Why is DC still an armed camp?
Glenn Greenwald has some theories.
[NOTE: Although Greenwald doesn’t talk about this, I was just wondering how many Americans have any knowledge of what the words “Reichstag Fire” might mean. For those who know their history, the parallels can be understood whether they are accepted or rejected. But my guess is that the vast majority have no knowledge of the historical event to which the term refers, and therefore are unaware of what an attempt at comparison would even mean. A lack of historical context in general is a very big problem, and is not just limited to lack of knowledge of one particular event or another.]
This relates to your excellent post, Neo, pointing out the many things we don’t know about the Capitol riot. My feeling is that facts, if released, would eliminate the “Trump incitement” idea and would possibly expose Democrat involvement in failing to take precautions following FBI warnings, for the purpose of letting something happen for which they could blame Trump.
The National Guard are being used for show, for political purposes.
No facts about the Capitol riots, if I’m right, will be released until after the impeachment trial, and if Trump is acquitted, perhaps never.
The militarization of DC is completely irrational as well as grotesque, intended only to convey a strong message not only to Trump-supporters, but also to all non-leftist citizens, that the full power of the state and of all its agencies (including the increasingly leftist, as well as bloated, Pentagon) is, and will be, arrayed against them, much in the manner of Communist regimes. It is doubtful whether any non-conservative journalist has even bothered to notice the almost exact parallel between the manipulation by the National Socialists of the Reichstag fire and that of the Capitol incident (“domestic terrorism”, “racist insurrection”. “attempted right-wing coup”) by the MSM and the Democrats in power.
I think too, that they realized that without the National Guard, no one would have shown up for the inauguration. There would be no way to hide the embarrassing truth that President* didn’t really get more votes than Trump. It would have been a replay of all the Biden rallies in empty gyms and broom closets and made the theft of the election blatantly obvious to even the most self blinded liberal of what actually happened on election night.
This relates to your excellent post, Neo, pointing out the many things we don’t know about the Capitol riot. My feeling is that facts, if released, would eliminate the “Trump incitement” idea and would possibly expose Democrat involvement in failing to take precautions following FBI warnings, for the purpose of letting something happen for which they could blame Trump.
Reading the text of Trump’s speech would eliminate the ‘Trump incitement’ idea.
A timeline and an inventory of broken windows would likely go a long way to extinguishing the notion that anything all that notable happened, especially if it can be established that the antifa on site were the ones who broke the windows.
While we’re at it, when do we get to see Ofc. Sicknick’s autopsy, or any piece of security video where a blow to him can be satisfactorily identified?
And when will we hear the name of the officer who fired his weapon at random into a scrum of people (separated from him by a heavy door)? He killed a woman who (you can tell from the video) was at that point just standing there.
Art Deco:
Yes, so little curiosity about those things. And I have a draft of a planned post about the lack of evidence regarding the method of Sicknick’s death.
Kate – you have to get the official terminology straight. It was an “erection” and not an “incitement”. That joke is going to have legs for a long time.
As you know I listen to the Frei and Barnes podcast. Here is what I wrote to my Michigan group regarding it. It is totally worth a listen.
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Here we are day three of the fraudulent presidency. Already the war machine is cranked back up with troops back in Syria trying to overthrow the Assad regime so that the Democratic Corporate Masters can get their pipeline to Europe. Then the Keystone Pipeline is cancelled putting 14,000 Pipefitters Union, members out of work. The union endorsed Biden for president. The pause in fracking permits is causing economic stress in New Mexico. They voted for Biden to win. Also, the daughters of rich white progressive women will lose their athletic scholarships to transgender men who will be in their locker rooms and bathrooms. The illegal immigrant caravans are coming to take the jobs of black men. National Guardsmen sleeping in the cold because some congress women are afraid of white men but Jill Biden did give them some cookies to munch on. And the smell of erection ahhhh insurrection is in the air. Trump can put up his “miss me yet” signs now. I thought he would have to wait nine months.
