Budget Cuts Cause Cops To Cut W.'s Extra Security

The Dallas Morning News:

The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush.

In addition to the usual Secret Service protection, Dallas until last week had stationed one on-duty tactical officer per eight-hour shift on the street outside the president's home. The estimated cost of that service was $300,000 for about a year, according to police officials who asked that they not be named.

Read the whole story: The Dallas Morning News

Comments

[Waltfl]

Get some Blackwater mercenaries to guard your street!

[layman]

He can buy hell lots of security with money he's looted from this nation. If he doesn't wanna pay for it, then just himself a cheap bullet proof vest and wear it 24/7.

[enoughalready13]

Here Here - he already gets free Secret Service security - the rest should be on his daddy's dime

[ReedYoung]

He always said he was a "free market guy" now he has the chance to put his inherited money where his foolish mouth is. I'm sure nearby malls have a plethora of semi-literate security guards who'd probably even be happy to bring him a pretzel on their way to their second job, guarding the worst U.S. President ever.

[offred]

Way past time. Dubya has cost the American taxpayers enough money.

Sure would be nice to have the $3 trillion the Iraq War is ultimately going to cost us, wouldn't it?

Sure would be nice to have the $9 billion that arrived in Iraq on pallets and then disappeared, wouldn't it?

[wadenelson1]

He has nothing to worry about.

There was never a single Guantanamo detainee who was illegally imprisoned, tortured, and eventually let go, without even being charged with a crime. Someone who might wish him ill.

What? Hundreds of them have been set free. Weren't guilty of anything?

The movie the Count of Monte Cristo comes to mind.

Best Wishes, George

[johnie2xs]

What's the matter? Can't his friends at Xe/Blackwater do him a solid??

God knows, he made them enough money!!!

[ohyes]

Why is W not in jail?

[petera63]

Why should he be in jail?

[chirps]

For starting a trillion dollar war based on a lie. For the many, many thousands of innocent people killed in that war based on a lie.

There's two good reasons way Georgie should be behind bars. I'm sure there are others.

[Openeyes]

War crimes - violating the Geneva Conventions, for a start.

[wadenelson1]

Launching an unprovoked war of aggression is a war crime, per Nuremburg and Geneva.

Questions?

[ReedYoung]

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt: did you ask because you expect treason to be punishable by the death penalty?

[vasta]

I know this area of Dallas very well, he never needed extra security. NEVER!

[AdamX]

He can get extra security in the jail cell he should be in.

[MacQ]

Purpose of story: a venue for bushbashing fun.
It's about a decision in which Mr. Bush had no say and took no part (he never asked for the extra surveillance--that was a PD decision).

Non story.
Continue your bashing, children.

[CR46]

Yes he did ask for it and also asked that a public street be allowed to be blocked off permenantly.

[littlepuffycloud]

Wrong! He did ask for the extra security because even DimWit George knows how much he is hated world wide, but especially in America. He wanted the entire street on which his mini mansion is located to be shut down. But thanks for chiming in, Junior.

[puffthedragon]

Barbara is that you? done polishing your pearls today?

[medici]

Do you research, Q. W requested the extra security and got it until the economic downturn that he caused brought the extra security to an end. Ironic, isn't it?

[chirps]

Could it be that Georgie has earned some bashing? Just consider the hundreds of thousands of people killed in his war based on a lie. What's a little bad-mouthing compared to that?

[jsgaetano]

Get rid of ALL his security. If he needs it, he can pay for it himself.

Like conservatives say, the gubment can't do anything right. So does he really want to trust his life and his family's security to Big Daddy Gubment?

Being a Fiscal Conservative starts at home, guys. Let's see them live up to the rhetoric for once. Instead, all we see is there's never been a gubment handout a Fiscal Conservative wouldn't take.

[Tuckerndfw]

GOP version of "limited gov't" is they want the gov't to protect them and no one else.

I wonder how the Bush family is coping with their lifetime gov't health care at no cost to them?

[edwarvir]

He has money let him pay for his own security.
who cares?

[lvdragonlady]

If he needs security that bad, let him pay for it instead to strapping the tax payers with it.

[Tropiholic]

who cares?

[KDog76A]

At least now we have CHANGE.