IS THIS A SCENE FROM CUBA? CHINA? THE MIDDLEEAST? ARE THEY KIDDING?? HAVE YOU SEEN THE OUTRAGEOUS NUMBER OF MILITARY PERSONNEL THEY HAVE IN OUR NATIONS CAPITOL?? TALK ABOUT OVER KILL!
ARE THE DEMONCRATS THAT FRIGHTENED?
We all KNOW that what happened at the Capitol Building was a staged false flag event. Even if it wasn’t, NOTHING that happened there justifies the military presence now active in DC. IF there EVER was a JUSTIFICATION for ARMED CITIZENS THIS IS IT! DO you see what is happening? They staged that event to justify in your mind, the presence of military forces to be used AGAINST US CITIZENS.
They have stirred up all this fear and anxiety in our nation. The only real threat to our nation is the UN AGENDA. Why are we letting this happen? Americans are not violent people. The violence has been created by outside forces and inside traitors. Our nation is being conquered and subverted before our very eyes.
If the Demoncrats are convinced that there is enough opposition to them and their policies that they need an army to protect them, then they are stating they KNOW they are not representing the people. They know that they are hated and that they are FORCING their will on the American public.
Is this really how we want our country to be run. By DICTATORS enforced by fully armed MILITARY? Is this how BIDEN wants to bring harmony and peace to our Nation? Isn’t that what he was spouting throughout the campaign, a friendlier, kinder USA? AND HE NEEDS AN ARMY to enforce his inauguration?? AMERICANS SHOULD BE INSULTED AND INFURIATED! If they were really only concerned for his safety, they could have easily held a virtual inauguration. That would have avoided any violence, and would have placed the administration on the same plane as the rest of the nation under COVID restrictions. That would have demonstrated level headed leadership and calmed the violently charged atmosphere. Instead, they brought in the military as a SHOW of FORCE. To demonstrate that they have the power and control.
IT’S TIME FOR US CITIZENS TO ASK TWO VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:
1. HOW DID WE GET HERE?
2. IS THIS WHAT WE WANT FOR OUR COUNTRY??
COME LET US REASON TOGETHER! Where are the great leaders? Where are the men who can lead by example. Who can express themselves with words? Who can stand for what is right and good? Who have COURAGE and STRENGTH, AND FAITH??
We are tired of SLEAZY WEASLES who plot and scheme. Who hold secret meetings to plan the destruction of our nation. Who hide behind ARMIES and show of FORCE.
So, wait, WHAT? The American people want to do away with POLICE enforcing our laws and protecting the people, but they are totally accepting of TROOPS deployed against citizens???
Rumble — Deception Bytes discusses the news of the day focusing on the ongoing political scandals from a pro-Trump, Christian patriotic perspective. Tonight’s show centers on the current political climate, the DC police state, and the strange goings-on in the days leading up to the inauguration.
Riddle me this… why are there 65,000 trοοps in Wαshingtοn?!? There was only 30,000 the other day. Also, there are ships lining the California shoreline all up and down it (miles and miles). We have Chinεsε Τrοοps in Μexicο and Cαnαda according to reports. Yet, Βiden had almost no trοοps protecting him in Delαwαre during his speech according to the video I saw from there!!! I was right about all the new flights in to Wαshingtοn!! I have to say there is more going on here.. Why is Βiden’s Μask Μandate only in effect on “Federαl Ρrοperties”?That is very strange. He said it would be USA wide, but now its only “Federαl Ρrοperties”. Could this strange theory really be true???? Wαshingtοn is now fenced off from the rest of Αmericα. No one “αttαcked” it. Even they said there was zero threαt from Τrumρ Suppοrters. Right now we have crickets other than people saying “everyone was wrong about Τrumρ”. I would say this is not something to glοat about (considering what is the result if true). We have the “Quε” claiming March.. Personally, I never listened to “Quε” though some of you thought I did. I never listened to them over the last 4 years except the first couple months it came out back in 2016. But there is something going on. A pοwer struggle even if it looks like its all over, something is not right here. Two fences and 65,000 trοοps clearly is not to stop Τrumρ Suppοrters. Τrumρ put them there, not Βiden. I am thinking we will know in the next 7 days more, because I just have a strange feeling about all of this.
Good evening, I’m Dan Hutson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau and this evening. I’m visiting some of the 65000 National Guard soldiers and airmen that are on duty today in our nation’s capital and our soldiers and airmen are here set up throughout the city to help protect our nation’s capital.
Many Soldiers with their back turned as Biden drives by on inauguration day. Jan 20th. 2021 To be fair, I posted a short cnn clip as well and most of the soldiers were facing the motorcade. Updated Jan. 21st 2021 Snopes and Reuters have commented on this video, which has been shared on several other platforms. Snopes says “miscaptioned” Reuters says National Guard did not ‘turn their backs’ on Biden motorcade, video shows standard protocol. When I seen this clip it just seemed odd, as in, this cant be protocol. It is at this time of writing, my understanding that this is not protocol. If I am wrong, I will correct that statement. As far as title goes.. In hindsight I would of been slightly more careful with the title. The title I choose was based on my observation. I used the word “turns” in an attempt to save from using extra characters. I do not feel the title is grossly mistitled, but to do it over, I would go with the following. Many Military with backs turned as Joe Biden’s motorcade passes by.
ABC reporter Ines de La Cuetara was in the motorcade. This same video can be viewed on her twitter page. Its titled The view from Biden’s motorcade as it made its way up to the Capitol.
