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Knife-Wielding Veteran Sniper Rushes White House, Wants To Warn Obama "Atmosphere Is Collapsing"
Of the stories in the past two days, there is hardly anything more bizarre than that of Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, a veteran had served three tours in Iraq — and relatives said served as a sniper — managed to jump over the White House fence, sprinted more than 70 yards across the Northern Lawn, got to the front double doors of the North Portico, turned the brass knob and stepped inside the vestibule. "There he was grabbed and subdued by an officer standing post inside the door." He war carrying a folding knife with a serrated blade and was located just feet away from where Obama would have normally been, if only Obama had not just minutes ago taken the wife and kids for yet another weekend mini getaway.
A detailed breakdown of events from WaPo:
On Friday at about 7:20 p.m., Gonzalez did the unthinkable, authorities said. The 42-year-old from Texas climbed over the north fence line along Pennsylvania Avenue, toward the eastern side of the house’s circular driveway. His breach set off the standard security alarm across the compound. Officers rushed to the North Lawn but were unable to reach him on foot as he ran, arms pumping, threading the needle between the fountain and a security guard booth and ignoring their commands that he stop.
Officers at the scene considered Gonzalez to be unarmed and likely mentally disturbed, a law enforcement official familiar with the incident said, and thus a low risk. It turned out Gonzalez was carrying the knife in his pants pocket. One source familiar with the incident said a sniper on scene had Gonzalez in his rifle sights just in case.
Which is ironic since Gonzalez himself was supposedly a sniper in his tours of duty.
While initial reports said that Gonzalez had been unarmed, it was in the affidavit filed later in U.S. District Court by a Secret Service (summarized here) where we learned that Gonzalez was carrying a "VG-10 black folding knife," a pocket knife with a 3.5-inch serrated blade, when he entered the White House.
According to WaPo, "a trained attack dog — the Secret Service’s fail-safe measure for stopping intruders when officers cannot — was not released in this case. The reasons are under investigation."

Here is where it gets bizarre: Gonzalez told a Secret Service officer that he was concerned "the atmosphere was collapsing and needed to get the information to the president of the United States so that he could get the word out to the people," the affidavit said. Perhaps he should have waited until today's New York City parade to convey his message instead of possibly spending as much as a decade behind bars.
What is stranger is that Gonzalez was neither under the influence of drugs or alcohol when the event took place: at a hearing late Saturday afternoon in D.C. Superior Court, the assistant public defender representing Gonzalez said Gonzalez had no convictions or arrest warrants, had tested negative Saturday for drug use and had been in the military for 18 years.
"This is someone who has provided service to his country and shown commitment in his life," said the lawyer, Margarita O'Donnell, as she tried unsuccessfully to get Gonzalez released.
In other words, it was just the PTSD flaring up. The good news is that the alleged sniper didn't put some of his other veteran skills to use when "approaching" the president.
The former soldier faces up to 10 years in prison on a charge of unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon, prosecutors said. He couldn't be reached for comment.
And then came the shocked statements by pretty much everyone that an armed veteran could get within feet of Obama's living quarters:
"Although last night the officers showed tremendous restraint and discipline in dealing with this subject, the location of Gonzalez's arrest isn't acceptable," a Secret Service statement said on Saturday.
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"This is totally and wholly unacceptable. . . . How safe is the president if this can happen?” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on national security. “I just can’t believe somebody can go that far without being impeded. The perception they are creating is only going to inspire more security breaches."
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Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said the intrusion was "absolutely inexcusable" and he expected congressional hearings into the incident at one of the world's most heavily secured buildings.
"This demands a full investigation, an investigation as to what happened, why it happened and what's being done to make sure it never happens again," he told "Fox News Sunday."
And then it was Obama's turn to "comfort" the public that the Secret Service is still capable of protecting him: the White House released a statement Saturday, saying, “The President has full confidence in the Secret Service and is grateful to the men and women who day in and day out protect himself, his family and the White House. The Secret Service is in the process of conducting a thorough review of the event on Friday evening and we are certain it will be done with the same professionalism and commitment to duty that we and the American people expect from the U.S. Secret Service.”
As Newsday adds, the Secret Service said its Office of Professional Responsibility was carrying out the review. The breach triggered a rare evacuation of much of the White House. Secret Service agents drew their weapons as they hurried White House staffers and journalists out of the West Wing through a side door.
Then again, perhaps the reason for the lax security is far simpler. As it turns out, Gonzalez made it over the fence line just minutes after Obama and the first family took off from the South Lawn on a Marine One helicopter bound for Camp David.
