The White House Crowd Control Manual

quizzicus writes "The Washington Post writes today about a sensitive White House document detailing how to screen for, silence, and remove protesters who show up at the President's public appearances. Obtained by an ACLU subpoena in the Rank v. Jenkins case, the Presidential Advance Manual (PDF) is dated October 2002. It lays out strategies such as searching audience members at the door for hidden protest material, strategically placing 'rally squads' throughout the crowd to intercept and shout down hecklers, and forcefully removing dissenters who cannot be squelched. The manual advises, however, that staff should 'decide if the solution would cause more negative publicity than if the demonstrators were simply left alone.'"

Comments

The Slashdot Crowd Control Manual:

[TripMaster Monkey]

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

Re:The Slashdot Crowd Control Manual:

[splutty]

I think you intended that as "-1 Troll", which would be the prefered CC method.

After reading through the manual my opinion is:

[A beautiful mind]

The manual is [redacted], otherwise [redacted].

[redacted]

I think I should finish this long post by summarizing my opinion about the [redacted] manual which is: [redacted].

White House CC

[Anonymous Coward]

OK. Sap "Circle". "Star" gets sheeped, "Square" gets banished, "Diamond" gets freeze trapped, and we all DPS down "Skull".

Got it?

Re:White House CC

[batquux]

You spent them in a different tree.

In Bushunist America

[Steeltalon]

Crowd Controls you!

Re:Tagged Republican?

[Anonymous Coward]

Free speech zones, cant wear shirts, hire people to protect against the protesters, make people remove shirts to see if they have anything underneath someone might not like, etc. goes against what this country was founded on. That's right. This country was founded on the right to wear shirts and bare arms.

Re:What's really entertaining

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

void republician_retort(point accusation_of_fascism){

if(exists(democracts.spurious_similarity(accusatio n_of_fascism))){

    play_up(democracts.spurious_similarity(accusation_ of_fascism));

}
else{

    play_down(accusation_of_fascism);

}

if(exists(democrats.main_candidate.opportunity_to_ discredit(accusation_of_fascism))){

    democrats.main_candidate.discredit(accusation_of_f ascism)

}

    fox_news.discredit_democrats();

}

Re:How low can you go?

[Anonymous Coward]

Your analogy fails. Two people in fisticuffs are in close quarters. If the U.S. packs up and goes home, there's a major land mass and an ocean between the two combatants.

I don't know about you, but I'm not real scared of the 31st Amphibious Camel Brigade.

And if they start boarding planes to the U.S., kindly explain what about our presence in Iraq is preventing them from doing it now, short of the convenient presence of 160,000 targets (and, sorry, I don't support the use of the Zap Branigan handbook on combat technique when it comes to utilizing U.S. soldiers)?

Re:What's really entertaining

[FrivolousPig]

You have lost the ability to speak English, perhaps it's time to leave the cubicle and come back to society!

Steve Jackson would be proud

[ickypoo]

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Re:What's really entertaining

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