Coming to terms with the reality
that an agency charged with the
protection of the President would
shove him into an elevator, any-
where, with persons unknown, much
less persons unscanned for contra-
band, even if known? This doesn't
happen. Is there a coming to terms
with a little slack for negligent
homicide, against the holder of an
already unstable and excessive pow-
er over the lives of several hundred
million ostensibly free people? It
makes more sense for the Secret Ser-
vice simply to toss him down the
shaft, relying upon wings of angels.
At a minimum, I don't see why we can
not be conditioned by episodic stunts
of higher visibility, imperiling our
plans and disrupting our commitments,
to wean us all of illusions of trust,
to say nothing of the fallacy that a
limit exists, to how power stupefies.
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