National Guard to ABC: “These National Guardsmen were on duty with a mission to protect the president against potential threats. Some are facing out to ensure the safety of all.”spacer
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(The cover story is that these soldiers were facing out to assure safety. However, if that were the case, they would have some order as to who faced in and who face out. They would be standing at attention and not at ease and they would not be in bunches. These men were obviously IGNORING the motorcade.)
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According to the Chief of the National Guard there are now 65,000 troops in DC. He also mentions thousands more deployed across the republic under the guise of Covid relief pic.twitter.com/TtPFD0uoqn
The media has been gaslighting the public for a whole week into believing that there are precisely 25,000 National Guard troops stationed in DC; No more, no less, and solely from the NG.
We now have conclusive proof they were lying the whole time.
For the last two days, REDPILLED Media alone has been closely following and diligently reporting on this quickly developing story that the US government and corporate media have colluded to obscure from the American people..
A quick summary of events:
On Saturday, we reported that following President Trump’s explosive interview with MyPillow CEO and founder Mike Lindell concerning Martial Law and the Insurrection Act, he deployed the US Marine Corps to Washington, DC in direct opposition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Rantz in Washington DC: 63 wild photos of the Capitol in lockdown
Jan 18, 2021, 7:56 PM | Updated: Jan 19, 2021, 1:01 pm
Late yesterday, Washington Post reporter Jabin Botsford broke the news on Twitter that MyPillow CEO and founder Mike Lindell met with President Trump at the White House to discuss plans for Martial Law.
The media was on edge all day about it.
Jabin Botsford
@jabinbotsford
@MyPillowUSA CEO Michael Lindell shows off his notes before going into the West Wing at the White House on Friday, Jan 15, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Right below the call for martial law in his notes, there is a mysterious two-line long blacked out section.
No one knows what it’s about.
Hours after Mike Lindell left the White House, Trump supporters on social media reported seeing US Marine Corps helicopters over the area and landing near the White House.
This proves that the military is till behind President Trump even if some around the president are actively sabotaging him.
So who called in the Marines?
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has said unequivocally that she does not want any federal law enforcement entering the city for the inauguration, and that she demands to be consulted before any troops are deployed.
This clearly didn’t happen.
An outlet called ‘Real Raw News’ ran an unverified claim positing that the Marine Corps rebuked Nancy Pelosi’s orders to stand down.
Snopes quickly reported that Pelosi’s office never made such a demand.
So neither the mayor of DC nor the US Congress called in the US Marine Corps.
That leaves one man left.
Now it’s beginning to make sense why virtually every single street in Washington DC is completely shut down.
Something big is about to happen.
And now it makes sense why the usually prolific USMC Twitter account hasn’t tweeted for weeks and has gone completely dark.
In addition to photographic and reported evidence, REDPILLED Media obtained evidence from members within the USMC further substantiating what we first reported: The military is being mobilized to Washington, DC in a strong show of allegiance to our rightful president, Donald Trump, and against the wishes of every establishment politician current holding national office.
We even got video footage from DC residents of multiple US military Ospreys flying over the city into the White House.
The following day, we released a video confirming our investigative reporting on the subject — thousands of US Marines were seen marching through the streets of DC in the middle of the night in an overwhelming display of total loyalty to President Trump!
And now, Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Hokanson has unqualifiedly confirmed that there are currently 65,000 troops in Washington, DC along with thousands more stationed at state capitols around the country.
Late yesterday, Washington Post reporter Jabin Botsford broke the news on Twitter that MyPillow CEO and founder Mike Lindell met with President Trump at the White House to discuss plans for Martial Law.
The media was on edge all day about it.
Right below the call for martial law in his notes, there is a mysterious two-line long blacked out section.
No one knows what it’s about.
Hours after Mike Lindell left the White House, Trump supporters on social media reported seeing US Marine Corps helicopters over the area and landing near the White House.
This proves that the military is till behind President Trump even if some around the president are actively sabotaging him.
So who called in the Marines?
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has said unequivocally that she does not want any federal law enforcement entering the city for the inauguration, and that she demands to be consulted before any troops are deployed.
This clearly didn’t happen.
An outlet called ‘Real Raw News’ ran an unverified claim positing that the Marine Corps rebuked Nancy Pelosi’s orders to stand down.
Snopes quickly reported that Pelosi’s office never made such a demand.
So neither the mayor of DC nor the US Congress called in the US Marine Corps.
That leaves one man left.
Now it’s beginning to make sense why virtually every single street in Washington DC is completely shut down.
Something big is about to happen.
And now it makes sense why the usually prolific USMC Twitter account hasn’t tweeted for weeks and has gone completely dark.
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Then…
Reports and photographic evidence are coming in from sources on the ground confirming President Trump’s imminent deployment of the USMC to the streets of Washington, DC.
The intel source even posted a package of DoD beef patties, along with equipment, ammunition, and backup.
This is the real deal.
We even have video evidence of multiple US Military Osprey aircraft flying into Washington, DC!
Thousands of US Marines have been caught on camera marching through the moonlit streets of the nation’s capital, guns drawn, in an unequivocal and bold show of loyalty to President Trump.
We were proven right once again, concerning a story that the mainstream media roundly refused to report on.
This show of support from the military toward the president in his hour of need is not going unnoticed by the powers that be in Washington, DC.
This shocking development is highly significant as just two weeks ago, we exclusively reported that President Trump escaped in the dead of night to the National Military Command Center in Texas to plan a potential military coup with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Now this…
The chief of the Bureau of the National Guard Daniel Hokanson openly admitted in a video released late Monday evening that in actuality there are currently 65,000 troops stationed in Washington, DC.
