DC Still Has 6,200 Troops And New Fencing Around White House. Why?

Washington, DC Still Looks Like The Hunger Games Capital Panem Yet No One Knows Why

Seth M. Griffin

 

A little over a month ago today, Joe Biden was declared to be the 46th president of the United States of America yet there are federal troops still in Washington, DC. They were originally sent to provide security during the sparsely attended Biden installation ceremony because those fearless defenders of freedom and eavesdroppers upon GOP presidential candidates named (at least) Trump, the FBI, claimed, without evidence, that there would be protesters in DC and around the nation. However, for reasons passing understanding, they still remain standing in the cold doing nothing.

Over 21,000 troops were sent to DC for the event, but more than 6,200 of them remain. During The Surge, the climax of the part of the Iraq War where we were at least pretending to care about imposing our will upon the enemy, two brigades of the 82d Airborne, about 6,800 troops, were sent to Baghdad. Think about that for just a moment.  Only 400 fewer troops remain in DC now than at the height of the US war with Iraq!

Little to no explanation has been provided as to why they’re still there and, what’s more, the FBI isn’t talking either.

Due to the alleged “continued threats, an impressive new fence has been erected now surrounding the White House.  The fence itself is more reminiscent of something you’d likely see protecting a Third World dictator.  But this isn’t appropriate for the capital city of the greatest country the world has and will ever know.  Let alone the world’s leading representative democracy.  Yes, our constitutional republican has, on the surface, turned our nation’s capitol into something not many of us have ever seen.

This commentary by Mollie Hemingway really says it all:

"This is something that you think of as banana republic or third world country stuff." -

@MZHemingway

on the Democrats' sham impeachment.

It’s a prop with a very nefarious end in mind.

How horrifying it is for many people in the country to see their capital surrounded by troops while the previous president is paraded in front of cameras for a show trial.

This is something that you think of as banana republic or Third World country stuff. If it was happening in Russia, you’d say that the regime is very seriously threatened.

And it’s not that this is happening in response to just a few very bad hours on one day but no subsequent threat, but it is done after a ‘summer of rage’ where cities nationwide were besieged. Where churches were set on fire. Where federal buildings were attacked. Where businesses were looted and ransacked. Where dozens of people died. Where thousands of police were injured. And when Senator Tom Cotton suggested that maybe the National Guard could be brought out, it caused a complete meltdown on the left. They actually fired their editor at the New York Times because they ran that op-ed.

And this is just…it’s crazy-making to see what they are willing to do unnecessarily in this situation what they weren’t willing to do protect average Americans. It’s all in an effort to deplatform and get rid of political opposition. That’s what impeachment, censorship in Big Tech, these types of military uses, the politicization of the military…again, it’s a very serious threat to the Republic.

The presence of armed troops currently stationed in DC are beyond unnecessary and are woefully un-American.  Their presence indicates the perpetual announcement of threats which continue to never materialize.  Fences, walls, and security checkpoints are not the outward signs of a regime that feels particularly secure.  Rather, our nation’s capital conjures up images of a White House staff living furtively out of suitcases afraid to unpack, with a convoy of military vehicles standing by to race them to Andrews and fly off into exile.