No, the President’s security apparatus fucking prostitutes while bragging that they are the men who guard the POTUS is a *far* bigger story.

Can anyone else tell some stories about the SS and advance teams?

Here’s mine: Well known among the bar/restaurant crowd in the major cities I lived in that no one pulls more pussy than the SS Advance team. They are mostly under 35 and ex-military. They seem to be addicted to waitress and hostess nookie and their hotel parties are as X-rated as you can get. Strippers and escorts are common, but not always needed/wanted.

People might want to think these guys are all business, but no one keeps that kind of grind going. They do absolutely anything they can get away with…which is a lot since they can flash badges/IDs and skate free. Grade A d-bags and horn dogs.

If “sex is a way to compromise security”, then there has been little security for the past 30 years at least. These guys aren’t nice. They aren’t diligent. They are just your typical state agent.

And I’m sure I’ll get a visit now.

Chen Guangcheng

The trend in the US is headed, at an increasing rate, to create domestic policies modeled after China that will mint (over and over again) American versions of Chen Guangcheng. Of course, all via the mighty rule of law.

The state, while not creative, is loyal the cause.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/03/justice/new-york-chamberlain-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

For the love of all that is decent, DO NOT call upon government for help!

reminiscent of the Kathryn Johnston conspiracy case. That was a police conspiracy theory that turned out to be true.

A friend of mine, in connection with an article about the young man left to rot in prison by the DEA with no food and water, left this comment:

With this and the shut down of Oaksterdamn U, I’m wondering if Obama isn’t playing a more nuanced game here. It seems like he knows if he gives the DEA enough rope they will hang themselves with it. He knows he can’t come out right now and support legalization but this will greatly increase the public pressure to do so.

How does somebody have such a hyper-partisan worldview like this? I don’t get it.

The Washington City Paper profiles food freedom fighter and Agitator pal Baylen Linnekin.

I agree completely with this guy. The only thing I would add is that transparency is the only regulation needed 99% of the time. (I agree with the “No finning sharks” because it’s just so wrong from a natural sense.. there’s your other 1%. No finning sharks, No poaching elephants for tusks, etc.)

Whatever else goes as long as it’s fully communicated to the consumer.

Would I eat Shark fin? Hell no! I wouldn’t even eat the natural fois gras that guy in Spain makes without stuffing the geese. But that’s a philosophical choice I make, one I have no right to impose on others.

As for the blackmail thing, do we even know if the guy in question is married? Don’t you realize that this could be the case any time with an SS agent, even one not paying for hookers? You can blackmail anybody, anytime. If the guy is single, and blackmailer could sleep with him, then threaten to file rape charges. She could plant kiddie porn on his computer and blackmail him with that. She could do any number of a million different things. If the guy has kids, they could threaten his kids. On and on it goes, to the point to where this argument’s reductio is that no SS agent anywhere may ever do anything on his own time out of risk of blackmail. For chrissakes, folks, this scandal was nothing other than a cover up for Obama’s horrible performance at the summit. Period.

OK, so he changed his mind! If you want the U.S. to take definitive action that will affect the foreign policy as against an authoritarian nation of a billion+ population, you can’t just dick people around. I feel bad for him, but I don’t think the U.S. is looking particularly bad in this context.

“screw-up?”

Let’s see a show of hands of all the folks on this blog who think that this was an honest “mistake” by the DA’s office and not a blatant case of covering up for their enforcers in blue?

I love how the second half of the story details how the other police are glad that the DA’s office is respecting his 6th amendment right to a speedy trial by dismissing the case because they “messed up” and didn’t file in time. If this was anyone but a cop, they’d be bitching about how our broken legal system let this guy off on a “technicality”, but he’s a cop, so it is an example of how our legal system “works”.

Is the guy still a cop? Wait, HE IS? Holy crap on a stick!

I thought the problem was that the secret service brought the prostitutes back to their rooms which is suppose to be a secure area. I haven’t been following the story very closely.

That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Surely a prostitute is much less likely to compromise you via sex than someone you think you’ve attracted by your charm and powerful important job. I mean, you know why she’s f–king you–you’re *paying* her. You don’t have to show off your magic decoder ring to get her to sleep with you, that’s what the cash is for.

This is a stupid scandal. No journalist reporting the story could possibly be surprised or shocked by any of this–send a bunch of youngish men off to a foreign country far from their wives and girlfriends to a place where prostitution is legal and readily available, and it’s supposed to be a shock that some of them head off to find a prostitute? It sounds like one of the agents took a prostitute back to someplace he wasn’t supposed to have outsiders in, which might be a good reason to fire him. Otherwise, the worst charge here seems to be that one of the guys refused to pay. Which is crappy, but not a national scandal.