I’m Dan Hokanson, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, and this evening I’m visiting some of the 65,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen that are on duty today. Today in our nation’s capital, our soldiers and airmen are here set up throughout the city to help protect our nation’s capitol.
But at the same time, we have thousands around the country supporting COVID-19 operations, Operation Warp Speed, and we have a multitude of soldiers and airmen deployed overseas in combat operations. I’d especially like to thank the families that are maybe alone tonight, and just to let you know that our nation greatly appreciates all your sacrifices and those of your servicemembers, and I could not be prouder to be apart of this organization.
The wording of his remarks to begin with are highly suspect.
In the first three out of his total four sentences, the Chief uses the buzzwords “soldiers and airmen” to describe the personnel deployed to DC. His obvious emphasis on this choice of words is not lost on those of us who, with great evidence, suspect that there is more than just the National Guard occupying DC — namely the US Marine Corps that has been seen marching up and down the streets.
It’s also interesting that he repeatedly diverts attention after so many restatements of the troops in DC, by talking about military efforts to stop COVID-19 associated with Operation Warp Speed.
Speculators online have already noticed that he downplayed the significance of the 65,000 troops by highlighting all the good being done by the military around the country under the guise of coronavirus-related work.
According to the Chief of the National Guard there are now 65,000 troops in DC. He also mentions thousands more deployed across the republic under the guise of Covid relief pic.twitter.com/TtPFD0uoqn
It is unclear at this time whether the updated total troop count includes the US Marine Corps or just the National Guard, as he so claims.
In the case General Hokanson is telling the truth, we may never know how high the total figure of military personnel deployed to DC is and, increasingly, it’s appearing as though the federal government and mainstream media are working overtime so that we don’t find out.
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Please share this news report with the general public before it’s too late and we can’t communicate without having our message content be approved by the federal government. We don’t have much time left.
This story is far from over. Check back often for updates on this quickly developing and frankly unbelievable event.
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As a self-proclaimed journalist. I’m not going to stop pursuing the truth. We have to trust God, be peaceful listen, watch and Pray. My recommendation is Pray first.
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SO, not only are they going to keep the 25,000 National Guard members already in Washington for the Inauguration, as well as the uncounted, enumerable members of the unexplained military forces of various styles and purposes mentioned in the articles already posted here; but they are still brining in who knows how many thousands more troops. FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
This is looking more and more like a global takeover. You better wake up AMERICA. AND I DO MEAN AMERICA, that includes CANADA and MEXICO.
DHS Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli outlines the rules of engagement for National Guard troops deployed in the Capital. https://cbsn.ws/3qwQJAm
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This 60 Minutes video, is total Mainstream Media and Demooncrat propaganda. I am sharing it here to present more information about what they are doing in Washington, DC under the GUISE of “protecting” congress and Joe Biden.
In the video they state that there are 25,000 troops along with “police and other security forces”. Later in the video it is stated that the FBI have 10-20,000 Security Personnel at their disposal. So, now we have potentially 45,000 federal agents and soldiers, plus how many POLICE officers? We don’t know. DOES THAT SOUND SANE TO YOU??
According to the Head of Homeland Security, the preparations for the Inauguration have been going on for 8 months. The 60 Minutes hosts keeps referring to the Protestors at the Capital as TERRORISTS.
There was no HUGE MOB OF ANGRY AND VIOLENT people that “TRAMPLED THE GROUNDS OF THE CAPITOL” as the lady in the video stated. For the most part, the protest was civil and peaceful. The part that you see inside the capitol was a false flag, staged operation. Sadly there were some people who were injured and some that died. But, the entire thing has been blown out of proportion and propagandized. This level of military action is unbelievable over compensation. UNBELIEVEABLE. This is how FASCIST REGIMES ARE ENFORCED.
The American People have a right to assemble. They have a right to access to ALL PARTS of WASHINGTON, DC. The CAPTIOL belongs to the PEOPLE.
They say that they fear the people. I AM TELLING YOU, THAT THE PEOPLE BETTER REALIZE THAT THE PEOPLE ARE IN DANGER FROM THE GOVERNMENT. This kind of military force should not be allowed in a free nation.
American’s, TRUE US CITIZENS, PEOPLE WHO LOVE THIS COUNTRY, are totally against VIOLENCE. The Corporate Entities that run our country and the world, are driving people to violence. They are stirring up frustration, discontent, fear and anger. We must change the atmosphere of our nation. We the people must fight the inclination to respond as they are programming us too. We must stand together, against the tyranny. We must help each other.
President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated in the same spot where insurrectionists waged an assault on the U.S. Capitol just weeks before. Scott Pelley reports on how officials are ensuring the inauguration will be safe. https://cbsn.ws/3qwQJAm
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OMG! I was looking for anything that would tell me how many police officers are on the DC police force. As for the DC police force itself: With approximately 3,800 officers and 600 civilian staff, it is the sixth-largest municipal police department in the United States.
YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT I DISCOVERED. YOU MUST READ THIS ARTICLE. IT IS UNBELIEVEABLE HOW MANY ARMED FEDERAL ‘OFFICERS” there are available. Since 9/11 they have been constantly and consistently build up their armed forces across our nation. If you don’t think these “forces” are going to be used against the people…YOU BETTER WAKE UP!
THIS FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS ENOUGH TO TERRORIZE ANY NORMAL CITIZEN. SO, I ASK YOU, WHERE DOES THE REAL THREAT LIE??
The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement.
