Or as Michael Moore calls them “cowards.”
Via Hollywood Reporter:
This year, in the wake of ISIS atrocities abroad and the Charlie Hebdo murders, authorities are mounting their most sophisticated security effort yet, deploying an astounding array of high-tech gadgetry and armies of police officers to keep the party safe. Operation Oscar is headquartered in a state-of-the-art underground bunker downtown, with a makeshift command post at a Hollywood soundstage. Led by a Los Angeles Police Department commander, the task force unites nearly 1,000 officers from agencies including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. They divide the area around Hollywood and Highland into concentric rings that require progressively higher levels of protection. “As you get closer to the inner circle, you’re trying to make that tighter and tighter,” says Tim Horner, a managing director at global security firm Kroll.
The work begins several months before the red carpet rolls out, with extensive background checks on the thousands who’ll have access to the event, from janitors and journalists to host Neil Patrick Harris. Stalkers, violent criminals and radicals of all stripes are singled out for special attention. Party crashers, too. (In 2013, the notorious Vitalii Sediuk tried to infiltrate the Oscars dressed in a replica of Bjork’s famous swan gown. This year, he’s barred from both the event and the country.) Those who receive credentials are explicitly forbidden to post them on social media, lest the images be used to create counterfeits. In 2008, an actor named Scott Weiss penetrated the arena by expertly forging a pass. He turned his caper into a documentary, Crasher, that the Academy later required its entire security team to watch.
HT: Twitchy