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HOMELAND SECURITY – Following the violent riot in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the National Guard from several states have been mobilized and deployed to Washington, D.C. However, unlike prior deployments where the Guard was unarmed and used mostly for presence and crowd and traffic control, some of these troops are now armed and ready.

They will also be providing site security for the Capitol and in some areas of downtown D.C.

Approximately 6,200 National Guard troops have been flown into the nation’s capital from several nearby states. The troops from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Virginia joined those from D.C. to help avoid a repeat of last week’s deadly chaos.

Additionally, a metal fence similar to the one previously erected around the White House now surrounds the Capitol grounds. Both National Guard troops and law enforcement officers are guarding the perimeter behind the fence.

Two Air Force veterans were killed and three others, including a Capitol Police officer, died in the storming of the Capitol by hundreds of rioters.

Some have labeled the riot an ‘insurrection’ that is a legal stretch. While it was a horrible, unacceptable criminal event and I have strongly condemned it I called it a criminal mob and riot with terroristic aspects but not a coup or an insurrection.

I say ‘terroristic’ because some involved used physical violence for the express purpose of political intimidation, and that is part of the textbook definition of terrorism.

While all this can be debated, it is doubtful that the majority of this unarmed mob was intent on overthrowing the United States government.

But now things have heated up considerably. We have since seen many online calls for armed protesters going to D.C. in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, and a huge pro-Trump ‘Million Militia March’ on Inauguration Day.

Military Times (MT) reported:

“REFUSE TO BE SILENCED,” said one online post cited by Alethea Group, calling for an “ARMED MARCH ON CAPITOL HILL & ALL STATE CAPITOLS” for Jan. 17, the last Sunday of Trump’s polarizing presidency. Another post called for action at “DC & All State Capitols” and was signed by “common folk who are tired of being tread upon” declares: “We were warned!”

Bringing illegal firearms into the district could significantly alter the dynamic from last week, where almost all the protestors were unarmed. Hence the Guard now being armed as well.

While some of the National Guard troops have now brought weapons and other tactical combat gear, they are mostly patrolling unarmed for now. That could quickly change.

A D.C. Guard spokesman said, according to MT, “The D.C. National Guard stands ready to support the incident command and is committed to supporting our local and federal agency partners.”

This appears to mean the troops are authorized to stand watch armed if needed. But that has not yet occurred, said the Guard spokesman. “We are not carrying weapons now, but any changes in posture will be determined by intel reports and risk assessment,” he said.

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Comments

  1. Where was this protection this summer when BLM/Antifa thugs were burning a church, vandalizing streets and statues, rioting, looting and occupying public streets and parks? Makes this show of “moral outrage” a little hard to swallow!

    1. The MSM & Democrats are all just Socialist Communism and hypocrites. There is video of Antifa thugs starting to break the windows of the Capitol Building while chanting Antifa, Antifa, Antifa. When a Trump supporter stops one Antifa thug from breaking a window, that is ignored. Also, in the past, how about Madonna at the Capital saying she thought many times about blowing up the White House??? Or Johnny Depp asking: When was the last time an actor assassinated a President???? The MSM, Big Tech, and the Democrats are dividing this nation further.

      1. The billionaire class loves this divisiveness. The focus should be on the billionaires enslaving the Americsn people. Everything else is meaningless theatre.

        1. Billionaires are not the problem, the problem is the thousandaires who come into office become Millionaires and never leave, they are the cancer to be removed

          1. No more Herbert. America is no longer a Corporation! That was dissolved long ago by President Trump, and the Feds have now moved into the treasury so the corrupt Rothschilds will no longer bleed humanity dry. They printed paper money then lent it at high interest. So they got very rich and humanity got poorer. No more! President Trump signed NESARA into being on the 2nd November and soon the entire World will come under GESARA. Thats what the Globalists are furious about, their benefactors (Rothchild’s, Rockefellers, Soros, Royal Family and the Italian Phoenician families as well as the Vatican are down) Jut stay safe in teh coming weeks, keep your families stocked up with supplies until all the rats are removed. (That includes MSM) They are all Pedophiles, and Luciferans They regard humanity as beneath them

      2. I worry about them having the power because they don’t care if they turn our own beloved troops and police on us. Being much more aggressive on us than the Protifa Blm commies. When I was in the military I would not of turned on my own good people because we are the ones that really love America. The commie only want to bring America down. Trump is the Man

    2. The Democrat leaders didn’t want it for their “peaceful” protest where business and courthouses were burned down and people were killed. I’m tact Kamala Harris was paying to get these criminals out of jail.

