, Eric Holder flies his daughters and their boyfriends to social events on government planes – presumably so they’re not inconvenienced by the security he imposes on everyone else.
America will not even have the consolation of dying as a First World country, but as something far bloodier and savage.
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