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Dear Mr. President: You Have A Security Problem

By Laila Muhammad | Last updated: Oct 8, 2014 - 8:37:17 AM

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With all due respect, I have to honestly say that your security is poor and shameful. I mean just listening to Julia Pierson, former Secret Service director, I was dumbfounded at the foolishness that came from her mouth when questioned recently by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The committee of Democratic and Republican lawmakers asked her about mishandling numerous presidential security breaches.

Just recently a former Iraqi veteran jumped the fence and ran all the way to the East Room of the presidential mansion, knocking over a female security guard, before he was apprehended. Ms. Pierson said the Secret Service showed “tremendous restraint.” Sorry to tell you Ms. Pierson, but you need to re-read your rules of engagement. It wasn’t the time to show restraint when the “head of the free world’s” life, family and security was being breached.

She was asked to comment on a 2011 incident, when someone shot at the White House and it took her organization four days to realize the building had been hit, and bullets weren’t found. Her response was something to the effect that it’s dark at night. Well I’m sorry Ms. Pierson that our president doesn’t have a typical 9-to-5 like many of us. Be sure to let the next trigger happy idiot know that, so we can all plan accordingly.

Then Mr. President, she said, you basically lived in a noisy neighborhood, so gunshots could have been mistaken for an engine backfiring multiple times. Yes Mr. President, I know it’s hard living in the ghetto with all that crime, vandalism, heroin needles, abandoned buildings and working girls that bring your property values down. Yes Ms. Pierson, tell me again how engines backfire 6 to 8 times in a row. If you believe that, I have lake front property to sell you in Arizona.

Mr. President I honestly thought I was watching a comedy spoof on Saturday Night Live. Her responses were laughable. But then I became afraid for your life. If you have people who are paid and sworn to protect you like this on your staff, I feel sorry for you and your beautiful family. But know that your security lies in the hands of Almighty God.

I sat on my sofa, wondering what you were thinking, I imagined you pacing back and forth, shaking your head in disbelief, or mouth wide open in awe at what has happened. Don’t they know you have an entire country to run? The question is do they care? And the $64,000 question is are they just a bunch of imbeciles who are incompetent and incapable of doing their jobs or are all these incidents with the “not so Secret Service” intentional? I know you can’t answer that, and I really don’t need an answer, in fact it was a rhetorical question. Black America already knows the answer.

My teenage daughters have more security on their cell phones and tablets than you have at the White House and it’s sad. I mean really sad.

When asked why a White House alarm system was muted, the reply was it “irritated the staff.” Wow. Really? This isn’t an alarm like the one in a cuckcoo clock that you just can’t seem to silence. This is real life and your family’s lives are at stake.

What was most mindboggling was her response when asked, well why weren’t security dogs released? These cowards said they were afraid the dogs would attack agents. Okay stop right there, aren’t these dimwits trained in canine security? This is your job idiots. I can’t tell my boss, “Oh I didn’t write my article because I don’t like working on PCs, you know I’m a Mac girl.” Seriously. I think not. No wonder Julia Pierson resigned. If I was her I would have too after watching the tape of testimony before Congress. And sorry to inform you but, interim director Joseph Clancy, a former special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service, probably won’t do any better. I don’t need to go into other incidents with your Secret Service from soliciting prostitutes, drinking on the job, a plane coming too close to the First Lady’s airplane, or the numerous other infractions, you are quite aware.

So Mr. President, even though I didn’t vote for you either time, I pray for your safety. I pray you take my suggestion, fire the entire staff, and replace them with the Fruit of Islam. Though that might sound a bit biased, let’s look past the seemingly connection I have to them and deal with their track record. Do you remember Dope Busters? Well, these were F.O.I. who secured Mayfair Mansion apartments in Washington, D.C., where their presence alone prevented crime in one of the worst open air drug markets in the city.

Or more recently, walk from your personal residence in your Kenwood neighborhood in Chicago, a few blocks from Minister Louis Farrakhan’s house, and you will see for yourself how safe it is. You won’t hear any reports of gun fire or shells found on his porch. There won’t be any news stories about how they captured a man jumping the fence, because he wouldn’t get a chance to jump the fence. And his head of security would not sit before the world and make up worthless excuses about why security didn’t do its job. No these men are well trained, don’t carry weapons, but are able to defend and secure 24 hours a day a man of God, a man for the people.

Next time you’re in Chicago, walk through Hyde Park, and slide your number to the brothers on post, and we got your back.

I hope to hear from you soon.