This special podcast is worth listening to in its entirety. There are very interesting tidbits shared through out the podcast starting at the 11 minute mark. The same topics gets talked about at different points during this podcast while they discuss various aspects of the Trump Presidency. If you are short on time, then the segment starting from minute 11 to 42 is the crux of the discussion. Also minute 50 to 1:03 deserves a listen. After 1:03 is a discussion of what to do going forward. Good stuff there too. Americans are getting organized to fight and it is a good thing to hear.
The topics in this podcast are:
• The pardons and why Assange wasn’t pardoned but Bannon was.
• The flaws of Trump and why it hurt his administration. Trump was too willing to allow the deep state to be part of administration.
• The botched legal battle after the election
• Harsh words for QANON and the military coup promise
• Impeachment follies
• Ultimately Trump’s master ability to negotiate couldn’t overcome his inability to be a political operator for reasons we discuss before.
o No institutional support even though Trump courted it to his detriment.
o Reliance on a small group for advice which provided bad domestic advice (Kushner)
o Trump’s chaotic managerial style (I beg to differ here).
• Despite all that the conclusion is Trump is a great president and what he did for the common man will be the stuff of many books and analysis.
We now move on from this time and prepare for 2022 and 2024. Some discussions of what Trump can do to keep the populist movement intact and what we can do now. We have started the first steps and we just have to keep going. The most important thing is to live our best life right now and enjoy it. Be glad that we live in America. It is worth fight for and we will win in the end. Of that I am certain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2JrEIdgpw4&ab_channel=VivaFrei
Nancy wanted even more firepower in DC for the Immaculation
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/01/22/314609-n314609
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/19/ken-cuccinelli-nancy-pelosi-crew-manned-machine-guns/
“Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told Fox News’ “The Story” Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked for “crew-manned machine guns” to be a part of security forces in Washington, D.C., ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.”
Nothing says unity like the sound of cyclic.
Rate of fire – Wikipedia
Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_firehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_fire
Typical cyclic rates of fire are 600-900 RPM for assault rifles, 1,000-1,100 RPM in some cases, 900-1,200 RPM for submachine guns and machine pistols, and 600-1,500 RPM for machine guns. M134 Miniguns mounted on attack helicopters and other combat vehicles can achieve rates of fire of over 100 rounds per second (6,000 RPM).
Two weeks ago I posted about a philosophy blog by Edward Feser about Gnosticism and the current political thought. It appears he posts about once a week. This week he writes about how conspiracy theories arise and are believed by very intelligent people like Sidney Powell and Flynn ala QANON. Lin Wood I put down as a doofus.
He cites Roberto De Mattei work. Here is the crux of the argument which I find interesting and worth thinking about.
“The characteristic of false conspiracy theories is that they cannot offer any documentation or certainty. To compensate for their lack of proofs, they use the technique of narration, which takes hold of the emotions, more than reason, and seduces those, who by an act of faith, have already decided to believe the far-fetched, propelled by fear, anger and rancor.”
Fear, anger and rancor. In other words people who feel powerless against some nebulous entity working against them are willing to believe the narrative. That is why I tell people to wait 24 hours and see what happens.
This is a heavy read so I recommend some quiet time and a cup of coffee and tea to read.
https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/01/narrative-thinking-and-conspiracy.html
News reports are saying that troops will remain until mid-March. The articles are using language such as “in the wake of the deadly insurrection that overran the Capital”.
It would seem to me that the militarization of the United States will be be permanent. Look for military check points and a requirement for travel documents in the near future.
(When asked “What is best in life?”) “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you. Only to hear lamentations from women!” — Conan the Barbarian
Odd, isn’t it, that the Democrats are crushing their allies, driving them to ruin, and provoking the lamentations of their cis-women. (see the comment by Spartacus)
Perhaps the Democrat leaders have a different idea of which groups are their enemies and which their friends, and the know-nothing Democrat voters — whether ignorant by choice or by design or both — are not in the group they thought they were.
