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Reflecting the Authoritarian Climate, Washington Will Remain Militarized Until At Least March
greenwald.substack.com ^ | 26 Jan, 2021 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 01/27/2021 4:45:54 AM PST by MtnClimber

Edited on 01/27/2021 5:00:22 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

The idea of troops in U.S. streets for an extended period of time -- an extreme measure even when temporary -- has now become close to a sacred consensus.

Washington, DC has been continuously militarized beginning the week leading up to Joe Biden’s inauguration, when 20,000 National Guard troops were deployed onto the streets of the nation’s capital. The original justification was that this show of massive force was necessary to secure the inauguration in light of the January 6 riot at the Capitol.


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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; military; occupieddc; totalitarianism
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1 posted on 01/27/2021 4:45:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

All of these crisis events, antifa/blm campfires, miracle elections and the Capitol attempted genocide seem so scripted and corny and obvious. There are some really stupid people in government!


2 posted on 01/27/2021 4:46:17 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

March of what year? Knowing Nancy and Maxine, the Guard will soon be driving them to and from work plus running their errands.........


3 posted on 01/27/2021 4:49:21 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: MtnClimber

It’s all part of the IMPEACHMENT CHARADE.


4 posted on 01/27/2021 4:51:16 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: MtnClimber

Just a typical commie/socialist regime afraid of its own citizens


5 posted on 01/27/2021 4:57:41 AM PST by cb
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To: Lockbox
March of what year?

"Flatten the curve..."

Now the "new normal."

6 posted on 01/27/2021 5:00:41 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MtnClimber

I would disagree with his assessment. Probably through October, there will be some type of Guard deployment going on (maybe in the range of 3k).

While in this period, the Capital Police will probably get a funding shift, and add around 3k to 4k additional personnel (currently at 2k members). There’s going to be some kind of Guard-toy list (Armored vehicles, etc).

By the end of 2021, DC will look more like the ‘Green Zone’ of Baghdad than what DC was in the 1980s.


7 posted on 01/27/2021 5:03:59 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: cb

I like the government to be afraid of we the people. Makes them more cautious.


8 posted on 01/27/2021 5:08:36 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MtnClimber

The NG will like their toddler food or die.

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3178926

Congress is off for 2 weeks though


9 posted on 01/27/2021 5:09:37 AM PST by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! )
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To: pepsionice
By the end of 2021, DC will look more like the ‘Green Zone’ of Baghdad than what DC was in the 1980s

Where you ever in DC in the late 1980s? Away from the Potomac, the Federal area, and Mass. Ave. headed up to Chevy Chase, a lot of it looked like the rest Bagdad, or some other war zone, and was about as safe.

10 posted on 01/27/2021 5:17:37 AM PST by Pilsner
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Sounds like a Guard assignment to DC is a punishment tour. The politicians and the propaganda will suppress the number of those who resign as this continues.

The Guard units themselves will work hard internally on retention and the more capable units will remove themselves from the rotation. Expect to see a lot of blue states' Guard units repeating rotations so their states can collect taxpayer dollars.

11 posted on 01/27/2021 5:31:30 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

We are now a Communist junta.


12 posted on 01/27/2021 5:33:35 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. Seems almost like what we’d see out of N. Korea from one of their propaganda networks. Seems our propaganda works just as well in the majority of the masses including some here on FR


13 posted on 01/27/2021 5:46:37 AM PST by TermLimits4All (Biden will never be my President. There’s only 1 option left and it won’t be pretty.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m betting the first 100 days.


14 posted on 01/27/2021 5:52:21 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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When self-destructive overindulgence afflicts an entire civilisation, the civilisation becomes decadent and destroys itself.

So it is with the present generation of Americans: America's worst generation, the ignominious, overindulged, self-destructive, mendacious descendants of the American boys who walked directly into machine gun fire on the beaches of Normandy to save the world from Nazi totalitarianism; of the people who conquered polio, abolished slavery, put a man on the moon, and peacefully won the Cold War; of the men, women, and children who created the greatest nation the world has ever known from an untamed wilderness.

The sad words of the self-destructive, overindulged children of Hollywood are a suitable epitaph for them:

"There was so much promise and so much waste."

"God damn us all! We deserve everything we get!"
~Diana Barrymore~
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058208/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

15 posted on 01/27/2021 6:05:29 AM PST by Savage Beast (Donald Trump: An honest man in a world gone mad. God save us! May truth prevail!)
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To: MtnClimber

Where was this concern when cities were burning?


16 posted on 01/27/2021 6:06:59 AM PST by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel)))
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I think all of the “riots” have been orchestrated by the left for their benefit, including the Capitol incursion. The National Guard is just a show to indoctrinate the masses that the “right” is dangerous and that their upcoming steps to shut down conservatives is justified.


17 posted on 01/27/2021 6:12:01 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

They’re still scared of all of those ugly truths getting out. There must be some doozies.


18 posted on 01/27/2021 6:12:20 AM PST by Allegra
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” . . .On January 10th, 49 AD, Julius Caesar left Italy with his army and crossed a small stream called the Rubicon. In our vernacular, “crossing the Rubicon” has come to mean “to undertake an action so decisive that there can be no turning back.”

On January 11th, 2021 a rumor (contradicted by no one, including the White House) circulated that President Trump had signed the Insurrection Act at midnight on January 10th. In so doing, Trump crossed our Rubicon 1,972 years to the day that Julius Caesar crossedItaly’s Rubicon. How symbolic!

While the MSM claims the MAGA folks committed Insurrection and thus pretend to welcome the troops bunking down in DC buildings, we know the truth.

The troops aren’t there to protect them from us. MAGA has no designs on them! After the False Flag of January 6th, MAGA are staying home today, this weekend and on January 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th...for as long as they have False Flags planned!

President Trump knows that too. He knows our character. MAGA are God fearing, hard working, law abiding, honest and peace loving. Yeah, we really are...no matter what evil Pelosi and her ilk want to project onto us from their own befouled and besmirched souls.

So what’s with all the fol-de-rol with concertina wire?

As I see it, it has four uses (at least). . .”

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(excerpted from article below)

https://www.lenorathompsonwriter.com/beyondnarcissism/washington-d-c-and-concertina-wire-traitors-prison-trumps-fortress


19 posted on 01/27/2021 6:12:36 AM PST by Norski (Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?)
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Rightfully, Pelosi and Biden fear for their lives.

They know the treason of which they are guilty and literally fear death by citizens

They are not safe out of their bunkers


20 posted on 01/27/2021 6:16:58 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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