The Presidential Protection Unit, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has until now been solely responsible for the personal protection of the President of the United States. Until Jan. 21 that is, when according to news reports, our newly elected president by his request, will also be protected by his personal group. He has employed a small number of retired police officers for a considerable length of time as a personal security force and wants to keep them. I’m sure the reader appreciates the problems a security organization composed of both private and government employees will encounter. If something goes wrong you know who is going to blamed while not being necessarily responsible.
The obvious answer is to have political party of the president be solely responsible and the Presidential Protection Unit be abolished. I found in my research that another strong leader in the late 1920s and ’30s had just the kind of personal security organization needed. It was called the “SS-Begleitkommando des Führers” and would perfectly fit the needs of our new president, just as it fit those of the famous 20th century “großer Führer” who died in Berlin in 1945. Even retaining the original German name would not be inappropriate.
James R. Wright
Edmonds
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