Our own purveyor of QAnon has quite a few other gnostic and conspiratorial themes that he yammers about. Some have been banned on this blog; it’s taken by him to be deeply offensive, repressive, inhumane, and almost tragic. So much wisdom he has to share if only we would listen. 🙂
All of the above.
I wonder too if various benefits and pay increments only kick in after the Guardspersons have been called out for a certain length of time.
(Has anyone seen photos showing just how FAT some of these Guardians of the Galaxy are?)
Was well documented in during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong that from time to time a bunch of police would show up in a quiet empty street just after midnight and fire off some tear gas and then hop back in their vans and drive off. The most parsimonious explanation seemed to be that they got paid extra for ‘actions’ than for just being ‘on duty’ for a shift. How can you have been involved in a dispersal action if you return to base with all your issued tear gas canisters unfired? QED.
^^^ These guys made so much money during that year that it showed up as a noticeable blip in overall Government expenditure. Was obvious anyway as all the coppers were driving new cars. This in a city with 100% first registration tax on new vehicles.
So… in addition to all the ruling class paranoia and wanting to put on a show, I reckon the good old dot mil is also having a grand old time cranking the adding machines and guzzling the government cheese and collecting participation medals.
In addition to the above mentioned factors, there’s another factor I think even more determinative. Fear. As in “the guilty flee, where no man pursueth”.
Along with the 25,000 troops, Pelosi wanted heavy duty, crew manned machine gun nests around the perimeter. That demand was refused, probably because the General in charge realized how counter-productive the ‘optics’ would be…
Rep. Cohen demanded intensive investigations into the troop’s political loyalties, fearing a military coup. He implied that only 25% of the troops could be trusted. He’s not alone in his paranoia.
At the link, the picture of Trump and below the pic of the 5,000 ‘garaged’ troops with no phone or internet access and but one bathroom… speaks volumes not just to the two administration’s attitudes toward the military but even more importantly, what ALL the military (save the politicized upper echelons) got out of the democrat’s treatment of those troops.
Count on it, everyone in the military is by now well aware of the conditions to which the democrats subjected those troops. Nothing like getting spit upon to absolutely clarify where you stand with those spitting upon you.
The democrat party fears the US military far more than they do armed deplorables because they know that only the military can protect them from armed deplorables who have concluded that only armed rebellion can prevent their enslavement.
The dem’s fear the reaction of patriotic americans, as they impose what by definition are tyrannical policies, which when combined with their contempt for the military have them acting irrationally.
Biden’s new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin immediately stated his intent to launch a new purge within the military, one where political loyalty to the democrat party will be the deciding metric for continued enlistment. Watch for ‘unearthed racism’ and ‘intolerance’ to be the rationale for dishonorable discharges.
They’re deeply alienating the very people who they need to keep their power secure.
It’s as true today, as when in 441BC Sophocles in his play ‘Antigone’ observed, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” (deprive of reason)
“News reports are saying that troops will remain until mid-March” – Roy
They will only be there as long as their governors allow.
Texas, Florida, New Hampshire and possibly as many as five more have recalled their troops.
With the Garagegate scandal and the Covid fiasco, I would say that most of those troops have probably not been converted to Biden fans.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9179633/At-8-states-recall-National-Guard-D-C-following-demeaning-treatment.html
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/01/tx-fl-govs-recall-natl-guard-from-dc-after-forced-to-parking-garage-from-capitol/
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/22/national-guard-coronavirus-461340
The deployment was political theater.
The impeachment 2.0 is political theater.
The covid lockdowns were and are political theater.
When is the curtain coming down on this sorry performance?
#AlwaysMyPresident
#MissHimYet? (especially for NR and The Lincoln Project)
#Twixit
#HailToTheThief (h/t Daniel Greenfield)
The Democrats may believe they need physical protection during Trump’s impeachment trial 2.0, because they know what they would do if Biden were being tried.
