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The year the Secret Service mandate expires on Bush

oh shi-

Well, well, isn't that interesting...

Mandate you say? :wink:

Obviously I kid. But, I guess I should've kept that gift basket of pretzels till 2019...

Well, well, isn't that interesting...

Would it be dreadfully rude if I answer that in the negative? :p

Would it be dreadfully rude if I answer that in the negative? :p
Not at all. Be sarcastic if you must.

Mandate you say? :wink:

Obviously I kid. But, I guess I should've kept that gift basket of pretzels till 2019...

I can send you another gift basket if you'll share :p

The year the Secret Service mandate expires on Bush

Which Bush?

Thanks for the info

*sets date on time travelling sniper rifle bullets to 2019*

surely he will be safe what with Jenna Bush being president?

Cheney's expires in seven months.

And?

1120 Block of Northgate circle, Dallas, Texas. In case you wanted to know... for... you know... information.

1120 Block of Northgate circle, Dallas, Texas. In case you wanted to know... for... you know... information.

Also useful. I had just planned on shooting randomly until I hit Bush

Which Bush?

George II

I thought Ex-Presidents get Secret Service detail until they're dead. Ahh, learn something new everyday.

I thought Ex-Presidents get Secret Service detail until they're dead. Ahh, learn something new everyday.

Clinton was the last one who got life-protection.

I thought Ex-Presidents get Secret Service detail until they're dead. Ahh, learn something new everyday.

They used to. A law change under Bill Clinton changed it to only 10 years after the end of their presidency. Clinton will be the last president to recieve lifetime protection.

Oh, how I am torn in two directions.

Clinton was the last one who got life-protection.

They used to. A law change under Bill Clinton changed it to only 10 years after the end of their presidency. Clinton will be the last president to recieve lifetime protection.

Why did they change it?

Why did they change it?

The limited resources of the Secret Service, the agency's high turnover rate, and the cost of protection of people who cease to be all that important, perhaps?

The limited resources of the Secret Service, the agency's high turnover rate, and the cost of protection of people who cease to be all that important, perhaps?

They might have to change it back, given the strength of feeling some people have towards Bush.

They might have to change it back, given the strength of feeling some people have towards Bush.

He's rich, he can hire Blackwater to protect him.

They used to. A law change under Bill Clinton changed it to only 10 years after the end of their presidency. Clinton will be the last president to recieve lifetime protection.

Devious one that one was. :D

He's rich, he can hire Blackwater to protect him.

Smart. Blackwater is hated as much as Bush, and what with him no longer having any power, people will have trouble deciding whether a revenge shot or killing a Blackwater goon would be more productive in the long term.

It's like how Cheney as VP was a better assassination deterrent than any flak jacket :)

It's like how Cheney as VP was a better assassination deterrent than any flak jacket :)

Too bad Obama didn't pick his own Cheney as VP.

*sees black helicopters outside the homes of everyone who made vague threats against Bush's life*

Cheney's expires in seven months.

Excellent.

It won't have any effect on his safety here because he's rich as fuck, but it does mean he can never leave the country again, since private bodyguards are not legally obligated to defend someone if a foreign power attempts to arrest said someone. In fact, I believe they are legally obligated to not interfere.

I doubt anyone is going to need secret service expiration to take a shot at Obama.


I'm pretty sure that presidents and their families have Secret Service for life though...

I'm sure most people won't even remember who he is by then.

It won't have any effect on his safety here because he's rich as fuck, but it does mean he can never leave the country again, since private bodyguards are not legally obligated to defend someone if a foreign power attempts to arrest said someone. In fact, I believe they are legally obligated to not interfere.

Doesn't mean they wouldn't interfere anyway if paid enough, and you forget the sheer amount of political fallout that would come from a foreign power attempting to arrest a former American President. It's not going to happen unless the United States seriously falls from power, and I'd kind of like that not to happen, thank you.

There won't be any 2019.

The world is gonna end on December 21, 2012. Don't you people read the Internet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAtgPaggeTM&feature=related

!!!

lol. Hey, on a similar strain of logic, I'm psychic. Wanna see my powers at work?

I foretell that you will have a birthday in the next 365 days.

See? I have a prophetic connection with God. lol.

2019, we'll see entire ninja clans armed with pretzel shurikens mobilizing all over Texas.

