http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/01/07/secret-service-dont-even-try-driving-near-the-mall/ D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:44:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/01/07/secret-service-dont-even-try-driving-near-the-mall/comment-page-1/#comment-445924 Marty Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:52:34 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=13106#comment-445924 I feel so bad for you and your ladies. Give me a break and get a life. I feel so bad for you and your ladies. Give me a break and get a life.

]]> http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/01/07/secret-service-dont-even-try-driving-near-the-mall/comment-page-1/#comment-428929 anokie Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:47:33 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=13106#comment-428929 With hotel reservations within the no drive area thousands of travelers and luggage for 4 or more days will face unexpected barriers to their hotels. Where is the information that tells us how to adjust? We purchased inaugural ball tickets for ourselves and 2 guests and the barriers will all but prevent us from using them. Our ladies have spent way too much for their gowns and dancing shoes - and now the message is that's too bad. We did not spend this $ to be part of a human purge. We cannot struggle through the maze of nonworking metro escalators and elevators (escalators shut down today at McPherson Sq). This may become the most disappointing event in our 48 yrs here. I am not stupid. I understand the need for security - including the need to keep some intelligence from the public, but how does this ever expanding steel wall demonstrate the freedom our people fought and died for? Yes I am angry. Can you imagine the volume of litigation this will generate? ? ? With hotel reservations within the no drive area thousands of travelers and luggage for 4 or more days will face unexpected barriers to their hotels. Where is the information that tells us how to adjust? We purchased inaugural ball tickets for ourselves and 2 guests and the barriers will all but prevent us from using them. Our ladies have spent way too much for their gowns and dancing shoes - and now the message is that's too bad. We did not spend this $ to be part of a human purge. We cannot struggle through the maze of nonworking metro escalators and elevators (escalators shut down today at McPherson Sq). This may become the most disappointing event in our 48 yrs here. I am not stupid. I understand the need for security - including the need to keep some intelligence from the public, but how does this ever expanding steel wall demonstrate the freedom our people fought and died for? Yes I am angry.
Can you imagine the volume of litigation this will generate? ? ?

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