Pay attention to the words of Jason Whitlock, a black sports hero, now pundit, who is probably the bravest man in the US at the moment.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/whitlock-i-stand-by-my-comparison-of-blm-to-the-kkk–no-matter-who-might-object
Reproducing the letter he wrote to the Indianapolis Star, his hometown paper.
Back in the early 2000s when goat-weary Islamic nutters were car bombing Jakarta 5-Star Hotels in order to get to their 72 Virgins faster, I checked into the Shangri-la one afternoon after being driven up through an improvised winding maze of vehicle barriers and speedbumps… the one bit that didn’t wind and wend was near the beginning of the maze: nice straight long stretch of speedbumps ending in a sandbagged tripod-mounted belt-fed big meaty caliber machine gun and a bunch of guys in green attending to it. Had to drive *very slowly* right up to this thing before turning right for more twisty turning to get to the forecourt.
Got to the front desk and casually asked for a room facing the pool (i.e. not the driveway).
Islamic Nutters solved this problem by getting hired on as staff. Staff guys would ‘order’ the bomb-making materials and have it delivered to the hotel loading dock like all other commercial stuff.. Bombers would make like civilized folks and check in and have their friends in housekeeping bring the materials up to their room and assemble it there. Then put on backpack and walk down into lobby restaurant and kaboom. They took out the top level of foreign oil or gas (can’t remember) executives in Indonesia this way. Guys used to get together to swap notes over breakfast at the Marriott once a month.
I think if people really got pissed off, Nancy would be screeching for a lot more than ‘Crew Served Weapons’. The Pony Express has a tendency to get through.
I think that when people get really pissed off because they have nothing left to lose… Nancy won’t be screeching very long.
The elite are so divorced from the reality that normal americans are faced with that they but dimly sense how close they are to the cliff’s edge.
They think they’ve won and can now do as they please. They’ll utterly disconnected from realizing that they’re playing with political and cultural ‘nitroglycerin’.
Zaphod, having spent 15 years in the Texas National Guard, I can tell you that at that time ( 1992 – 2007) I was aware of three types of pay. One was for weekend drills and the Two week summer training. No health care except for line of duty. That probably varies by state .Without digging up my papers, it seems that as an E6 On a long weekend, Friday night thru Sunday, Pay before taxes was less than $300. Then there was State active duty, for things like Hurricanes. I think back in the 90s , in Texas, it was $40 per day plus per diem. Again, no health care except for line of duty, at least in Texas, back then. Then there was Federal Active duty, such as when sent overseas. The pay and healthcare was the same as active duty troops or in some CONUS cases, you got Tricare , with pay by rank and martial status and I think there was an adjustment for time in service. As an unmarried E6 I think my pay was in the $3000 plus per month and no federal income taxes when in a combat zone. Retirement for Guardsmen is pro rated to Active duty based on days of service and when I got out, you did not immediately start collecting the way active duty does. Seems it was like 60 years of age or something if you retired before you started collecting the pro rated retirement, unlike active duty who collect upon retirement. Some of that may have changed and may vary by state.
@jon baker:
Thanks for that info. If nothing has changed since your days, would you guess that an extended tour of duty might result in morale and financial issues for the rank and file?
I’d assumed that it might take on a life of its own as a nice little racket.. it’s Government Work after all. If they’re not being looked after properly could come back to bite the usurpers on their collective posterior.
Seems that pay circa 2006 for an single E6 in an overseas combat zone was around $3600 a month.
First we were warned that QAnon and Trump fanatics would be showing up at state capitols the weekend before the election, armed to the teeth for rebellion. This frantic series of High Alerts from the FBI and domestic intelligence community got everyone scared to death and motivated the movement of troops en masse to Washington DC. Unfortunately, only a few sad scruffy basement dwellers showed up in all of these states. None of the states had anything more than a few people as far as I can tell.
I think the Congressmen were actually terrified that any protest could actually have the nerve to come visit them in person. The shock and outrage! Oy! This must be crushed! How dare you protest without our instructions! Of course, before, during, and after all this, Antifa’s minions are keepin’ on up in Portland, with no end in sight, and no will to stop them, either.
