DC Guard activated

[Old Dog New Trick]

Yeah but, the FBI is on it. So it’s all good now.

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by Pete

And to take a big leap into the rabbit hole there is this....

"Pentagon fears there could be an INSIDE attack during Biden's inauguration and will vet all 25,000 National Guard troops stationed in DC - as Army reservist with 'secret' security clearance is arrested in Capitol siege"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...er-attack.html

"...The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security concerns that have gripped Washington following the deadly January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters.

It also underscores fears that some of the very people assigned to protect the city over the next several days could present a threat to the incoming president and other VIPs in attendance...."

Pumping up the narrative.....

All this for an inauguration which I was under the impression was going to be virtual?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...on/ar-BB1bDSfG

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/polit...ing/index.html

[Old Dog New Trick]

Not “virtual” but “virtuous” as in virtue signaling.

There will live performances by Biden, Obama, Bush and Clinton and their wives. Once they get done with the pomp and circumstance over looking the cameras they are all going over to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

I wonder though if they will have cardboard cutouts of the rest of the SCOTUS and facial photos of congress and other family members not present?

Maybe use speakers to inject enthusiasm from an absent public of supporters, like they do for football games.

[JimP]

getting kind of "Potempkinish" aren't we ?


Look Comrade, look at all the adoring crowds."

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by JimP

getting kind of "Potempkinish" aren't we ?

It sure seems that way. I mean with all the extra effort that is and has taking place you gotta be blind or willfully ignorant not too see it.

[Old Dog New Trick]

I had wondered at what other time this happened and my assumption was correct.

History is replete with lessons from the past.

National Guard sleeping in the Capitol an echo of Civil War

To most Americans, the sight of armed National Guard troops sleeping in the Capitol Rotunda this past week was shocking and disturbing. To me, it was an echo of the far-distant past.
“Don’t despond,” Maj. Bowman Bigelow Breed wrote to his anxious wife back home in Massachusetts as his comrades lounged around him on the polished marble floors in the grand hall that was now their bivouac. “You must know by this time that we are here in safety. We may have to fight but my own opinion is that the overwhelming force concentrated here will prevent an attack.”
Insurrection was in the air, and these citizen soldiers had been called up to secure the seat of government.
The date was April 27, 1861. The writer was surgeon of the 8th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.
My great-grandfather.
Having transcribed my great-grandparents’ Civil War correspondence, I knew that Bowman’s unit had spent the first days of the war bivouacked in what he called “the Hall of the Dome.” Harper’s Weekly published an illustration of the 8th’s men, their weapons leaned against the marble walls or stacked, bayonets intertwined, like fodder shocks in a farmer’s field.
“I wish you could look in on us this morning and see how comfortably we are settled here,” he wrote in that first missive, scribbled on letterhead for the “Thirty Sixth Congress House of representatives.”
The regiment called itself “the Minutemen,” after those New England patriots who grabbed their muskets and rushed to face the Redcoats at Lexington and Concord in April 1775. My great-grandmother, Hannah Pope Breed, was descended from one of those men.
And, so, when President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the inusrrection of the Southern states, there was no question but that Bowman -- privileged son of a wealthy industrialist -- would go.
The 8th headed south just four days after rebels opened fire on Fort Sumter. Passing through hostile territory in slaveholding Maryland, Bowman was unable to fulfill his promise to write every day.
“How I have suffered when I knew that all communication was cut off and that you were torn hour after hour by the terrible suspense of hope deferred,” he apologized to Hannah, who was left alone to care for their infant son, Isaiah. “Don’t despond my darling. God will preserve us all and in time of war you must have faith in the handy old proverb that no news is good news.”
While the enlisted men slept in the rotunda, the 10 officers shared a small room just off the main hall.
“A little room opening from that serves for my hospital, very small and very inconvenient,” Bowman wrote. “I have not been able to open my medical stores yet and can use only what I can carry about in my bag. I have been on the run Ever since I came here, trying to arrange matters, but red tape rules here and I have been referred from one to another till I am tired out.”
The Capitol was undergoing a massive expansion. The regimental chaplain held services in the old Senate chamber.
“The men all stood in a circle with the officers on one side and the chaplain in the centre,” he wrote. “He made a very appropriate prayer and then we all sang, `Praise God from whom all blessings flow.’”
The day after their arrival, Bowman and his comrades were treated to a visit from Secretary of State William H. Seward and the president himself.
“We were all introduced and had quite a chat with them,” he wrote. “They were both in good spirits. Lincoln said that if the city had been as unprotected then as it was a week before it would have been taken.”
The regiment was drawn up, Bowman said, “and the Pres made them a little speach.” It was early in the Republican’s first term, and most did not yet know what to make of this “dirty Hoosier,” as Hannah referred to the Kentucky-born, Indiana-bred Lincoln.
“All that has Ever been said of Lincolns awkwardness is mild compared with the reality,” Bowman wrote. “Some of his gestures would make the fortune of a circus clown.”
Nonetheless, the new president inspired confidence in the citizen soldiers.
“The men gave three cheers for Lincoln, three for Seward and three rouses for the Union,” Bowman wrote.
When the 8th was stationed there, the higher, more ornate Capitol dome was not yet complete. As the war dragged on, critics suggested that the costly work be halted.
Lincoln felt otherwise.
“If people see the Capitol going on,” he said, “it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.”
Bowman would serve throughout the entire war. As painful as their separation would be, he told Hannah in that first letter from Washington, he hoped that the struggle was “the means God in his goodness has provided to remove the dark cloud under which we have seemed to be resting for so long.”
“I have faith to believe that all our steps are ordered for the best,” he wrote. “Let our prayers mingle now as heretofore and all the blessing of a holy calm will descend, to strengthen us.”
___
Allen G. Breed, a native of Lynn, Massachusetts, is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

