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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 2364668" data-attributes="member: 1213">Those security signs DO serve a deterrent purpose.  And if ADT was nearly as bad@$$ as the folks in your company, those signs would be a lot better of a deterrent.As far as the Secret Service goes, the phone number and address of their HQ is in the DC phonebook which I am currently using as a mouse pad.  If I so desired, I could get on the Metro and go down there right now.Additionally, I have personally seen on duty Secret Service. While certainly some are hidden, there are plenty who are not, precisely because of the deterrent factor.  This doesnt mean that everyone knows thier procedures and playbook, but their  visibility and reputation matter, too.  There is of course a whole lot of public information about them, and altouhgh I don't really care to look heavily into it, I know they also guard relatives of the president and VP, officially declared presidential candidates,  former presidents, and a number of executive branch officials.    They also investigate crimes of counterfeiting, since they are part of the Treasury Department.  Again, however, knowing their procedures(which ARE secret, to an extent)is very different from knowing that they exist, where there office is, and who they guard are entire.BTW, rent Dr. Strangelove some time.  Not only is it one of the best movies ever made, but it touches on the issues we are discussing.  In that movie, the Soviet Union develops a doomsday device that will create a nuclear winter automatically if their territory is ever attacked by a nuclear device.  the problem is they wait a weekend between turing it on and announcing it, and during that weekend a series of misunderstandings results in an american B52 with its radio down thinking that its supposed to bomb russia.  It does and the world blows up.  One moral of that movie (besides its assertions that MAD doctrine is untenable, which in historical hindsight at least seem to not have been borne out), is that an incredibly powerful and guaranteed response to attack is not that useful IF YOUR ADVERSARY DOESNT KNOW ITS THERE!</blockquote>

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