Posted on 02/18/2021 7:48:07 PM PST by cba123
The deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has prompted calls to step up security around federal properties in Washington, but D.C. officials and locals say the idea of putting permanent fences around those sites is a step too far.
Today, a steel-bar fence as high as 12 feet and topped with razor wire encloses a 3-square-mile area around the Capitol building, where rioters last month toppled bicycle-rack barriers and overwhelmed police officers to disrupt Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote. Armed National Guardsmen now patrol the fence perimeter, which is backed by concrete Jersey barriers in some areas.
“I hate it. You know, it’s ugly and I feel like it’s taken away a lot,” said Louis Rose, 57, who works nearby at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and lives in Arlington, Virginia. “It looks like a war zone: razor wire, with armed guards with machine guns behind the fence. How else could you describe that?”
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is one of many locals who hope the unsightly fencing is only a temporary measure. She told The Washington Times that she wants “to keep the People’s House open to the people.”
“Permanent fencing would send an un-American 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 own citizens,” she told fellow members of Congress on Feb. 11, when she introduced the United States Capitol Complex Act to block permanent fencing.
“It would tell the world that the most powerful nation must rely on crude barriers for safety instead of state-of-the-art intelligence and security protocols,” said Mrs. Norton, the District of Columbia’s nonvoting congressional representative.
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Three hots and a cot. The inmates stay.
“Mrs. Pelosachev, tear down this wall”
Its not a wall, its a narrative.
After letting cities across the nation burn for months on end,
I would think these Leftists in Washington, D. C. would be
too embarrassed to put up a wall to protect their turf.
Nope, Leftists have no sense of decency or right and wrong.
Just what are you’ze guys so afraid of?
Who or what do you think is ready to run into the Capitol buildings and haul you out by your hair?
Seems to me, all this barbed wire cocooning is a sign of guilt!
The actual White Supremacists like Nanzi and Schmuckie really fear Democracy.
Do we have more troops in DC than Iraq of Afghanistan now?
Miz Pelosi, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
Lock em up and throw away the key. Let’s start over without them
The Capitol police should have the same means the Pentagon gave us in the US Navy to warn away potential hostiles - little hand-held ‘roman candle’ flare guns. If that’s good enough for the troops, should be good enough for them.
Ah, so now the word “rioters” spills from their despicable lips with ease. Yet all last summer, as the BLM and Antifa criminals smashed, looted, burned, and murdered, the word “rioter” was absolutely verboten.
It’s really hard to decide who I loathe more these days: democrats, the MSM, republicans, Karens, Fauci...
I thought fences don’t work.
They want to erect a permanent wall around the Donald J. Trump Capitol Building?!!???
They don’t want a fence on the border to protect Americans, but they go all out with a fence to protect themselves from the citizens.
Especially since they want to tear down the border wall.
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Good point.
That wall went up so quickly, when was the contract for it let? Was this planned in advance? Asking for a friend.
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