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Houston fire and police responding to reports of documents being burned at Consulate General of China
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Posted on 07/21/2020 7:24:46 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

Houston police and fire officials are responding to reports that documents are being burned in the courtyard of the Consulate General of China in Houston, according to the Houston Police Department.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; consulate; houston; kag; maga; texas; trump
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To: mewzilla

Yep.


21 posted on 07/21/2020 7:32:17 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: mewzilla

Wonder if this is related...

https://news.sky.com/story/two-chinese-nationals-charged-by-us-with-hacking-hundreds-of-victims-12033405 ... Today....


22 posted on 07/21/2020 7:32:25 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: dinodino

It’s clear a bunch of FReepers don’t understand the concept of Diplomatic immunity and that what goes on in the Consulate, is none of their business of the local authorities.


23 posted on 07/21/2020 7:33:31 PM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Strange. A lot of sudden air activity up here near Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts tonight...just saying. When the base is active they fly near my home.


24 posted on 07/21/2020 7:33:36 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Freedom56v2

Possibly very sinister. The CCP is in danger of collapse; it might see military action as a last chance to save itself.

Or, it might just break of diplomatic ties, and threaten.

Or, this might just be a weenie roast.


25 posted on 07/21/2020 7:33:41 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: ConservativeMan55

The reason I brought it up:

My understanding is that there is no way we can enter a foreign embassy uninvited and certainly no way we can search their records.

However in the event there is war, all restrictions are off. We do what we need to do.

I am not trying to predict what the Chinese will do, only raising the question....why?


26 posted on 07/21/2020 7:34:12 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The US embassy in Tehran used shredders too.


27 posted on 07/21/2020 7:36:11 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: ConservativeMan55
Documents burning?

Democrats?

Shades of "destroyed the sever kept in the bathroom with a sledge hammer?"

🤔

28 posted on 07/21/2020 7:36:56 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wit. Do it today.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

In the year 2020, a foreign consulate burning documents in a courtyard? That’s a message. There are far more secretive and secure ways of disposing of documents without any chance of retrieval.


29 posted on 07/21/2020 7:38:04 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: old curmudgeon

My understanding is you are correct that we cannot enter, however I would suspect it started as a 911 call of a fire outside the consulate by some random passerby watch got the response going to the scene and only then did they discover what was going on.


30 posted on 07/21/2020 7:38:35 PM PDT by matt04
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To: old curmudgeon

That’s my first reaction. Odd place for something like that to begin though.


31 posted on 07/21/2020 7:40:30 PM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: Lazamataz

I believe a technique used today is a shredder into an acid bath that dissolves the paper. Read that in a Tom Clancey/Jason Borne novel.


32 posted on 07/21/2020 7:41:07 PM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: Drango

This is what happened right before Pearl Harbor too


33 posted on 07/21/2020 7:41:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: Mom MD

Panda watching


34 posted on 07/21/2020 7:42:07 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I suppose this will add another month to the wait for my Amazon refund.


35 posted on 07/21/2020 7:43:48 PM PDT by orlop9
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To: Lazamataz
In the year 2020, a foreign consulate burning documents in a courtyard? That’s a message. There are far more secretive and secure ways of disposing of documents without any chance of retrieval.

Odd to see, especially because Houston is synonymous with problem.

36 posted on 07/21/2020 7:44:39 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

37 posted on 07/21/2020 7:45:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: matt04

You missed my point, which is:

The Chinese know that if there are hostilities diplomatic protocol becomes null and void.

So the question again is ....why?

It could mean their primary equipment to destroy documents is out of service, or it could mean something much more sinister.


38 posted on 07/21/2020 7:45:19 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: ConservativeMan55

A Pearl Harbor like attack perhaps? Are other Chinese embassies burning stuff? They will hit the internet first and the power grid first become the bombs start to fall. We are so divided they could win this one—Blame it on Trump and half the people in the USA will be on their side!


39 posted on 07/21/2020 7:47:23 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

A Pearl Harbor like attack perhaps? Are other Chinese embassies burning stuff? They will hit the internet first and the power grid first become the bombs start to fall. We are so divided they could win this one—Blame it on Trump and half the people in the USA will be on their side!


40 posted on 07/21/2020 7:47:23 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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