Law enforcement monitor protesters in Washington, D.C. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
By GARRETT M. GRAFF
Few sights from the nation’s protests in recent days have seemed more dystopian than the appearance of rows of heavily-armed riot police around Washington in drab military-style uniforms with no insignia,identifying emblems or name badges. Many of the apparently federal agents have refused to identify which agency they work for. “Tell us who you are, identify yourselves!” protesters demanded, as they stared down the helmeted, sunglass-wearing mostly white men outside the White House. Eagle-eyed protesters have identified some of them as belonging to Bureau of Prisons’ riot police units from Texas, but others remain a mystery.
The images of such military-style men in America’s capital are disconcerting, in part, because absent identifying signs of actual authority the rows of federal officers appear all-but indistinguishable from the open-carrying, white militia members cosplaying as survivalists who have gathered in other recent protests against pandemic stay-at-home orders. Some protesters have compared the anonymous armed officers to Russia’s “Little Green Men,” the soldiers-dressed-up-as-civilians who invaded and occupied eastern Ukraine. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Donald Trump Thursday demanding that federal officers identify themselves and their agency.
To understand the police forces ringing Trump and the White House it helps to understand the dense and not-entirely-sensical thicket of agencies that make up the nation’s civilian federal law enforcement. With little public attention, notice and amid historically lax oversight, those ranks have surged since 9/11—growing by roughly 2,500 officers annually every year since 2000. To put it another way: Every year since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the federal government has added to its policing ranks a force larger than the entire Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Nearly all of these agencies are headquartered in and around the capital, making it easy for Attorney General William Barr to enlist them as part of his vast effort to “flood the zone” in D.C. this week with what amounts to a federal army of occupation, overseen from the FBI Washington area command post in Chinatown.Battalions of agents were mustered in the lobby of Customs and Border Protection’s D.C. headquarters—what in normal times is the path to a food court for federal workers. The Drug Enforcement Administration has been given special powers to enable it to surveil protesters. It is the heaviest show of force in the nation’s capital since the protests and riots of the Vietnam War.
As large as the public show of force on D.C.’s streets has turned out to be—Bloomberg reported Thursday that the force includes nearly 3,000 law enforcement—it still represents only a tiny sliver of the government’s armed agents and officers. The government counts up its law enforcement personnel only every eight years, and all told, at last count in 2016, the federal government employed over132,000 civilian law enforcement officers—only about half of which come from the major “brand name” agencies like the FBI, ATF, Secret Service, DEA and CBP.The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, which serves as the general academy for federal agencies who don’t have their own specialized training facilities, lists around80 different agencies whose trainees pass through its doors in Georgia, from the IRS’ criminal investigators and the Transportation Security Administration’s air marshals to the Offices of the Inspector General for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Railroad Retirement Board. Don’t forget the armed federal officers at the Environmental Protection Agency or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement, whose 150 agents investigate conservation crime like the Tunas Convention Act of 1975 (16 USC § 971-971k) and the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 (16 USC § 773-773k).
In and around D.C., there are more than a score of agency-specific federal police forces,particularly downtown where protests have played out over the past week, nearly every block brings you in contact with a different police force. A morning run around the National Mall and Capitol Hill might see you cross through the jurisdictions of the federal U.S. Capitol Police, the Park Police, the National Gallery of Art police, the Smithsonian Office of Protective Services, the Postal police, Amtrak police, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing police, the Supreme Court police, the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service, the Government Publishing Office police, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service. (Only recently did the Library of Congress police merge with the Capitol Police across the street into one unit.) Run a bit farther and you might encounter the FBI Police or the U.S. Mint police. And that’s not even counting the multistate Metro Transit police and the local D.C. Metropolitan Police.
The public has little understanding or appreciation for the size of some of these agencies, each of which has its own protocols, training, hiring guidelines and responsibilities. On the lighter side, few tourists know, for instance, that the National Gallery of Art—home to some of the world’s most famous artwork—has a shooting range for its police tucked away above its soaring central rotunda. On the darker side, the roughly 20,000 federal prison guards known formally as the Bureau of Prisons—whose riot units make up a sizable chunk of the officers imported to D.C. and who represent the single largest component of federal officers in the Justice Department—are concerning to see on the streets in part because they’re largely untrained in civilian law enforcement; they normally operate in a controlled environment behind bars with sharply limited civil liberties and use-of-force policies that would never fly in a civilian environment.
There are more gun-carrying agents employed across the federal government by inspectors general—the quasi-independent watchdogs responsible for rooting out fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars—than there are ATF agents nationwide; the roughly 4,000 inspector general agents nationwide, in fact, is roughly equivalent to the entire size of the DEA. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ police department, who guard the nation’s veteran hospitals, facilities and cemeteries, is larger than the entire U.S. Marshals Service.
Beyond those 132,000 federal civilian law enforcement, the U.S. has tens of thousands of military law enforcement officers,including military police units and investigators like the 2,000 agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the 1,200 agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service or the 900 agents of the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division.Plus, the 40,000 armed personnel of the U.S. Coast Guard, which has broad law enforcement powers on the nation’s rivers, lakes and oceans, but is counted as part of the military.
Then there are the officers who can be spotted across Northern Virginia in white marked patrol vehicles labeled only as “United States Police,” the purposefully vague public name given to what is formally known as the CIA’s Security Protective Services, who provide security to the CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence. They carry weapons, but have limited law enforcement authority. (As one agent told me, only half-joking, “We can’t arrest you, but we can kill you.”)
The list of crimes these agents and officers collectively enforce is endless, so much that a tongue-in-cheek Twitter feed daily shares the most obscure federal criminal penalties. One of this week’s examples: “21 USC §331, 333, 343 & 21 CFR §150.160(b)(2) make it a federal crime to sell jam made from a combination of more than five fruits.” It’shard to even say who might even be in charge of enforcing that one—perhaps the agents of the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations? (You should check out its “Most Wanted” page, in case you happen to have seen Cellou Jumaine, wanted for importing 990,000 counterfeit tubes of Colgate toothpaste.)
