LA Times: Bodyguard Business is Booming

[villager]

the rich know that eventually you're going to wake the fuck up and come after them, and they are evidently getting ready now...

When bodyguards around the nation flocked to San Diego recently, the talk was all about paparazzi, terrorists and the latest tech gizmos, with seminars like "Surviving the Kill Zone — Human Factors Are the Key."

Guards trained in martial arts showed the latest techniques for subduing nightclub troublemakers, joked about the challenges of guarding celebrities like Paris Hilton and compared notes on the latest technology borrowed from the military.

The 29th annual Executive Protection Institute Conference this month came at a time when demand for bodyguards has soared in lockstep with increasing global unrest spurred by wars and economic turmoil and rising public curiosity about the private lives of celebrities.

"The more uneasy the country is, the more work we tend to have," said Jerry Heying, one of the event's organizers and executive director of the Executive Protection Institute, a training school for guards based in New York. He surveyed the platoon of bodyguards stuffed into a sea-green Holiday Inn conference room and said, "We are more relevant than ever."

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-1218-bodyguards-20101218,0,957640.story

[WingDinger]

1. They seem committed. More than OATHKEEPERS, we should hire them, and fire the police, soldiers.

:sarcasm: :hide: :patriot:

[formercia]

2. Now hiring

Apply at the Castle Gate. Bring your own Sword and Chainmail.

Cue Monty Python.

[Lorien]

3. A friend of mine taught at a Dojo that was run by a guy who lost his job

at a local High School, so he signed on to be an executive bodyguard instead. The Dojo has folded now as well because students no longer have the disposable income for such things, so now the executive bodyguard outfits are recruiting the former instructors who were left over. They'll be putting their lives on the line for the same people who have defunded the jobs they once had.

[Anakin Skywalker]

4. Sure! Somebody has to protect the filthy rich from the peasants with pitchforks, right?