Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The Secret Service Shoot Themselves In The Foot


Today at the White House while the President was away from home, the kids were careless. The President was at the services in Blacksburg, VA today, fulfilling his duties as what some have called Mourner In Chief. Today at a security post near the southwest gate of the White House, a secret service agent accidently had his firearm discharge injuring one agent in the face with shrapnel, and another agent in the leg. So, let's see, since their creation after the McKinley assassination they have had a fun history of not actually doing anything of any real noticable value (except once, and I am not going to count that one for the reason that the men involved were not actually called Secret Service at the time). So let's see, saving Kennedy, no, the other Kennedy, no again. President Johnson even flirted with firing them all after that and replacing them with FBI guys. President Ford, well, how hard can it be to protect someone from a crazed Manson girl with a shaved head that doesn't even know how to fire a gun proper. How about Reagan? Not really, Hinckley missed the kill shot at like 3 feet away. After that, wow, they fell on the President, and the shooter. And now, they can't even protect themselves from shooting themselves.

Two Secret Service officers injured at White House