Secret Service says it denied Trump additional resources even as his team complained.
The national security and defence of the U.S. and their allies and the international security and defence of the world (order), is the job of the U.S. Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies, the government and the institutional powers, the corresponding national and international allied forces and agencies, with the support of the citizens and the public across the board. This is the case particularly in symmetric threats like war and in assymetric threats like terrorism, jihadism and other violent attacks. Which have become the standard pattern and practice of the enemies, like the terrorist, extremist and criminal groups.
The author of this column has been warning for years, how dangerous and damaging is the business of crisis and chaos intentional fabrication by such groups, even as as risks kept and keep escalating, incessantly. Ever since news and events keep underscoring and reminding of this, daily, weekly and equally incessantly. Moreover in a permanently astonishing variety, complicity, fixation and device.
The shot(s) against the former President and election candidate in the open political rally, missed because Trump was not the real target. The Secret Service always accounts for all serious threats against protected persons. Yet the Secret Service is not the U.S. Pentagon, the FBI, a senior U.S. national security or counter terrorism agency, an allied force, the EU or NATO. These are issues for the U.S. Congress, the POTUS, the administrarion, the people and the public, to consider.
Liberty, democracy, equality, justice and the rule of law, let alone progress, prosperity and peace, are not empty words. They are fundamental constitutional conditions and functional ideals. As responsible to defend them, are the people and the public, as entitled they are not, to take law or justice or their perception of these, in their hands, for all the more or less profound reasons, generally and in this case, specificically.
The fundamental dictum of democracy is the peaceful change of power. Put this simply, if you do not agree with one candidate, you do not shoot him. You argue against him and vote for another. While problems in this social deal are matters of different legal and constitutional order and can rise to untoward revolutionary tests, politics is always spirited and vivacious but reasonably peaceful and publicly recommended business for all.
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