i feel like that every damn time i get on MARTA, the Atlanta rapid transit system... or the time i got lost in Miami...but...i'm still here!Me? No I'm a white English accountant. I don't think I'd get out alive.
i feel like that every damn time i get on MARTA, the Atlanta rapid transit system... or the time i got lost in Miami...but...i'm still here!Me? No I'm a white English accountant. I don't think I'd get out alive.
This is good please continue do your best to be somewhat civil with your response and reactions. All this about the metal detectors for the members of Congress is not the issue and not related .It's the security failure ,no protester should have ever been permitted to enter the capital, they certainly did not need Apache helicopters circling with mini-guns to accomplish this, it's not rocket science. Just a good barrier ( temporary chain link like at a concert ) and enough guards to deter anyone from breaching them. What they had was a gigantic area surrounded by 4 ‘ green plastic safety fence on rinkydink snow face post with cardboard signs. The bigger the circumference of the barricade the more guards required .like wise the easier the barricade is to breach the more guards required. I don't know how many guards they had but clearly not nearly enough. It's documented ,were warned by the FBI of bad actors and violence infiltrating the rally. I have no doubt that this security failure was intentional. I've seen better security at a Grateful Dead showthey did install metal detectors at entrances to the floor where congressmen /ladies sit during sessions. several GOP members refused to walk through them. Boebert was one of the first. the GOP had them removed when they got their razor-thin hold on power, just over a year ago. "checkpoints" ? how much "prevention" should LEO anticipate needing to protect our legislators from our citizens while performing their legally required duties under the Constitution ? tanks ? Apache helicopters circling the building with mini-guns ready to go ? what ? tell us.
That was the wager just saying. regardless I doubt that even you believe that an “insurrection” without guns stood any chance of an overthrow of the government, or somehow forcibly winning an election. So how would this play out with a mob with flag poles, sticks, a few cans of pepper spray and maybe a fire extinguisher or two? Evan if that had pitchforks and touches , or for that matter guns , how do you forcibly win an election? Hold Pence hostage with a can of pepper spray?nobody would take a bet that did not take into account The Chump/GOPs attempt at insurrection, nobody. the entire thing is about winning an ELECTION, whether you interpret it that way or not. sorry...
from intelligence sources in re Proud Boys now available, there WERE weapons staged nearby, and they lost their nerve. thank God. will they chickenshit out NEXT time?@armedoldhippy the question I have unanswered , I just can't picture the scenario
That was the wager just saying. regardless I doubt that even you believe that an “insurrection” without guns stood any chance of an overthrow of the government, or somehow forcibly winning an election. So how would this play out with a mob with flag poles, sticks, a few cans of pepper spray and maybe a fire extinguisher or two? Evan if that had pitchforks and touches , or for that matter guns , how do you forcibly win an election? Hold Pence hostage with a can of pepper spray?
Better fence and if needed what you said oo buckshot. Basically as strong showing of force as a deterrent would have done the trick , yes a line of cops with pump shotguns .again they were warned it was gonna be more than a Grateful Dead show but they had less fence WTF .it was intentional no law enforcement agency could screw up that badthe folks at the Gratedful Dead show were not looking for trouble. did LEO underestimate how violent the MAGAmaniacs could become? pretty obvious. i agree, they should never been allowed anywhere near the building. YOU tell ME what you would have done differently without putting the focus on the overwhelmed LEO that were there. i, myself, would have had a couple dozen LEO with pump shotguns with buckshot, but then, i'm a real dick when someone ignores "STOP!" or "HALT!" there would have been a lot more than one " peaceful sight-seeing tourist" killed that day if i had been in charge. how would YOU have handled it, given the hindsight we have?
you don't remember (or weren't born yet) for the fiasco at Ruby Ridge or the clusterfuck at Waco, were you? never understimate humans capacity to really fuck up bad...it was intentional no law enforcement agency could screw up that bad
Better than what they had .they have ways look what they did after the fact Fuck our corrupt intel, I'm not standing up for the proud boys but I don't believe any thing that say .Ray couldn't even answer before Congress whether the FBI had agents in the capitol dressed a Trumperschain link fence, LOL! a crowd of pot-smoking hippies crushed those at Woodstock. any other inane ideas? crowd control rests solely on the crowd realizing that appropriate force CAN and WILL be used if they act up. anything less will be an abject failure. the capitol building was not designed nor built as a safe place from a violent assault. too many doors, too many windows...
I do I'm turning 60 in May I got to get some sleep so until lateryou don't remember (or weren't born yet) for the fiasco at Ruby Ridge or the clusterfuck at Waco, were you? never understimate humans capacity to really fuck up bad...
Fuck the police!! So people had a little riot, not a big dealThere's also over a hundred cops that got injured... maybe they were trying not to get injured.