[Yellowfin]

Precisely why I for one say the Secret Service should be abolished. No government agency at any time should be above the law, nor any elected official. The entire basis, at least in theory, of our government as it was designed to be was that the elected officials all the way up to and including the president are to be ordinary citizens and not elected royalty. A president is replaceable. Goodness knows we didn't pick this one on any rigid criteria of experience and expertise. Under express limited powers of government, he isn't supposed to be some all powerful semi-god--he's not supposed to be powerful enough to be excessively important. There is absolutely no compelling interest to give him some exalted and elevated priveledge, and it is in fact to the contrary of liberty and the proper relationship of government to the people that any president, Congressman, or any other similar person be treated as anything but ordinary. It is abundantly clear the president has little or nothing to do with serving the people-his purpose when yours and my tax dollars pay his salary- when he himself has so many people going to ridiculous lengths to serve him. It is clear that this aura of power and, thanks to the SS, invincibility, that he for one takes it that he is ABOVE the people, and that is a dangerous thing indeed which we have seen for too long from others in office. He's supposed to be a clerk, a dinner host, a historian, and occasionally a leader, but none of this rock star crap--but clearly the latter has taken vast priority over the former.

Make the guy walk on foot and carry his own sidearm like the rest of us. Make him have every single legal obstacle we do--make him have to be part of a lawsuit to have a NYC and/or NJ non resident CCW if he wants armed protection there. Make him have to be limited to 10 round magazines in CA and NY and FMJ in NJ. Make him have to take 12 hour classes for a NM permit. Make him have to wonder whether he can OC in TX or not and if not show up at the steps of the capitol in Austin as one of the crowd to hold up a sign saying "Yes We Can...Open Carry!" Make him have to open carry unloaded in CA and have to take a snake route around all the 1000' school zones.

MAKE HIM NOT ABOVE THE LAW OR THE LIFE OF AN EVERYDAY CITIZEN. He has no right or cause whatsoever to be any different than one of us, and it is clearly to our detriment that he is treated and regarded and thereby led to believe that he is above everyone and can do no wrong. There's a reason the Magna Carta is the oldest basis we have for our government and it's about time we stopped neglecting its central precepts.