In other words, as has been the case quite extensively in the past several years, Obama was simply not in the White House, and was far more likely to be found "resting" elsewhere, an elsewhere in immediate proximity to a golf course.
So perhaps the question is a simpler one: in order to better defend the president of the free world during his now traditional forays on the rough and to a lesser extent, the green, maybe the secret service has been taking so many lessons in "defending POTUS on and around a golf course" that they have simply forgotten how to do the same while on location at the White House.
In fact, what may be most surprising in all of the above is why Obama picked Camp David as his weekend escape: after all it is well-known that "Obama has rarely visited Camp David, the sprawling, secluded retreat in northern Maryland that has become a regular getaway spot for presidents over the past 70 years." The reason: Camp David doesn’t have a full golf course, and the president prefers to spend weekends on the links.
Surely a detailed follow up investigation will answer all these and more questions in short order.
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If the intruder has 18 years of military service, why wasn't he on a base somewhere spending the last two before retirement? Or was he medically retired? I used to have a medically-retired Marine sniper as a neighbor. Nothing physically wrong with hime but he took enough pills daily to kill a horse for his mental problems.
not much civilian related work for ex marine snipers!
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+1 XitScam. So the armed guy jumps fence, sprints towards POTUS and arrives unharmed inside WH.
Meanwhile a bewildered young black woman with baby in her car, rams WH parking barricade at slow speed OUTSIDE fence, and is shot in hail of bullets.
And Congress applauds the .gov uniformed posse.
Armed? Yeah, with a pocket knife. In his pocket. Not that a pocket knife cannot be used to kill, but for fuck's sake! They're going after him for 10 years in prison over it.
Hes lucking if he aint got no weed. If so he'll do a hard 25-40 years. Dangerous narcotics and all that. Or is the pot legal in the white house?
Nice golf course at Camp David. If I was Prez that camp would be my everyday office.
The wine cellar is thin. And the midget/horse orgies loose their alure after a couple of dozen midgets.
So, is the investigation that is going to take place going to investigate whether or not the atmosphere is really collapsing?
Oh, bummer - out of office. Classic !
Obviously a tea-partying white hispanic.
Don't know about it collapsing, but the atmosphere isn't what it has been for what... million years?
A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/15jul_thermosphere/
July 15, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
Layers of Earth's upper atmosphere. Credit: John Emmert/NRL. [larger image]
"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."
The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.
"Something is going on that we do not understand," says Emmert.
NASA are a bunch of douchebags. They were pretty good when the nazis ran the show. The real nazi banksters are still in charge like WW2. NASA is run by a bunch of losers now.
Oh no! The worst contraction in 43 years?!!! Whatever will we do.
Yesterday morning I took the biggest shit I've had in the past 6 years.
Pretty much as relevant.
remember last year they shot a woman dead in a car with her baby in the back near the whitehouse and she was driving around in circles on a fucking road.
this sim gets in A
over the fence,across the lawn,through the rose garden bushes across the portico and in the door for the invisable take down a veteran and alls.
taken so easy this war is a racket killa.
these stories memes what have you are all code.
the video execution not important just the message.
tora bora talmudic rabbinic
just like the 6 million number init.
Broken record asshole.
minge i here your kosher pussy has room for many
but if you want me to wreck it.
soap wash out the rancid gefeltafish cheese
Either incoherent (likely) or incapable of spelling (also likely). I might be insulted, but I can't understand your nerbling.
Something about Jews, I think.
Definitely some bizarre form of psyop. They spend 100's of millions to protect that place and some guy just bolts across the place? Give me an f'ing break. And the doors are unlocked! LOL.
Nahh, guards viewing web porn. Imaging the mind-numbing, life-stultifying boredom on a job like that.
Really too bad for the serviceman. Sounds schizophrenic. Totally sucks for him.
Now there's a reality-tv show concept in this somewhere.
the psyshologies is in his name omar and most important his job.
the operations are an open future threat sniper on the lawn school book depository or grassy knoll thing;.
most potus break out in sweat when aipac mentions snipers a warning perhaps.
the syrian takedown is way behind schedule.
Yes, it does have a flavor of the second Manchurian Candidate film with Denzel Washington.
Oh Jesus I don't know whose bad acting is worse. Straight insincere teleprompter-reading vs. memorized flat acting insincere line-reciting. There's definitely a shared consciousness there, especially with The Book Of Eli so clearly depicting Obama's vision for America...
the syrian takedown is way behind schedule.
^^^^^^^
Bingo! Winner winner chicken dinner.
Folding knives like the kind that ZHs banner ads currently offer smokin' deals?
