Posted on 02/03/2021 3:01:19 AM PST by Kaslin
There were roughly 25,000 National Guard members in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President Joe Biden. It has been normal practice to have some National Guard in town for inaugurations, but 25,000 was far more than any number from the past. Of course, nerves were raw after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, but there is little doubt that mobilizing 25,000 troops was an overreaction.
Now, 5,000 are still in the nation's capital. The inauguration was nearly two weeks ago. It went off without incident. There is no need for troops in the city. And yet, touring the federal area of Washington, one finds tall fencing and razor wire creating a huge militarized zone around the Capitol, with National Guard members guarding it from inside the fence. The barrier is not just on the perimeter of the Capitol. It extends for blocks beyond the building in every direction.
Now the head of the Capitol Police wants to make the fencing permanent, and the National Guard has not left. They are staying at least until mid-March, apparently because authorities fear another Jan. 6-style riot from Trump supporters.
"There are several upcoming events -- we don't know what they are -- over the next several weeks, and they're concerned that there could be situations where there are lawful protests, First Amendment-protected protests, that could either be used by malicious actors, or other problems that could emerge," Secretary of the Army John Whitley told the press last week.
The proposal to make the fence permanent has met bipartisan opposition, not only from Capitol Hill but from the District of Columbia government.
"Permanent fencing would send the wrong message to the nation and the world, by transforming our democracy from one that is accessible and of the people to one that is exclusive and fearful of its citizens," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to Congress.
It's a different story with the troops. While some, like D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, have called for the troops to go home, others, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have remained silent, preferring to make vague and ominous statements like, "The enemy is within." That is apparently Pelosi's way of turning the security issue to her partisan advantage, hinting that Hill Republicans are the true enemy.
There are reports the troops are staying because those in charge -- Pelosi? Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer? Others? -- want them at the ready during the Trump impeachment trial, set to begin next week in the Senate. There are other reports that there might be a big protest on March 4, which was the Constitution's original presidential inauguration day until it was changed to Jan. 20 in the 1930s. In any event, the troops are in town.
The Biden White House is staying out of it, publicly at least. At a recent briefing, spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined to answer a question on the Guard, referring journalists to the Defense Department.
But there are some voices saying enough is enough. Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a U.S. Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, has called for the troops to go home. In a FoxNews.com op-ed, Cotton wrote that the Guard deserves gratitude for deploying on short notice after the violence at the Capitol began. They stayed for the two weeks until the inauguration. Now, it's time for them to go.
"The lesson of the Capitol riot is not that we should quarter a standing army at the Capitol just in case," Cotton wrote, "but rather that our security measures should be calibrated to the actual threats." Cotton noted that he is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and is aware of no threat that would justify continued Guard presence.
In a recent text exchange, Cotton gave his prescription for what should be done now: "Store fencing, send home troops. The Capitol Police can get reinforcements from local law enforcement and local National Guard much faster with coordination. Tailor the personnel and physical barriers to any given threat." In other words, what the Capitol needs is better policing, not a standing army, and not a permanent fence, to deal with whatever threat may or may not be out there.
The question now is whether the leadership on Capitol Hill will listen. Will the fence really come down? Or will it continue to stand on a "temporary" basis? Will the troops go home, or will their "temporary" deployment last beyond March? Those are questions Speaker Pelosi and other top lawmakers need to answer.
This content originally appeared on the Washington Examiner at washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-why-is-the-national-guard-still-in-washington.
The Democrats are trying to make a funerally out of the death of a Trump-supporting police officer. Biden is even showing up to see the deplorable lying in state...
Dittoes. This has been my tagline since the Junta installed a Puppet in the White House.
I read yesterday that he was “slain” as a result of the right wing insurrection that occurred on January 6.
Hoo Boy!
Why?
Because Prime Minister Nancy Pelosi is scared witless
The unarmed NG display makes the mice in congress and the bureaucracy feel safe, and acts as a cover for the incompetence of the deep state weenies in matters of security and intelligence.
Just a thought.
Maybe the point of getting all these guar members grouped in Washington is a good way to reeducate them. Get them thinking right before sending them home.
