Completely Understandable. When I didn’t see my email, I went to Facebook (that I’m trying to avoid). But it made me realize even more how important your words, your being here, mean to me. I get emotional (something I’m doing a lot of lately). Just your calm presence is so important. I just wish we all could provide support to you in some way also.
No worries. You did post to Facebook. I'm here in Washington, DC. Your calm, well reasoned essays, ironically, calm me down. As you might imagine, things have been really unnerving in DC. Trump not only called his cult to DC January 6th. But he also wants them back January 20th. They still plan to come.
I believe the attack on the Capitol was part 2 of the Internet hack that's undermined many Federal agencies and corporations for the last 9 months. I think Trump literally gave the keys to the kingdom to our adversaries. Now he's trying to finish the job. Remember, laptops and other security devices were stolen in the Wednesday Capitol melee, by people who seemed to know what they wanted and where to go to get it. I've been in the Capitol. It's a maze. You'd never know where, as a stranger, you'd know how to find anything, unless you'd already figured it out.
After the election, Trump made numerous civilian military appointees to key agencies who could refuse to help in a national emergency. Many wondered why he was doing this after losing the election. We now know. It was so they could say no.
Then Trump called in the invasion cult, "Be here. Be wild." And incited his cult, at his Wednesday rally, saying he would walk down Pennsylvania Avenue with them. This from a guy who golfs with a cart, and who's longest walk was from the now denuded Rose Garden to Lafayette Square where he posed with a Bible. Instead he went back to The White House by motorcade and turned on the TV. His delight was so palpable that resignations began immediately.
Few understand that Washington DC is a quilt of unrelated security. Federal is Federal. Local is local. There are numerous agencies that are their own silos. Our Washington DC Metropolitan Police cannot, CANNOT, enter Federal areas like the Capitol, unless invited. Only the President can ask other agencies to assist. Trump repeatedly refused requests from both the Capitol Police and from our Mayor Bowser, asking for the National Guard. The best Mayor Bowser could do was to get the guard in for unarmed traffic control. Maryland, who wanted to help, was similarly refused.
The Capitol Police had asked Federal agencies for help. They'd asked for the National Guard. But Trump and his civilian military minions repeatedly refused.
There's some evidence that some (but definitely not all) of The Capitol Police were in on the plot (video of lifted gates and selfies, suggest this). Eventually the Federal Capitol Police did ask our local MPD for help. Our MPD was there in force in a flash, once invited (remember, our local police cannot police Federal property unless invited).
Now the true Trump believers say it wasn't them. I don't think they have any idea how man security cameras are here in DC. A DC program gives residents and businesses discounts on security cameras, as long as they can be accessed by the police and other agencies.
Names are being published. The guy in the Viking like helmet with horns is from Arizona. The guy with his feet on Pelosi's desk is identified. The guy stealing the podium? Identified. The FBI has been inundated with tips and videos since launching its hotline and Website.
The airlines have offered to detain anyone who can be identified before leaving town. 9/11 was solved with airport security footage. Everything is so much more sophisticated now that more information is easily sharable. It's much harder to hide.
Now that the Capitol Police officer hit with a fire extinguisher has died, homicide will be among the charges levied against anyone identified and arrested. Deaths from the traitorous insurrection are now at 5.
Let's hope that all perpetrators are all arrested and rounded up before January 20th. There's going to be a lot of them. Perhaps they should be incarcerated at Guantanemo where we keep other unrepentant terrorists.
Completely Understandable. When I didn’t see my email, I went to Facebook (that I’m trying to avoid). But it made me realize even more how important your words, your being here, mean to me. I get emotional (something I’m doing a lot of lately). Just your calm presence is so important. I just wish we all could provide support to you in some way also.
No worries. You did post to Facebook. I'm here in Washington, DC. Your calm, well reasoned essays, ironically, calm me down. As you might imagine, things have been really unnerving in DC. Trump not only called his cult to DC January 6th. But he also wants them back January 20th. They still plan to come.
I believe the attack on the Capitol was part 2 of the Internet hack that's undermined many Federal agencies and corporations for the last 9 months. I think Trump literally gave the keys to the kingdom to our adversaries. Now he's trying to finish the job. Remember, laptops and other security devices were stolen in the Wednesday Capitol melee, by people who seemed to know what they wanted and where to go to get it. I've been in the Capitol. It's a maze. You'd never know where, as a stranger, you'd know how to find anything, unless you'd already figured it out.
After the election, Trump made numerous civilian military appointees to key agencies who could refuse to help in a national emergency. Many wondered why he was doing this after losing the election. We now know. It was so they could say no.
Then Trump called in the invasion cult, "Be here. Be wild." And incited his cult, at his Wednesday rally, saying he would walk down Pennsylvania Avenue with them. This from a guy who golfs with a cart, and who's longest walk was from the now denuded Rose Garden to Lafayette Square where he posed with a Bible. Instead he went back to The White House by motorcade and turned on the TV. His delight was so palpable that resignations began immediately.
Few understand that Washington DC is a quilt of unrelated security. Federal is Federal. Local is local. There are numerous agencies that are their own silos. Our Washington DC Metropolitan Police cannot, CANNOT, enter Federal areas like the Capitol, unless invited. Only the President can ask other agencies to assist. Trump repeatedly refused requests from both the Capitol Police and from our Mayor Bowser, asking for the National Guard. The best Mayor Bowser could do was to get the guard in for unarmed traffic control. Maryland, who wanted to help, was similarly refused.
The Capitol Police had asked Federal agencies for help. They'd asked for the National Guard. But Trump and his civilian military minions repeatedly refused.
There's some evidence that some (but definitely not all) of The Capitol Police were in on the plot (video of lifted gates and selfies, suggest this). Eventually the Federal Capitol Police did ask our local MPD for help. Our MPD was there in force in a flash, once invited (remember, our local police cannot police Federal property unless invited).
Now the true Trump believers say it wasn't them. I don't think they have any idea how man security cameras are here in DC. A DC program gives residents and businesses discounts on security cameras, as long as they can be accessed by the police and other agencies.
Names are being published. The guy in the Viking like helmet with horns is from Arizona. The guy with his feet on Pelosi's desk is identified. The guy stealing the podium? Identified. The FBI has been inundated with tips and videos since launching its hotline and Website.
The airlines have offered to detain anyone who can be identified before leaving town. 9/11 was solved with airport security footage. Everything is so much more sophisticated now that more information is easily sharable. It's much harder to hide.
Now that the Capitol Police officer hit with a fire extinguisher has died, homicide will be among the charges levied against anyone identified and arrested. Deaths from the traitorous insurrection are now at 5.
Let's hope that all perpetrators are all arrested and rounded up before January 20th. There's going to be a lot of them. Perhaps they should be incarcerated at Guantanemo where we keep other unrepentant terrorists.