 I personally believe it is a disgrace for the White House Communication and Press Office to issue press I.D. without checking the background of any reporters.
First of all, I am not biased towards any countries and I remain absolutely neutral in analysis of any situation.
But the incident at the White House showed a deliberate planned incident to try to embarrass a foreign leader to visit the White House. (Is this what Bush said in his speech about FREE SPEECH, talk to Cindy Sheehan then)
I don't care if the current U.S. Administration does not grant any State visit status, State dinner to any foreign leaders to visit the White House.
It is very poor taste for the White House Information Office along with other agencies to plant such incident.
Why did I say that and do I have any proof to support my argument?
The Washington State Organizing Committee planed for the visit which is headed by the former Governor of Washington State (Did it matter if he was the only f Chinese-American who became the Governor of Washington State?)
No incident occurred at Washington State. The dinner at Bill Gates home was executed flawless. Even last minute preparation to call for extra Microsoft emloyees to line up at the front gate of Bill Gates home was a welcoming sign. The planting of extra trees at Bill Gates home also indicated the host really wanted to do a good job.
I do not care what others said in this Forum. The guests lists at Bill Gates were carefully chosen and it was a magificent dinner.
Despite the visit to Boeing was short, but it also indicated a committment to balance trade. It was carefully planed and executed well except the showing of part of a Boeing to be delivered to the Japanese Government.
Overall, the first two days went well without any major incidents except until the arrival at the White House.
I believe it is a disgrace of any host country whether it is United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Russia to allow any undocumented reporters to come so close to any foreign head and to allow such person or persons to ramble for almosts 2 1/2 minutes.
I watched with dismay that the US. Secret Service Agents did nothing, absolutely nothing to stop the person at all.
Remember, when Ronald Reagon was shot in 1981 outside the hotel, more than 10 Secret Service personels, local D.C. police jumped right in to protect Ronald Reagon. I found it is amazing the US Secret Service agents allowed any persons to speak whatever he or she wants and then "slowly" led the person away.
I am not upset and I was prepared for that and it only showed how poor taste and down low is the current Administration.
Be a sport and treat your guest fair and do not embarrass your guest who come to your House to visit whether it is the White House or not.
I am closely watching the trip to Yale Unviersity tomorrow.
Have a good day!
P.S. The local D.C. Police and State Capital Police and Secret Service Agents arrested ALL the anti-war protestors including Cindy Sheehan in front of the White House and also the "West White House" in Texas.
The local county where the West White House in Texas passed the law last summer barring any protesters or anyone to gather even for peaceful gathering. The fact is the current Administration can do just that and forbid anyone even come close to George Bush if he wants.
So there is NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH in America, not in Mississippi, not in Texas, not in Washington D.C. but there is freedom of speech "inside" the White House South Lawn.
You can freely speak in front of thousand of people and only slowly led away by the US Secret Service Agents. There were US troops, special FBI agents, Homeland Security agents and many other law enforcement agents but to deliberately allow such incident to occur is a disgrace to the host country. Goodbye!
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