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DEL.ICIO.USInstructions on how to hold your very own presidential rally
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This week, the Washington Post published an article about a White House manual from 2002 that explains how presidential advance teams are to keep demonstrators and the indifferent away from President Bush at public appearances around the country.
The piece said the manual “recently” came to light. Truth be told, it was posted on the ACLU web site on June 28. That kind of recent.
And so, courtesy of the ACLU, this newspaper is proud to provide you with your own copy of the Presidential Advance Manual, obtained from the Office of Presidential Advance via a lawsuit.
Kids, print this out and take it to school. Impress your teacher. Most of the pages have been redacted for security reasons, but that only increases the panache of such a document.
And what’s left can easily be applied to those upcoming class elections. For instance:
— Tickets behind the president should be reserved for those “extremely supportive of the administration.”
— “All presidential events must be ticketed or accessed by a name list. This is the best method for preventing demonstrators.”
— “Work with the Secret Service and have them ask the local police department to designate a protest area where demonstrators can be placed, preferably not in view of the event site or the motorcade route.”
— “The formation of ‘rally squads is a common way to prepare for demonstrators by countering their message…The rally squad’s task is to use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform.”
— “As a last resort security should remove the demonstrators from the event site. The rally squads can include, but are not limited to, college/young republican organizations, local athletic teams, and fraternities/sororities.”
— “For larger rallies…at least one squad should be ‘roaming’ throughout the perimeter of the event to look for potential problems.”
— “Remember avoid physical contact with demonstrators! Most often, the demonstrators want a physical confrontation. Do not fall into their trap! Also, do not do anything or say anything that might result in the physical harm to demonstrators.”
In other words, crying out, “Seize them!” is inadvisable, unless approved by a senior member of the advance team.
Now, go forth — and good luck with your own campaigns.
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By Will Jones
August 23, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this
Bush is a homosexual sociopath serving the “real Anti-Christ”: Rome’s Rockefeller/Fed/CIA BIG OIL Fifth Column. Viz. James Guckert/Jeff Gannon…sticking firecrackers in frogs…committing 9-11. Come out of Babylon, America. Death for Treason - that Truth and Righteousness prevail. His father killed Kennedy. His grandfather was Hitler’s banker.
By One
August 23, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
That Bush clan is a bunch of modern day, white collar, thugs!!! Dig through that family history and you will find the likes of Bin Laden, Hussein, Hitler and many, many more. Talk about crooks and thugs……they’re the poster family for organized crime that supercedes anything we’ve seen on TV. I can’t wait to get Bush outta Whitey’s House………too bad his crooked deeds will be felt for a long time to come!
By Will Jones
August 23, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this
It’s easy enough to recognize the Bushes treason. Unfortunately their “fronting” for the Rockefeller Pyramid and Rome garners them support from a vast faction, The Fifth Column/Tories, that encompasses Republican and Democrat “leadership,” the tens of millions who yet adhere to the pedophile priesthood, and the false-elite fascist plutocracy they serve.
The People, informed of the truth, must relearn the Whig principles upon which America was founded, guided by Our Mottoes, and do again with the Tories as we did in 1776. Treason must be punished.
By Thomas Jackson
August 23, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this
If the above comment is typical of your readership then……
By GodHatesTrash
August 23, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this
Goebbels himself couldn’t have written a better propaganda plan.
The Bush administration is trash, almost as trashy as the Georgia rednecks that helped elect them.
By Will Jones
August 23, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this
“Thomas Jackson” appears to be a male name but the manner employed by “him” is strictly “womanish.” I take it he/she supports the Closet-Queen-in-Chief’s committing 9-11 (Viz. “The New Pearl Harbor,” Griffin), his father’s assassination of JFK to keep us in VN, and his grandfather’s finance of Adolf Hitler through Fritz “The Rockefeller of Germany” Thyssen?
By youliberalidiots
August 23, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this
Uh, and this is news how? You think all previous presidents just let whatever riff raff and freaks and protesters and hecklers sit wherever they want?
By Will Jones
August 23, 2007 7:16 PM | Link to this
Bush is a lie, a liar, a fraud, traitor, and fake, unable to contend with messengers bearing or sharing the obvious truth about him and his crimes. The faction he represents, which murdered Lincoln and Meriwether Lewis, financed Hitler, killed Kennedy and King to send us to die for the pope in Vietnam, and committed 9-11 for Afghan heroin and Iraqi oil, has yet to be brought to justice. Once the Tory/caesaropapist false-elite and its treasonous Roman Fifth Column is extirpated, I can imagine the near infinitely diverse “E Pluribus Unum” Electorate attentively listening to men and women of probity share their vision of America: The Land of Promise, where Truth and Righteousness rule, by, for, and of, The People.
Annuit Coeptis is not a joke.
Death for Treason. Justice for Pat Tillman.
By Buford
August 23, 2007 8:37 PM | Link to this
Here’s a text version of the manual, for those of us who don’t like PDF files.
By MikeD
August 23, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
Wow! You must be a magnet for all the commenters blocked from MYDD/KOS because they’re too insane for even those blogs! First time here, and, based on the inane comments, truly the last time.
By chsw
August 23, 2007 9:48 PM | Link to this
This reads like standard operating procedure used by politicians of both parties. No big deal.
chsw
By Wilson
August 24, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this
Oprah Bans Media From Obama Fundraiser . Democrat, black, female Goebbels.
By toggle
August 24, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this
I completely agree with the posters who have pointed out that all administrations and campaigns do something like this. Always have … always will.
At least in this day and time the interpretation of free speech always for dissent with out the fear of having your head split open. (For the most part.)
That said, the “last resort” of recruiting testosterone-fueled frat boys and jocks for “rally squads” is a bit thugish.
I think that as a true last resort Cheney and Rove, et al., would like to round them up and put them away like Bonhoeffer and that crowd were. Although I will admit that Bonhoeffer and his associates were a true security risk to Hitler; what with trying to kill him and all.
By TrueLiberal
August 24, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
Oh please. This is such nonsense. Clinton would have specified big boobed women in the front rows and the Left Nuts would have claimed he was promoting female equality!
By Dr. Lead Based Paint
August 24, 2007 7:15 PM | Link to this
When it comes to openness and regard for opposition, do you REALLY think that the Demofascists are any more reasonable?
Granted, almost every single elected official we have is a reprehensible disgrace to humanity, but the Democrats are so deluded in their tyrannical pursuit of power that they have become little more than insane animals.
By Lead Based Paint Kills!
August 25, 2007 3:53 AM | Link to this
How did this story become a partisan (see “demofascists”) issue, anyway? I don’t care what party you belong to. If you’re not tough enough to handle seeing protesters protest a decision you supposedly stand by, then you’re definitely not tough enough to be my president.
By GodHatesTrash
August 25, 2007 7:28 AM | Link to this
Dumbya has a big yellow streak down his spineless back.
Drunken chickenhawk POS trash is what he is.