TMR: White House May Check Tourists Blocks Away, Program Will Train Vets To Install Solar Panels, Joke Sentence For Anti-gun Activist
Happy hump day! Here’s your Wednesday edition of The Morning Roar!White House May Check Tourists Blocks AwayThe Secret Service is considering changing their White House defense strategy in order to prevent a similar incident as one that occurred last week. On Friday, a man with a knife jumped the fence and made it to the front door of the White House. Earlier this week, authorities announced that the front gate to the White House will now be locked. However, they aren’t stopping with this common sense deterrent. In the near future, the Secret Service and the other agencies tasked with protecting the White House may be setting up checkpoints on public sidewalks and streets.The Washington Post reports:
As part of the screening, the Secret Service would establish several checkpoints a few blocks from the White House, the officials said. The screening would likely be limited to bag checks and not include measures taken at airports by the Transportation Security Administration, which include metal detectors and body scans.Along with giving Secret Service agents and uniformed Secret Service officers a chance to check for explosives and weapons in bags, the screening would allow them to interact with the visitors and try to identify those who may pose a problem, the officials said.
If you needed another reason not to go to Washington DC, the authorities tasked with securing the White House may soon be providing one. Security around the White House is coordinated between the Secret Service, United State Park Police, the White House Historical Association, and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.Can you imagine the horror stories that could occur if these agencies were allowed to perform security screenings similar to the invasive pat downs that occur at airports throughout the United States? Some lucky tourists may have the misfortune of receiving Fourth Amendment-violating pat downs from more than one of these agencies on the very same day!What a terrifying bureaucratic nightmare!Program Will Train Vets To Install Solar PanelsWhere would we be as a country (or world) without visionary politicians that have been gifted with the ability to see market shifts before they occur? How could we prosper without magical central planners, who ensure the supply chain is sufficiently stocked with resources needed to fan the flames of a growing industry?Of course, I’m being facetious. Politicians don’t know the market from a hole in the ground.Politicians cannot see into the future or determine how markets will move. But this doesn’t stop them from believing that they are able to dictate and influence the market by subsidizing industries they favor and sucking tax revenue from industries they despise.From The Huffington Post:
The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans.The Agriculture Department will also spend nearly $70 million to fund 540 solar and renewable energy projects, focused on rural and farming areas. And the Energy Department will propose stricter efficiency standards for commercial air conditioners, a move the department said could cut emissions more than any other efficiency standard it has issued to date.
President Obama and the Democrats will tout the thousands of jobs they created for veterans. They’ll claim to be moving forward by promoting a green economy when the Republicans are stuck in their old ways. Then the jobs will dry-up. The subsidies will go away. And the same politicians that bragged about job creation will disappear from sight. The veterans will be left behind with nothing, used as pawns in the political process yet again.Joke Sentence For Anti-gun ActivistLastly, we have an update on one of our previous Felony Friday stories. In February of this year we reported on an anti-gun activist that was arrested for carry a gun onto school premises. The man, Dwayne Ferguson, had a permit to carry the weapon, but the permit does not extend to carrying on a school campus. He faced felony charges for the incident which resulted in police, SWAT teams, a K9 Unit, and helicopter all responding to the report of Ferguson carrying a gun on campus.From the Felony Friday article on this website:
Ferguson is the President of the Buffalo chapter of MAD DADS, which is an acronym for Men Against Destruction-Defending Against Drugs and Social-Disorder. MAD DADS is an anti-gun organization. They encourage chapters throughout the country to organize and assist community leaders with gun buy-back programs.
Ferguson must have received special treatment from the judge, because the sentence he received is an absolute joke!The Daily Caller reports on Ferguson’s lenient sentence:
On Monday, Judge John L. Michalek sentenced Ferguson to 100 hours of community service and a conditional discharge, according to local CBS affiliate WIVB. Michalek also sternly ordered Ferguson to keep his nose clean.If Ferguson completes the service requirements and stays out of trouble, he won’t have to answer for the substantially more serious charge initially levied against him: Possessing a firearm on schools grounds. (He initially was looking at two felony charges of criminal gun possession.)
Many moons ago in June 2013, in another installment of Felony Friday, I reported on a school teacher by the name of Ned Carter Walker in San Diego that pleaded guilty to the felony charge of carrying a loaded firearm in a school zone. His lawyer stated that he carried the weapon in order to protect his students. He was sentenced in August 2013 and was placed on probation for a term of three years. He will most likely never teach again. And because he pleaded guilty to a felony charge, he will not be able to legally own a firearm.To summarize, the anti-gun hypocrite Mr. Ferguson will escape his legal woes without losing the right to legally own a gun, but the teacher that wanted to protect his children, Mr. Walker, is now banished from teaching and prohibited from ever legally owning a firearm.Life is not fair.Read The Morning Roar every weekday Monday-Friday!The Lions of Liberty are on Twitter, Facebook & Google+Receive access to ALL of our EXCLUSIVE bonus audio content – including “Conspiracy Corner”, “Degenerate Gamblers” and the “League of Liberty Podcast” by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride and supporting us on Patreon!