I think Greenwald has been hitting the target with his most recent pieces on censorship and government overreach. Now that a tone has been set, Congressional Leaders in the NeverTrump teams (both parties) must keep the charade of terror intact at least until the Senate Trial. The states are quite right to recall their troops and not have them abused as kabuki actors to help bash the President they voted to re-elect. Let Biden call up active-duty troops and let’s see how the nation reacts to that, shall we? Maybe Biden will tell us they guarding against an invasion of maskless, COVID-crazed, Trump white supremacists.
“…I hope this doesn’t mean the magnitude of the threat has been wildly exaggerated for political gain, media excitement and ratings and censorship orgies and laying the foundation for a new fear-driven Domestic War on terror to control politics and information.”
-Greenwald
If the National Guard presence was called by POTUS DJT (And it should have been him, right?), I think he did it to protect *all* in DC from a False Flag/Reichstag moment: in effect, I think Trump was trying to prevent an action that would have given the Left exactly what Greenwald speaks of.
There was a lot of nutty talk by the Q folks and the like that the NG was some kind of 4D chess endgame maneuver to prevent the Biden Administration. It was my belief that Trump was aware of BLM/Antifa/Deep State operatives ready to do something horrible (assassination, explosion, etc.) to “force” the incoming administration to take even more draconian measures than the measures we already expected them to take, to persecute anyone on the Right.
So, Trump floods DC with the troops who are experienced and skilled with insurgent tactics from almost 20 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. F3: False Flag Foiled.
Now, the image of the NG troops still there is just the Left trying to make the best of having their original thrust blunted, lemons from lemonade as far as they’re concerned. They will still get where they wanted to go with the MSM’s assistance but they won’t get the Big Horrific Spectacle I believe they had planned. It will take more time and agitprop.
I can only imagine how many amoral Leftists politicians (but I repeat myself) were salivating at the optics of a false flag, and how far they could run with it, that they could blame on Trump and his supporters on Inauguration Day.
@FractalRabbit:
James Jesus Angleton for you on Line 3.
Except 3 is is the 5th Fibonacci Number. So you need to answer Line 8. Or should it be Line 5 Modulo 3 = Line 2? Be Right Back after Vox Day gives me the answer.
I’m getting kind of lost in this Fractal Hall of Mirrors, but doubtless we’ll bump into each other in here again soon 🙂
Not sure if I get what your point is Mr. Beeblebrox. Perhaps I’m just tired.
I’ve been curious to see what the inauguration really looked like, having seen only highly selective closeups with backgrounds that give nothing away, or neutral city-scapes. But I see over at Small Dead Animals some brave soul apparently in the Press got a few good panoramas from a vantage point.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/062/942/229/original/96694b75b9b24bc6.mp4?_=1
Worse than I thought; Big Screens to Nowhere. It does look like a Joe Biden rally, though.
Fractal, I believe you’re being lumped in with the 5D Chess guys who have proved to be ludicrously detached from reality.
Fractal Rabbit:
Good points regarding the National Guard. Time for them to go home though, especially those from Tx, Fl, and all “Red” states. Let the “Blue” states send their civilian soldiers to play the Kauki Theater for Nancy and Chuck. Regarding the regular forces of the DOD, Posse Comatatus law would come into effect?
And of course Mr. Beeblebrox wasn’t a particularly estimable character in Douglas Adam’s books; a two faced scoundrel IIRC. But what’s in a name?
JimNorCal,
Not sure why I would be lumped in with the 5D (or however many dimensions they’ve been increased to) crowd since I specifically called them ‘nutty’. I was trying to be polite.
Do I need to denounce them more strongly?
om,
IIRC, he also had a third arm which I presume he used to pay himself on the back frequently.
Zaphod, it would depend on the individual soldier. Some make more on Active Duty than they do in their civilian job, and some the other way around. Given that the military tends be more conservative on average than the general population, I can only imagine the angst some are in over this whole situation.
