Wow, nice piece and love the guy whose telling us about this piece of US history. Here in New Zealand, our Prime Ministers used to live in their suburban homes, with no security. They'd drive themselves around, and fly to Wellington or rail and ferry there, when parliament was sitting but there was no special security measures in place. Now they all act like they're so important that someone would want to kill them. Which is ridiculous because as much as some of them should be shot (err.., metaphorically speaking). no one would want to risk doing time, regardless of how loathsome some have been. Yeah, I'm talking about John Key and Jenny Shipley.