The Justice Department can’t even come up with a reliable count of the number of federal crimes on the books to enforce; it’s somewhere north of 3,000 but federal law is so voluminous and convoluted that no one has really tried to count it since 1982. When I was writing a history of the FBI, the bureau couldn’t even tell me the total number of criminal provisions it was specifically responsible for enforcing.
Many federal agencies have broad law enforcement powers—and can end up enforcing laws that wouldn’t on the surface appear to have much to do with their stated raison d’etre. Fun fact: The vast majority of the total arrests made by the Pentagon police, formally known as the Pentagon Force Protection Agency,are for drunk driving. Roughly every two or three days, an intoxicated driver gets lost in the maze of interstate roads around the Defense Department headquarters and takes a wrong turn into one of its parking lots. Such incidents account for as many as four out of five arrests the PFPA make annually.
The rise of so many specialized federal forces—and so many federal law enforcement officers overall—is a relatively recent phenomenon; the FBI was unarmed until the mid-1930s and modern incarnations of the DEA and ATF, for example, were only founded in the 1970s, as part of President Richard Nixon’s law and order push. Historically, it’s not altogether surprising that many of the personnel on D.C.’s streets this week have come from theBorder Patroland the Bureau of Prisons, which have long served as the nation’s “surge” national police force.
The biggest—and most troubling—shift in the makeup of federal law enforcement has come in the decades after 9/11, as the number of armed personnel has surged, law enforcement agencies have proliferated and oversight reins have loosened.
Whereas for years, the Department of Justice—which typically has strict oversight regimes and whose leadership is made up primarily of lawyers and prosecutors—accounted for the bulk of federal officers and agents, the post-9/11 growth of DHS has meant that it alone now accounts for nearly half of all sworn federal law enforcement officers.(There’s even a special 80-person police force within the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a component of DHS, that guards the president’s doomsday bunker at Mount Weather in Berryville, Virginia.) That shift means agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which after 9/11 replaced the Justice Department’s Immigration and Naturalization Service, are now instead led by a department less grounded in the Constitution and whose leadership is more political appointees than career prosecutors.
More broadly, though, many federal agencies exist with little sustained oversight and continue to struggle with training, recruiting and use of force incidents. The Department of the Interior’s Park Police, one of the agencies that has served as the front ranks of the riot security in Lafayette Park, has long been one of the capital region’s most troubled law enforcement entities, with complaints and questionsabout itsuse of forceand even a five-year-long lawsuit over the firing of its police chief after she complained about inadequate staffing. (This week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who thanks to the District’s odd nonstate status finds herself in the odd position of not controlling the police forces patrolling her own city, blasted the U.S. Park Police and officers from the Secret Service—normally tasked with guarding the White House and foreign embassies in D.C.—for clearing Lafayette Park Monday night to allow Trump to walk across the street for a photo op at St. John’s church.) The Federal Protective Service, which oversees security at 9,000 federal buildings across the country, has been reorganized and reshuffled numerous times since 9/11, rarely spending more than a few years in the same box on DHS org charts. And after a hiring surge caused it to lower recruiting standards, CBP has struggled with a decade of rampant crime and corruption in its own ranks—so much so that for most of the past decade, a CBP officer or agent was arrested on average every single day—and its use of force has been widely criticized, even by professional policing organizations. (For a period of time during the Obama administration, the FBI actually declared CBP’s corruption was the nation’s biggest threat at the border.)
The Bureau of Prisons has been dogged for years with questions about its management, training and tactics. Amid the protests in Minneapolis after the killing of George Floyd, a federal inmate also with the last name Floyd (no relation) died this week in an encounter with guards in New York City after being pepper-sprayed in his cell.
Similarly, watchdogs have complained for years about the odd status of the U.S. Marshals Service, a federal agency with roots in the frontier and Wild West that today is in charge of protecting courts and judges,securing federal prisoners and hunting fugitives. The national service is still led across the country by 94 local politically appointed marshals whose posts are handed out as favors, not because of their law enforcement acumen. (The Boston Globe once famously surveilled for 10 days the U.S. marshal in Massachusetts, appointed after a stint on the security detail of the state’s governor, and found he worked an average of only four hours a day.)
Under the Trump administration, Cabinet officials have come under scrutiny for using the government’s law enforcement agents as a sort of Praetorian Guard: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid scandals that included his unprecedented 20-agent round-the-clock security detail, who picked up his dry cleaning and moisturizing lotion; Education Secretary Betsy Devos is protected by a detail of U.S. marshals at a cost of roughly $500,000 a month, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is under investigation after a whistleblower complained he was using his Diplomatic Security Service agents to pick up Chinese food or look after his dog. Even obscure Cabinet secretaries who could pass all-but unnoticed on any street in the country now warrant security: Want to be the special-agent-in-charge of guarding the Agriculture secretary? The Executive Protective Operations Division of the USDA’s Office of Safety, Security and Protection is hiring right now!
Concerningly, under the Trump administration, many of these agencies have been rudderless—overseen by rotating series of acting officials. More than half of all federal civilian law enforcement right now is being led by temporary acting officials, everything from ICE and CBP to DEA. (That calculation doesn’t even count the thousands of special agents in inspectors general offices that have recently seen an administrationwide purge of the government’s watchdogs.) The Bureau of Prisons was being overseen by an acting director last summer when Jeffrey Epstein managed to commit suicide while supposedly under strict monitoring. The DEA, with its special temporary powers for the protests, is currently led by an acting administrator who has been on the job for just days.
