Should the level of protection of a sitting US President be different from the kind of protection members of US Congress have when they are inside Capitol Hill?
Isn’t it so that most Americans are under the impression that if the White House with the President inside gets attacked by a mob, the US Secret Service along with other WH security personnel would not hesitate to open fire at them?
Based on the revelation on the level of security in yesterday’s attack by a seditious mob incited by Trump against members of Congress, could this mean that the life of a US President is more important than that of US Senators and House Representatives?
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^^I think members of Congress got really lucky yesterday. Sitting ducks that got really lucky.
Well Capitol police held them off long enough for people to evacuate.
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One of the reasons for why DC should become a state. So they can call the National Guard themselves, and not have to be at the mercy of an enemy president.
Also, what is the difference between the Capitol and Mordor?
One does not simply walk into Mordor.
@ragingloli You don’t think the guy in the bull hat looked like Frodo?
It isn’t feasible for Members of Congress to have the same level of protection as the sitting president. There are 535 of them, and they move about, freely and unimpeded, throughout D.C. and their home districts and states.
I have no doubt that the Capitol will soon have bars covering every window, something that’s never existed.
^^Not outside. Only inside Capitol Hill.
I am confused. I keep hearing a rumor that the Capitol police “opened the doors” for them. In all of the video I’ve watched I haven’t seen that. From what I saw they broke the glass on the windows and got in that way.
I see. So they opened the gates to the fence, not the doors to the building itself.
There is also information indicating that the National Guard was not allowed to be deployed without express permission from drumpf’s defence secretary:
https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-hindered-dc-national-guard-response-to-insurrection-attempt-report-2021-1?r=DE&IR=T
That also explains why neighbouring states that tried to send the NG were also denied in the beginning.
There are also reports that say that it was Pence that set the deployment in motion, with drumpf not wanting to do it.
Together with the Orangutan’s speech encouraging the mob to “walk down to the capitol”, his initial refusal to condemn the mob to the extent that he had to be begged to by his aides, and the resulting address where he actually praised the mob, followed by a now deleted tweet where he justified the mob’s actions,
it does begin to paint the picture, that he not only welcomed and condoned this insurrection, but that he intentionally pushed them to do it with his dogwhistling, and enabled them by having accomplices among the USCP letting the mob in, and slowing down the response to it beforehand.
The fact the he replaced the Department of Defense secretary with one of his lackeys some weeks ago is another clue that this was intended.
Larry Hogan, Governor of Maryland, has said that his offer to send in Maryland’s National Guard was refused for a time by the DoD before Pence accepted it.
It is also known that one of them was armed, one of them had a cooler with a dozen molotov cocktails, they planted pipe bombs, they construced a gallows, and there is a photo of one of them inside the building with a bundle of police-type zip ties.
Not only does this show that this was planned, but it also shows what they were planning to do.
Michael Moore who as filmmaker had visited Capitol Hill several times shares some interesting insights. Capitol Hill attack
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