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Police nab activists seeking Bush's nuke suitcase
Reuters ^ | 5/8/05

Posted on 05/08/2005 7:17:20 AM PDT by lowbridge

Police nab activists seeking Bush's nuke suitcase
Sun May 8, 2005 6:14 AM ET

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested six activists on Sunday who said they wanted to enter President Bush's Netherlands hotel and look for the suitcase which allows him to activate nuclear weapons.

"We heard Bush carries a nuclear suitcase and can push the red button at any time to set off atomic weapons. We find this extremely shocking," said Leo de Groot, a spokesman for the activist group.

The activists, carrying binoculars and wearing signs that identified them as "citizen's inspectors," mimicking the International Atomic Energy Agency's weapons inspectors, were caught by Dutch soldiers as they approached Bush's hotel.

In a separate incident, an amateur photographer seriously hurt himself on Saturday by falling onto a spiked fence as he tried to photograph the tight security arrangements around the hotel, police said.

Hundreds of Dutch protesters rallied on Saturday in Amsterdam and Maastricht to protest against Bush who visited a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands on Sunday to pay tribute to the Americans who died in World War II.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; bush43; looneytunes; netherlands; nukesuitcase; nuts; russiavisit; veday
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1 posted on 05/08/2005 7:17:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
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Yeah they just leave that stuff laying around in empty hotel rooms.


2 posted on 05/08/2005 7:19:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier!)
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To: lowbridge

Something about the wooden shoes makes you stupid.

3 posted on 05/08/2005 7:20:11 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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I find it shocking that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton had access to it. I wonder if Bill forwarded the codes to China.


4 posted on 05/08/2005 7:20:25 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: lowbridge

Was this after they left the " coffeeshop" ?


5 posted on 05/08/2005 7:20:37 AM PDT by csvset
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What morons!

The President doesn't carry the 'briefcase' (not suitcase) with the Launch Codes! It's carried by a specially assigned person who travels with the President, and that person isn't generally known to the public.

These people are delusional dopes.


6 posted on 05/08/2005 7:21:23 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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Shameless idiot euros. Sounds like our demorats.


7 posted on 05/08/2005 7:23:18 AM PDT by dc-zoo
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Terrorists at Reuters ALWAYS call 'terrorists' activists.

Where is the news?

8 posted on 05/08/2005 7:24:52 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us")
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Hundreds of Dutch protesters rallied on Saturday in Amsterdam and Maastricht to protest against Bush who visited a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands on Sunday to pay tribute to the Americans who died in World War II.

That would be Margraten, a beautiful and serene spot of earth in the gently rolling hills of Limburg Province. Maastricht is a magnificent provincial town on the River Maas (Maastricht is a contraction/corruption of the Latin Maas Trajectum meaning "bridge over the Maas"), one of my favorite haunts when I lived near there.

"Hundreds" of Dutch protesters means a failed demonstration in that densely populated country. There are almost that many middle-aged Dutchmen in single extended pod of recreational cyclists coursing the Dutch byways on any given Sunday.

9 posted on 05/08/2005 7:33:11 AM PDT by JCEccles (Andrea Dworkin--the Ward Churchill of gender politics.)
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In a separate incident, an amateur photographer seriously hurt himself on Saturday by falling onto a spiked fence as he tried to photograph the tight security arrangements around the hotel, police said.

Major OUCH.

10 posted on 05/08/2005 7:34:20 AM PDT by KJC1
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In a separate incident, an amateur photographer seriously hurt himself on Saturday by falling onto a spiked fence as he tried to photograph the tight security arrangements around the hotel, police said.

Did they leave him there as a warning to others?

11 posted on 05/08/2005 7:37:11 AM PDT by csvset
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Dutch faggots, high on dope - not a very smart combination. No wonder the Mohammedans are overruning their country.


12 posted on 05/08/2005 7:37:36 AM PDT by nwrep
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This story will receive many bouncing happy smiley's over at DU. Though many will lament that these stupid "activists" didn't succeed.
13 posted on 05/08/2005 7:51:33 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
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To: Bigh4u2
carried by a specially assigned person who travels with the President,

Though Clinton did have a habit of driving off without him.

14 posted on 05/08/2005 7:51:45 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Hundreds of Dutch protesters rallied on Saturday in Amsterdam and Maastricht to protest against Bush who visited a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands on Sunday to pay tribute to the Americans who died in World War II.

That's almost as stupid as the adopted-at-birth kids who support the right to abortion.

15 posted on 05/08/2005 7:54:44 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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"We're gonna stop Bush!"


16 posted on 05/08/2005 8:21:51 AM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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To: KJC1

I saw a Dracula movie that ended that way


17 posted on 05/08/2005 8:31:27 AM PDT by wildcatf4f3
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To: Bigh4u2
These people are delusional dopes.Too freekin a shame we ever put forces on their lousy continent over the last 100 years. The Britain and Oz are our only loyal allies. In retrospect, I'd have let the Germans eat Europe's lunch. /rant

I just get so po'd with this European anti-America crap.

18 posted on 05/08/2005 8:34:03 AM PDT by Cobra64
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To: Bigh4u2
The President doesn't carry the 'briefcase' (not suitcase) with the Launch Codes!

I believe it's called the "football", so what we have here is a bunch of unruly Dutch football hooligans.

On second thought, that isn't fair -- no matter how drunk and unruly a Dutch Football hooligan gets, they aren't as stupid as these idiots.

Do they actually think the football has a red button that directly launches ICBM's?

Do they know that if the President's football was compromised or taken by these morons that authority to launch would pass to the Veep? They should be even more terrified of D.C. then they are of W. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

19 posted on 05/08/2005 8:35:35 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats (Mindless BushBot and FristFan)
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I know no more about the "football" or the man that carries it, then most on this forum, but isn't it likely he is armed? Further, isn't it likely that he has authority to use deadly force to protect the "football"?

There may be a good reasons after all these years others have not gone after this briefcase (or maybe they did, and we just did not hear about it).

I hope all of these peace loving Dutch learn to love being ruled by the Muslims, since if you are not willing to fight and die for your beliefs, you will become a slave to those that are.

20 posted on 05/08/2005 8:41:41 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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