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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Basically the man is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, like Conclamo said.
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Well it seems like he was disrupting the days activities there pretty significantly. Several activities had to be canceled all together, and the secret service was trying to order a congregation from across the street to vacate the premices at a certain time, before Bush would arive.
That is where much of the protest came from that day, because of that stuff. If he can't deal with the days activities, maybe he shouldn't go and allow the mans followers to spend the day as they saw fit.
It's kind of reminiscent of Bush's visit to England, all kinds of demands were made of the Queen. Such as bullet proof glass, to SS specs had to be put in (the glass in the palace is antique, they refused) staff members had to be certified by the SS to be allowed to enter the grounds, then when Bush got there he landed in a Helo, and tore up expensive and rare flowers and stressed the queens flock of flamingoes so badly they will never return to the grounds. And there was an enormous damage bill after they left where they cut into palace walls, wallpaper and carpeting (much of which is also antique) to put in wiring and equipment that they wanted.
Overall I think Bush is not very accomodating to people when he comes to visit, and that is a source of some of the protests and outrage we see, like with the MLK protest.