- IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
This has been the norm for high ranking US politicians for decades. About 10 years ago I attended a talk by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. She described how, as PM, she would regularly take walks along a river in Perth and talk with the folks she would encounter. She had a couple personal security guards who would be with her, but it was all very informal.
When Hillary Clinton visited as US Secretary of State she came with an escort of a dozen or so Secret Service in her entourage. On a whim Gillard suggested going for a walk like she usually did. The Secret Service freaked out that this hadn’t been planned weeks in advance, that the walking route hadn’t been scouted out ahead of time, that they didn’t have agents pre-positioned along the route, etc.
I recall that Gillard said they actually did go on a short walk, but the entire Secret Service entourage was very nervous the entire time.
- Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Yea it’s insane. We need to get back to the idea that anyone is replaceable. That’s the safest they can be when people realizes any successful attempts wouldn’t even matter.
Security industry is incestuous
- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish9 days
When you’re the most hated country in the world, so you’d need about 50 cars to protect your pedophile criminal leader.
- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish8 days
Oh yeah, hiding super scared behind a massive wall of security because they made everyone hate them sure makes them look super strong. Instead it makes them look corrupt to a dystopian level.
8 daysmaybe the 50 cars are there to shoo away any girls younger than 18 by the time the pedo arrives, just to be sure
- axh@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Did you know that the length of the column is inversely proportional to the length of… ah, nevermind
- BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish9 days
All of those cars and probably planes causing god knows how much pollution, just to get one of the world’s most despised men to a meeting where he’ll be too incompetent to have any effect.
Seriously, why do we even have ambassadors anymore?
- bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
They literally drove through an ideal kill box with no air support… they clearly fired all of their competent security staff.
