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Originally posted by braillediver:
Curious- Why is the Secret Service holding their arms\jackets like that? Holding them open with both hands.

That was great.

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A writes:

A quick comment on your question about the hands position of the SS agents. I have worked as a bodyguard in Japan for a long time. This was one of the first lessons I received from people I was working with: when escorting the principal through a crowd of people who are expecting him and engaging in contact with him (shaking hands, asking for an autograph, etc.), you hold your hands somewhere around the level of your lower ribs.

Reason for this is that if there's a stabbing attempt or something similar you can quickly react and slap/push down the attacking arm quickly, without having to waste precious moments on raising your own arms and then changing the direction of movement of your hand (losing more time) and pushing theirs down. In most of other pictures, where the hands are at the general hip level, it's just a regular 'ready for action' stance.

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I have studied a number of Close Quarters Battle (CQB) systems in both civilian and DOD forums and have cross-trained in a wide range of "martial arts" in both the US and Japan.

I think if you examine a Krav Maga method called "bursting" you will find the answer to your query. You will also note the distinctive waist-level natural "stance". Krav Maga is popular with police and law enforcement and is currently very fashionable among well-trained combat troops and bodyguards around the world. I personally believe the most likely foundation of this stance is Japanese Aikido. Which also has a similar "stance" sometimes called the natural position. It is best understood as a position of relaxed readiness. In the case of bodyguards it allows a ready position primed for action that is non-threatening to an uninitiated observer. It also signals an initiated observer that these individuals are adequately trained and ready for action.

You may also see hints of these positions emanating from a Russian methodology called "systema". While it is usually denied among practioners I believe there is a direct link here with Aikido and more than adequate historical and practical evidence to make a solid case for the claim.

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
The People’s President delivering buckets of fun. During a refueling stop in Alaska, en route to Japan, President Trump greets a standing group of smiling troops at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson… “I figured I might as well get out of the plane.”

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
The People’s President delivering buckets of fun. During a refueling stop in Alaska, en route to Japan, President Trump greets a standing group of smiling troops at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson… “I figured I might as well get out of the plane.”

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That was awesome at the beginning when he does a selfie with that Airman, she got all excited and was jumping after the president moved on. I am guessing that made her week.

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
The People’s President delivering buckets of fun. During a refueling stop in Alaska, en route to Japan, President Trump greets a standing group of smiling troops at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson… “I figured I might as well get out of the plane.”

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That was awesome at the beginning when he does a selfie with that Airman, she got all excited and was jumping after the president moved on. I am guessing that made her week.

“Made her week”? More like a lifetime memory.

I’ve shaken one president’s hand - President Reagan handed me my diploma and shook my hand in 1985. A once in a lifetime memory.

Lucky for me he chose to present all the diplomas that day, as he was only supposed to give out them to the top 100 in the class...

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)

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The Clinton Brennan Russia Hoax: The damage done to America
WASHINGTON, DC: The attempted coup staged by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump has completely destroyed the notion of the “peaceful transition of power” in America.

Never before in the history of the Republic has an outgoing President attempted to sabotage and undermine his successor. Until Barack Obama.

The very fabric of the United States demands that the integrity of our elections be respected. No two-term President has ever sought to destroy the Presidency of his successor by maliciously undermining them both before and after he was elected.

The peaceful transition of power was an integral part of American Democracy. Not anymore, apparently.

A conspiracy to destroy Trump

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both damaged the United States in ways the Russians couldn’t even hope to. They have openly assaulted the integrity of our elections. Weaponized the intelligence agencies, the DOJ and the FBI against political opponents. Actively conspired to overthrow the President. Set in motion a series of corrupt activities and cataclysmic events that have eviscerated the character of America for the last three years.

In the process, Obama is the destroyer of the very notion of the peaceful transition of power. His criminal activities to undermine the Trump Presidency amount to sedition, abuse of power, abrogation of civil rights, waging an effective coup d’etat against the constitution and amount to treason.

Hillary Clinton continues, two years after she lost, to insist that the election was “stolen from her”. Obama Vice President Joe Biden agreed with a New Hampshire voter who declared Trump an ‘illegitimate President”. Hillary Clinton invented the Russian Dossier that John Brennan and James Comey inflicted on the body politic. Joe Biden was part and parcel of the Obama administrations dirty tricks, criminal spying, and overt corruption.

A reckoning is coming: Barr appoints US Attorney John Durham

Fortunately for America, Attorney General William Barr has appointed US Attorney John Durham to get to the bottom of the whole Russia Hoax. He has apparently been at work for several months. He has empaneled at least one Grand Jury. This is bad news for John Brennan and Jim Comey and James Clapper.

The IG Report from Michael Horowitz is about to be released. It will detail how all four FISA warrants obtained by Jim Comey were illegal. How the unverified Steele Dossier was deliberately included at the insistence of either Jim Comey or John Brennan.

John Durham will use the IG Report as an adjunct to guide his investigation.

But the tentacles stretch everywhere and now, at last, the full scope of illegal spying and criminal activity by a wide swath of the upper echelons of the Obama Administration will come to light. That is what terrifies Democrats. It should. There is a number of criminal indictments coming that will shake the foundation of the Republic.

Coup Leader Barack “Milhous” Obama makes Nixon look like an amateur

Spying on Trump and Republicans since 2012

Most Presidents leave office, especially after two terms, and essentially step back from public life. Not Barack Obama. Shellshocked by Hillary Clinton’s loss, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and Clinton set in motion a series of events that will forever tar his Presidency, and decimate the concept of a peaceful transition of power.

