It's come out over the last week that President Bush's security people harbor some of the blame for over three hundred people developing heat maladies at the Boy Scout National Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia.
42,000 Boy Scouts and leaders were made to go through security checkpoints, metal detectors and so forth before waiting for two hours before President Bush was due to arrive. Those are established White House security procedures.
This was a Boy Scout jamboree, not a political rally on a college campus. Those security procedures should have been modified for this event.
How long does it take to determine that a Scout or a leader is not carrying a projectile weapon and is no threat to the President or his entourage?
Some of those youth (and adults) were out under the blazing sun for HOURS, waiting for the President, who didn't even come that day.
More should have been done to prevent this from happening.
President Bush's speech that he eventually gave at the Jamboree was quite good, and the Scouts were happy that he was there visiting them. But the security people making them wait for hours in hundred-plus degree heat was ridiculous!
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