[Box]

Are these the same NG troops that House Drinker Pelosi described as Stormtroopers back when the peaceful protestors were setting fires and destroying property from coast to coast in the summer of 2020?

asking for a friend

[Joker]

Why didn’t they send the social workers?

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Box

Are these the same NG troops that House Drinker Pelosi described as Stormtroopers back when the peaceful protestors were setting fires and destroying property from coast to coast in the summer of 2020?

asking for a friend

That stuff didn't really happen. It was just done on a low-budget sound stage out of a couple of rented hangers at Van Nuys Airport. Just like the moon landing.

[Joker]

Now they can say, “Look Dear Leader the military showed up in for sin their isolation of you!” Then they wheel him away.
Looking back 15, 12, and 4 years, I believe that Biden has lost much of his mental capacity. I don’t see him serving one whole term.

[WarriorDiplomat]

Originally Posted by Box

Are these the same NG troops that House Drinker Pelosi described as Stormtroopers back when the peaceful protestors were setting fires and destroying property from coast to coast in the summer of 2020?

asking for a friend

I think so but I suspect in her drunkeness forgot that under Obama the disciplined warrior class are not the majority of the military anymore

[Old Dog New Trick]

Originally Posted by Joker

I don’t see him serving one whole term.

Being rather optimistic aren’t you? I don’t see him lasting his first 100 days before the revolt inside his own party enacts the 25A and throws him, his wife and his family to the curb.

[tonyz]

Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick

Being rather optimistic aren’t you? I don’t see him lasting his first 100 days before the revolt inside his own party enacts the 25A and throws him, his wife and his family to the curb.

No doubt there will be a President Harris...the former Senator from California...was Big Tech the new Manchurian Global?

[Paslode]

Dem. Rep Steve Cohen concerned about the National Guard...

I think the guard is 90 some odd percent I believe male, only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden. You have to figure that the guard which is predominantly more conservative and I see that on my social media, and we know it, there are probably not more than 25 percent of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden, the other 75 percent are in the class that would be the large class of folks who might want to do something and there were military people and police who took oaths to defend the Constitution and to protect and defend who didn’t do it who were in the insurrection. So it does concern me.

https://news.grabien.com/story-dem-r...25-voted-biden

I wonder if this will usher in a new push for diversity and inclusion in the military and a purge of White Males..

[Paslode]

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