January 2009Issue 419



Expert Security

The enduring presence of the Klan and other white supremacist groups, along with the fact that there is at least one gun for every adult in the US, leads Seriously to conceive a new sense of respect for and solidarity with US presidential security operatives. Let’s hope Obama doesn’t recruit US anti-kidnapping expert Felix Batista, who in December stepped outside a restaurant in the Mexican city of Saltillo to answer a phone call and was, you guessed it, kidnapped.




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