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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 10 years ago

Why should we pay for Secret Service Agents?

How do they bill the government for them under such practices?

And

Should they be used against ordinary people peacefully protesting about the system using acts of provocation to make them look bad?

Update:

Open for abuse isn't it?

Update 2:

I am not thumbing down here just trying to get some half intelligible answers or more if possible.

Update 3:

I'm in the UK btw

What is the deal when they act so privately?

I guess the irony here is we will not be told.

Update 4:

Kit Fang How would we know that they don't get Targets each week?

It's clear they don't care about the people who pay for the system unless they are elite who need protecting poor or working classs people are vulnerable too.

Lets face it they must abuse the system to even exist.

Update 5:

They could easily be on commission

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Pay ?

    Shurely you have shpecial clearance Mish Moleypenny.

  • 10 years ago

    How do they bill the government? Like any other public employee, the government pays them a wage.

    Why should we pay for them? Well, because they play a rather important role in keeping the people of this country, and especially its leaders, safe from terrorists, major criminals, and others who would happily harm us. Should they be used against ordinary people, well if they have reason to suspect that they are involved in less than legal practises, then sure. I very much doubt they try and make innocent people look bad without cause - what would be the point in that? It's not like they have targets on how many baddies they have to lock up each week.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The legal principle base is correct. We need them and I do not explain you why because you know already. A law is - over 90% - correct created. Some improvements could and should be made, according to the new conjunctures. The problem you have - and it is a right one - consists in "how" these laws are applied sometimes. We do have "legal" power only at election's days. But, we do have also the power to collect, peacefully and legally, signatures from A LOT of people concerning "some" things we do not agree with and to send a petition to the Congress, with an annex of -saying - 2 millions signatures. They will be forced to act, according to their own laws.

  • Vince
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The money the government pays Secret Service Agents is borrowed.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    i think of those brokers have been conceited and that they might desire to have spent an afternoon or 2 in a Columbian reformatory to tutor them a lesson. Who do they think of they're!!!??? They characterize the U. S. and this way of habit is easily unacceptable. All they have been given became fired? they might desire to be punished the two financially and bodily (reformatory time) for representing the U. S. government in an expert ability in the variety of way.

  • 10 years ago

    If we did not have those agents looking after our leaders they would be assassinated and our country would be at risk.

    As much as I disliked Bush they rushed him off in a plane and the secrete service got Cheney to safety underground during 9/11 and they did the right thing.

    There are many threats to kill the president no matter who the president is.

    No matter who we have for president he or she needs to be protected.

    President Reagan would have died had it not been for his agents.

  • 10 years ago

    Because the Secret Service is part of the government. That fact obviously eluded you.

  • 10 years ago

    Don't let them fool you... there is no secret agent. Other wise you won't be able to talk about it.

    By the way how do i know this lol

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    yes cos they make good connections with other cointries

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Sshh....It's a secret.

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