by Mark Schwendau
In the spring of 1976, I was a student teacher at Buffalo Grove High School in Illinois. One Tuesday, I was in the lunch line getting my lunch when a tall (over 6 feet) good-looking young man in a nice suit was behind me. We each got our lunches, and then he asked me if he could sit with me. Of course, I agreed. At first glance I had him figured to be a vendor visiting the school to sell something.
As we sat across a cafeteria table from one another I studied him and began to make conversation. It was about the time I wrapped up my side of the conversation of who I was. I noticed his lapel pin and inadvertently blurted out, “And I bet you’re law enforcement and more specifically Secret Service.” He looked at me like he had been shot. LOL
Keeping his cool he said, “Why would you say that?” I replied, “Because I thought about going FBI before I went into education.” I continued my theory of why he was Secret Service, “Maybe because one of our Home Economics teachers in my office bullpen has a second home in Vail, Colorado, and her next door neighbor happens to be none other than President Gerald R. Ford.”
At that point the mystery man smiled and said, “I can’t say anything now but if you want to have lunch tomorrow, your high school principal is going to make an announcement tomorrow morning and then I can talk.”
So, of course, the next morning the announcement was made United States President Gerald Ford, would be visiting our high school Friday evening for a campaign presentation, and a limited number of guests were invited as students, faculty, administration, and staff. Everyone would require a ticket in advance, and all people entering the building would be screened by Secret Service.
So the next day my new acquaintance and I ate lunch together so he could talk openly with me. It was a talk I will never forget. It also made me sad, though as I really liked this guy. He told me he was in a unit of the Secret Service called the White House Advance Team. He told me what his job entailed and said he would be gone before President Ford arrived, and a different team would come with the President. He told me things that would happen- some seen and some not.
Here are a few I remember:
He told me I would never be safer in my life as all air traffic would be diverted overhead. No flights were allowed over the President, and military aircraft would be overhead to make sure of it. That night I saw and heard a helicopter over the school.
He told me that the indoor swimming pool adjacent to our basketball gym would have heavy weights put over the bottom drains, and a bomb squad would sweep the entire building, even going down in dive outfits to scan the bottom of that pool (the logic was a bomb could be blown up the sewer line with air). Bomb-sniffing dogs would comb the building late Friday afternoon.
He told me sharpshooters would be stationed on the roof of the building with flares to make sure people saw them for the intimidation factor.
What was even more interesting than what he told me were several things that would later come to pass.
Two high school boys were walking down the hallway Thursday when one said to the other, “Wouldn’t it be funny if the president got shot while he was here.” All of a sudden, a Secret Service agent came out of nowhere and took both boys into custody. They were held for 72 hours until the president was on his way home and then released to the custody of their parents. While we were in the school listening to President Ford, two other boys were breaking into a car for a CB radio. They, too, were placed under arrest by the Secret Service and held in custody until the president had left, and then they were turned over to local law enforcement for prosecution.
My point of this very personal story is that the media is not reporting on how the Secret Service operates. The First Family does not go through security screenings by the Secret Service like the rest of us, for, after all, they are the First Family. They are not searched out of respect for our highest office.
It is not the job of the Secret Service to narc out the First Family, but then again, it is also not their job to turn a blind eye to a Federal crime. I truly feel for them in this conundrum since I knew one of them.
Copyright © 2023 by Mark S. Schwendau
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Mark S. Schwendau is a retired technology professor who has always had a sideline in news-editorial writing where his byline has been, “Bringing little known news to people who simply want to know the truth.” He is a Christian conservative who God cast to be a realist. His website is www.IDrawIWrite.Tech.
Having done those investigations for 35 years. I know they know who left it there. Video alone would cement it. If they didn’t get fingerprints, it is because someone after wiped them clean. But they are now like the FBI and DOJ, they worked for the DNC not the people….
I guess they use the same cameras as the ones pointed at Epstein’s cell. They worked so good.
Everyone thinks the Coke is Hunter’s. I doubt that. I believe it is one of the reprobate staff members.
Sounds like the author wanted more time with the agent. <Wink, wink>
You are not wrong. I am not gay but he did make me happy. One of the most fascinating individuals I ever met. The Secret Service would make a good new TV show but then if we watched it, they would have to kill us.
I am also very interested in the CIA and NSA but never knowingly met somebody from either of those two outfits.
They know because THEY or the FBI or CIA planted it. This is a screw turn to force Biden to resign but if he does there goes the protection for Dollar Hunter Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Sara and maybe even Taco Jill. It’s all up to Jill now and when she gets her pass from McCarthy it’s good bye Dollar Hunter and the rest of the Biden Crime Family.
His mind may be too far gone to recognize that, if it’s true.
It’s a Wag the Dog moment.
The DOJ, has not done “justice” for decades. Justice died with treating criminals better than law abiding citizens, for terror’s sake. LEOs and the judicial system, have much more to fear now from oppressed citizens than they ever have from criminals.
For that reason, I no longer carry my badge in retirement. I am proud of my service to the citizens, but the blue line is dead.
Y’all must be so PROUD of what we’ve become!!!!
We have become the Serf’s of the Corrupt People of America!
Your so-called Leader is a Child Molester and a 5 Time Draft Dodger of a Coward!
America is DOOMED, but We All Deserve what WE LET HAPPEN!
Speak for yourself. I am a self-governing free man
Lol.
Birds of a Feather Flock together!
America has Elected itself into the Most Corrupt Government in the World!!!!
