Police nab activists seeking Bush's nuke suitcase

Reuters ^ | 5/8/05

[DustyMoment]

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.

If these folks aren't careful, they're going to give idiots a bad name!

[Lazamataz]

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.

What would have been even more shocking, is the 9mm rounds ripping through his skull from the 12 highly-trained Secret Servicemen shooting MP-5's at him.

[ErnBatavia]

In a separate incident, an amateur photographer seriously hurt himself on Saturday by falling onto a spiked fence

Ooh, I'll bet that smarts...

[Vinnie]

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.

Don't they watch '24' ?

[MrStumpy]

I would have loved to see them go up against the carrier of the football. A US military officer who is authorized to use deadly force.

"there would have been pieces of little wooden shoes and scraps of ganja weed everywhere....it was beautifull man"

On the other hand GW knows how to handle himself as he showed in South America a while back.

[Samwise]

Yeah they just leave that stuff laying around in empty hotel rooms.

Didn't Clinton leave the guy with the football alone on the streets of DC?

[.38sw]

Didn't Clinton leave the guy with the football alone on the streets of DC?

If I recall, Clinton decided to leave from wherever he was, and just took off to go back to the whitehouse. The man with the football was left to walk back to the WH, several blocks.

That Billy Jeff, he was always so mature and responsible.

[ChildOfThe60s]

These are the "intellectuals" that think *we* are stupid??

Yuk, yuk.

[.38sw]

"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.

That's just hysterical. He has a "suitcase" with a red button in it. He pushes the button, and launches the nukes. And, he probably left it in his hotel room while he was out. And, it would be really easy to get into the president's hotel room while he's out. No problem. These guys should watch "24", they might learn something about getting their hands on the nuclear football. And they'd better hope that Jack Bauer isn't around.

[cripplecreek]

I know Clinton lost his set of launch codes once or twice.

[Samwise]

[.38sw]

I know Clinton lost his set of launch codes once or twice.

He lost them at least once. The codes are changed periodically. The president has a laminated card with the codes on them. Jimmy Carter left them in his suit once when the suit was sent to the cleaners. Billy Jeff lost his once, they were never found. He was supposed to turn over the old card when he received the new one - oops, can't find it guys, I'll get the card to you tomorrow. Tomorrow - still can't find it. They turn the WH and residence upside down, searching. Never turned up. I read this stuff in "Dereliction of Duty" by Buzz Patterson.

[GladesGuru]

"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."

Amazing! A self-gigging presstitute. Too bad we can't do a bit of DNA surgery to add that behavior code to the frogs in the Everglades.

We would have self-gigging frogs! Just think of the airboat fuel that could be saved!

[Chewbacca]

I think I just overdosed on pastel and neon.

Ugh.

[Accygirl]

Yeah, especially considering that Jack doesn't see the need to follow the Geneva convention.

[prairiebreeze]

Dang fools ping

[Peach]

I have no words for how nuts those folks sound. None that wouldn't get me banned, anyway. LOL

[prairiebreeze]

How about spooky morons....