Posted on 07/21/2020 7:24:46 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Houston police and fire officials are responding to reports that documents are being burned in the courtyard of the Consulate General of China in Houston, according to the Houston Police Department.
Yep.
Wonder if this is related...
https://news.sky.com/story/two-chinese-nationals-charged-by-us-with-hacking-hundreds-of-victims-12033405 ... Today....
It’s clear a bunch of FReepers don’t understand the concept of Diplomatic immunity and that what goes on in the Consulate, is none of their business of the local authorities.
Strange. A lot of sudden air activity up here near Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts tonight...just saying. When the base is active they fly near my home.
Possibly very sinister. The CCP is in danger of collapse; it might see military action as a last chance to save itself.
Or, it might just break of diplomatic ties, and threaten.
Or, this might just be a weenie roast.
The reason I brought it up:
My understanding is that there is no way we can enter a foreign embassy uninvited and certainly no way we can search their records.
However in the event there is war, all restrictions are off. We do what we need to do.
I am not trying to predict what the Chinese will do, only raising the question....why?
The US embassy in Tehran used shredders too.
Democrats?
Shades of "destroyed the sever kept in the bathroom with a sledge hammer?"
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In the year 2020, a foreign consulate burning documents in a courtyard? That’s a message. There are far more secretive and secure ways of disposing of documents without any chance of retrieval.
My understanding is you are correct that we cannot enter, however I would suspect it started as a 911 call of a fire outside the consulate by some random passerby watch got the response going to the scene and only then did they discover what was going on.
That’s my first reaction. Odd place for something like that to begin though.
I believe a technique used today is a shredder into an acid bath that dissolves the paper. Read that in a Tom Clancey/Jason Borne novel.
This is what happened right before Pearl Harbor too
Panda watching
I suppose this will add another month to the wait for my Amazon refund.
Odd to see, especially because Houston is synonymous with problem.
You missed my point, which is:
The Chinese know that if there are hostilities diplomatic protocol becomes null and void.
So the question again is ....why?
It could mean their primary equipment to destroy documents is out of service, or it could mean something much more sinister.
A Pearl Harbor like attack perhaps? Are other Chinese embassies burning stuff? They will hit the internet first and the power grid first become the bombs start to fall. We are so divided they could win this one—Blame it on Trump and half the people in the USA will be on their side!
A Pearl Harbor like attack perhaps? Are other Chinese embassies burning stuff? They will hit the internet first and the power grid first become the bombs start to fall. We are so divided they could win this one—Blame it on Trump and half the people in the USA will be on their side!
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