Capitol police inspector general Michael Bolton plans to say Tuesday that on Jan. 6, rioters stole 12 ballistic vests and 12 ballistic helmets that had been strategically placed around the Capitol in case of an emergency.
Capitol police inspector general Michael Bolton plans to say Tuesday that on Jan. 6, rioters stole 12 ballistic vests and 12 ballistic helmets that had been strategically placed around the Capitol in case of an emergency.
Prison for DJT. Prison for his enablers. Prison for these thugs. They are all guilty of treason.
C’mon! They wanted to INFLICT harm not BE harmed…
The last time I toured Florence, my Ballistic Vest and Helmet were of great help…Arriving in Venice later on in the afternoon, they made renting a gondola much easier.
“…12 ballistic vests and 12 ballistic helmets that had been strategically placed around the Capitol in case of an emergency.”
Sort of like leaving out cookies for Santa Claus I guess.
I blame the Ballistic Helmet and Vest Fairy. Fit’s his MO.
Economic anxiety drove these poor, unfortunate souls to make errors of judgment. Can we not pray for them?
After they’re found guilty and sentenced to 7 to 10 years.
If this were a Hollywood production then we would have had Gerard Butler take out the whole crowd single-handed. Maybe we need to hire some script writers to manage Capitol security. They could hardly do much worse.
C’mon! They wanted to INFLICT harm not BE harmed…
Sounds like the Capitol Police should be disbanded (or transfer to a new organization) and their duties transferred to the US Marshals, or Secret Service, or FBI, or National Park Police or DC Police or one of the many other police organizations in DC.
Okay. Looks like the USCP and the Congress were really lucky that they weren’t attacked by A-Team level insurrectionists, seditionists, etc on Jan 6. Basically, the traditions of the US Republic (institutionally and bureaucratically) weren’t challenged as hard as they could have on that day. And if they had been challenged harder, the results might be that our country would still be in chaos today… not a good look. In any case, yeah, the USCP not being considered as a protection agency is a very telling indictment of the leadership at USCP AND the US Congressional leaders who have apparently not gotten around to truly checking on the USCP preparedness situation for what seems to be at least the past two decades. Which begs into question precisely what it is that the USCP IG office itself has been doing all of that time as well… It’s really a shame that it took Jan 6 and not 9/11 for anyone to care deeply about this situation…myself included. I mean, I just assumed that there were competent folks making good decisions on how to defend the Congress if push came to shove. Looks like that was not the case and to some extent we’ve all been resting on the laurels of peace and tranquility (relatively) in DC, compared to what could happen.
Blame American citizens, who keep voting for the people who permanently underfund everything, forcing agencies to make hard choices and stretch resources.
Benghazi happened because State Department was underfunded by millions from what they had asked for for security, for example.
Or back in 2007, the Walter Reed scandal with wounded warriors in moldy rooms, the direct and predictable of years of underfunding by Congress.
The reality in America is that the money only flows when there is a disaster, we are terrible at spending money on prevention. Nobody had successfully raided the Capitol in a while, therefore, funding was an afterthought and a billpayer for other priorities.
It is a well known fact of tourism that the travelers will always seek to steal anti-riot military gear. The Vatican, Louvre, and MOMA have the exact same problem.
I really don’t blame American citizens for this. Rather, I blame this on politicians who gin up false narratives about terrorism, foreign enemies, etc, because they don’t actually know how to govern. These same politicians are also on record as being against things like public schools teaching science, against acknowledging all the bad things the US has done. In other words, these politicians are grooming US citizens to remain in the dark about how bad and stupid things can be, not just now or in the future, but also about how those self-same political opportunists created a lot of chaos and pain for generations and generations before that.
It’s complicated. What is good is that we have a press that, although battered and abused, still seems to be functioning enough so that the stories like you mention do get out. And, if we really want to go into the debacles of the CIA, there’s plenty more that have happened over the past several decades. The Congress didn’t create those debacles directly for the most part—bad screening and poor internal controls, bad training, and poor leadership, etc, caused that within the CIA itself.
What we can blame Congress for is for ignoring obvious signs of rot setting in throughout the federal system. In many cases, the GOP has femented that rot even further…while DP leadership the past two decades has only been half-heartedly trying to stem or fix the problems… at best.
I suppose Congress being a part-time job is also a contributing factor. According to sources, they’re only in session anywhere from 160 - 190 days a year.
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Who do you think votes for the politicians?
Corporations
I mean, so what? After all, they are people, too yah know…