        1. Well when You are the Vote Counters You Get Whatever Result You Want. The Dastardly Democrats Made sure They had People in the Right Places at the Right Times. Only the Blind, Complicit, Indoctrinated, or just Plain Stupid Believe the Election was Legit!

          1. Not me! I learned alongtime ago that no election is legit or honest. I have watched them change the ballots and our state governments knew about it.

    3. de52
      Now could that be because it was not BLM persons causing the problem, as Barr and the State Law Enforcement said it was outsiders who hijacked the BLM protests to try to start a Civil Race War, mainly Whitew Supremists and Radical Militias.
      https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-evidence-shows-extremist-groups-foreign-actors-hijack-george-floyd-protests

    4. Yes that is the big question, I guess you can take over a police station, kill innocent civilians, maim and intimidate people and nothing happens but walk into the Capitol with security opening gates and all the sudden the military shows with weapons, bullshit.

    5. The MSM makes and Democrats makes me SICK. They are a bunch of GREEDY COMMUNISTS , all they care about is themselves. They will rot in Hell

    6. That is because the dems did it and now they blame the Republican’s for the riot and now they are protecting the OBiden. I was thinking the same as you.

    7. No where. They could care less about that. They just don’t want the world to know all of the illegal dealings and Trump is ready to bring light yo them.

    8. It’s difficult to see apparently when the democrats send their terrorist organization BLM and antifa to terrorize the citizens burn cities and loot destroying businesses it is registered as “mostly peaceful “ because democrats pay them with taxpayers money. Our politicians never thought that the people would see through their bullshit and hold them accountable and demand to be heard. Not one was brave enough to stand up to this mob. So how can they be dependable on taking care of our country?

    9. Remember the tech bubble, close tweeter, FB, Instagram accounts, dump their stock if own any, Twiter down 12% today, before they are worthless, stop buying from Amazon, buy direct from the seller/merchant don’t wait DO IT NOW URGENT******* this is how is done, protest from your wallet and win

  2. The best thing to do, would be to just hold the Presidential swearing in , in Biden’s Basement in Delaware..no reason to risk our Brave National Guardsmen being exposed to Covid’19 or anything else just to satisfy Biden’s and the Democrats Egos. Have a small ceremony, reported by CNN and MSNBC ONLY, and a limited invitation list, Pelosi, Swalwell,Schumer, Mad Maxine Water, Durbin, AOC, the gigantic Stacy Abrams, ..in other words just the Stars of the Democrat Party..”DOCTOR” Jill can serve some imported Chinese Wine, and Hunter can serve egg rolls.

    1. They already are . And the 2 Fema camps in every state Obama had built and people asked , why ? Now you know why .

  3. wouldn’t it be interesting if almost no-one showed up for the inauguration? I would happily suggest that in my humble opinion a no show would say far more than any demonstration!!!

    1. Wasn’t that the plan to do it all on line? Blame the virus like they have from the start! BUT must remember at B s rallys? CROWD? OR the Hoes, where NO ONE SHOWED UP! YEAH and we are so stupid to not question the VOTES! I think it would also PROVE A POINT!

    2. The best thing to do is for all conservatives/militias/white nationalists, whatever, to boycott any in-person Inauguration protest events anywhere (definitely do not go armed)and don’t tune in on TV or the Internet. Antifa and BLM will be in full force in DC and other locations and trouble will likely ensue and will be blamed on the conservatives. STAY AWAY!!

      1. That just the plan of the marxist to make you to afraid to speak out or show up to protest their actions, next step is to take away your right to bare arms and protect your country fro them taking over our country, unarmed people cannot resist and armed insurrection by the marxist as happened in every country that is now controlled by them.

  4. Sounds like another Kent state is going to happen with untrained weapon toting national guard patrolling the streets of the people’s city and the death toll will rise as they kill innocent protesters.

  5. This is how it works for the left, accuse others of doing what you have done or plan to do. The accused become the fall guys for the the accuser.

