CAN WE TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT OBAMA?

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Bearing in mind that cavalier attitude toward death, we all should make it our business to demand that our government provide for the safety of all candidates for president. The recent lapse in Dallas should be investigated. It's important to learn just who in the Secret Service made the decision to call off the weapons screening. Or did that order come from higher up? If so, just how high up? We now know the torture at Abu Ghraib was sanctioned at the highest levels of government. Who ultimately controls the Secret Service?

I urge you to write letters, email your government, and pass this commentary around. As Obama gains momentum in his sweep toward a triumph that seems ever more inevitable, we should all insist that our government keep him as safe as they keep Bush and Cheney. Too many special interests, too many bigots, too many sensation-seekers, fame-thieves and worse will be motivated to commit murder if our government, consciously or not, gives them the green light. If Obama should be assassinated, then watch the country explode. Why would anyone in our government risk that?

The fact that a security lapse would’ve been permitted in Dallas, of all places, is more than ominous.

It’s telling.

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