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[fezzik]

If someone tried storming the Whitehouse they would be shot, no questions asked. You wouldn't even get across the lawn. If you climbed a crane there is a good chance you would be shot as well. If someone tried to throw something at the president he would be shot before it was out of his hand.  We recently suffered attacks on our soil, which killed several thousand people and destroyed national landmarks. We are pretty skittish of any sort of terrorist attacks, even ones for a good cause.

Ten years ago I worked with a woman whose ex-husband (and father of her kids) was a Secret Service agent at the White House. Every time there was an incident of violence there we'd hear about it from him, as he'd call his ex to reassure his kids that he hadn't been hurt. One incident in particular I remember was a homeless guy who had strapped a hunting knife to one hand and ran screaming towards the White House fence. The Park Police shot him something like a dozen times (he would have had to get past them to get to where the Secret Service could shoot him.)

Since then the capitol has had those giant 'planters' put in to deflect car bombs and several streets have been closed to car traffic, and they've stopped giving tickets to White House tours to the general public at the gates. It's only gotten tougher to get anywhere near the President.

[Acksiom]

Dude, what were you trying to accomplish with your OP?

If you were just venting, that's fine, I'm cool with that.

But if you were trying to motivate people or something along those lines, well. . .may I suggest that you consider the responses you got, and rethink your approach?

'Cause it seems pretty obvious that people are having clearly negative and dismissive reactions to your statements.

So maybe you should try something different.

[alien]

If someone tried storming the Whitehouse they would be shot, no questions asked. You wouldn't even get across the lawn. If you climbed a crane there is a good chance you would be shot as well. If someone tried to throw something at the president he would be shot before it was out of his hand. We recently suffered attacks on our soil, which killed several thousand people and destroyed national landmarks. We are pretty skittish of any sort of terrorist attacks, even ones for a good cause.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43031

WND Commentary Sex to go: Call White House press office
Posted: February 25, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

If you suspect the media are guilty of a double standard when it comes to covering the White House, you're right. It's now clear, without a doubt, that White House reporters are as easy on President Bush as they were hard on President Clinton. Consider the case of phony White House reporter Jeff Gannon.

You probably never heard of Gannon. No wonder. The mainstream media have largely ignored him - even though his story is as big a sex scandal, if not bigger, than anything that happened under Clinton.

To tell the truth, few people had heard of Jeff Gannon until President Bush's hastily called news conference on Jan. 26. After fielding a tough question about why the Department of Education paid commentator Armstrong Williams $240,000 to spread administration propaganda, Bush called on a bald, burly guy sitting in the middle of the briefing room and out popped the softball question:

   Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse ... How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Watching at home, I wondered: Who's that? Somebody from the Republican National Committee? I was close. Several media bloggers wondered the same thing, looked up Gannon's background - and the stuff hit the fan.

Jeff Gannon isn't even his real name; it's James Dale Guckert. He's not a reporter; he works for Talon News, a front for the Texas Republican website GOPUSA.com. Harry Reid never talked about soup lines; Guckert heard that on Rush Limbaugh. And Guckert wasn't new to the press room; he'd been issued a daily White House pass every day - for the last two years! Whenever Bush or Scott McClellan looked like they were getting in hot water, Guckert was their "lifeline" - always ready with an easy question. (Read examples of his questions at americablog.org.)

OK, stop right there. A man poses as a reporter and enters the White House every day, for two years, using fake ID? That, in itself, is a scandal. Just try getting past the White House gate using a pseudonym, especially after Sept. 11. As conservative columnist Bruce Bartlett wrote: "If Gannon was using an alias, White House staff had to be involved in maintaining his cover." Bush aides, in other words, ordered the Secret Service to let this imposter in. Where's the outrage from the media?

You think that's bad? It gets worse. It was soon revealed that, before posing as a White House reporter, Guckert was posing nude, offering his services as a male prostitute on one of three websites he commissioned: Hotmilitarystuds.com, Militaryescorts.com and Meetlocalmen.com. Guckert calls himself an "aggressive, verbal, dominant top" and an "ex-USMC jock, available for hourly, overnight, weekend or longer travel." His special weekend rate was $1,200. In graphic terms, he even describes his "weapon," which he also displays, ready for action, in a spread-eagle photo. Once so exposed, Guckert quit the White House and is now selling himself as a public speaker.

Again, where's the outrage from the media? Can you imagine the uproar if this had happened under Bill Clinton? Cable news channels would be pumping it 24x7. The New York Times would demand Clinton's resignation. Republicans in Congress would be screaming about how President Clinton poisoned our children's minds by exposing them to a gay prostitute. And Ken Starr would be back in business.

Instead, the Bush White House forces the Secret Service to allow a former male prostitute into the White House so he can play reporter and lob softball questions to the president - and what do we get? Silence from the mainstream media. Silence from Republicans in Congress. Support for Guckert from many conservative commentators, who accuse liberal bloggers of anti-gay bias. And the scandal disappears from the radar screen.

If that's not a double-standard, I don't know what is. Why aren't the mainstream media making a big deal of this story? Why aren't they demanding a White House apology? Or a congressional investigation? Because they have no backbone, that's why. They're afraid of the Bush White House. And they've let Bush get away with everything, from lying about weapons of mass destruction to pampering a male prostitute.

Please, no more complaints about the liberal media. Today's White House reporters are in Bush's pocket.

[Lee R.]

I don't see what the OP's point is.

I must say I am glad the RAF and Britain held off Nazi Germany for 2.25 years until the US entered the fray, but that was 60-65 years ago, and all of those brave men are rapidly dying off.

Those men had wives who helped at home, and when they returned most of those women supported and loved their men, bearing them children and making a house into a home.

Unfortunately, the attitude those women had in 1946 is all but gone in 2005 America.  What we need to do is fight the good fight now, taking into consideration what most women are like today, and gain some semblance of equality in the public and private and legal spheres.  Maybe, after we have redressed the current inequalities, women will return to a more amenable and non-combative attitude.