"You Will be Escorted to Bathroom and be told Don't look at Bush..."

[KoKo]

Performers in inaugural parade ordered by Secret Service not to look directly at Bush. Is he the leader of a free people or a Chinese emperor? (Credit to "Buzzflash" for the Title and Article)


Parade performers will have security escorts to the bathroom, and they've been ordered not to look directly at President Bush or make any sudden movements while passing the reviewing stand. "It's going to be very different from past inaugurals," said Contricia Sellers-Ford, spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police, which is responsible for the Capitol and grounds. "A lot of the security differences will not be detected by the public - there will be a lot of behind the scenes implementation - but the public will definitely see more of a police presence."
-SNIP-

The Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region, which was created two years ago to bring coordination to the many disparate military units in the Washington area, will provide more than 4,000 troops to help.Washington, D.C., police chief Charles Ramsey has sent invitations to police departments across the country inviting them to send squads of officers to help with inauguration security. The federal government is paying for officers' hotels, meals and air travel. Several thousand officers are expected, Ramsey said. That includes squads from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Bradenton, Fla., Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C., the North Carolina state highway patrol, several law enforcement agencies in Texas and other parts of the country.

"This is the first post 9/11 (inauguration) so obviously there are some more security concerns this time than in past years," Ramsey said. The extra officers from around the country will free up Washington police officers so that they can form "mobile platoon civil disturbance units" to prevent protest demonstrations from getting out of hand, Ramsey said. Groups planning demonstrations during the inauguration festivities are already smarting from security restrictions. Anti-war protesters with the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition have complained that large sections of the parade route have been set aside for Bush's political contributors and supporters and will be closed to the general public.

http://www.news-herald.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1698&dept_id=21849&newsid=13721845

[arcane1]

1. fine

I hope they all turn their backs to him instead

[Dhalgren]

8. Wouldn't that be great?

If everyone on the parade route just turned around and showed him their backs - all without a word? Boy, now that would be something to see...

[MARALE]

26. There will be some

http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Radio_Lady]

30. Their website model should have been wearing a BLUE sweater!

Just my opinion...

[arcane1]

27. "I have a dream"

:evilgrin:

[Salviati]

2. 9/11 + X = Shut Up!

[PA Democrat]

7. HA! HA! That was a great Daily Show episode! n/t

[calimary]

52. Truly. "X" means whatever we say it is.

9/11.

Oh yeah - did I say - 9/11?

9/11.

[ogradda]

10. i know! didn't that hit the nail on the head!

lololol!

[chicagojoe]

3. All Hail The Chimp! Hey You! Avert Your Eyes!

I'd look right at him. Fuck security.

[Joe Chi Minh]

19. Funny... resistance prisoners

in Gestapo prisons in France were forbidden to look the Gestapo warders in the eye.

[pbartch]

41. I'd look right at him too & then say...GEEZ, YOU'RE WAY UGLIER IN PERSON

than you are on tv!!!!

[k8conant]

4. Gag me with a spoon...

and don't make anyone in the parade have to avoid looking at Bush--DON'T HAVE THE PARADE. This is too much like The Emperor's New Clothes.

[Dhalgren]

5. Why can they not look at the idiot?

Is Caligula having a skin problem or something? A little embarrassed about the last set of bruises Laura pounded into his face?

[NYC]

11. Excellent question. Why?

Why can they not look at Bush? Why?

I'd like to hear the answer to that.

(All I can think of is that the Japanese people could not look at the Japanese emperor because he was descended from god.)

[truth2power]

14. Yes, I want to know... seriously,

why aren't they supposed to look at him?

This is perplexing. Does anyone have a clue what the security issue is here?? :shrug:

[obnoxiousdrunk]

29. Because the Emperor

has no clothes.

[truth2power]

42. Bwahahahaha! Good response! n/t

[AndyTiedye]

21. I Thought Those Were From Getting Falling-Down Drunk

[goddess40]

6. if the people in the parade had any brains they'd stay home

but they'll go and put up with the abuse and be glad to do it.

[Sparkly]

9. Is he Medusa or something??

You know, the myth (I think it's Medusa) where anyone who looks turns to stone?

Ooh, the Photoshop possibilities for that one!!

[NYC]

12. Yes, it was Medusa.

Medusa turned people to stone. Bush turns stomachs.

[Sanity Claws]

20. LOL

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

46. If not a Medusa, then maybe he's a...

...http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/Html/Basilisk.htm">Basilisk (Bushilisk)?
Or perhaps a http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/cockatrice.htm">Cockatrice (with less emphasis on the "trice").

