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Home Front: Politix
Biden White House Plan to Keep Occupying Troops in DC Through End of Year
2021-02-14
[Gateway...I know, but quoting a MSM source] This is beginning to look like an illegitimate government coup, amirite? The Biden National Security Council is planning on having National Guard troops continue to occupy the nation’s capital through the end of the year, according to a report by WTTG-TV Fox 5 in Washington, D.C. Additionally, active duty and reserve troops are being considered for deployment.

The current authorized deployment of 7,000 National Guard troops in D.C. runs through March 12, coming in at a cost of nearly half-a-billion dollars since the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Guard deployment topped out at around 25,000 during the Biden inauguration.

Stars and Stripes reported this week that an indefinite deployment of 5,000 Guard troops is planned for after March 12.

"Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a plan to retain 7,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen in Washington through March 12 and then 5,000 indefinitely beyond that date, Army and National Guard officials have said. There are now about 6,200 National Guard soldiers and airmen supporting the security mission in Washington, a Guard spokesman said Monday. But the number includes some troops who are scheduled to leave soon."
Posted by:Frank G

#22  Title 32 vs Title 10. Guard troops in the former are exempt from the provisions of Posse Comitatus since they are under the command and control of their respective Governors and fherefore state forces paid by the federal government. The key is the Governor, not the SecDef or President has command Authority. My guess is Red State Governor have pulled back fheir folks.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-02-14 20:39  

#21  Also, they'll be wearing masks. Hasn't helped yet, but that's just because we aren't trying hard enough. Couple more years will do it for sure!
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-02-14 17:25  

#20   if somebody outside China wanted to get mail or money to relatives in China

Kinda Knights Templar.
Posted by: Kojo Big Foot1870   2021-02-14 12:30  

#19  Kuomintang’s 8th Army, 26th Division, and 93rd Division crossed into Burma's Shan State when the KMT main army went to Taiwan.
Posted by: 3dc   2021-02-14 11:57  

#18  The Bamboo Gangs were an arm of the KMT army/drug barons in Burma. Since the halt in the civil war if somebody outside China wanted to get mail or money to relatives in China the Bamboo Gangs were a secure functional way to do so.
Posted by: 3dc   2021-02-14 11:50  

#17  In one of the previous cycles of violence from Peking to Taiwan... Taiwan pulled out their Bamboo Gang card.
It turned out some of the premier guards of the top CCP leaders in their homes in the CCP leadership walled community in Peking were both revered CCP trusted communist guards and deeply embedded Bamboo Gang agents. They murdered a couple of top CCP people they were supposed to be protecting and quietly slipped out of the country. This was likely through Burma where one of the old KMT armies was still hanging out as a drug gang.
If the thugs in the CCP couldn't protect themselves at home what in the hell are the Democrats in D.C. drinking to think that they can hunker down behind force if things go south?
Posted by: 3dc   2021-02-14 11:46  

#16  Wait - you mean they haven't arrested all the crazy right-wing extremists? Surly, they have them 'on the run' by now!
Posted by: Bobby   2021-02-14 11:35  

#15  Confucius say, "Boucherie hidden,
And recipes mostly unwritten,
But boudin is made --
Help yourself! Lemonade? --
In the bowels of the City Forbidden."
Posted by: Maggie Hupomp2614   2021-02-14 10:48  

#14  The Posse Comitatus Act

Obama Executive Order 13528 Subverts Posse Comitatus Act of 1878
Posted by: Snusotch Thravising2360   2021-02-14 10:23  

#13  All-in fully loaded cost of prob'y $300/day per guardsman
* 7,000 guardsmen = ~$2.1m/day
* ~200 days = $420m

Add in another $70-$80m to account for 7 days @25,000 guardsmen after the CapHill brouhaha and there's your half-billion
Posted by: Thenter Pelosi8896   2021-02-14 10:19  

#12  They'll need troops and lots of them, to enforce EO changes to the 2nd Amendment and they know it. Just getting us accustomed to the 'new norm' of martial law.

If a policeman refuses to confiscate your shotgun (participates in selective enforcement), he is fired and finds work elsewhere.

If a soldier refuses to confiscate your shotgun (refuses to comply with an order), he goes to Leavenworth.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-02-14 10:18  

#11  ^ $500 Million, Mike.
It's only that low, because they make the troops sleep in a parking garage
Posted by: Frank G   2021-02-14 09:56  

#10  The current authorized deployment of 7,000 National Guard troops in D.C. runs through March 12, coming in at a cost of nearly half-a-billion dollars since the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Guard deployment topped out at around 25,000 during the Biden inauguration.

....Being but a Wing Wiper of Very Little Brain, I'm at a loss to understand why this misbegotten deployment is costing north of five hundred billion dollars.

For starters, it should ONLY be DC guard there, though one can make a reasonable case for including MD and VA as well. Instead, units from nearly all states are there and that, quite frankly, is Male Bovine Scatalogical Material and needs to be called out as such.

Secondly, there are LOTS of places in the immediate area that the guys can be billeted using military resources - the Mall, at least two sports stadiums, two Air Force bases, and one Navy Base. (The Marines at 8th and I would probably have something to say about it, and it wouldn't be pleasant.) Oh, wait - if we did that, it would inconvenience people, and we can't have that.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-02-14 09:42  

#9  Well, remember how the troops protected Ceaucescu...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-02-14 08:29  

#8  They are wise to protect themselves with troops.....
Just leave town.
Posted by: Xyz   2021-02-14 08:21  

#7  Gee, since Biden & Co. have that "mandate from the American people", then what are they so afraid of?
Posted by: Clem   2021-02-14 05:21  

#6  Make the Democrats to produce EVIDENCE of the long term need for more troops than were in Baghdad.

This is smelling more and more like a coup. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1879 should be enforced, and they must answer for why they are breaking the law.

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. 18 U.S.C. § 1385.

Arrest Pelosi and Impeach Biden NOW.
Posted by: Threque Whosing7013   2021-02-14 04:03  

#5  /\ A very lucrative business development opportunity appears to be surfacing. If I knew their final resting places, I could become an instant millionaire selling maps and grave pissing permits.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-02-14 03:18  

#4  I see a future, it is not pleasant for some, do you see that future through the fog too?

Posted by: Don Vito Hupaiger9378   2021-02-14 03:04  

#3  Or the Green Zone.
Do these assholes realize how ridiculous they are?
Posted by: Sheating Sinatra7535   2021-02-14 02:57  

#2  Interesting, Tiananmen Square redux. the crooked bastards need to be surrounded by troops in order to hold office.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-02-14 02:53  

#1  Just put a wall and barbed wire around DC's key governmental buildings and bury mines in the streets. Cheaper that way.
Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704   2021-02-14 02:46  

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