Posted on 01/29/2021 5:43:12 AM PST by Red Badger
The acting U.S. Capitol Police chief said Thursday that security was insufficient around the Capitol and fencing must be installed permanently.
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said “back-up forces” must also be readily available.
Pittman made the statement a little more than three weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters that left five dead and dozens injured.
“In light of recent events, I can unequivocally say that vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing, and the availability of ready, back-up forces in close proximity to the Capitol,” Pittman said.
The Capitol is currently surrounded by 8-foot, nonscalable fencing topped with barbed wire. There are thousands of National Guard troops stationed in the Capitol complex.
The additional security was added following the Jan. 6 attack and in anticipation of the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony for President Biden.
But the extraordinary security has not been removed, although the troop numbers decreased to about 7,000.
Pittman suggested some kind of fencing should be left in place, pointing to a recommendation made years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Even before September 11, 2001, security experts argued that more needed to be done to protect the U.S. Capitol,” Pittman wrote. “In fact, a 2006 security assessment specifically recommended the installation of a permanent perimeter fence around the Capitol.”
Pittman’s recommendation for permanent fencing follows a security assessment by the Capitol Police, which was overwhelmed by the protesters on Jan. 6 and, at some entryways, simply allowed them to stream into the building.
There are other reviews underway, including one ordered by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. Pelosi has appointed retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore to conduct a security assessment. In addition, the Capitol Police inspector general is reviewing the Jan. 6 attack and the response by the police.
“I welcome each of these reviews, and I am ensuring that the Department will provide all of the information that is necessary to facilitate these studies,” Pittman said. “In the end, we all have the same goal — to prevent what occurred on January 6 from ever happening again.”
Pelosi has installed metal detectors at the doors to the House chamber, citing threats from GOP lawmakers who carry guns.
I was told that walls don’t work.
I thought there was already a fence. If there isn’t then what did John Fn Kerry throw his store-bought medals over?
Yeah. Funny how The Constitution is a living document but The Declaration is a dead letter. To some.
That was then, this is now.
White House fence, not Capitol.........................
But their fear will make them act like dictators. Eric Holder is suggesting Packing the Court” in reference to the SC. Total control=Dictatorship=Fascism. This is just the beginning. They will have US troops going house to house soon. Make no mistake about this. The Democrats have dreamed and have had orgies leading to this day. The worst is yet to come. The world will watch in awe as we fall and become the very thing we started out fighting against. Killing our babies, sacrificing them to Moloch, sending our youth to die for the rich corps gain, giving away our money to Despots, breaking the will of the people, accusing other politicians of what they themselves are doing, class warfare, bringing back segregation, importing in slaves from third world countries to work on the plantations, and the godless going after the Godly. This is the “UTOPIA” created by the Democrats (and some Republicans) to gain ultimate power.
“...pro-Trump prostesters”. That’s the way propaganda works. Over time, lies become facts.
bump
Berlin all over again.
I thought walls and fences didn’t work.
Plus the giant arena they will build adjacent to Capitol City for sentencing us serfs to “Hunger Games”.
So this is like, to protect the lying cheating godless hoard from real American Patriots?
Alternative Proposal: Relocate Congress to Gitmo.
Yeah. Here’s the chief in living color:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/politics/capitol-police-national-guard.html
The Left wants a wall around the Capitol to protect them from their own constituents while at the same time want to tear down the wall that Trump built on our southern border to keep illegal aliens from invading our country.
Does it get any clearer than this whose side the democRATS are on?
Clue: It ain't us.
So going forward we want to look like a nation under siege. Got it.
Walls don’t work though. Right?
I doesn’t even belong to them to do this. It is public property and belongs to the people. We are only temporarily granting them the privilege to use the facilities for their term. This is why for all these years they could not close off access to the galleries and grounds from the general public. They are trying to use health concerns as a method to lay claim to something that doesn’t even belong to them.
This legal reality needs to be spread far and wide as often as possible, and I don’t see it being done as it should be. It is not theirs to do this period!
America is now a “third world nation”, just check out Washington DC.
Building a wall to keep the people out. A military presence. It appears to me that these are acts of secession against the states and its people by the weenie deep state.
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