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| Secret Service director Julia Pierson before House Oversight Committee by J. Scott Applewhite |
"I listened carefully, and watched the entire interrogation of the Secret Service director, Julia Pierson, on Capital Hill at the United States House of Representatives hearing. I was dumbfounded. I am not sure if the American public at large understands or is aware of the degree of incompetence revealed during those hearings. Was it incompetence, or deliberate? was the question puzzling my intellect. Deep inside my soul I trembled at the prospect of the ghosts many Americans like to declare as ghosts; chiefly, the notion that race doesn't matter. My trembling grew with each passing second of the hearing around the middle of the session with a sense that race did matter.
The history of protecting the President requires a level of competence and depth of training and a philosophical bent to the willingness to die for the life of another. Somewhere in the masculine countenance of the director was a menace, a meanness that groveled and tore against the polish of her 30 years of service to her country in law enforcement. How does race matter in the higher echelons of governmental power in these United States? Does this legacy create the circumstances that unravel the concentric circles in a timely and coordinated fashion for the one person crazy enough, and skilled enough to get in and kill our President? Was that a dry run for something else?
A thinking man has to ask these questions. After all it is a practice of the culture to eat one's grandchildren to feed one's children. How far away are those questions from what happened to Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy?
I think what terrifies me most is why the question is not public."
- Gregory E. Woods,
Keeper of Stories
10/03/14
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| President Barack Obama somber |
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