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a ***|||commodius||| vicus of recirculation*** back to Howth Castle and Environs.
That’s High Grade Irish Blarney for where your head is, O Misconfigured Ouroboros.
Somebody slap me down before I start punning on the Omphalos.
@jon baker:
Thanks again. I also read somewhere that many Guardsmen work in Law Enforcement and that taking them away from their day jobs may have deleterious effects upon their local communities for obvious reasons.
The whole thing is unnatural and is a worry. The sooner they’re not being used for what they didn’t sign up for the better.
Fractal Rabbit:
Zaphod Beebelbrox – two heads, three arms, not entirely trustworthy, and good line of bull. Adam’s aliens weren’t what are typically portrayed. “But thanks for all the fish!”
om,
“Regarding the regular forces of the DOD, Posse Comatatus law would come into effect?”
Given the slimmest of excuses and then only in consideration of ‘optics’… our new, fraudulent Sec. Defense Austin will eagerly deploy them anyway. Certainly there will be no consideration given to the constitutionality of their actions by those in the Xiden administration.
After all, whose going to rein them in? Congress? SCOTUS? Not a chance.
Just following orders doesn’t wash anymore, even for the Five Ring kings (minions). Things can move remarkably slowly when NCOs want it so. No competent NCOs, no effective military.
Don’t know who is in command of the guardsmen in D.C. Whoever it is, he just flunked his leadership test. The comfort, safety, and morale of your subordinates is job one for a true military leader. I never saw to my own needs until the needs of my men were taken care of. It really pisses me off that our military has become a political football, with perfumed princes as their leaders. Obama did this and it really stinks.
From the Parler dot com web page. Pretty GOPe-ish, like the Paul Ryan, Mitt, Karl Rove, Peggy Noonan wing of the Party.
I can see why it would be convenient to say this but to me it shows they’re not on my side, in the end
“Parler is gratified that the court refused to uncritically accept Amazon’s argument – widely repeated in the media – that the Parler platform was somehow used to plan, coordinate or execute the despicable January 6 riot at the Capitol.”
I’d go with ill-advised, counter productive or even illegal but “despicable” rubs me the wrong way.
JimNorCal:
Parker is GOPextinct? That explains Dan Bongino, a part owner, and Mark Levin posting there, both who epitomise the GOPextinct (nope).
Think again?
jon baker, thanks for your service. Also, nice to have honest first-hand information.
JimNorCal, I understand your displeasure with the word “despicable”. Maybe they are a little shell-shocked. Considering everything that has happened I would give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
I know why. It was easily predicted.
The NG are not there for what people think they are.
So long as they occupy DC, the T Red shadow government and military option is still in play.
2000 of them were sworn in as marshalls. To arrest whom, the protesters that didn’t show up? Who was going to show up against 35-65k numbers, does Soros pay for hazard pay and life insurance now?
The Yammering will continue until his fantasy is proven. Fantasy don’t care about reality.
Nobody seems sure of how things work. I revert to my question: Who called up the troops in the first place? Nancy has no authority; the Mayor of DC said ‘no’ to troops on Jan 6th, but this is a permission-type requirement to satisfy, not the authority to call up troops. Who called up the troops? This answer would point toward the purpose, and the Commander-in-Chief at the time was Donald Trump. Did he call them up to absolutely squelch any chance of uprising, False-Flag misrepresentations or otherwise? Or did he do it as a parting thumb in the eye, a comment on what was transpiring? I doubt the latter and can no longer offer benefit-of-the-doubt for the former.
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Aggie – Trump authorized the call up after a frantic request from Mayor Bowser and the Capital leadership. The violence within the capital shook him up too. Trump is a man of peace at heart. He is a Jacksonian. Leave me alone and I will leave you alone.
The commander of the Washington DC National Guard is William Walker but I don’t believe he is in charge of the capital grounds. That falls to Congress. So ultimately it is Nancy Pelosi and the Capital Police Chief in charge who is in an acting role after the prior chief resigned after January 6th. The soldiers who were evicted from the capital would have been under Pelosi’s control/authority.
