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

Re:How low can you go?

[Pale-Horse-Rider]

...and I'm pretty sure 70% of the nation is so brain dead they would probably be against anything the President said.

Wow! Blanket generalizations are easy to make! Throw in a couple pop-culture references to Guantanamo and Iraq, and now you can justify any negative sentiment about the President without having to rely on any legitimate argument!