[NYC]

48. Neither one of your links worked for me.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

Description, but no picture:


THIS animal was called the king of the serpents. In confirmation of his royalty, he was said to be endowed with a crest, or comb upon the head, constituting a crown. He was supposed to be produced from the egg of a cock hatched under toads or serpents. There were several species of this animal. One species burned up whatever they approached; a second were a kind of wandering Medusa’s heads, and their look caused an instant horror which was immediately followed by death...

1 The basilisks were called kings of serpents because all other serpents and snakes, behaving like good subjects, and wisely not wishing to be burned up or struck dead, fled the moment they heard the distant hiss of their king, although they might be in full feed upon the most delicious prey, leaving the sole enjoyment of the banquet to the royal monster.

2 The Roman naturalist Pliny thus describes him: “He does not impel his body, like other serpents, by a multiplied flexion, but advances lofty and upright. He kills the shrubs, not only by contact, but by breathing on them, and splits the rocks, such power of evil is there in him.”

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

50. Oops...

...I didn't realise that I have to remove the http protocol prefix from my links before posting, sorry.

I'm glad that despite my technical mistakes, you managed to follow my train of thought and found yet more relevance from the references (your highlighted text is excellent).

Thanks to you (and other nice people) for the welcome.

[NYC]

53. I tried to find a picture of a hideous basilisk

or cockatrice (less emphasis on "trice" as you said), but couldn't find one ugly enough to suit the subject.

I'm glad you posted, because I really would hate to compare him to Medusa, who had once been beautiful, and had never been a vicious, evil person. I think I'll keep looking for a picture of a hideous basilisk.

Thanks again.

[txaslftist]

The Evil EYE!

Bush doesn't want any bad mojo, because Nancy Reagan read his horoscope, see, and Nostradamus predicted and Revelations says that "the son of man will come with fire...", see and Bush has a father who was also a president and that means he's the son of a man and the rupture is coming and he has to be prepared and its the six hundred and sixty sixth day since he lanced a boil on his bottom, see, and that felt like fire and so the tribulation is coming and if you look him in the eye you can see into his soul and you might then be ruptured with him and then when he stands at the side of the heavenly throne and the other son of man turns it over to him and he gets to rule the heavens and earth eternally you might come along and that wouldn't ....

Oh forget it. You wouldn't understand.

[marions ghost]

43. LOL

O8) O8) O8) :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: O8) O8) O8)

[marions ghost]

44. delete dupe

[GarySeven]

13. What if some trigger happy cop

comes unglued if Suzie Sweetcheeks with the Mt.Paran Marching Band drops her baton - then fires into a bunch of teen-agers with an Uzi?

The thousands of cops are going to catch the paranoia that the government is demonstrating. Every one of them is going to be scared to death that something is going to happen - and every one of them is going to have an itchy trigger finger. If a balloon pops they are likely to go off themselves.

This is going to make Kent State look like a retirement party.

[Cocoa]

15. don't you fuckin look at me!

[teakee]

39. Everyone should show up in "shades" and "trenchcoats"

That should freak out the SS. Imagine thousands in sunglasses and trenchwear.


:hippie:

[calimary]

51. Or how about those gag eyeglasses where the googly eyeballs on springs

fall outward in a BOIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG-like maneuver?

But seriously, WHY are people being told not to look directly at him? Will it cause them retinal damage? What do they think he is, a solar eclipse?

[chicagojoe]

47. ROFLMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlueJazz]

16. Reminds me of a certain Pop Singer Deva that made up rules.....

that included instructions for the Studio Musicians to:

1. Not look Miss XXX in the eye.
2. Under any circumstances, DO NOT talk or converse with Miss XXX.

...At least this "Bitch" (sorry DU Ladies) got what she wanted in the long run...Her previous Fans don't look or listen to her..

[LoZoccolo]

18. Now you've got me curious.

I have a guess, but I'm not sure.

[LoZoccolo]

17. Mike Malloy actually addressed this last night.

During a moment of clarity*, he hypothesized that this may be to protect people passing by the reviewing stand from accidentally being sniped by the secret service should even the slightest out-of-the-ordinary thing happen (like a marching band member turns to look).

*No, I'm really not a fan.

[madison2000]

22. The more people look at Bush, the more they need the bathroom

to cope with their visceral reaction to him. They're trying to keep the lines shorter.

:smoke:

[LibDemAlways]

23. Parade performers should do themselves

a favor and stay home. What if the asshole threw himself a party and nobody came?

