September 22, 2006 :: The Pakistani President (I think)

So, yesterday, Holly talks me into abandoning the law library for a "little bit" to help her get to a place to get her a job. Why not? We then go to a law book store around 19th st in capital hill where I spend even more money to get even more books that cost way too much to learn stuff which they should be teaching me at school...but I'm getting off-topic.

After the bookstore, we have a sandwich at "The Corner Bakery" and enjoy some pleasent discourse over coffee in the mild, but bery pleasent weather, outside in their cafe area on the sidewalk.

We then walked three blocks to the metro and can see the metro sign accross the street, but then...

Police stop all pedestrians, anyone, from crossing the street. They stop all traffic, and post cars at all intersections. Police all over at all the intersections are blowing whistles and making the "talk to the hand" gesture (it was the "stop" hand sign for those less contemporary)

We speculated that President Bush was coming down the street. Why not? He lives here, right? At least he works here...

After 5-10 minutes of waiting, the motorcycles precede the huge black luxery SUV's with men riding on the outsides with guns. Then a limo with a flag. Then more black trucks, police cars, and motor-officers.

From Misc Photos

We didn't know who it was at the time, but I looked it up and found conclusive evidence that it was Pakistani.


Let's do some inference now. Here is an article where the Pakistani President is in DC. Ok, and a LARGE security measure is taken to secure a path for a motorcade for a limo with a Pakistani flag. Hmmm.

Did I mention the men with automatic rifles in the many black chevy suburbans? Did I mention the dozen motorcycle police officers before and after the limo and suburbans? there were u.s. park police horse patrol there, too.

Here's someone else's thoughts on motorcades in DC. His friend thought it was fun to disobey police around diplomats in DC... Oh, yeah, what fun (sarcasm).