WaPo: White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters

[Bluebear]

"These squads should be instructed always to look for demonstrators," it says. "The rally squad's task is to use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform. If the demonstrators are yelling, rally squads can begin and lead supportive chants to drown out the protestors (USA!, USA!, USA!). As a last resort, security should remove the demonstrators from the event site."

Welcome to Bush's America.

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By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 22, 2007; A02

Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any.

A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of "deterring potential protestors" from President Bush's public appearances around the country.

Among other things, any event must be open only to those with tickets tightly controlled by organizers. Those entering must be screened in case they are hiding secret signs. Any anti-Bush demonstrators who manage to get in anyway should be shouted down by "rally squads" stationed in strategic locations. And if that does not work, they should be thrown out.

But that does not mean the White House is against dissent -- just so long as the president does not see it.


In fact, the manual outlines a specific system for those who disagree with the president to voice their views. It directs the White House advance staff to ask local police "to designate a protest area where demonstrators can be placed, preferably not in the view of the event site or motorcade route."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101662_pf.html

[whistle]

1. Any similarities between the White House Manuals to deal with protesters

...and the "Tiergartenstraße 4" or T4 Action plan is purely coincidental

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Action T4
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


This poster reads: "60,000 Reichsmarks is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too. Read ' New People', the monthly magazines of the Bureau for Race Politics of the NSDAP." (about 1938)Action T4 (German: Aktion T4) was a program in Nazi Germany officially between 1939 and 1941, during which the regime of Adolf Hitler systematically killed between 75,000 to 250,000 people who had intellectual or physical disabilities. Performed unofficially after 1941, the killing became less systematic.<1> The codename T4 was an abbreviation of “Tiergartenstraße 4”, the address of a villa in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten which was the headquarters of the General Foundation for Welfare and Institutional Care (Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Heil- und Anstaltspflege).<2> This body operated under the direction of Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler’s private chancellery,<3> and Dr. Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician. This villa no longer exists, but a plaque set in the pavement on Tiergartenstraße marks its location.

The T4 program developed from the Nazi Party’s policy of “racial hygiene,” the belief that the German people needed to be “cleansed” of “racially unsound” elements, which included people with disabilities. The program set important precedents for the later Holocaust of the Jews of Europe: the historian Ian Kershaw has called it “a vital step in the descent into modern barbarism.”<4>
<MORE>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4

:sarcasm:

[liberaldemocrat7]

5. hehehe

GOD SAVE US FROM OUR KING
(To the tune of, “God Save The King”)

God save us from our King
He’s not the Real Thing,
He’s just a shill.
As the Chief Neocon
He’s got a war to run,
Don’t ask him if it’s ever done,
Just pay the bill.

God shows our King “The Way,”
At least, that’s what he’ll say.
We’d like to know:
Did God tell him to hate,
Invade a sovereign state,
Or sell us bullsh-t by the crate?
We doubt its so.

Our Constitution’s bruised,
Our Bill of Rights abused,
Big Brother’s pleased.
If you have lots of dough,
He’ll make your taxes low,
And corporate charities bestow,
The rest get squeezed.

Our King, it now is clear,
Has deftly mongered fear,
And also war.
He’s brought our country down,
But he still wears his crown,
It’s time that we impeach this clown,
And have Kings no more.

[MissMarple]

2. "But that does not mean the White House is against dissent --

just so long as the president does not see it." ...or the press...they hope. MSM does seem to strive to ignore it.

Excellent post Bluebear! I posted the same topic earlier in GDP, but yours is by far the superior one. :applause: :bounce: :applause:

[Bluebear]

3. It needs to be posted everywhere~!

Would that America could see what they have blindly been living under.

[MissMarple]

4. Too many of us don't understand, and too many just don't care.

Too sad to say. Ben Franklin was right, we may not be able to keep what they gave us.

And WHY does GD say this thread has two more posts than it does? :shrug:

[Bluebear]

6. for the a.m.

[leftchick]

7. it is down right Nazi like

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The manual adds in bold type: "Remember -- avoid physical contact with demonstrators! Most often, the demonstrators want a physical confrontation. Do not fall into their trap!" And it suggests that advance staff should "decide if the solution would cause more negative publicity than if the demonstrators were simply left alone."

[Bluebear]

8. 'Most often, the demonstrators want a physical confrontation.'

Sez they.