dick Cheney to get cannon salute,Secret Service to kill alarming cars

[Algorem]

Cheney to welcome home battered, Ohio-based Marine battalion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=104

10/3/2005, 12:17 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — ...

Cheney is scheduled to address more than 4,500 Marines on Monday morning, including members of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. The battalion, based in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park, lost 48 Marines in Iraq and had more than 150 wounded. The deaths included 14 Marines killed in back-to-back attacks within one week this summer...

After his address, Cheney will be honored with a 19-gun cannon salute. Some of the weekend arrangements preparing for the vice president's visit included checking that cars near the location of Cheney's address were both swept for bombs and kept unlocked, Jackson said.

"When you do a 19-gun salute, the reverberations will set off car alarms," Jackson said. "We have to keep cars unlocked. If the car alarms go off, the Secret Service has to turn off the alarms."

If the doors are locked, they will use any means necessary to stop the alarm, she said...

[oneighty]

1. The coward with other options

is going to welcome home the bloodied?

He ought to be ashamed to disgrace them with his bullshit.

Nineteen guns indeed.

The world is upside down.

180

[SpiralHawk]

2. Dick's getting a Gannon Salute ?? WTF ???

I thought Gannon, the notorious Bush White House Male Prostitute/"reporter", was on vacation somewhere.

Oh well, whatever turns on those kiNky rEpuBliKans -- they are a kiNkY bunch...that's for sure.

[Moosepoop]

3. I was hoping

that they were going to shoot him out of a cannon!

[PDittie]

4. Do car alarms jam his pacemaker?

Besides annoyance, what damage does a a wailing car alarm do to Cheney?

[Bridget Burke]

5. What effect will cannon have on his pacemaker?

It's a special pacemaker. Called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator or ICD, it will actually re-start his heart if needed.

[Dunvegan]

6. Soldiers Died...but CHENEY Recieves the 19 Gun Salute???

Whisky. Tango. Foxtrot?

From:
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=23&ID=245189&r=1

Cheney will stay for a luncheon before leaving the area at about 1:30 p.m., Jackson said.

After his address, Cheney will be honored with a 19-gun cannon salute.

Would someone explain to me:

A. Why the war-profiteer (and not the honored fallen) is receiving the 19-gun salute?

B. How are the SS going to deal with these "alarming" unlocked cars? Vandalize them by blitzing them all within seconds of the salute using wire cutters?

C. Why the bother with the car alarms at all? Is it because they interfere with the delicate sense of dramatic silence after the salute that Cheney wishes to savor?

Are the WH hacks trying to control not only photo-ops but now even aural-ops?

[goclark]

7. I am speechless,,,there is no end to their crimes nt