HEADLINES: Police worried over order to stop weapons screening
Filed Under (Inept Bureaucracy) by Don C on 23-02-2008
What if the local police said no?
Security details at Barack Obama’s rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena. (Link)
I am sure the Secret Service had their reasons to suspend the security checks but if the Dallas police were concerned over the order why didn’t they refuse? If they were so concerned — and after JFK was whacked in Dallas what sane Dallas official would not be concerned — why didn’t they just politely say, sorry but we can not do that?
The happy, swooning Obama crowd notwithstanding, it only takes a lone gunman to do the job.
