How Difficult Can It Be?

It’s pretty scary that someone can get into the White House (Washington, D. C. – Temporary home of the elected President of the United States) without being intercepted by someone designated to protect the facility and its occupants.

How some deal with the issue is even more scary in my HUMBLE opinion. I am about to get in trouble here, but, hey, that’s what I tend to do on occasion.

In response to calls from lawmakers for an independent probe into the September 19 fence-jumping incident, the Homeland Security Department will establish a panel of independent experts to investigate what happened. The group will recommend changes to how the Secret Service operates and suggest who might become the next permanent Secret Service director. A veteran of the agency’s presidential protection division, Joseph Clancy, was named acting director in the meantime. (Reuters)

At the risk of being thought silly, let me see if I can help. Do we really need another “panel of independent experts to investigate?” An individual jumped over the fence and ran into the White House and no one stopped him. What’s to investigate? Will it help to know why? Isn’t someone who does that   just nuts? Will copycat jumpers become a regular occurrence? Do we need stricter no fence-jumping laws? Oh yeah, I forget. Criminals don’t obey laws, strict or not so strict.

Here’s a change for you. If someone comes over the fence, stop him/her/it (just in case it’s a zombie) and make that operation permanent. Job finished, no other “experts” needed.

As for who becomes the next director for the Secret Service, how about someone who can run fast, shoot straight, and isn’t afraid some criminal (and all the criminal’s friends and like-thinkers) is going to be offended because of his/her/it’s ethnicity, or religion, or color, or age, or sex, or political party.

I think most of the Government folks  in Washington are as loony as those fence-jumpers.