- Re: Burt, I haven't a clue why security ran away. All kinds of possibilities. nm Archived Message
Posted by brooks
on January 27, 2021, 5:32 pm, in reply to "Burt, I haven't a clue why security ran away. All kinds of possibilities. nm"
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But Der, you're missing my point, and the key evidence for this not being a mere protest gone wrong. I agree with you about the possible motivations of many of the protesters' odd behaviour. But it's not about that, nor is it about "security running away". It's about high-level orders for a stand-down that allowed the protesters to waltz into the capitol building of the most powerful state in world history as if it were a shopping mall. The Wall Street Journal revealed yesterday that “the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an intelligence unit inside the Department of Homeland Security didn’t issue a threat assessment of the Jan. 6 pro-Trump protests,” even though such assessments are routinely made before nonviolent left-wing demonstrations and are used to prepare police crackdowns and identify participants. The Washington Post also reported Friday that the Pentagon had issued orders disarming the Washington DC National Guard before Wednesday’s rally, delaying any armed response for several hours pending deployments from out of state: The Pentagon placed tight limits on the DC National Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests this week… In memos issued Monday and Tuesday in response to a request from the DC mayor, the Pentagon prohibited the District’s guardsmen from receiving ammunition or riot gear, interacting with protesters unless necessary for self-defense, sharing equipment with local law enforcement, or using Guard surveillance and air assets without the defense secretary’s explicit sign-off, according to officials familiar with the orders. Even then, the Pentagon refused to act for several hours on a request by Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan to deploy his state’s National Guard against the insurrectionists. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/09/plot-j09.html |