the u.s. secret service: what powers does it have?

[shart_attack]

Let's see what we know.

Please vote on the poll before you read this:

18 U.S. Code 3056 - Powers authorities and duties of United States Secret Service LII Legal Information Institute

 

[whitehall]

Since the establishment of the gigantic federal merger of the "homeland security act" anything is possible including IRS agents with loaded weapons and Park Police with full scale military weaponry. The Secret Service might have been authorized to examine our refrigerators for contraband for all we know.

 

[shart_attack]

Since the establishment of the gigantic federal merger of the "homeland security act" anything is possible including IRS agents with loaded weapons and Park Police with full scale military weaponry. The Secret Service might have been authorized to examine our refrigerators for contraband for all we know.

Yup.

'Specially if your fridge transforms into a printing press.

 

[TheOldSchool]

They have the power... to move you...

 

[whitehall]

Since the establishment of the gigantic federal merger of the "homeland security act" anything is possible including IRS agents with loaded weapons and Park Police with full scale military weaponry. The Secret Service might have been authorized to examine our refrigerators for contraband for all we know.

Yup.

'Specially if your fridge transforms into a printing press.

A "printing press"? Every P.C. in the US is a freaking printing press including probably some refrigerators.

 

[shart_attack]

Since the establishment of the gigantic federal merger of the "homeland security act" anything is possible including IRS agents with loaded weapons and Park Police with full scale military weaponry. The Secret Service might have been authorized to examine our refrigerators for contraband for all we know.

Yup.

'Specially if your fridge transforms into a printing press.

A "printing press"? Every P.C. in the US is a freaking printing press including probably some refrigerators.

They also take pictures of you when you don't know that they are, sir.

Imagine that.

 

[shart_attack]

They have the power... to move you...

Yup.

Take the poll.

There are some trick questions in it, see.

 

[whitehall]

What's the point? The federal government has assumed the obligation to protect citizens from future 9-11 terrorists even if it means violating Constitutional protection from the federal government. What difference does it make what (current) powers the Secret Service currently assumes? If the president or the presidential family is perceived to be in danger the rights of a common citizen won't be worth the the paper the Constitution is printed on. We all know it and we accept it and we should fear it.