America is DOOMED for 3rd. WORLD STATUS…..
We didn’t “elect” Joey he is just the Chauncy Gardener they picked to steal the election with.
The most surveilled building on earth and everyone
entering is thoroughly searched except for the Bidens.
OF COURSE the SS knows who left the coke.
Everyone sane knows.
Not to mention the SS would have escorted Hunter to get the coke to begin with
One of the side benefits of being in the Secret Service is when the President travels overseas, they get first pick of the best hookers and drugs in whatever foreign city they go to…but nowadays, any cocaine they find, 10% goes to the big guy…
The secret service are as corrupt as the FBI, CIA and DOJ.
Make no mistake, the Mar-A-Largo raid did not happen without the secret service being aware beforehand.
Make no mistake, Hillary’s detail and Obama’s detail knew what they were up to. As did Billy’s detail when he was heading to Epstein Island.
I have ZERO respect for any of these people. None at all.
They are part of the problem. They have broken moral compasses.
Were this not the case, the head of the Biden mafia would not currently be sitting in the White House and his co-conspirators would not be running the FBI & DOJ.
For more proof, look at how they obfuscate, delay and simply refuse to comply with Congressional oversight requests and FOIA request.
No sympathy, no respect from me. None.
I believe there was a standoff between trumps SS men and 5he FBI when they came to raid maralago. So I don’t 5hink they were in on it. They were simply outgunned. It was in the news at the time.
I will feel for them when they do the right thing and enforce the law rather then obstruct it.
All ‘creatures’ who work for any facet of government serve at the pleasure of their immediate bosses and are beholding to them if they want to keep their job…..
Little they do is because of any oath they took or the ‘mission statement’ of the agency they work for.
If the headline of the article is true the SS is guilty of obstruction of justice. And if Trump is elected to office the statutes of limitations will not have run out.
Trump told Hilary on national television that he was going to put her in jail but he didn’t and he lived everyday of his presidency to regret it. Perhaps we will see a little wiser Trump this time.
Unfortunately, much as I would like to see Trump back in the White House, his second Presidency will likely be much the same as his first.
The Republicans in Congress will join with the Democrats to undermine him. Look at McCarthy, who owes the gavel to Trump’s support, is refusing to endorse him for 2024. That took less than 12 months.
The DC Cartel will continue to do what they have done, and are doing.
I believe this to be so because the people in DC are immoral. Plain and simple.
Any conservative will get the same treatment unless he or she is a RINO. What trump would immediately need to do in a second term is start firing the dead wood and filthy bunch of unelected Bolsheviks who have embedded themselves into the US government for years. He didn’t do nearly enough firing last time and when he fired gen. Flynn, that was the one man he should have kept close.
Of course they know.
I’d like to know why what the SS agent said made this author sad? They were really good guys back in that day as was the FBI. Dan Bongino did that same job in the SS as forward operations man. I think he is a good man.
I made that comment “sad” as I would have liked to hang out with the guy more as I learned so much from him and he was so nice. Kind of a Clark Kent type American. He had to go as the president arrived as he had done his job.
It does not matter one bit if the SS is not “supposed” to narc out the “First Family.” In what used to be the USA, a crime is a crime is a crime REGARDLESS who committed it and, as such, must be reported and, if proven true, punished. This whole thing about First Family insinuates a direct contradiction to the founding principals of this country; no one is above the law because justice is *supposed* to be blind. Fat chance now. This country, most definitely, has a two-tiered system of laws, it certainly is not justice. There is no reason at all anymore for any of us to adhere to any laws; this country is a lawless, borderless, culture-less landmass now. I used to respect law enforcement and the legal system, but not any more. Not in the slightest bit. Respect must be EARNED, not granted.
Also, as the dem politicians cry towards trump like banshees, no one is above the law.
Imagine if Hunter had thrown away his loaded pistol in a White House trash can. He’s actually done that before. Or if Hunter had left his firearm in a White House restroom stall. (A Capitol Police Officer Byrd actually did that to no consequences. Later Byrd would commit a homicide with his firearm and not be held to consequences again.) If they’re not searching First Family members Hunter has probably has a firearm on him.
A homicide against a US military war veteran no less.
I wonder how many crimes and nefarious activities they’ve covered up over the years regarding JFK, Bush, Clinton, Obama and now Biden. Certainly not a group to be proud of, just like the FBI.
Well, where I would disagree, most of the rank and file are pretty honorable men and women. The problem is with the leadership as they often seem to be either compromised or operating from a hidden agenda none of the rest of us are privy to. A good first step would be to impeach both Wray and Garland. The public no longer has faith in them carrying out the duties of their assigned jobs.
I’m not buying that anymore. If there were honorable men and women in the alphabet agencies, they would put a stop to the evil. Damn the consequences.
Same with the fbi. The guys at the top are totally compromised and corrupt. And the fish rots from the head down.
I do not believe they are honorable men and women. Were they involved with the JFK assassination. Marilyn Monroe coverup. Bill Clinton and his molesting of women. I’m sure the SS was present.
JFK was on a mind numbing drug cocktail for his Addison disease and back issues. And bill Clinton, lol, was the cocaine king of America. Didn’t someone say he has a nose like a vacuum cleaner? I can’t remember who that was now. I even wonder if FDR was taking drugs. He had a serious case of polio and in the end before he died in his fourth term he looked pretty bad. Look at photos of him sitting with Stalin and Churchill at the ultra conference. So the SS and 5he media cover up a multitude of sins.
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