You know, to all you folks making threatening comments, you would do well to remember that Bush still has his protection, as does Cheney, and that the Secret Service is not known for their sense of humor.

poetic justice suggests the shrubery and his posse be extrodinarily rendered to face the international criminal court of justice at the earliest possible convenience.

rummys been the real mastermind i think, him and rove and chenny, but rummy especially, i mean he's been in on the skullduggery since under raygun and possibly earlier.

of course its heritage and rand that have been the polit buroh of the corporate mafia whose decisions they've been implimenting, at least that's how it looks from the cheep seats where i've been sitting.

well the new bossess are gonna want to avoid spliting people over what to do about the old bossess, which means there may not be too much we can expect THEM to do, but they're not the only potential extrodinary renderers, secret service or no secret service.

termination with extreme prejudice is too easy. the perps need to face real judicial proceedings first, as is evidenced by the footwork and dances they'be doing to avoid doing so. otherwise, they just get offed, we'll never know the real half of it, what they've been up to, what traps we don't yet know about they may have set to bring about the destruction of the web of life, and with it everything that breathes oxygen on the face of planet earth.

Also useful. I had just planned on shooting randomly until I hit Bush

I don't think anyone else here would dream of shooting the President-elect.

Also useful. I had just planned on shooting randomly until I hit Bush

Down, boy. Shooting randomly until hitting the target is what landed you in Iraq...

Doesn't mean they wouldn't interfere anyway if paid enough, and you forget the sheer amount of political fallout that would come from a foreign power attempting to arrest a former American President. It's not going to happen unless the United States seriously falls from power, and I'd kind of like that not to happen, thank you.

Cheney, not Bush.

Prediction - in 10 years' time, nobody will care.

in ten years no one will care if america has 'fallen' from its position of world dominance, or at least its current preditory degree of it. and i could give a rat weather it does or not.

other then i do hope and pray it will at some point become less preditory and more of a partner to the rest of the world, for things like peace and sustainability, instead of continually making it a more brutal place for the "profit" of a VERY few at the expense of just about everyone and every thing, its own citizens and the very web of life itself included.

not likely. whoever is in office will require the secret service to continue to provide protection, because they will want it 10 years after they get out.

Prediction - in 10 years' time, nobody will care.

...except for a few thousand permanently disabled vets.

...except for a few thousand permanently disabled vets.

vets don't normally try and kill the former president.

vets don't normally try and kill the former president.

Normally, no...but the Iraq War is anything but a "normal" war.

Normally, no...but the Iraq War is anything but a "normal" war.

*vietnam* umm for recent times not so bad.

IF Vietnam vets didn't try to kill LBJ they wont try and kill bush.

*vietnam* umm for recent times not so bad.

IF Vietnam vets didn't try to kill LBJ they wont try and kill bush.

LBJ had lifetime protection...Bush doesn't.

Not saying it'll happen, but there are certainly people with a reason to give it thought who will still be around in ten years.

So unless you are in the Secret Service remember to shave that special area before the 20th.

Or on it - because the 20th is officially the last day for Bush.

The year the Secret Service mandate expires on Bush

So? What's your point?

So? What's your point?

After that point all Secret Service Agents must have a clean shaven... undercarriage...

after that point all secret service agents must have a clean shaven... Undercarriage...

Too much information!!!!!!

too much information!!!!!!

Well sorry, but it does clearly state that's the mandate for bush

Well sorry, but it does clearly state that's the mandate for bush

Maybe it's supposed to be a mandate for bushes. As in, in 2019, all secret service agents will be responsible for trimming the bushes at the White House. Which I don't agree with. That's the job of the landscaping crew.

Given that alien invasion/a meteorite impact/the passing-by of the planet Niburu/nuclear war/biblical apolcalypse (delete as appropriate) is going to occur in 2012, I'd be very surprised if Bush, the Secret Service, or humankind in general is still alive in 2019. The only creatures that will survive the disaster will be vermin like cockroaches, rats, and estate agents.

I'm sure that date will be marked down in a number of diaries worldwide.

...except for a few thousand permanently disabled vets.
Aye I'm sure he'll fit wheelchair access to allow the handful of oustandingly disgruntled ex-servicemen who will be coming after him to take him out.

not likely. whoever is in office will require the secret service to continue to provide protection, because they will want it 10 years after they get out.

Unless they're a savvy former Arkansas governor who realise you can have your cake and eat it too, if you maintain every former President protection, and your own, but pull it from future Presidents