OTTAWA — State ceremonial reveals rather a lot.
The enormous bloat was bearing down upon us. Like children counting rolling stock at a railway crossing, our little impeded group began to count. I gave up after a few dozen, but a hardier soul persisted until she was up over a hundred.
Of course there is no security need. It’s part of the theatre meant to intimidate foreigners when abroad, and develop the cult of the leader when at home. Actual emperors, from the Pharaohs of Egypt and the Caesars of Rome to Queen Victoria and Austria’s Franz Joseph would blush at how the American president travels. Far from the great man visiting the denizens of the provinces, official advisories encourage people to flee the area, as if a plague was blowing through.
The phenomenon of excess predates Biden by decades, though his security deployment seemed to include more ambulances that I remember in years past. Perhaps the Secret Service has special senectitude protocols. The security apparatus was clearly exempted from the Inflation Reduction Act.Article content
And Ottawa is complicit. It is possible to say no to excess. If Americans were content to have highways closed down so that Donald Trump could golf, or Manhattan gridlocked so that Barack Obama could see a play, fine. It’s not healthy for democratic politics, but it is their president and their country. But in our country we can say no, not just to avoid practical inconvenience and cost, but on the principle that aggrandizement should not be permitted to masquerade as genuine security.
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