Such leadership voids are not solely a recent problem of the Trump administration: Thanks to pressure from the National Rifle Association on Republican lawmakers about the agency’s firearms investigations, the ATF has had a Senate-confirmed director for a total of only two years since 2003. Last month, the Trump administration withdrew its most recent nominee to be ATF director, Chuck Canterbury, a former police union leader who had been deemed by Republican senators as too liberal on guns. (Yes, you read that right: The former head of the Fraternal Order of Police was considered too liberal for the GOP.)
The proliferation of federal officers across government—and the proliferation of watchdogs watching those government agencies—means that you might one day be woken up by a SWAT team-style raid by the Department of Education or the EPA. And the number keeps growing: Congress was surprised when the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction—known as SIGAR—began procuring its own ammunition, flashing lights and body armor for its special agents. Just like its laws, there are too many federal agents for the government to keep track of.
The Covid-19 pandemic has even spawned what will apparently be the nation’s newest federal investigator: The Senate confirmed on Tuesday a special inspector general to oversee the $500 billion pandemic recovery spending. He, presumably, will be recruiting his own agents and equipment soon.
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SO, after all the work and man hours they put into putting up the “NON-SCALABLE 8 foot fence” they are taking it all down an replacing it with 12 foot fencing. WOW… 8 foot “non-scalable” was not sufficient? Even with an entire army, fully armed and armored up, guarding it and blocking the surrounding area for miles? Are you kidding. How would spoiled rotten, over-weight, undiscipled, and lazy Americans be a threat against our entire military and their support forces??? Is this a JOKE??
THIS IS NO JOKE FOLKS. THIS IS A SHOW OF FORCE. THEY ARE DEMONSTRATING FOR YOU THAT THE NEW WORLD ORDER HAS TAKEN CONTROL AND WE ARE NOW UNDER A TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT THAT WILL TOLERATE NO RESISTANCE OR DISSENT!
(Natural News) New, massive fencing going up outside the Capitol. The eight foot, non-scalable fence is gone. Now, a 12-foot wall is going up.pic.twitter.com/pOdA1paq4Z
From the party who brought you hits like “Walls are bad” and “Only hateful, anti-American racist bigots put up walls” comes their latest hit… https://t.co/w65ATNMjp2
President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated in the same spot where insurrectionists waged an assault on the U.S. Capitol just weeks before. Scott Pelley reports on how officials are ensuring the inauguration will be safe. https://cbsn.ws/3qwQJAm
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THE PEOPLE OF THE USA better get on their knees and pray that GOD will take this nation back and lead us to where we should be.
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Local and federal security officials near the Capitol in Washington, D.C. expect about 20,000 National Guard members to be involved in President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week. January 14, 2021.Photo by Matt Hecht/National Guard/Pool / Latin America News Agency
The nation’s capital will have extensive military presence next week when Joe Biden takes the oath of office and becomes the 46th U.S. president.
Washington D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said on Wednesday: “The final numbers will be provided from the United States Secret Service. I think you can expect to see somewhere upwards beyond 20,000 members of the National Guard that will be here in the footprint of the District of Columbia.”
That’s four times the number of troops currently in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
On Inauguration Day, the National Mall will be closed. The Secret Service is taking all kinds of precautions to prevent another violent assault.
It’s not just in DC either. State capitals across the country are bracing for demonstrations or at worst, armed insurrection.
Around the California State Capitol, Highway Patrol and the Sacramento Police are ramping up security. A six-foot perimeter fence went up this morning. And CHP denied a conservative group a permit to rally at there this weekend.
Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday he’s prepared to activate the California National Guard if necessary.
What’s going on in the nation’s capital is unprecedented.
Around 25,000 troops, unknown numbers of secret service agents, other federal security forces, and local police turned the city into a blockaded armed camp ahead of illegitimate transition of power on January 20.
The nation’s capital resembles occupied Baghdad’s Green Zone that’s half-way around the world from Washington DC.
Seven-foot-high non-scalable barricades topped with razor wire surround the Capitol and various federal buildings.
Thousands of heavily armed National Guard troops and other security forces — with orders to use lethal force against alleged threats — guard the city’s perimeter and virtually everything important inside.
Bridges into the city and National Mall will be closed ahead of Wednesday’s transition of power.
At checkpoints, IDs of occupants in cars, no other modes of transport,or on foot entering or leaving the city are checked.
The Military Times reported that “National Guard troops from (virtually all US (states) continue to pour into DC for…security.”
Army General Daniel Hokanson, head of the National Guard Bureau, is commanding what’s going on.
Deployment of troopswas authorized for up to30 days for transition of power preparations, what’s planned for January 20 and its aftermath.
The Washington Post, located in the city on K Street NW, said it’s “closed off like never before,” adding:
“(T)he Secret Service has launched a massive security operation.”
“Vehicle traffic in much of the city will be prohibited or limited to residents and businesses only.”
“Metro is shuttering stations in the city’s core and near the Mall.”
“Street closures will continue through Thursday, and are subject to change at the discretion of the Secret Service.”
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser noted the unprecedented interruption of daily life for city residents and businesses while all of the above continues.
Saying “we are in unchartered waters” greatly over-dramatizes preparations for alleged threats that are highly unlikely to happen unless one or more state-sponsored false flags are planned to further vilify Trump and his supporters.
No reported intelligence or other information suggests a serious enough or any threat to warrant over-the-top preparations— notably 25,000 National Guard troops from all states.
No explanation was given for what’s going on at enormous taxpayer expense — other than non-specific remarks.