    1. The people in front of the capital had prayed, sang and danced all day. Ordinary people just standing in front, standing up for our President. Shortly before the place was attacked 5 white small chartered buses showed up, people with backpacks loaded, and some with small helmants on. The thing was they had our flag or trump supporter signs to “blend” in. So the police escourted them up to the front. Then they started the destruction. The head of Antifa and BlM was found in the building, I am sure he was not alone. On Jan 1 he made a vidio that he was going to do this. Washington was warned by him, but they did not pay attention. So Mr. Sullivan from Utah followed through. Of course the news media blames Trump who was not even there. Trump supporters have been attacked many time by antifa and BLM. When they have been arrested the democrats had a fund to bail them out. On Sullivans vidio he said he was going to do it to pull Trump out of the white house, and burn it down. If the FBI would make there statement that they were there, it would help. Even though the boss of these 2 terrorist groups was in the building the media is turning a blind eye. May God help us all

    • What did you expect ,we have been harressed,ignored and cheated out of our right to have our chosen president,we put up with Odummer for 8 long years while he lied,cheated and stole from every American and we get a president trying to set this country right and you damn demrats rigged the election and then set up the president and his followers to make it look real bad ,then you just decided because of the set up you would just let the election be OK not even giving him a chance to prove of the rigged election!!! Yes y’all deserve a lot worse!!!! Hope I get to see them drag y’all out of Congress and throw your assess in Gitmo!
  6. Seems you are misleading the readers, who were the FIVE people killed. I only know of one female that was shot in the neck by the Capitol Police,

  7. When our cities were being looted and burned down. When our innocent people were beat or killed by antifa and BLM democrat majors didn’t want National Guard involved. They want protection from violence now. So did WE citizens during the summer.

  8. I found this hilarious, for reasons I can’t get into yet. Just say they aren’t keeping anyone out, but are keeping the Luciferians in the rest is on You.tube. They made a couple of mistakes, Biden isn’t certified yet, Million Militia March? President Trump wanted patriots yes, but not militias. For any who don’t know the violence was from antifa, blm the usual suspects. Military Intelligence knows it all.

  9. I wanted to see exactly how Trump mentioned, to the MAGA crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, how to go down to the Capital building.  So I took the time to go through his entire speech.  So now you can have this in your back pocket if some lefty tries to say Trump incited violence; he did not.

    Below are what I believe are the pertinent quotes from President Trump’s remarks at the Washington DC Jan. 6, 2021 stop the steal speech where he references walking down to the Capital.  I listened to the entire speech via Rumble.com and the three below quotes are the only references I found where he mentioned walking down to the Capital.  The  time stamps are the positions in the video, linked at the end of this document, where the quotes were taken from.  He never once implied or explicitly tried to incite the crowd to be violent or disruptive.

    Video Time stamp at 15:58

    “And after this we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down, anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the capital, and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressman and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness; you have to show strength and you have to be strong.  We have come to demand that congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.”

    Video Time stamp at 16:53

    “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capital building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.  Today we will see whether republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections but whether or not they stand strong for our country. Our country, our country has been under siege for a long time; far longer than this four year period, we set it on a much greater course; four more years I thought it would be easy.”

    Video Time stamp at 1:11:04

    “So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania avenue, and we’re going to the capital, and we’re going to try and give, the democrats are hopeless, their never voting for anything, not even one vote, but we’re going to try and give our republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness they need to take back our country, so let’s walk down Pennsylvania avenue.”

    https://rumble.com/vchuw9-trump-speech-at-dc-jan-6-2021-stop-the-steal.html

  10. SInce the Guard is Made up of Citizen Soldiers Hopefully They won’t Fire on People when They show up to Take back the Country from the Party that just Stole It! If Guy Fawkes shows up more Power to Him and Good Luck!

  11. Wow, a show for force just for the conservatives. ANd the old crook says he wanted to unite the country. What a champion for national unity! Where was the military when the thugs were burning down cities and destroying lives and livelihood? Now they want to ensure that every opposition would be silenced? Why they also send the tail wagging dogs from silicon vly, george soros, bill gates and their kind to beef up their intimidation? Perhaps bill gates can selectively release some new virus designed for conservatives.

  12. Does the National Guard know the Dems want to defund them? The only people who act with this much fear are those from whom that fear would be directed! They in effect are afraid of themselves!

