Is george bush really protecting you and ...

[butterfly77]

why do people believe this aren't SOME of the fbi,cia and police the same people who worked for clinton. Why do you think that people believe that the REPUBLICONS can and will protect us if anything I fear some of their actions just as the criminals in the street and terrorists. If anything dems have protected us while repugs have made more enemies.

[flordehinojos]

1. george bush protecting me? bullcrap.he is causing m to break out in hives.

suffer from repressed anger which leads to my chronic back pain...and as of late my pulse rate is sooooo superfragilisticexpialidocious, which is, i think, a result of all the anger and hostility which the deciderator is causing me to feel towards himself, his bullcrap cabinet and his bullcrap spokespeople from tony snow on down to all the bullcrap mainstream media...so is he protecting me?
bullcrap, no!

[butterfly77]

3. this is another part of their plan to make us..

suspicious of each other and to trust bush. Everyday now look for another threat but it will be here

[KansDem]

2. I do know he protects the Saudis...their embassy in DC anyway.

FromWikipedia

Secret Service guarding Saudi embassy

During a scene filmed outside of the Saudi Embassy in which Moore is discussing the level of Saudi investment in the U.S. economy with Craig Unger, they are approached by uniformed Secret Service officer Steve Kimbell. Kimbell explains that he is just ascertaining information, and asks Moore if he is doing a documentary regarding the Saudi Arabian embassy. In voiceover narration, Moore notes that "Even though we were nowhere near the White House, for some reason the Secret Service had shown up to ask us what we were doing standing across the street from the Saudi Embassy." Moore responds to the officer by saying, "I didn't realize the Secret Service guards foreign embassies," to which the officer replies, "Uh, not usually. No, sir." Moore continues in voiceover: "It turns out that Saudi Prince Bandar is perhaps the best protected ambassador in the U.S. The U.S. State Department provides him with a six man security detail."

Critics contend that the movie leaves viewers with an inaccurate impression that the Secret Service plays no role in protecting any other embassy. That statement is not made in the movie, but the critics claim that Officer Kimbell's comment, which is an explicit part of the movie, is wrong and should have been corrected by Moore.

Under Public Law 91-217 section 202, passed in 1970, the uniformed division of the Secret Service plays a role in protecting "foreign diplomatic missions located in the metropolitan area of the District of Columbia" (among other things) <21>, <22>. However, this does not mean that all embassies receive full-time on-site Secret Service protection (as opposed to area patrols), nor that all the embassies so protected receive the same number of personnel. Neither side has offered a conclusive comparison of the level of security attention given to the different embassies to shed light on Officer Kimbell's statement (that other embassies are "not usually" treated this way) or on Moore's speculation that Prince Bandar might be the best-protected ambassador in the United States.

In addition, Article 22, Section 2 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, adopted in 1961 and ratified by the United States, reads, "the receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity." If Prince Bandar were indeed to be proven to be the best-protected ambassador in the United States this could be due to a perceived greater threat in post-911 America (hate crimes, assassinations, etc), or alternatively this could (as Moore portrayed it) be indicative of the "Saudi-friendly" nature of the Bush Administration. Considering the lack of facts, and the varying interpretations of this issue, it is likely to remain hotly debated.

[butterfly77]

4. It seems as though everyone gets protection ...

even the insurgents get amnesty. How have we been protected?