The best FBI director Christopher Wray would offer was saying the following:
“We are seeing an extensive amount of concerning online chatter — that’s the best way I would describe it — about a number of events surrounding the inauguration” with no further elaboration.
His remark suggested no organized or other planned threat(s) to inauguration day events — likely because there are none expected.
According to one observer who walked around the perimeter of barricades twice this week, it’s nearly impossible for any unauthorized vehicle or person to get anywhere near close to where inaugural ceremonies will be conducted.
At Secret Service discretion, closures, barriers, and other preparations are subject to change.
A Final Comment
On Friday, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser’s remark was an Orwellian shot across the bow for what may be coming ahead nationwide, saying:
“(O)ur entire country is going to have to deal with how our intelligence apparatus, security apparatus at every level deal with a very real and present threat to our nation (sic).”
Her remark indicates a new abnormal for the city that perhaps is coming to the US nationwide.
The only “threat to our nation” is state-sponsored.
A free and open society appears on the chopping block for elimination — totalitarian rule enforced by police state harshness appears coming to replace it.
Watching America accept the rationally and morally indefensible physical and economic lockdown of the country, I concluded: “Apathy in the face of tyranny turns out not to be a German or Russian characteristic. I just never thought it could happen in America.”
In one week, it has gotten worse. Now we are faced with a lockdown on speech the likes of which have never been seen in America. And the parallels with Germany are even more stark. The left-wing party (the Democrats) and the left-wing media (the “mainstream media”) are using the mob invasion of the Capitol exactly the way the Nazis used the Reichstag fire.
On Feb. 27, 1933, exactly one month after the Nazis came to power, the German parliament building, the Reichstag, was set ablaze. The Nazis blamed the fire on their archenemy, the Communists, and used the fire to essentially extinguish the Communist Party and its ability to publish, speak or otherwise spread its message. Using the Reichstag fire as an excuse, the Nazis passed the Enabling Act, a law that gave the Nazi chancellor, Adolf Hitler, the power to pass laws by decree – without the Reichstag.
Now to America 2021.
On Jan. 6, 2021, a right-wing mob of a few hundred people broke away from a peaceful right-wing protest involving tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of American conservatives and forced its way into the U.S. Capitol. One Capitol policeman was killed after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, and one of the right-wing Capitol invaders was shot by a Capitol police officer. (A handful of others who died in the vicinity of the Capitol did so of nonviolent causes.) Aside from smashed windows, the mob seems to have done little damage to the Capitol. Their intent is still not clear. It seems to have been largely catharsis. They hurt no legislators, and if they intended to overthrow the government, they were delusional.
Beginning the next day, the American left used the Capitol mob just as the Nazis used the Reichstag: as an excuse to subjugate its conservative enemies and further squelch civil liberties in America – specifically, freedom of speech.
Twitter not only permanently banned the account of president of the United States but permanently banned him from Twitter. Any Twitter account found tweeting Donald Trump was permanently banned.
The left was able to do all this not only by using the Capitol mob incident but also by engaging in a series of lies.
The first was blaming the attack on President Donald Trump. Over and over, in every left-wing medium and stated repeatedly by Democrats, Trump is blamed for “inciting” the riot in his speech just before it took place. Almost never is a Trump quote cited. Because there is none. On the contrary, he did say, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” (italics added).
Another lie was the immediate labeling of the mob attack on the Capitol as “insurrection.” All left-wing media and Democrats now refer to the event as an “insurrection,” a term defined by almost every dictionary as “an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.” As morally repulsive as the actions of the mob were, they did not constitute a revolt against civil authority or an established government. Disrupting the work of legislators for a few hours – as wrong as that was – does not constitute a “revolt.”
But what proves the left’s “insurrection” label is a lie is that Democrats and their media never once labeled the left-wing riots of 2020 – which involved the destruction by fire and/or occupation and vandalizing of police stations, and the establishment of “autonomous zones,” which, by definition, revolted against “established governments” – as an “insurrection.” The enormous number of businesses burned down, looted or otherwise destroyed was barely covered by the mainstream media, and their violent perpetrators were almost never prosecuted, let alone condemned, as engaging in an insurrection. Dozens of people were killed in these riots, yet there was more outcry and condemnation against the hours-long occupation of the U.S. Capitol than against six months of left-wing violent riots.
Then, like the Nazi regime after the Reichstag fire, the left immediately moved to further curtail civil liberties, specifically conservatives’ ability to promote their ideas. Twitter and Amazon made it impossible for the alternative to Twitter, Parler, to exist, all in the name of preventing another right-wing “insurrection.”
In the name of the Capitol “insurrection,” the Democrats announced they would impeach the president of the United States, though he had only 14 days left in office.
In the name of the Capitol “insurrection,” the editor of Forbes, Randall Lane, announced that Forbes media was “holding those who lied for Trump accountable” in what he called “a truth reckoning”: “Hire any of Trump’s (press secretaries),” Lane warned, “and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.”
In the name of the Capitol mob attack, 159 law professors at Chapman University have called for the firing of John Eastman, a tenured fellow law professor and holder of an endowed chair at Chapman – because “his actions Wednesday (that) helped incite a riot.” Eastman had spoken at the Trump rally.
The professors ended their Los Angeles Times letter: “He does not belong on our campus.”
Words well chosen.
What the left is doing is announcing – and enforcing – that conservatives “do not belong” in our society. The parallels to 1933 are precise. And most good Americans are keeping silent, just as did most Germans. Though they do not risk being beaten up, are Americans in 2021 as afraid of the American left as Germans in 1933 were of the German fascists? We’re about to find out.
