The crew of the helicopter that buzzed protestors in D.C. Monday night was grounded immediately after the incident, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said on Friday.
The backstory of who, if anyone, ordered the military helicopter to conduct the maneuver remains unclear.
Well, of course, it does.
The AP reported Tuesday that President Trump himself ordered the helicopter to be deployed, while the New York Times wrote that it was “directed by the highest echelons of the Washington National Guard.”
And strangely enough, evidence may not be forthcoming.
The backstory of who, if anyone, ordered the military helicopter to conduct the maneuver remains unclear. The AP reported on Tuesday that President Trump himself ordered the helicopter to be deployed, while the New York Times wrote that it was “directed by the highest echelons of the Washington National Guard.”
Bill Barr via the NG Commander? Barr appeared to be in charge of rousting the protesters out of the vicinity.
Aaaaannnd…here’s your DD-214
Trump and Barr are at war with Americans. This is what he means by dominating.
Barr was in the FBI command center directing assets even though he is not qualified, in so many ways, to do so.
Dangerous, Dangerous person.
Yeah. Seems unlikely that some National Guard Lieutenant or Captain took it upon himself to buzz the protestors. Suspending the crew seems a little premature, not that they should not have refused and taken the consequences. I have been in situations where a senior officer gave me an order and I said, with all due respect, sir, I just cannot do that. But you take that on yourself. Suspending the moron that gave the order seems like a better idea.
And also why did they use a med-evac helicopter to do that? So the antifa terrorist wont shoot at it? This is just another case of the military and police types believing themselves superior to the population that pays their wages.
In case they injured someone, of course.
Pull their wings and place paper in their personnel folder preventing them from every being promoted again. That would send an unmistakable msg to everyone in the military.
Go up the chain of command until you find the moran who issued the order.
Odds are their last name is “Barr”.
Virtually every militaristic escalation that has happened in DC in the past 8 days is a direct result of Donald Trump’s profound physical cowardice.
I would love to hear someone explicitly call him a coward on national news.
The backstory of who, if anyone, ordered the military helicopter to conduct the maneuver remains unclear.
STOP with the we don’t know who . WE all know BARR was behind this. You can tell by his pimp walk through the street later that evening.
That may not seem like much, grounding, to many people but it’s a fate worse then death to an air crew. It’s virtually the end of a pilots career and the enlisted crew will go back to twisting wrenches.
Probably – which is one reason someone needs to find out if an order was issued.
The pilots will get DD-214’s but the EM will just get crap.
But those with experience in the matter were shocked to see the tactic – made more dangerous by using the downwash from the rotor blades to disperse a peaceful crowd – used in the U.S.
All the bad shit we did in urban environments in Iraq has or will eventually come home to roost as normalized domestic police tactics. That’s one reason not to treat a colony as a free fire zone.
The number one terrorist in the United States of America currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. This individual is doing his best to stoke fear into his base, and he’s doing his damnedest to terrorize peaceful protesters. He is also doing less than nothing to dispel a pandemic that has now taken around 109,000 US lives.
Public Enemy Number One is the Commander-in-Chief.
OT
The Lobster Clause. Trump goes to Maine, hears about fisheries and EU tariffs
“Are they the same lobster, would you say, basically? Would you say they’re equivalent as lobster? Is there a difference in size, or type?” – Trump’s unintentionally comedic ignorance is on full display during this roundtable event in Maine
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Then, later, still in ME,
Trump describes the coronavirus as the “horrible, horrible, terrible, disgusting, angry virus.”
(Like he’s reading from a children’s book.)
If no order was given they’re doubly fucked. But one was.