  13. Armed does not necessarily mean armed and carrying ammo. I was in the Guard decades ago and was on security duty in a business district after a tornado tore through the area. We were “armed”, but had no ammo. If necessary, a bayonet on the end of a rifle would be enough to discourage most antifa thugs.

  14. Amazing, the demonicRats want protection but, the USA border and federal properties throughout the USA was left to burn and vandalized. Business areas destroyed and civilians killed by blm an antifa.

  15. Boy de52 is right. Where was all the outrage?. Liberals kept their mouths shut and denied national guard protection for these cities. Just a band of nitwits with zero credibility. A decent democrat is an oxymoron. Basement Biden and the Ho of Babylon arranged to get rioters out of jail. And these two were elected???? Not believing it. Trump is the true President.

  16. Target Point to target point by one dedicated actor needs to replace hundreds and thousands….Each target eliminated needs to be replace or would be replaced with a new actor to secure the new target…A rouge actor can do more damage to a gain of command than large numbers…Better concealed until the time of elimination…These techniques have been used over and over again in the Middle East. There is no defense against it if planned well…History is replete with examples; Jack Ruby, The Austin tower, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, and many many more…All it takes is a individual who is willing to give up his life for America to get the job done and those who are dedicated enough to follow in his foot steps to defend he bitter end…Beware…. Be ready for what is to come….For it “IS” coming…

  17. to any one who sees the situation as the swamp,deep state , establishment, etc be advised; IT IS A ‘CONSPIRACY’ and they have been working on it for 4 decades that i know of and i am 82 yr’s old.

  18. Cancel tweeter, FB, Instagram accounts, dump their stock if own any before they are worthless, stop buying from Amazon, buy direct from the seller/merchant don’t wait

  19. why should the good people (80 million strong) stand by and watch our country be taken over. Biden may not be the evil one but the evil ones are using him to get to us. Trump is our savior. He isn’t stupid by a longshot.

  20.  But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? 27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you.” (Matthew 12:25-28)

  21. What the Capitol protest was was direct warning to the liberal dem bloodsucking parasitical ticks. Keep that in mind or pay the price.

  22. They’re going to be there waiting to put a bullet in a Patriot’s cranium. Welcome to the United Communist States of America.

  23. The Military would NOT support Trump , who would never give the order to shoot American Citizens is no longer there. They are taking orders from Pelosi and she would have NO problem ” restoring order ” > Killing Americans .

  24. There are armed rallies being pushed at all Capitols across the U.S. from January 16-20. These are False Flag Events scheduled by the left. NONE of these are Conservative groups hosting. The events will be used to take our second amendment rights overnight. It is the same way they used the U.S. Capitol incident last week to remove our first amendment rights. It was a setup. They are now pushing the event on ABC and NBC. Please warn everyone to stay away from this! We are struggling, hopping from one social media platform to another to try to get the word out. We need to fight smarter.

  25. Remember the tech bubble, close tweeter, FB, Instagram accounts, dump their stock if own any, Twiter down 12% today, before they are worthless, stop buying from Amazon, buy direct from the seller/merchant don’t wait DO IT NOW URGENT******* this is how is done, protest from your wallet.

  26. why the concern over the inauguration? no one will be there. Biden has no supporters. all his votes were against TRUMP not for Biden. Biden cancelled the parade so he wouldn’t be humiliated.

  27. If the Liberals/Communist/traitors think the guards are there to protect them, they are sadly mistaken. The Military is there to protect Americans from Antifa nd BLM, Democrats sick army. Now we understand why criminals were released from prison (Violent ones , not elderly or non violent crimes) and why Pelosi loves MS 13 Gangs so much. Her useful army of thugs

  28. This could have all been avoided if the states in question had just checked voters and votes. But their vehement denials of no voter fraud without really checking speaks volumes.

  29. If you have to be protected from the people you are supposedly leading, you are no longer leading, you are ruling. Food for thought.

  30. This is what happens when you don’t have the support of the majority of the country. Fraudulent and fake elections can win you the position, but it can’t win you the support and will of the people. Support and will of the people is earned. Donald Trump earned the support of the people (Rasmussen 49% approval rating).

  31. This is a prelude to what Biden intends to do to bring about unrest. This is preemptive and an indication of how they think the American people will respond to oppression.

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