Movie-Plot Threats at the U.S. Capitol
This would make a great movie:
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., renewed his call for the installation of an impenetrable, see-through security shield around the viewing gallery overlooking the House floor. Burton points out that, while guns and some bombs would be picked up by metal detectors, a saboteur could get into the Capitol concealing plastic explosives.
The House floor, he pointed out, is the only room where all three branches of government gather to hear the president speak, as President Obama will do when he delivers his State of the Union address on Jan. 25.
Burton introduced the legislation in the past, but it’s gone nowhere. He’s hoping the tragic events of Saturday could help it win more serious consideration by the Republican leadership.
“I think the risk is there,” Burton told The Washington Examiner. “The threat is more now than it has ever been.”
Paul Renault • January 18, 2011 6:58 AM
If the legislators truly felt vulnerable from [pick one: i) The financial ravages of out-of-control health care and drug costs, Nut-jobs waving guns, ii) Wall St. crooks who make their retirement packages worthless, iii) Banks fraudulently reposessing their homes, iv) DHS agents violating their privates, v) Their phones being illegally tapped, vi) Being thrown in jail for aiding and abetting any of the crimes in this list], just like the people who [didn’t actually] vote them into office have to feel every day…
and if they knew that they wouldn’t be able to brute-force a fix retroactively, then…
maybe they wouldn’t propose these kinds of comic-book schemes and actually get around to helping society.
But I’m not holding my breath.