[MaineDem]

24. I feel sorry for the kids in the parade

I know, they should stay home but most of them have worked hard to get to the Inaugural. I can see it now...high school students marching in a band...they get to the reviewing stand and the one reason they're there is the President of the United States (even though he's a fuckwit)...they have waited the whole parade to catch a glimpse of him...and they can't even LOOK at him??? This is assinine! Beyond assinine. I sure hope the Secret Service isn't trigger happy!

This sounds more and more like a disaster in the making.

[unblock]

25. i wouldn't want to look at him in the bathroom anyway

ewwwwwww
:puke:

[Skidmore]

28. ...or what? Life imprisonment? Beheading? Human

pyramid time? What a bunch of crap! There should be a mega starefest take place. Everyone's eyes should burn holes into Little Boots the whole time. That should make him good and paranoid. They can't shoot us all.

[OneBlueSky]

31. Bush fears the hairy eyeball . . .

"And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench."

Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant

[grasswire]

32. it's something about..........

....not making the secret service see you as an assassin. I read it somewhere else. Don't look at him. SS may think you're going to do harm.

All the rest of his life, will people not be allowed to look at him? I wonder if he understands the cage he's built for himself and his family.

[KoKo]

33. I was in a protest on the side of the road...and I looked directly at him.

All of us were looking at him. The "SS" had put us behind a barricade for Protestors Only, but when the Limo went buy I saw him. He was quite scary looking. He had a grin on his face and was way down in the seat of the Limo, so he looked very small. But the grin was creepy and maybe made more so by the tint on the glass. I'll never forget it. He was total closed up in that Limo and it was a day when he could have had the window down and waved at the crowd.

We later learned that he had made a stop in one of the developments which had been "pre-screened" by the "SS" where he got out and bought some lemonade from some kids who had set up a stand. But, what I saw that day was folks waiting for hours in over 95 degree heat just to see him...and the Limo sped by.

BTW: It's hard to know which Limo he's in because there are SUV's and they kind of shield the Presidential Limo on all side. There were two limo's, I believe and you had to be looking at just the right spot to even see him. Imperial is the word for that guy!

[robbedvoter]

34. First post 911 inauguration - many happy more! heil emperor!

911 - the gift that keeps on giving! Porter Goss is cutting antiterrorism from CIA, but they make it up against us...

[Skittles]

35. LOL, they're blaming it on the coronation being "post -9/11"

not the fact that this piece of shit "president" is deeply unpopular

[KoKo]

36. yes...it's that old "The World Changed" ploy...designed to elicit sympathy

for this Corporate Whore Extravaganza in DC to Crown the Emperor..:D

[KoKo]

37. This story is all over DU.....as it should be..but it's important.. n/t

[Democrat 4 Ever]

38. I was in DC for a national meeting where Clinton was the

keynote speaker in 1995. This was a low point for his presidency and his popularity was taking daily hits from the right. We still had the 1996 elections coming up and his re-election was still kind of dicey. The vast majority of the crowd was Republican, Clinton-hating small business owners who blamed "big" government for every woe that they had ever had in the last 200 years.

Before the speech we all had to go through metal detectors but that was the extent of the security that stood out besides the ever present secret service near at hand. Clinton gave an excellent speech, blew the roof off, charmed the masses. After the speech The Big Dog himself headed right into the crowd, no rope lines, shook hands, posed for pictures, laughed and cut up with the crowd. He wasn't afraid of his constituents - even the ones who hated him.

I'll never forget one of the leaders of our state group - an especially ardent Clinton hater - turn around to me and said, "I'll be damned, that son of bitch is going to be re-elected!" He just so connected with the crowd you couldn't ignore it. People loved the guy. She was pissed because she had been so sure that he would never get a second term.

Bush is afraid of his own shadow and his Napoleonic complex is raging out of control. He is safe from me - the last thing I want to do is see his ugly, smirking face. I'd look down an outhouse hole and enjoy the view before I'd willing look at the jerk (unless he is doing the perp walk - then I'd pop popcorn and assemble a crowd).

[electric-eye]

40. "mobile platoon civil disturbance units"

Why do I get a feeling that will become a common phrase during the remainder of the regime?

[demgrrrll]

45. Can't have any reckless eyeballin at the Chimp now. Oh he's way too

cool for you. Typical narcissistic bs.

[lildreamer316]

49. I double-dog dare ya

..to look anyway; but en masse; maybe they won't be able to tell who is and who isn't. Just an idea. Pretty bad when the most rebellious thing you can do is look at someone.