That is who is responsible.
“Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told Fox News’ “The Story” Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked for “crew-manned machine guns” to be a part of security forces in Washington, D.C., ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.”
I was instantly reminded of a passage in Remarque’s ‘The Road Back’ in which a group of German WWI veterans, shortly after the end of the war, encounter a street protest, some members of which show signs of attacking the city hall…the city hall being protected by a machine-gun crew. Which opens fire and kills one of the protestors.
Both the man who was killed, and the commander of the machine-gun crew, turn out to be former front comrades of the protagonists.
God Bless one of the few intellectually consistent Liberals left.
I am Spartacus 09:54, thanks. I knew that Trump called up a limited number of troops shortly after the protest on the 6th January to ensure public order, but I am referring to the much greater buildup of troops in the days just before the inauguration, together with all the intensive hardening of infrastructure – tearing down 9 ft. crowd fences to hurriedly replace them with even taller fences, and so forth. Trump wasn’t even planning to be there. Did he call them up on his own initiative? Was it a request? It doesn’t seem to be ‘found’ information at this point. Clearly Washington D.C. cooled right down to subnormal activity levels after the mayhem on the 6th, and there were no indications of flareups that I saw reported anywhere.
I’m waiting for the memes to come out showing what the video shows: The scattering of a few dozen people on the lawn, a half-empty viewing platform of dignitaries behind Joe, Bernie with his mittens, Big Screens projecting their views out to No Crowd and the words “Seems Legit”
om @ 11:09 pm,
“Just following orders doesn’t wash anymore”
Given that a refusal to follow orders risks a potential death sentence and at the least a dishonorable discharge with an extended stay in Leavenworth… anyone in the military refusing to follow an order had better be damned well sure, that no one can deny that it was an illegal order. Count on it, refuse to follow an illegal order issued by someone like Sec. Def. Lloyd Austin and it will be declared by the upper echelons to have been a legal order. And SCOTUS may well refuse to consider its legality.
It is a very grim choice, one fraught with peril, by anyone in the military, when considering the legality of an order.
Zigmas Laisvas,
Re: “.God Bless one of the few intellectually consistent Liberals left.”
Sir, to whom do you refer?
Geoffrey Britain:
See Diversity Thursday @cdrsalamander.blogspot.com and the “slow roll.” Summary execution was a feature of the USSR and Whermarcht but hasn’t been a feature of western militaries since WWI. Now fragging and accidential blue-on-blue incidents sometimes occur?
Geoffrey Britain:
Another point you may wish to consider; the military is a volunteer force, no drafted. F with the demographic and cultural norms that provide the boots, sailors, and airmen and you will find they won’t serve. Word gets around and payback will be a Kamalla.
More discussion of CARVER principles.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2021/01/two-road-maps.html
This is not the best place for this observation, which many have contributed to previously; but it bears repeating.
Trump proved two major things:
1, That it could be done, if one just went ahead and did it. Our liberties could be restored and our daily lives made more free and prosperous, our life-ways and self-sufficiency returned, our interests and values protected, and our country’s security and independence advanced.
If such were not being deliberately impeded, they could be accomplished without the earth being flung out of orbit, or the seas rushing up over the land as its rotation ground to a halt.
We were placed on the path to an enervated collectivist hell by calculating men, not by inexorable evolution.
2. Realizing this, then also: that for 50 years and more we were deliberately lied to by a nested class of self-interested institution dwellers [ from school teachers on up] who were propagating the false narrative that it could not be avoided, because of impersonal systemic trends which were the supposedly irresistible product of mysterious evolutionary and “world historical” forces.
The reaction of this self-dealing, sinecure collecting class and its clients, to the prospect of making America great again – as it did indeed become in many quantifiable ways greater again – exposed more clearly than analysis and inference alone could ever have done, the activities of that population behind the curtain.
For that alone, Trump is an outstandingly important historical figure.