Posted on 02/23/2022 2:32:56 PM PST by ConservativeInPA
The Pentagon has approved the deployment of 700 unarmed National Guard troops to the nation’s capital as it prepares for trucker convoys that are planning protests against pandemic restrictions beginning next week.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved the request Tuesday from the District of Columbia government and the United States Capitol Police, the Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday night.
The troops would be used to assist with traffic control during demonstrations expected in the city in the coming days, the Pentagon said. Four hundred Guard members from the District of Columbia Guard will be joined by 300 Guard members from other states, according to the statement.
Guard members will not carry firearms or take part in law enforcement or domestic-surveillance activities, the Pentagon said.
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Austin is traitor. He just approved the use of troops against American citizens, while he refuses to address an invasion of our southern border. I do not buy that the NG will be used in a limited manner. Our military and NG needs to be brought home from all over the world and put on a shelf until all the Joint Chiefs rot in prison and a comprehensive review of every officer down to the battalion level. These woke POS do not keep America safe, they simply kill our sons and daughters in endless wars so they can enrich themselves once retired and take jobs in the military-industrial complex.
And Next up: DC Pigs are so incompetent that they are incapable of directing traffic. They rather take a knee with bLM that do their jobs. Proof positive that every single cop in DC is a worthless POS is you never hear one of them speak out about the abuses on citizens and the lack of protections they are supposed to provide. All federal funds need to be cut off from DC. Let residents of DC sort their self-created mess without my tax dollars. I do not want to fund a bunch of Marxists.
Reroute the convoy to Delaware.
Will the troops be vaccinated and wearing masks?
The statist ideology is so blind and strong among the DC deep-state lizard people, that I believe many of them are prepared to go “Tiananmen Square” on the next unwanted political protest they see within Washington DC.
Most of the National Guard are Americans not Democrats.
Weekend wokester warriors.
If ordered to, they would shoot and toss everyone one of us into a mass grave.
Especially after the way they were treated following the January 6th riot, where they were sitting on the floor of the capitol, sleeping in the parking garages, and eating MRE’s for days and in some cases had one bathroom to use of 300 troops. They were abused and used and disrespected.
I don't have problem your everyday guardsman. It is the people making the poor use of them and now using them against citizens. Maybe they will not given weapons because the establishment in DC is afraid they will turn on them.
Yes, and mostly obese.
The DC beltway is about 65 miles around and is about 4 lanes in each direction. A tractor-tailor truck with a little spacing is about 80 ft in length. Therefore, (65 miles x 8 lanes x 5280 ft/mile) / 80 ft/truck = 34,320 - call it 35k trucks. If 35k trucks entered the DC beltway and just intended to drive around the beltway in a circle, continuously, DC would be shutdown.
The truckers? I”m not blockading anything, just trying to drive around DC on the beltway - is traffic always this congested? Of course, the police would intervene to set up roadblocks and force the trucks to exit. But would be fun while it lasted.
They send the NG to DC to protect a bunch of parasites but won’t send them to the border to prevent other parasites from entering our country ILLEGALLY.
Shows you EXACTLY where these traitors stand.
You can’t spell wimp without an MP!!
“Reroute the convoy to Delaware.”
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The planned false flag “insurrection” will still take place on schedule in D.C. during Brandon’s speech with the classic split-screen coverage on CNN, and maybe another murder by a Capitol Police Officer thrown in for good measure. Thank you Nancy.
“They were abused and used and disrespected.”
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Forgot about that.
Disgusting. Typical, but still disgusting.
He is a scummy affirmative action Marxist incompetent.
But as we have seen, incompetents are perfect for the Leftists so they can blame it on bad luck or incompetence.
It is all coldly deliberate.
I heard The Peoples Convoy is stopping at Hagerstown, MD and just go around the DC beltway that Saturday March 5th.
They know what really happened on Jan 6.
Using the NG to clog up the streets?
Are the NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS going to be housed in an unheated PARKING GARAGE like JAN 6?
Stunning display of Hypocrisy as Congressional members protect themselves where there’s no threat. While our borders are opened and being invaded with known killers and violent people flooding over every single day by the hundreds....and being assisted by this Government.
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