Barricades and Bulletproof Glass

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 26, 2024, 10:51 a.m. ET | Dan Barry

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With the specter of political violence looming, the Department of Homeland Security has advised hundreds of communities on election safety. Luzerne County, Pa., is at the center of the unrest.

With northeastern Pennsylvania awash again in the reds and oranges of a dazzling autumn, workers recently planted boulders around a government building in downtown Wilkes-Barre to address a seasonal ugliness. But this was no beautification project.

Luzerne County is bracing for Election Day.

Across the country, the doubts and anger ginned up by the spurious election-fraud claims of former President Donald J. Trump have unsettled the once-routine civic task of collecting and counting votes. With the specter of political violence looming, the Department of Homeland Security has advised hundreds of concerned communities on election safety.

At the center of this maelstrom of distrust is Luzerne County, which, for some, has become Exhibit A for election conspiracy theories. Unnerved by local chatter, county officials have implemented several extraordinary security measures — including a primitive fortification of large rocks around the county building in Wilkes-Barre where the Bureau of Elections is located.

The boulder installation in this swing-state city of 45,000 could serve as a metaphor for the United States of 2024, in which planning for the sacred exercise of democracy might include preparing for a car bomb.

“We’re a microcosm,” said the county manager, Romilda Crocamo, the recipient of repeated threats. The most recent one, serious enough that she alerted law enforcement, was delivered by text to a close relative who is very private and not involved in politics.

“Somebody had to go through a lot of effort to make that connection,” Ms. Crocamo said.

Emily Cook, the director of the county’s Bureau of Elections, has also been threatened, both on social media and...

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Across the country, the doubts and anger ginned up by the spurious election-fraud claims...

"Spurious," my cherry red Obama.

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In the wee hours of the morning following Election Day 2020, hundreds of thousands of “votes” for Joe Biden showed up from out of nowhere in the six states that had unprecedentedly stopped counting the night before. Those ballots were almost exclusively marked for the Presidential race. They contained almost no votes for down-ballot candidates, which explains the following:

OBAMA 2008
69,000,000 votes
Wins 873 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
WINS ELECTION

TRUMP 2020
74,000,000 votes
Wins 2497 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
LOSES ELECTION

BIDEN 2020
81,000,000 votes
Wins 477 Counties
LOSES 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
LOSES Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
LOSES House seats
WINS ELECTION

[stevio]

Yea, they keep trying to gaslight us that there was no election fraud. BS!

[Nervous Tick]

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

~or, put bluntly~

Hey election fraudsters! FA&FO!

[Sarcazmo]

Yes.

I have been noticing that for several years the Gov’t has been hardening its facilities.

Not just the military ones either.

It’s almost like they know something we don’t.

[falcon99]

The NYT should be required to register as a spokesman and in kind contribution to the Democrat Party and Kamala Harris. Because, they are not a news organization, but a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party

[oldplayer]

But, even if Trump is defrauded again, there is hardly any likelihood that neighborhoods and downtowns will be burned. On the other hand, If Kamala loses fair and square (i.e., Trump beats the cheat), I guarantee you there will be violence somewhere from her Brownshirts.

[Candor7]

spurious election-fraud claims of former President Donald J. Trump>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Tell it to the Navarro Report

The Art of the Steal

BUahahahahahahahaha!

Its the Dems who are the fascists........they are the violent ones, witness the "Summer of Love," BLM, AntiFA and what was done in Minneapolis, Seattle and other places. NOw they are doing the same in PA, building castles around voting locations to keep out Republican votes.

SHAME!

[wildcard_redneck]

This behavior of fortifying offices of government is further proof that our governments are hostile to the citizens and illegitimate. Our governments at all levels behave like occupying powers and they must be subdued, reformed and scaled back.

[Steve_Seattle]

But the incessant claims that Trump is the new Hitler who will end democracy, restore Jim Crow, and imprison his political opponents has done absolutely NOTHING to raise the political temperature and increase the threat of violence. The NYT forgets that it is TRUMP who recently came within an inch of his life due to a would-be assassin’s bullet.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This behavior of fortifying offices of government is further proof that our governments are hostile to the citizens and illegitimate.

[wildcard_redneck]

Is that an actual picture of the Capital building during Biden’s installation?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don’t know. I stole it.

[NetAddicted]

The reason Lancaster, PA is worried about election day riots is because they expect Demonicrats to riot when Trump wins. Expecting another summer of love.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I did a reverse image search. I could not find the origin of the photo. Maybe you can.

https://tineye.com/search/3fd8bdafa5d83a4ed2f32edea8a6c87b5e00f12b?sort=score&order=desc&page=1

[ansel12]

What we will actually see is what we just recently saw and what we have watched for generations, the democrat left will burn cities, destroy and loot, and beat and kill people while dragging them from their cars.

We’ve been watching and experiencing this same movie for 60 years, it is a staple and routine of modern American life.

[Texas Eagle]

Are they going to remove all sloped rooves?

[rxh4n1]

“I have been noticing that for several years the Gov’t has been hardening its facilities.

Not just the military ones either.”

Boston City Hall has the Hitler bunker look.

[sauropod]

Dan Barry simply lies.

[Jacquerie]

We must never forget the J6 fed-surrection nor how Pelosi substituted civilians at FJB’s inauguration with 25,000 soldiers.

The rats knew that we knew they stole the election and acted accordingly.

[al baby]

I bet those two dudes got kilt