Feinstein and Bloomberg need to start a campaing now to ban folding knives and whatever type of sneaker that guy had on. Pronto. Billions for the campaign.
Too late, they've already virtually done that it in NYC with a loosely interpreted law. I know it was bad enough for a while a lot of multitool manufacturers wouldn't ship to NY, and quite a few stores stopped selling pocket knives.
Ban all fucking pocket knifes!
Love,
your Fuhrer
Looks like we need another agency to be created.
Staged event. Only proof you need is that the guy wasn't shot dead.
Now I have heard it all. NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING is real anymore then. Not one thing. Even my own reality as I type this is a charade. A plot.
You have to be kidding me? What the fuck? Nothing is real ever?
What is real then? Are you a super sleuth johnny-on-the-spot reporter with all the "real" poop?
My God.
Relax, please don't choke on the poop. It's only poop. They need a distraction for this weeks actions.
I think you are on to something. Or they are outright lying.
It was the ninja sniper, Chicken Little.
Come on folks, are you shitting me? "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"
Come on....
Get a grip.
LOL. These days it seems Law Enforcement doesn't need many excuses to shoot someone, except when they breech White House security?
Enemy #1!
The inactive U.S. Veteran that has a bone to pick with the bathtub generals and the President for lying to American people about who did 9/11!...
Sure hope Langley and the Pentragram have lots... and lots... and lots... and lots... of ISIL/ISIS/FSA/Al Nusra/Al-Qaeda to keep their wars of opportunity moving switfly forward!!!!
Oh and I almost forgot this qualifies as the most lethal and abusive terrorist of them all...
Meet Shlomo ali bin Skeemer... ISIL/ISIS/FSA/Al Nusra/Al-Qaeda most deranged and corrupt terrorist!
Good luck General Dempsey!
And yet another D H S failure
Check the recent Johnson testimony to Congress on border security if you want to see staged theater at its laughable worst
Even if this was staged this lone guy did more to remove Obama from office in 30 seconds that the Cold Case Posse with their massive ground breaking investigation has done in what has it been 3 years?
Keep pinning your hopes on someone in the hierarchy coming to your rescue and then text me just before you are arrested and guillotined by Communists, Socialists or traitors
You still don't get it there is no cavalry coming to the rescue. There is only the Lone Ranger who is the Lone Wolf. Why do you think the D H S overreacts to them and puts them at the top of their list. They are the great unknown. There is no cavalry and there never will be. Put a few search and destroy teams of lone wolves into action against the elite (El-eat) and the whole herd full of cowards in charge would go on self-imposed lock down in a panic
It seems our Praetorian Guards need a bit of retraining!
Well the SS is part of Homeland Security and has a politically correct woman at the helm so it's not going to get any better. They can't even maintain a low profile or stay out of the newspapers.
100 people going over that wall would make out much better.
Great job, sniper. That is heroes work you just did. We need more like you. Thank you, Patriot.
Yes how safe is the president? considering almost ever publicized attempt, successful or not, on a presidents well being were all sitting Republicans, I think that is a profound question. I would say this president is very safe, since leaning so far left he is in the Rose Garden...just saying.
If you could turn the White House into a home for disturbed veterans it would be a vast improvement over what it is now.
I wish the secret service had been as concerned with JFK's safety.
I'm sorry to say, I had a similar experience. I am a Veteran, who has had trouble with PTSD. I don't know if you can necessarily attribute what this man did, or what I did to PTSD, I will explain part of my story and leave the decision up to. At one point I had had strong beliefs that the country was strongly divided, that we were being pulled apart in all directions, and I felt the need to send a message regarding this to the FBI. I even at one point tried to go to the FBI, when I thought my I was being forcibly manipulated by things I couldn't determine the origin of. I was in a state I felt I had never been in in my life, and I don't think it was entirely due to PTSD. This went on for months, these strong paranoid dellusions. At one point I even drove from New York to Virginia, I was on the way to the President myself, I thought after I sent this message, there was some need, the country was in trouble, and I needed to go down to Washington D.C. I have not had these problems since by the way, and I have had other problems with PTSD, depression, lack of motivation, but I felt like I was in a drug-induced daze. Eventually I went to seek help, and they diagnosed me with Paranoid Schizophrenia. What is unusual, is some of the circumstances, how similar my fears were with this mans. It's just too coincidental. There is a mask test for Shizophrenics, that all Shizophrenics see, but I don't see it still to this day. So I guess someone might argue that I have some sort of other dementia, maybe temporary, due to my PTSD. It all started after I made certain claims, so maybe I contributed to my own paranoia, but I still believe them possible to this day, so I will point them out (although I have never had any boughts like those before since). I was convinced, and still am convinced, that there is a device that was developed, the Emotiv, which can actually read thoughts, and may be being used to do so, remotely. Before