Nice story here re Secret Service under Bill Clinton and his lovely
wife......these two get uglier every day. Note: Secret Service
permitted Black Panthers to carry AKs ane now know whether any had
convictions for felonies - but one who did not have gun, had previous
felony narcotic convictions.......I still remember Dallas when the
Secret Service let down their guard, and some wonder, was it deliberate,
yet.
Reagan's Secret Service Agent was ready to die for Reagan......who sent
these Black Panthers? Next time send the Texas Rangers to run
background checks - also remember 8 of Clinton's former body guards,
ended up dead - and wonder.
So we see Clinton and his Secret Service who must be as corrupt as
he.....
A Saba -
Armed Panther Protest No Threat to Laura Bush: Secret Service
The Secret Service has arrested unarmed protesters who spoke harshly to
President Clinton and shoved reporters out of the way when they wanted
to question his wife, Hillary.
But when a group of Black Panthers carrying AK-47s, shotguns and other
rifles marched on the site where Texas first lady Laura Bush was about
to speak earlier this month, the Secret Service took no action, the
agency confirmed
on Tuesday.
"We were aware of the situation and we were monitoring it, but Mrs. Bush
was never in any danger," a Secret Service spokesperson told NewsMax.com
on Tuesday.
At noon on June 16, 15 members of the New Black Panther Party led by
Minister Quanell X emerged from a converted military vehicle to protest
the impending execution of convicted killer Gary Graham. The armed group
clad in black fatigues marched on the George R. Brown Convention Center
in the heart of downtown Houston, where the wife of presidential
candidate George W. Bush was scheduled to address the state GOP
convention the very next hour.
Like President Clinton, Vice President Gore and their families, the
Bushes are under round-the-clock Secret Service guard, a protection that
will continue for the duration of the presidential campaign.
When asked about the gun-toting Panther protest, a Secret Service
spokesman explained, "To our understanding there was no violation of the
law."
Indeed, it is legal to carry assault rifles in Texas as long as strict
licensing regulations and other restrictions are complied with. The guns
cannot be "brandished" in a threatening manner and must not be aimed at
anyone in particular.
But Houston police did not confront the Panthers to check for
registrations or inspect the weapons for possible illegal modifications.
Neither were background checks for possible felony arrest records
performed. Texas law prohibits felons from carrying guns.
The Secret Service would not say whether they scrutinized the group for
possible weapons violations, but media reports from the scene indicate
there were no attempts by any law enforcement agency to question the
armed demonstrators.
The agency spokesman also refused to say whether the Secret Service knew
in advance that the Black Panthers had planned to march on the
convention. Houston Police Department spokesman Robert Hurst told
NewsMax.com last week that local law enforcement was aware of the
Panthers' plans.
Police did arrest Panther Frederick Robinson, who was unarmed, after a
GOP delegate complained Robinson had assaulted him at the scene. An HPD
background check turned up two recent felony narcotics convictions on
Robinson's record.
In the past the Secret Service hasn't waited for actual lawbreaking to
occur before acting, even in situations that pose little or no threat to
the first family and others under their protection.
In July 1996, agents arrested Glenn and Patricia Mendoza for threatening
President Clinton at the "Taste of Chicago" food fair, though the couple
were not armed and neither made any overt threats.
However, after Clinton approached Patricia to shake her hand, she
responded, "You suck and those boys died," a reference to the
then-recent deaths of 19 American soldiers in the Khobar Towers bombing.
Agents at the scene characterized Mendoza's words as "threatening."
Both Mendozas spent the night in the Cook County Jail, after being
arrested on suspicion of threatening the life of the president. Weeks
later, lacking evidence, the Secret Service dropped all charges.
The Mendozas are hardly alone. In 1993 the Secret Service arrested
William Kelly - also unarmed - who merely challenged Clinton at a town
meeting about his failure to deliver on a promised middle-class tax cut.
Not only was Kelly booted out of the meeting, hours later his home was
surrounded by armed agents who took him into custody.
In 1996 a pro-life activist who confronted Clinton after a Washington,
D.C., church service was detained and questioned by the Secret Service.
The Secret Service has been extraordinarily protective of Mrs. Clinton,
who, according to New York Post Albany bureau chief Fred Dicker, is
shielded from tough questioning, by bodyguards who physically block
reporters, even as she campaigns for the U.S. Senate.
After this year's St. Patrick's Day parade, Metro Network News reporter
Glenn Shuck told a New York radio audience that he and six other
reporters were assaulted by agents guarding the first lady. (See:
Hillary's Secret Service Agents Rough Up Reporters as St. Pat's Day
Crowd Boos.)
Even in cases where the perceived danger to Secret Service protectees is
not immediate or the result of a face-to-face encounter, the agency
routinely springs into action.
When Senator Jesse Helms jokingly told a North Carolina newspaper in
1994 that President Clinton was so unpopular there he'd need bodyguards
if he visited the state, the Secret Service launched an investigation.
In 1988, when listeners complained that WABC talk radio host Lynn
Samuels had made an on-air threat to then-Vice President Dan Quayle, the
Secret Service visited the studio and questioned her. Both Helms and
Samuels were quickly cleared.
As these cases and dozens of others show, the Secret Service deems no
potential threat too inconsequential to investigate.
Yet the agency indicated to NewsMax.com that it had no plans to probe
the Panther protest and in fact showed extraordinary concern for the
rights of the group to carry assault weapons at the site where one of
its protectees was about to speak:
"In all situations when we come in contact with protests we have to
provide a secure environment, which in this case we did. But also, we
try not to inhibit anyone's right to demonstrate as long as they're
doing it legally."
*****************************************************
The New Black Panther Party decided to mount an armed protest of Gary
Graham's execution after the convicted killer himself urged supporters
to "come armed with AK-47's." (Houston Chronicle, June 21) Graham's last
wish before dying from lethal injection in the Texas state death house
last Thursday was for his supporters to "avenge my death."
******************************************************
The day before Graham died, Panther leader Quanell X charged that
presidential candidate George Bush was a "murderer" who had killed more
black men "than any other nation on earth."
When Bush spoke to the Congress of Racial Equality Monday night in New
York City, unarmed Graham supporters were outside the event distributing
flyers urging others to protest, with the headline:
"Emergency Call to Action Against Gov. George W. Bush - The Murderer of
Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham)"
The agency spokesman refused to say whether the Secret Service was
concerned about the hostile rhetoric of Graham sympathizers directed
toward Bush.
[Remember the Black Bordered Ad in Dallas which read "Wanted for
Treason" and other literature spread about the city....even news medi
paved the way by their hatred, for the murder of JFK.....remembering
also the Black Panthers and Black Nationalists wanted to come with the
heads of the McClellan Committee, who tried to put away Mob gangsters,
like Lansky and Marcellos of New Orleans? This I recall all to be
true, so scenarios and prelude for murder of candidates possibly in
making....let down the guard? A Saba]
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