Should there be a reason to use them against the patriots of the country they will be ready.
That cop was a Trump supporter.
My question exactly. Did Trump send them? It was under his admin.
Clearly the Dems FEAR SOMETHING IS COMING.
WAIT A MINUTE! “WALLS DON’T WORK!”
Say the most hypocritical group in the world......
To shoot Americans who find the democrats’ actions abhorrent.
Even though the troops have been “vetted” for their ideological purity, these are still citizen soldiers with jobs and families back home. They are being treated like serfs billeted in a parking garage and likely treated with personal distain by the leftist elites. I do not see them as a loyal praetorian guard and if push comes to shove, I doubt many of them would open fire on their fellow Americans. I would expect that these troops will be replaced with a “security force” loyal to the leftist leadership and possibly including foreign mercenaries.
Excellent article and thread Kaslin.
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Townhall article
The proposal to make the fence permanent has met bipartisan opposition, not only from Capitol Hill but from the District of Columbia government.
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Washington DC is a sovereign area and NOT part of the new Republic of the United States under our constitution. We are NOW a constitutional country. Yes, at the present under military rule. We are no longer and haven’t been for 18 months a corporation. Our country under the corporation has gone bankrupted. But as most of you here have noticed the world as pretty much gone bankrupt and that is the reason for so many leader stepping down or resigning. The DS they too have bankrupted their countries all over the world as well.
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President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 13848 on September 12, 2018
Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
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I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
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1(b) of this order, including, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, proposed sanctions with respect to the largest business entities licensed or domiciled in a country whose government authorized, directed, sponsored, or supported election interference, including at least one entity from each of the following sectors: financial services,
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energy, technology, and transportation (or, if inapplicable to that country’s largest business entities, sectors of comparable strategic significance to that foreign government). The recommendation shall include an assessment of the effect of the recommended sanctions on the economic and national security interests of the United States and its allies. Any recommended sanctions shall be appropriately calibrated to the scope of the foreign interference identified, and may include one or more of the following with respect to each targeted foreign person:
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This takes us to the executive order regarding the freezing of assets. Which should begin February 1st.
Assets are frozen for 30 days while investigations directly related to continue.
The entire process takes 90 days from the day assets are frozen. Which may begin February 1, 2021.
Anyone involved in this in any way will have all their assets frozen.
February 1, 2021 is when all of this will begin to play itself out. Even people who conspired or covered it up.
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30 days of freezing assets take us to March. They see what is coming and they know they are done. All the money involved in this is going down.
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Townhall..article.
There are other reports that there might be a big protest on March 4, which was the Constitution’s original presidential inauguration day until it was changed to Jan. 20 in the 1930s. In any event, the troops are in town.
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The exact term of the President and Vice President was fixed by the Constitution, Art. II, § 1, cl. 1, at 4 years, and became actually effective, by resolution of the Continental Congress,
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on the 4th of March 1789.
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Since this amendment was declared adopted on February 6, 1933, § 1 in effect shortened, by the interval between January 20 and March 4, 1937, the terms of the President and Vice President elected in 1932.
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March 4th....was when the President of our Republic..United States of America..should be swore in.
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NIKK..my opinion...if Donald J. Trump is sworn in under our New Republic of the United States he will be our 19th President...if I’m not mistaken.
Biden is the CEO of a Bankrupt Corporation along with the Congress which has no money until (our military) has switched us over. Our military is running our country...not saying they aren’t asking for advise on the side..
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NIKK..its my take on why we have military in DC and flying planes none-stop for hours all through the nights and days. Ask anyone in fly over country why they can’t sleep at night.
Well, I didn’t read the comments in that post, and didn’t see it posted anywhere else, so I didn’t see anything that may have explained why he would be the one...but there’s a bunch of them doing all kinds of things that they have no authority to do, and they all think they already have a political future.
Just damn.....this isn't the same country I grew up in. I was born and raised in a suburb of Washington, D.C. so the capital city was always accessible to me. Now it looks like a city patrolled by storm troopers on a Star Wars set.
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