The U.S. Secret Service ordered hundreds of parents and their cancer-stricken children out of Lafayette Square on Saturday night, barricading the park for at least two hours and disrupting the group’s plans for a candlelight vigil to raise awareness of and research funding for childhood cancer, participants said.
Some of the parents and children expressed hurt and disappointment that the Secret Service and Park Police, citing security precautions, virtually shut down part of a two-day event called CureFest for Childhood Cancer.
“We ended up waiting at the gates for two hours, and they never let us in,” said Natasha Gould, an 11-year-old from Canada who started a blog after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor this year. “And to be clear, the entire crowd was half kids. I cried last night in my hotel room because it was my first CureFest, and I couldn’t believe people were acting like they don’t care about children.”
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Tell the pope to ask obama?
ReplyDeleteHe's such a P O S !
ReplyDeletethey are not acting you moron... they don't care about you... none of the police or people in uniform care about you except EMT's and firefighters...
ReplyDeleteFirefighters are the only profession where they RUN INTO DANGER at every call... Not even cops have to run into danger every call... They just think they do, do to their me vs you mentality...
The Secret Service is the MOST POWERFUL of all police agencies.
ReplyDeleteThey are the only ones who are not bound by any Constitutional restrictions any rules of engagement, and any need to consider the law.
They can arrest you without cause, hold you without charges, confiscate ANYTHING they want, destroy property, shoot you at the slightest provocation, beat you without consequences, and thumb their nose at any protestations.
They ARE a law unto themselves, under the premise that the rights and privileges of "we, the people" are nothing compared to their duty to protect the President.
Two sets of laws.
One for the elitist masters. One for the rest of us.
Keep cheering.
Forget DNR? No warrants needed. Ever!
DeleteNo.....the DNR is the LOCAL gestapo.
ReplyDeleteThe Secret service is a NATIONAL "we can do anything we want" group.