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Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, tweeted: "Just made a number of calls and have been informed Capitol Police have apologized to the Guardsmen and they will be allowed back into the complex tonight. I'll keep checking to make sure they are."Outraged state governors are pulling their units back:
The DC National Guard released the following statement on Thursday night:
"The National Guard continues to assist and support the U.S. Capitol Police. As Congress is in session and increased foot traffic and business is being conducted, Capitol Police asked the troops to move their rest area. They were temporarily relocated to the Thurgood Marshall Judicial Center garage with heat and restroom facilities. We remain an agile and flexible force to provide for the safety and security of the Capitol and its surrounding areas.
Security detail does require a rest period and a rest area as the troops perform their shift work with breaks to get out of inclement weather.
Govs. Ron DeSantis, Chris Sununu and Greg Abbott announced that they are bringing their National Guard troops back from Washington, D.C., after reports they were posted up in a parking garage near the Capitol to rest during their shifts, a move that caused outrage at the treatment of the servicemembers.And the Guards themselves 'feel betrayed':
On Fox & Friends, reacting to the controversy, DeSantis also decried background checks of National Guard troops for radicalism ahead of the inauguration and called the massive effort to protect the Capitol a "half-cocked mission at this point."
DeSantis' move follows a similar decision from Abbott, also a Republican.
"I have instructed General Norris to order the return of the Texas National Guard to our state," Abbott tweeted late Thursday. Abbott had also previously lodged a similar objection to DeSantis over the background checks into National Guard servicemembers.
Sununu, the GOP governor from New Hampshire, also announced he is recalling his state's National Guard, saying the soldiers "should be graciously praised, not subject to substandard conditions." But the outrage at the soldiers being sent to rest in a garage was hardly partisan.
The troops are particularly concerned about being packed in tight quarters with limited bathroom access during a pandemic. At least 100 Guardsmen have tested positive for Covid-19, according to two Guardsmen. Some are quarantining in hotels.Social media was there to document the entire fiasco, with former President Trump taking the lead to offer rooms at his Washington hotel:
A spokesperson previously declined to provide a specific number for troops who have tested positive for the virus.
After images went viral last week of troops sleeping on the floor in the halls of Congress, Guardsmen protecting the Capitol were initially provided cots, POLITICO first reported.
Thousands of troops have already left Washington after around 25,000 were called to D.C. to help defend it from potential threats ahead of President Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday.
After Keating commented out loud that masks were required to be worn at all times in a federal building, the National Guard member responded, "I appreciate my freedom," according to the source.RC
Because you’re reading this far into a long article, I know you’re someone who reads things, which means you probably don’t have a huge connection to the kind of people who would sign up for the National Guard (at least not two decades after 9/11/2001 and a record of endless and demonstrably fraud-based brutal wars for Israel).RC
But we all have known a stupid fat kid with a dumb look on his face, who is the sort to walk in and sign up for US Military service because he doesn’t have any idea what is going on. Most of us have one or two in our family. These kinds of people have become harmful to society in recent decades because they lack leadership – not because they are not harmless. I mean, he’s earnest. He’s got his Bible there with him. He’s doing his damn best. I’m sure he called his mama and told her he was doing just fine in that garage.
These are the same folks who really and truly physically built our country (blacks claiming to have done it is a kind of stolen valor). Surely, you agree that these folks deserve to be kept in doors, not forced to sleep outside in the open air like animals.
This is a savage, hateful thing that these Washington people did. And this should remind you: the only thing more hateful than a Jew is a mid -witted white person who got a job making big bucks wearing a suit looking down on the dimwitted white person who didn’t.
One other thing is for certain: Washington, DC was not a city built to be occupied by an army of tens of thousands of soldiers. The people who built the city obviously figured that if that ever happened, it would be an invading army, and they could find their own place to sleep. That fact in itself is one that should mean that these images of the garaged troops violate the conscience of every American.
If someone goes to Yale or Harvard, then goes to live and work in the hive of scum and villainy that is Washington, DC, then you know he cares about one thing, above all else, and that is status. And status is the only thing between him and some earnest fat kid with a Bible who's about to get shipped off to Syria to get his legs blown off by an IED built by a CIA-trained jihadi. [Link]
As I've written (previously), I mean what I say and say what I mean. I always declare sarcasm, facetiousness et al., and I first wrote that for emails and I now say it here again because it was and is too easy to lose the inflections rife in vocal communication, et al., etc.In my opinion, AA is a throwback to great columnists of old, and is a Mike Royko or Lewis Grizzard, of his generation. But for that he was CANCELED! Really canceled. His URL was stolen, (I forget the details) and ultimately, his 'cloudfare' was shut down. (Whatever that means.) I had heard of that event (~3/2017? - he writes about it, and their attempts at his and others' 'cancellations' quite a lot and if you find one of his tech articles there, the others are linked in, too.) and I then tried to find him as a matter of principle, but could not. I thought he had been permanently canceled/lost, but either SOTT &/or Unz posted an article by him and I bookmarked his site. [Link] You should too.
Grew up there, it is a shit hole.
They have hardly shit for respect for our troops, this does not shock me.