What just happened at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner should be a wakeup call for every American who cares about real security – and the liberal media’s reckless, blind arrogance. At an event packed with press elites, politicians, and the kind of smug insiders who lecture the rest of us about security and “threats to democracy,” some lunatic checked into the hotel next door with a bag full of weapons and almost pulled off a massacre. All the establishment’s vaunted “protections” were nothing but theater.
Let’s get the facts straight. The would-be shooter actually stayed at the Hilton, sharing the floor with reporters and officials—blending in with the rest of the crowd. No one at the hotel checked guest luggage. Not for guns. Not for explosives. Not for anything. People walked in and out, up and down, flashing tickets that could be photocopied at home. No metal detectors, no bag checks, no serious I.D. procedures. This is how the “important people” in Washington claim to look after their own?
It gets worse. The man came all the way from California, carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and knives—just walking around the place, totally unchecked. Did anyone stop him? No. He simply zipped up and down from his room to the event. He could have launched his attack at any time. Meanwhile, the only reason law enforcement even knew something was up was after gunshots rang out. It took hours before anyone bothered to even ask for cleaning logs or seek witnesses. So much for “security cooperation.”
This is what happens when left-wing “leadership” and globalist priorities focus more on showy virtue signaling than on things that actually matter—like keeping Americans safe. The Democrats and their media enablers are obsessed with controlling free speech, policing thought, and labeling conservative parents as “domestic threats.” Yet when it comes to a hotel full of the liberal elite and the President of the United States? Not a finger is lifted to check the bags at the door. Forget the “fortified” Capitol nonsense—we just saw the real, raw incompetence on display.
No doubt there’ll be finger-pointing and hollow promises to “do better next time.” Maybe an endless report or two. But the fact is, if this is how the so-called experts protect themselves, what chance do regular Americans have? The only lesson here is that the ruling class’s “security” is a charade. When danger is real, the left is always caught flat-footed. How many more warnings do we need before we take national security as seriously as they take their cocktail parties?
Source: Townhall
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