[Vision2020] Shoes thrown at President Bush

[Donovan Arnold]

How about if we just ask people to keep their shoes on, and if they don't remove them from the premise. Some people taking their shoes off alone could be considered deathly assult. :P


There are lots of things the Secret Service can do to prevent things from being thrown at the President. Placing the reporters a little bit further away. Place agents in the crowd to react faster. The platform the president is standing on could be elevated a few feet above the ground level. 

Best Regards,

Donovan


--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Shoes thrown at President Bush
> To: "Ralph Nielsen" <nielsen at uidaho.edu>, "vision 2020" <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 4:38 PM
> Ralph -
> 
> If bare feet were to become a security requirement when 
> approaching/addressing HIM (His Imperial Majesty), the
> Secret Service may 
> be forced, yet, to confront another heinous weapon: toe
> jam.
> 
> Where will this ever end?
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> > Donovan,
> > 
> > You can't be a foreigner in your own country. The
> foreigner was  
> > George W. Bush, the president of a foreign country.
> > 
> > As for the use of shoes as weapons of mass
> destruction, I suppose the  
> > only solution to this threat is to demand that all
> persons wishing to  
> > approach His Imperial Majesty leave their shoes
> outside the room and  
> > approach him humbly on bare feet.
> > 
> > What say you?
> > 
> > Ralph
> > 
> > [Vision2020] Shoes thrown at President Bush
> > 
> > Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
> > Mon Dec 15 22:31:38 PST 2008
> > 
> > It frightens me that a foreigner can shoot TWO shoes
> off and nearly  
> > hit the President of the United States before the
> Secret Service  
> > responded.
> > 
> > What if those shoes were laced with a chemical poison
> or what if they  
> > were explosive?
> > 
> > Barack Obama is going to, no doubt, be under a lot of
> threats and it  
> > appears our Secret Service is asleep at the wheel.
> > 
> > IMHO, the attacker should have been on his back with a
> bullet in his  
> > head before the first shoe made it across the room.
> This incident  
> > will no doubt embolden others to attempt more serious
> attacks on the  
> > President-Elect after he takes office.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> > Donovan
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> "For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist
> Universalist 
> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no
> reason ever to go 
> to work."
> 
> - Roy Zimmerman
> 
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