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Police investigate security breach after protester flies microlight within yards of US president
The Independent | July 14, 2018 | Tom Embury-Dennis

Posted on 07/13/2018 9:26:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/donald-trump-visit-scotland-paraglider-protest-turnberry-security-greenpeace-a8446651.html


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; security; trump
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1 posted on 07/13/2018 9:26:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Link to article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/donald-trump-visit-scotland-paraglider-protest-turnberry-security-greenpeace-a8446651.html


2 posted on 07/13/2018 9:27:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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That’s why they invented MANPADS. Hell, that’s why they invented shotguns.


3 posted on 07/13/2018 9:29:48 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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“Snipers watched”

And what was the Secret Service doing?


4 posted on 07/13/2018 9:31:21 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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The Left and its stupid stunts.


5 posted on 07/13/2018 9:32:20 PM PDT by Crucial
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The Left and its stupid stunts.

Why stupid? If they happen to take Trump out, no one of importance on the Left will be punished, and Right will not respond. Free target practice for the Left..

6 posted on 07/13/2018 9:34:37 PM PDT by CatOwner
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If the “snipers” were armed they should have used their guns/rifles/whatever they had!


7 posted on 07/13/2018 9:38:24 PM PDT by nopardons
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A shot across the bow from...


8 posted on 07/13/2018 9:40:24 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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Frustrating...

Exact massive fines, prison, deportation, exile of these left wing lunatics


9 posted on 07/13/2018 9:41:13 PM PDT by Professional
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Unarmed snipers.

There’s a concept.


10 posted on 07/13/2018 9:44:21 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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If this happened in the United States they would be conducting a postmortem on the pilot. I would hope that the security for Theresa May is good, but I doubt it.

That para-glider could have 100 lbs of high explosive on it.


11 posted on 07/13/2018 9:44:44 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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It’s the UK...the police are UNARMED there, so I wonder IF the “snipers” are armed and IF so, with what.


12 posted on 07/13/2018 9:46:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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The local Bobbies and Peelers are unarmed.

Security forces and SAS are well armed.

This was a breakdown in security.

Where was the Secret Service?


13 posted on 07/13/2018 9:50:18 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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Thank you.


14 posted on 07/13/2018 9:58:37 PM PDT by tbw2
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It was hard to find a good article about this once I discovered it, so I went back to the original article where I saw it even though it was restricted to just a link. Like the press didn’t want to talk about it.


15 posted on 07/13/2018 10:02:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Greenpeace was also able to fly a drone into a French Nuke plant. We need to take security much more seriously as the threats are getting more creative, elusive and potent.


16 posted on 07/13/2018 10:07:17 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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I always had assumed that the Security Forces and SAS were armed; however, since they didn't do a damned thing about this terrible breach of security, I began to wonder IF they had also been unarmed recently.

I used to be a gigantic Anglophile, have been to England many times over, my oldest friend lives there, but I'll NEVER go back there again...that nation is toast!

17 posted on 07/13/2018 10:07:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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Regular cops there are unarmed for the most part.

Their special departments are armed.


18 posted on 07/13/2018 10:10:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Unarmed snipers are over paid.

Again...

Where was the Secret Service?


19 posted on 07/13/2018 10:10:16 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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>Where was the Secret Service?

Copulating with one another, probably.


20 posted on 07/13/2018 10:18:44 PM PDT by oblomov
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