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Will we have to remove our jackets, shoes, and belt before approaching His Majesty's Palace on Pennsylvania Avenue? Will thugs be hired to conduct colonoscopies in Lafayette Park? Will our daughters, young and younger, be fondled as they now are at our nation's airports by the perverted dweebs hired by TSA?
Pennsylvania Ave in front of the White House is closed to vehicular traffic, and pedestrians in front of the fence are subject to video and eyes-on-the-ground surveillance for suspicious activity. The government doesn't want to visibly militarize the White House but they can obviously do better, and this incident will prompt changes. I'd keep it visually the same but (my high tech dreams) have pop-up walls, nets, spikes, or electrified grass in case of intruders etc - not just guards running to intercept.
The government is great at providing security at a macro level, when they want to.
They absolutely SUCK at providing security at a micro level.
Been through an airport recently? All that nonsense at the security check is exactly that - nonsense. We hear stories fairly regularly about people who accidentally brought their carry weapon through the checkpoint and only get caught when they ask someone what they should do (usually they get arrested for trying to do the right thing). I saw a story over the weekend that described how an airport employee at McCarran was using his pre-approved clearance to sneak large quantities of cocaine into "secure" parts of the airport, at which point he'd hand it off to a passenger that had already cleared "security" and was headed somewhere else, usually Anchorage. That bag of cocaine could just as easily have been guns, bombs, etc.
Put some Rottweilers and pit bulls out there. If you can sneak pass them, you get in.
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