any of this paranoia came on, I was just stating that the device could be used to do so. A few months after I pointed this out, Wired.com did an article on it, that showed that hackers could hack into the device while a person was using it, and steal any info directly from their brains, credit card numbers, personal info, etc. I was trying to point out, that while the device (meant to be used to control video games with your brainwaves) was local and on your head, that a similar device could be made and used from a distance to read your train of thought, steal pertinent information, etc. I wasn't in an extreme state of duress stating this. I wasn't even for a few weeks afterwards, and had nearly even forgotten about it. I had been under, during that time, just the regular pressures, trying to cope with entering back into society, I was medically discharged from the military, had back problems and leg problems that were ignored by doctors, and so on. So maybe all my stress took a turn, and fixated on this one thing, to make me paranoid, and make me believe things about the country falling apart, and I needed to tell people, maybe not. I have always, always been a person to stand up and point things out that others wouldn't. So maybe the stress of dealing with all that finally caught up with me at one point? We just emailed brainwaves over 5000 miles the other month. I mean, is it possible to overpower a person's brainwaves remotely to cause paranoia, or cause them to act unwillingly? Anyways, since then, I have never had anything like it, it was like a 6 month period of just constant harrassment. At one point I felt I predicted the tidal waves in Japan, and the very next day the hundreds of tornados that hit the South all at once. Just speculation, maybe Veterans with PTSD more often do these types of things. Maybe we're a target for something else. Just have to live life as if it was just PTSD, and move on I guess. This is the test: http://www.wired.com/2009/04/schizoillusion/ Maybe the test isn't conclusive evidence or my diagnosis was incorrect.
Your story is a sad one, brother. I genuinely hope you find some inner peace. Just as a heads-up, this may not be the healthiest website for someone suffering with schizo-affective disorder. The saturating paranoia in the comments section is enough to make someone who doesn't suffer from PTSD begin to think that nothing is as it seems and find conspiracies under their bed.
The sun will come up tomorrow on the same side of your house as it always has. Everything else is just noise that isn't worth your psychological investment. Thought exercises can be fun, but when they become an obsession or a ideological religion (as it is with 99% of the commenters here) it's probably best to take a step or two backward.
I wish you the best.
"Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove"
Did he get his citizenship, if he is a citizen, through the illegal alien joining the military and getting green card program?
lol, it's already collapsed (the atompshere)
were going down a long spiral
See! There is a justification for all the vacations that Obama takes! That one saved him from this crazy guy.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Oops, he broke into the wrong government compound.
Nevermind.
This guy went to Iraq THREE times so the precious darlings that make up the Yale Glee Club and the Harvard Rowing Team won't have to go at all. Now, instead of help for his schizophrenia he will face jail time?
What's more worrisome, president biden or vice president boehner.................
The Secret Service let snipers kill Kennedy and shoot Reagan. I guess it is different when the snipers and those who are assumed to be protecting the president are working together.
Just like the crazed dental hygienist that led the Capitol police on a wild "25 mph" car chase before they surrounded her vehcile which was stopped and then shot her dead with a child in the back seat, this is just one more demonstration of "total lockdown" to jersey wall the rest of Pennsylvania Avenue to barricade the 1% from the "restless" for what remains...
To our fearless leaders.
At this point pick your poison in any order you like -The markets first, followed by a World War or vice versa You're fucked either way and you know it!
I always see people running toward the welfare office. Then I'm not shocked, Why not at welfare HQ
i don't mean to sound all paranoid or conspiracy theorist...but this looks like an attempt by TPTB to send Mr. President a message.
A one man military coup that failed.
At least he had the balls to try.
When the military at large has had enough, it won't be one guy rushing the White House, it will be jets over the golf course.
It's a good thing they caught the guy! After all, we'd better make sure we don't have an Imposter in the White House. This country will not stand for that. No, sir!
this is just a test
shit just got strange
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/22/us-usa-whitehouse-security-idU...
i can think of a few explanations:
any others?
We should all take heed. The impending collapse of the atmosphere is not something we can ignore for much longer.
none of his guards gives a fuck, they are according to wa post today, demoralized at DHS, and quitting in droves..best news I have had in many years.
a side note if all those terrorists are out to get the usa, why has none gone after the big pols? oh I know they have stopped them multiple times from trying but it's too secret to let the public know, or just maybe there are no terrorists who are not working for cia or .gov, you select one.
Serrated? SCARY!
Looks like a false flag designet to expand security measures.