The truth, please

A few days ago, Paul Pelosi was assaulted in his San Francisco home in the middle of the night by a crazed lunatic who supposedly gained access by smashing through a door. From the news reports I have read, no alarm was triggered and the victim had to summon help by calling 911. Am I supposed to believe that a man worth $100 million sleeping in his mansion in the heart of crime-ridden San Francisco did not have a functioning security system? By the way, his wife is second in line to the U.S. Presidency and is despised by millions.

If no alarm went out, what might have prevented it?

• There was no security system. (That would be astonishing.)
• The system wasn't working.
• The resident of the house failed to activate the system before he went to bed.
• The crazed lunatic deactivated the system prior to smashing through the door.

When my parents retired, they moved from a small city to a much larger city to be closer to family. My brother insisted that one feature of their new home would be a security system. They got used to activating the alarm at night and whenever they were gone. If the alarm got triggered, the security company would call the house. If the proper response wasn't provided or if no one answered the phone, they would send the cops. This was in the mid-1980s. It's not rocket science.

A few years ago, I visited a friend in Northern Virginia who happened to live a couple houses away from the White House Chief of Staff. I parked along the street near their house and was greeted by Secret Service agents, who asked what I was doing there. Upon answering satisfactorily, I was directed to park a block further away.

The Secret Service also protects the family of the President, even alleged criminals such as Hunter Biden. They are renting a house in Malibu for $30,000 a month so they can protect Hunter, who lives next door. I presume they don't vacate the premises when Hunter is out of town.

The Speaker of the House is supposed to be protected by the Capitol Police rather than the Secret Service. As Tom Rogan writes in the Washington Examiner, "The Capitol Police must thus urgently answer two main questions. First, what protective systems were employed at the time of the attack — and if they were inactive, why? Were they malfunctioning and, if so, why weren't those malfunctions detected earlier? Second, why were no Capitol Police officers from the agency's San Francisco field office deployed for protective security patrols?"

The only conclusion I can draw from the latest incident is the Capitol Police aren't nearly as good at their job as the Secret Service is. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Secret Service agents sit around telling tasteless jokes about the Capitol Police.

If the Capitol Police can't tell us how they failed in their duty, that just encourages more conspiracy theories. Really, an illegal alien nudist activist from Berkeley who identifies as a Trumper despite all of his associates being BLM supporters managed to defeat the security sytem at the house of the most powerful woman in the world? How is that any more believable than her husband having a hookup-gone-wrong with a male prostitute? Try the truth for once; it's liberating.

Six months later: If any of the above questions have been answered, I must have missed it. The secrecy continues. I'll stop believing conspiracy theories when they give me a reason for doing so.