Protesters' Plans Present Challenges for Inauguration Security [Protesters or domestic Terrorists?]

Voice of America (Yikes) ^ | December 17, 2016 | Esha Sarai

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Preparations and security operations are underway a month before Donald Trump's inauguration as [POTUS], which is expected to draw an unprecedented number of protesters. -snip-

"Generally speaking, the inauguration is taking shape as it has in the past,...," Brigadier General George Degnon, deputy commanding general for the presidential inauguration, said [as] he addressed questions about how this inauguration would be different than those before it. The Joint Force Committee, which includes members of the military and some DC National Guard members, cited the most basic, but also the most real, threats to the inauguration parade: getting all their members properly credentialed, and having a contingency plan for hundreds of thousands of people in case of inclement weather. Thousands of National Guard members will be deputized by the D.C. Police Department, giving them the power to make arrests. Though the deputization has been common practice, arrests are rarely made. ...

Because the events of Inauguration Day largely take place outdoors and in January, weather also is a pressing concern. As Trump prepares to take office, though, police, military and security personnel are facing an added challenge. "Clearly, the biggest concern at this point is the number of potential protesters," said Major General Bradley Becker, commanding general of the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region. -snip-

"The Women's March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office and to the world that women's rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us," the organization's mission statement reads on its website. The Facebook event page has about 150,000 people marked as "attending" and another 240,000 people marked as "interested" in marching on January 21.

The ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) coalition ...protest on Inauguration Day. Nearly 20,000 people have RSVP'd on the group's website. Both organizations cite hateful rhetoric against marginalized groups during Trump's political campaign, saying their mission involves countering this hate and making sure the new government knows that minorities and women are united in "numbers too great to ignore."

Many pro-Trump groups also are expected to convene... One of those is Bikers for Trump, made up of motorcyclists who staged rallies ...leading up to the election, and who plan to ride through the city on Inauguration Day. A GoFundMe campaign for Bikers for Trump has raised over $18,000 to pay for lodging and fuel for those riding to and through Washington.

As many as 1 million protesters, on various sides, could make it to the inauguration,... "low estimate" is that 200,000 people will attend inaugural events.

Though the number of protesters expected in Washington is unprecedented, Fuller said, the general number of attendees, in whatever capacity, is similar to the number for Obama's inauguration in 2009. It's therefore a crowd size that local and federal authorities are equipped to deal with. One of the biggest security concerns for Inauguration Day is securing the president-elect himself and preparing for "the one oddball with a gun," according to Fuller.-snip-

"But the next day is simple,"-"They don't have to guard him against this; they have to guard protesters from each other," Fuller said.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Caution, that website is a problem and the bulk of the article is posted here.

[Defiant]

At the inauguration, right after the oath, Donald needs to pull out a pen and piece of paper.

Then he can announce that he has just signed an executive order voiding 5000 of Obama's executive orders. Then he can issue an order to federal law enforcement to fan out from their pre-arranged positions and arrest the people who are illegally working to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power in the US. Maybe one of them might even step up and grab the chief conspirator sitting right there with his smug expression suddenly wiped off his skinny semen-stained face.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

http://www.voanews.com/a/protesters-plans-present-challenges-inauguration-security/3640413.html

It was posted on the original, but did not appear

[catnipman]

Any illegal aliens arrested for breaking the law should be the first ones deported.

[Cementjungle]

Hose them down... use the water canons to cover them all in Super Glue.

[Fai Mao]

I have said and believe that Trump should say, “The nation id broke. Obama spent us so far into debt we can’t afford a traditional inauguration.” Then he should rent a hotel ballroom in some city other than DC and have the chief Justice swear him in there. record the event and then put it on You Tube completely bypassing the networks.

This would allow the Sh*tbag protesters to protest but would remove the focus. It would also make the point that Trump is serious about reducing the budget deficits

[Leep]

A flame thrower, if they got to close, would be a nice touch,too. Plus it would warm them up after getting wet.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Cattle prods .... turned way up... see them do the “electric slide”!

[Steve_Seattle]

If there are 150,000 protesters and only 2% of them are violent, that is 3,000 violent protestors. It could get very ugly. After all, they’ve said they want to “shut it down.”