Don't look now, but Teabaggers have discovered the Secret Service. And, no, this isn't satire.
Some brave citizen-journalists are risking everything to report an alarming development: Obama is traveling the country under the protection of men with guns! What could this mean? Is it the beginning of the coming socialist crackdown?
Gateway Pundit is on the story. He's received an email from the front lines:
OBAMA SECRET SERVICE Pulls Guns On Conservative Tea Party Protesters In Bristol
...I do have a question I was hoping you could answer. During the motorcade when the president was arriving, there were several vehicles following the limo that contained the secret service. All of the vehicles had all the windows rolled down, and back hatch open on the SUVs with the men holding their, I assume assault rifes, machine guns, drawn on everyone lining the streets. Needless to say it took my breath away at the sight of them, and made my friends and I dizzy with fear. I have seen the secret service before, but never like this. While they were intimidating, I never felt in danger. The guns were not drawn when the motorcade was leaving the event. But I turned on a local talk radio program as we were leaving and all the calls were about witnessing the guns being pointed at them and nothing else until the end of the program.
Having said all that, my question is, is this normal protocol during such an event?
Thanks.
Destiny Baker
NO Destiny. It's not normal for the secret service to pull their assault guns on conservative protesters as they drive through town.
[Emphasis added by Gateway Pundit.]
Destiny even forwarded some terrifying photos of Obama's motorcade driving past some Teabag Americans. It looks pretty much like martial law.
It doesn't take long, though, for a commenter to throw a wrench in the works:
Actually, that's the Secret Service Counter Assault Team. They always ride around with the rear window open and their weapons at the ready.
But Teabaggers are not so easily fooled. Something is definitely going on!
Looks like Barry's Palace Guards are pretty nervous about Americans, eh? Just wait until Barry 'snaps' because of all the criticism he's going to get in the next 12 months. I wouldn't want to fart within hearing distance of any of his hired guns, it could be a deadly event. Arrogant men can never accept scorn, of such material are tyrants created.
This is the actions of a fascist government.
Enjoy your freedom now.
Obama's motorcade was booed by the crowd. Obama's boogiemen drew on the boos. You boo. His blackshirts draw.
What sort of paranoid freaks does Obama have guarding him, anyway? How long before some innocent American is killed? The closer one gets to a line that should not be crossed, the more likely one is to cross it.
"Resistance is futile" is Obama's message. "Submit to your new feudal overlords, peons of the state."
This would have been unbelievable before Obama's election. He's ushered in his era of chains for change.
These peaceful protesters were in their own town, not camping out on the White House lawn or the grounds surrounding the Washington Memorial. These peaceful protesters were not bearing arms.
You will obey my command. I will appoint czars in order to make sure my bidding is done. Then when I come to town and "promote" my causes I will need a special team of goons to protect me and my outlandish policies from the people I am so called "representing".
You will obey. The right to peaceably assemble is now dead. You will face the consequences if you get near my motorcade. For I as a single human being am more important than your current freedoms and of course your current sill health care situation.
My name is Barack Obama and I approve this message.
Now bow down.
To be fair, a number of commenters continued trying to calm things down and explain that this is business as usual. But many remained very concerned:
That seems pretty strange to see the SS men so exposed, sitting in open windows. I have seen presidents 3 times and never saw this proceedure. Maybe I wasnt near their motorcade, but then I never saw this on tv either. I find it very strange they did this at tea partiers.
Of course Bush had the same protection, but he was NOT A SOCIALIST DICTATOR!!! It's not the men who protect him that are the problem, but they have to be TOTALLY loyal to whatever barry the SOCIALIST tells them to do!
They'll be sending tea party protesters to concentration camps, next. Dangerous to the regime, you know. Better: give them the Waco solution.
It never ceases to amaze me, that they will go to this extent to protect an Indonesian imposter, from honest Americans. The level of humiliation these morons are going to feel, when he is finally exposed, is going to be fun to watch.
This is just the beginning. Fear is a tool they use to keep the people in line. Just wait till September when the economy totally collapses! They have the swine flu fear mongering in overdrive to distract us from the fact that they've purposely bankrupted the country. Then they'll force mandatory vaccines on everyone that have been untested (while already granting the pharmaceutical companies safety from being sued in the event that the vaccines cause injury or death). This is the beginning. Our government officials are not our friends.
under this regime-I believe anything that's fascist leaning.....
the Secret Service follows orders..whose?...
if the ACRONYSM (SS) fits-well-it fits...
Thugs. No need to be intimidated by thugs even official thugs. All they can do is shoot you and that would really finish O's pseudo-presidency. This is racial profiling at it's worst, would the SS point guns at black crowds in Harlem? Pointing guns at white crowds is OK?
And one commenter is concerned for the reputation of the Secret Service:
It makes me sad that they get a bad name doing this for Obama.
Yes, how sad that the Secret Service is getting a "bad name" with Teabaggers.
These people are truly fucking crazy. And this new panic is starting to spread through the right-wing blogs:
Barack Obama: Secret Service Now Attempting Intimidation of Tea Party Patriots?
Knowing the professionalism of the Secret Service, and having been exposed to their procedures, I immediately questioned if this was the same organization that I have seen in the past. Or is this something new?
Perhaps this is the first sighting of the Obama Corps. Only time will tell.
Secret Service Draws Down On Tea Party
This sounds like the use of gestapo-style intimidation against lawful protesters to me. Gateway Pundit has pictures of the guns out the vehicle windows, so this is substantiated.
Secret Service Stormtroopers
Ordinary Americans expressing their First Amendment rights must be perceived as a security threat to the Chocolate Jesus. With all the real moonbats threatening the safety and well-being of President Bush, I don’t recall seeing any images like this when Bush was president.
And I thought that the Birthers represented the apex of Republican insanity and stupidity. Now I think they're just getting started. How long until a Republican member of Congress starts to ask questions about why Obama is being protected by armed agents?