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My concern is that they are already calling for troops to be activated in all 50 states. Given the number of troops we see in Washington, DC, it is not unreasonable to think that they could begin to call on the UNITED NATIONS to provide support. This opens us up to not only US Troops OCCUPYING our Nation, but FOREIGN TROOPS as well. And, then we have the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
A member of the Washington National Guard stands at a fence surrounding the Capitol in anticipation of protests Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Olympia, Wash. (Ted S. Warren)
Governors around the country began ramping up security at their state capitols, including activating their states’ National Guards, in preparation for what the FBI identified as massive armed protests planned in every state capital in the country leading up to Inauguration Day.
The activations come in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection by pro-Trump supporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., and ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. They are in addition to National Guard forces mobilized to D.C., where there are already about 6,200 National Guard soldiers and airmen from six states and the District of Columbia on the ground supporting civilian authorities, said Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
“We have received support requests from the Secret Service, Capitol Police, and Park Police, and have been authorized to provide up to 15,000 Guard members to meet current and future inauguration support requirements,” Hokanson said in a media release.
In Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday night said the Washington National Guard would continue to support security efforts at the Capitol at least through Inauguration Day “due to evolving intelligence on security threats” posed in all 50 state Capitols.
Washington state’s Legislature convened Monday amid a heightened security presence due to concerns about armed groups who might try to disrupt the proceedings. At least two people were arrested. A right-wing militia had encouraged its members to occupy the Capitol before calling it off.
The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Colleen Long, The Associated Press, Michael Balsamo, The Associated Press, Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press
Capitol campus buildings are closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“These unfortunate, necessary security precautions could last longer, but we are hopeful that we will soon see political temperatures cool and threat levels come down, bringing a related easing of these restrictions,” Inslee said in an emailed statement.
Members of the Washington National Guard stand along a perimeter fence as an Olympia Fire Dept. truck passes by, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
Last Wednesday, people broke a gate outside the governor’s mansion and made it to the porch and front yard. That breach came hours after the pro-Trump siege of the nation’s Capitol building in Washington, D.C., that resulted in the deaths of five people, including Air Force veteran Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher and Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and rioter who was shot and killed by Capitol police during the siege.
Inslee said many roads and trails also will continue to be closed so people can peacefully assemble in non-restricted areas without the concern of vehicles impacting their activity while also allowing for emergency vehicle access.
“Law enforcement remains present to help ensure that all sides have the opportunity to legally exercise their free speech rights and peaceably assemble in non-restricted areas,” he said.
Ohio
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine activated 580 National Guard members Tuesday in preparation for what the FBI identified as massive armed protests planned in Columbus and every state capital in the country leading up to Inauguration Day.
“People have the right to protest. They do not have the right to be destructive,” DeWine said during a briefing Tuesday. “They do not have the right to hurt other people.”
“We all saw what happened at the U.S. Capitol. And we know we are very concerned,” he added.
Some governors and lawmakers began ramping up security because of online threats suggesting that more mobs could target state capitols.
David A. Lieb, The Associated Press
The Republican governor authorized National Guard members from Jan. 14 to Jan. 21 to conduct training and be prepared in case called upon to police the armed riots authorities say are planned at the U.S. Capitol and the Ohio Statehouse. Two hundred additional National Guardsmen will be sent to Washington, D.C.
DeWine said he will adjust the number of Guardsmen activated and deploy them to specific areas in Ohio depending on the requests from city mayors and the intelligence the state receives.
“We know there are people in this county who want to do more than demonstrate and more than exercise their First Amendment rights,” DeWine said. “The more information we are seeing as to who some of these people were and how well prepared they were, it’s something every American should be concerned with.”
Minnesota
Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday he plans to deploy the Minnesota National Guard to protect against potential threats to the state Capitol ahead of Biden’s inauguration.
Walz told reporters he plans to issue the executive order activating the National Guard late Tuesday or on Wednesday, but that troops will be activated for several days.
The Minnesota National Guard said in a separate announcement that it would deploy a company of more than 130 solders to Washington in support of security for the inaugural. Col. Scott Rohweder, the Guard’s operations director, said the Guard has sent members to previous inaugurations, too.
Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown has activated the Oregon National Guard because of possible violence at the state Capitol and elsewhere following the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol last week by a pro-Trump mob.
The Oregon State Police said in a statement Wednesday the guard would be used as necessary and their deployment locations wouldn’t be made public. The Oregon Legislature convenes Tuesday.
“The recent events at our Nation’s Capitol building and at our own statehouse illustrate the need for law enforcement to be prepared and appropriately staffed for any large gatherings,” said Oregon State Police Superintendent Terri Davie, who requested that the National Guard be activated to assist authorities.
The Capitol in Salem, Oregon, has seen near weekly protests since November’s elections, and some have turned violent. Federal authorities have warned of possible unrest in all 50 state capitols this weekend and into next week.
Minnesota
Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday activated the Minnesota National Guard to protect the state Capitol amid rising fears of violence ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, and another top Democrat said authorities are investigating last week’s rally by supporters of President Donald Trump in St. Paul for statements that could be considered incitements to violence.
And it follows a pro-Trump “Storm the Capitol” rally at the state Capitol last Wednesday where one speaker warned of “a civil war,” and another drew cheers for predicting “casualties” in Washington. While the Minnesota protest was peaceful, the State Patrol evacuated Walz’s 14-year-old son when it moved to the governor’s residence. Protesters have often gathered there on Saturdays, leading to confrontations between Trump supporters and various groups on the left.
“Recent reports of planned armed protests around the country and at our State Capitol must be met with a strong and unequivocal response,” Walz said in his executive order.
Reporting from the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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