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| The Congresswoman and the Admiral |
| 2006-04-12 |
| by Victor Davis Hanson Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney's recent run-in with a security official at the nation's Capitol reminded me of an earlier dust-up. On New Year's Eve 2002, while I was a visiting professor at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, the superintendent—the distinguished three-star Vice Adm. Richard J. Naughton—tried to enter the academy without wearing the photo ID required of all military and civilian personnel. Naturally expecting that the young Marine sentry on duty would recognize his all-important superintendent, Naughton boldly tried to pass. But instead, the Marine asked him to produce identification. Angry words and some sort of altercation ensued between the admiral and the enlisted man. Later, Naughton claimed he couldn't "remember" whether he had "touched" the guard, but he did concede he "might" have done so. After a lengthy, ultimately damning investigation, Naughton resigned—first from his post as academy superintendent and then subsequently from the Navy altogether. During the investigation, some skeptics at Annapolis had doubted whether Naughton would pay any price. But his exalted rank, along with his race and gender, won no exemption. I mention the Naughton case to illustrate that such mix-ups at government checkpoints are not unusual—and that eventually public pressure catches up with aristocratic arrogance and even the powerful are held to account. Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #9 The admiral was lucky he wasn't shot. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-04-12 15:08 |
| #8 SteveS - now that might not be a bad idea...... /Joking - do not construe this as a threat against congresscritters.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-04-12 10:43 |
| #7 An event like this happened at Ft. Eustis when a visiting one star was stopped at the gate and berated the gate guard. All the guard asked for was ID. When the General refused, because he was in uniform and did not need to he said, the MP ask him to get out of the car. When he refused the MP drew his side arm and insisted. General Starry was the highest ranking officer on the post at the time and came to the gate to get the officer. Before he had the officer's hand cuffs removed Gen Starry pinned an impact ARCOM on the troop. Where have the great officers like Starry gone? |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-04-12 10:35 |
| #6 The only reasons I can think of for members of Congress to be recognized on sight are if their pictures are displayed at the post office or we are allowed to hunt them for sport. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-04-12 10:24 |
| #5 The most recent run-in is not the first one for McKinney. She did pretty much the same thing during her first term. The Capitol Police went so far as to post a picture of her on the bulletin board. She refused to wear her Congressional ID pin then, too. Talk about an elitist snob. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2006-04-12 09:05 |
| #4 Joe - 2008! |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-04-12 08:27 |
| #3 And to think it all started with a lonely Marine sentry. If it's not one thing it's another. |
| Posted by: Thrise Flasing4235 2006-04-12 08:26 |
| #2 A bit pessimistic this mornig, eh Joe? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2006-04-12 07:32 |
| #1 No law or internal regulation in the US Constitution, USC(A), CFR, NavRegs and ... UCMJ says "political privelege" or "politicians/ crats/flag officers only". No law or regs gener forces anyone to be PC, just as no law or reg prevents anyone from telling the truth or untruth of anything. As posted on the Net over the years, where the Commie Clintons and their PC anti-AMer cabal are concerned, America will eventually be attacked, and when that attack occurred [9-11] it occurred in large part to the establishment/NPE's willingness to protect its own Destroyer(s), and to do so willing, wid the Clintons or any others like them superior or inferior, despite knowing it and the Country will be betrayed and sold down the river later on. AMERICA, AND BOTH ITS ALLIES OR ENEMIES, ARE ALL IN A "KILL OR BE KILLED", "FIGHT OR DIE", "RULE OR BE SLAVE", "IMPLODE OR BE IMPLODED" NATIONAL AND UNIVERSAL SITUATION. America and its democratic Allies must now either de facto rule the world, and by extens the future OWG and NWO; OR BE DESTROYED. Be it under Secular Communism-Socialism, or God-based Global Caliphate/Islamist State, aka God-based Socialism, America must either unilater give up, or forcibly lose by armed force and warfare, domestic control its own sovereignty, freedoms, laws, Govt. and endowments to other weaker nations whereupon, iff Eric Pianka, CoasttoCoastAM guests, the Chicom defense white paper of 2005, and other radical intellectuals are any measure, Americans may still end up being gulagged andor exterminated anyways whether we "submit" voluntarily or forcibly. Our national destruction and holocaust is good for us. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-12 00:53 |