Of course, it all started years before Trump was elected. The Obama White House was using FISA court 702 authority to spy on a range of Republican figures since 2012. James Comey allowed three contractors unlimited access to the most sensitive NSA databases, including PRISM. Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Chief Justice John Roberts, Mitch McConnell, everyone was a target.

The NSA data was shared with Brennan and Comey and the Obama White House. The abuse was discovered and stopped by NSA Director Mike Rogers in April of 2016. Rogers notified the head of the FISA Court in October of 2016.

She has ruled that illegal access to NSA programs were granted through FISA court 702 authority. She has sent her ruling to the Attorney General William Barr. This will certainly fall under the purview of US Attorney Durham’s investigation. This is in addition to the FISA warrants illegally obtained on Carter Page.

The Steele Dossier and illegal FISA warrants

Then there is the Steele dossier. Russian interference in our election if ever there was one. $9 million dollars paid by Hillary Clinton and the DNC. For Kremlin disinformation. From sources close to Putin. By a foreign agent, a British spy, from FSB and Russian government sources. Easily disprovable lies that were never verified.

Currently, John Brennan and James Clapper and James Comey are forming a circular firing squad as to who insisted the dossier be included in the National Intelligence estimate. We know it was used for the FISA warrants. We also know that one of the sources that “verified” the contents for the first FISA warrant was Clinton crony Sydney Blumenthal. Who also actively helped put the dossier together. You can’t make this stuff up folks.

Trump is a Crime Victim: Time to indict the Coup plotters

The expanding list of criminal conspirators

The evidence of a conspiracy to destroy the Trump presidency is overwhelming. So when John Brennan, James Clapper and Jim Comey are indicted, and they will be, who will they squeal on? After all, the finger pointing and recrimination has already begun. With the indictments of Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Sally Yates who will they implicate?

At the Obama White House, it is well known that Ben Rhodes, Susan Rice, and Valerie Jarrett were up to their eyeballs in the whole sordid affair. Along with Samantha Powers at the United Nations. Between them, they unmasked Trump associates from NSA wiretaps over 300 times in 2016 alone.

When Ben “Benghazi” Rhodes is indicted, will he finally mention that the whole scheme was run from the Oval Office?

When Susan Rice is frogmarched before a Grand Jury will she confirm that everything was not “run by the book”, but by Obama’s own personal book?

Because it is clear the Constitution was never considered in the entire process.

All the way to the Obama Oval Office

And since the antecedents of spying on Republicans with NSA systems and denial of civil rights go all the way back to 2012, does that mean Eric Holder is back in the criminal mix. Did John Kerry facilitate the spying on Trump associates with British and Australian intelligence? With a James Clapper indictment, will he finally turn on his co-conspirators Brennan and Comey, and his overlords in the Obama Oval Office?

And where is Hillary in the whole process? She is the criminal mastermind of the Steele dossier. How is it that she, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Kerry, and Lynch came together in this conspiracy and Barrack Obama knew nothing about it.

I was born at night, but I wasn’t born last night.

Joe Biden doesn’t escape culpability either. In addition to the corruption scandals surrounding his son Hunter in Ukraine and China, Biden is also a part and parcel of every aspect of the Obama conspiracy against Donald Trump.

Either Biden knew exactly what was going on, and is equally culpable. Or was out of the loop, an ineffectual buffoon, tending to his own corruption. But both Biden and Clinton cannot escape responsibility for the stink of scandal and corruption surrounding them.

The Obama – Clinton Axis of Evil: From Benghazi to the Steele Dossier

The legacy of the peaceful transition destroyed.

Most Presidents are content to serve their term and move on. Barack Obama had his 8 years in office. Even in the most contentious elections and after disputed results, there was never been this sort of dangerous, systematic, deliberate rejection of the will of the people. The abrogation of the constitution to use extrajudicial methods to destroy the incoming president. It is the very definition of a coup.

John Adams gave way to Thomas Jefferson. Andrew Jackson accepted the election of 1824, and ran again in 1828 and won. Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration and re-election was held within the midst of a Civil War. President Grover Cleveland lost his reelection in 1888, only to return to the White House in 1892.

Theodore Roosevelt didn’t try to stage a coup against Woodrow Wilson. Richard Nixon didn’t challenge the 1960 election, even though he had ample reason to. Al Gore didn’t actively conspire to undermine President George W. Bush, altho Harry Reid did.

Al Gore resisted but finally conceded one of the most contentious election of our lifetimes. Respecting the constitutional order and the well being of the country was more important. Until 2016 and Trump.

In fairness, Gore was unable to win his home state of Tennessee or Bill Clinton’s home state of Arkansas. Otherwise, Florida and hanging chads wouldn’t have mattered.

But Barack Obama was a different story altogether.

Holding the coup plotters accountable

The Obama White House was illegally spying on Trump and other Republicans since 2012. They worked with Hillary Clinton to corrupt the electoral and judicial process by inserting the Steele dossier into the heart of the American body politic. As Peter Strzok texted, “POTUS wants to know everything.”

Brennan, Comey, and Clapper framed the candidate and then President Trump, and accused him of treason. They knew it wasn’t the case. They knew it all along. It was all a grand criminal Russia hoax. They did it anyway.

Now US Attorney John Durham is going to hold them all accountable.

Destroying the peaceful transition of power in America is both the most symbolic and perhaps, as we will soon find out, the least of the crimes of the Obama Presidency. Valerie Jarrett. Ben Rhodes. Susan Rice. Samantha Powers. John Brennan. James Clapper, James Comey. Loretta Lynch. And yes, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Time to lawyer up. You are going to need it.