DC mayor criticizes fencing around White House: 'That's the people's house' ( CANCELS

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[Truth29]

Trump needs Rolling Thunder and all patriotic Americans to go to DC Saturday to defend the White House and President Trump. The Left may be planning for an end game overt coup attempt and there are rumors that the military will not deploy even if ordered by the President.

[Truth29]

Trump needs Rolling Thunder and all patriotic Americans to go to DC Saturday to defend the White House and President Trump. The Left may be planning for an end game overt coup attempt and there are rumors that the military will not deploy even if ordered by the President.

[Lion Den Dan]

It is the “Peoples house” symbolically but more so the home of the Peoples President and must be defended.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

History of the White House fence:

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-timelines/history-of-the-white-house-fence

Circa 1801 -- President Thomas Jefferson ordered the construction of a wooden post and rail fence around the White House. By 1808, he had replaced the fence with a stone wall that enclosed the White House Grounds. At the south end of the grounds, a ha-ha wall (a sunken wall that serves as a vertical barrier while providing an uninterrupted view of the landscape) stood to prevent livestock from grazing in the garden. President Jefferson envisioned the South Grounds as a private garden with serpentine walks and a lawn that extended down to Tiber Creek (which runs under present-day Constitution Avenue), edged by a flower border. The North Grounds were to be formal, symmetrical, and open to the public.

1818-1819 -- A new semicircular driveway marked by eight stone piers, an iron fence and gates was built across the North Front of the White House.

1833 -- A long and heavy wrought iron fence was installed along Pennsylvania Avenue on the north side of the White House. Jefferson’s stone wall was cut down along this run and served as the foundation for the new fence. This work was integrated into the existing 1818-1819 semicircular fencing.

And so on......

And here's what fences are supposed to stop, although they are not always successful:

On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican pro-independence militants, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. From 1948 to 1952, Truman and his family lived in Blair House, on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House, while the executive mansion underwent extensive renovations. At 2 p.m., the would-be assassins walked up to Blair House’s front steps and began shooting. Private Leslie Coffelt, a Secret Service uniformed officer, was mortally wounded but managed to return fire and kill Torresola.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

I don’t think they want to attempt to overwhelm the US Secret Service and the National Guard to breach the White House. I’m guessing that the survivors of such an event would be looking at extremely long prison sentences. My recommendation? If you want to get inside the White House, make an appointment and have a rational discussion.

[Right Wing Assault]

These "protesters" don't know what's on the top of the White House.

[blueplum]

she’s the mayor of a federal district, right? And the President’s duty is to protect federal property, yes? So what’s her problem?

In any city that is being overrun by feral zombies and whose leadership has arbitrary or no curfews on those zombies, the churches should be ringing their church bells all-night-long -all night - in protest

[blackdog]

Washington D.C. is unique in one way. Give the rioters full ingress. Then close off their egress. Nobody gets out.

Mop em up one square foot at a time. At the pace and rate the federal police and Secret Service chose to do so. Watch them turn on each other.

[adorno]

'That's the people's house'

DC mayor is too dense to know that, it's just figuratively and not literally or for real.

The people can't just walk in anytime they want, to any room in the house any time they want.

Isn't the mayor's paid-for-by-DCresidents house, also the DC residents' house? Can the demonstrators/rioters also enter the mayor's house any time they want?

[Trumpnado2016]

Right now POTUS can not trust our Military leadership. I sure hope he is somewhere else on Saturday.

[MplsSteve]

Agreed.

Even before the recent unpleasantness, I’m sure the Secret Service has plans to thoroughly deal with any large-scale incursion onto the White House grounds.

[Songcraft]

Good idea!

For some reason, after I read your excellent post, I started to think about starting a list of some of the slimy, anti-American creatures who often ooze around in the shadows of DC, and if they were to somehow be gently but firmly removed from DC, would improve that city immensely.   Here is just the start of that list.   (Feel free to add to the list.)

Jim Acosta
Joe Biden
Dianne Feinstein
Lindsey Graham
Lisa Murkowski
Nancy Pelosi
Gary Peters
Ben Sasse
Adam Schiff
Chuck Schumer
The Squad
Liz Warren

[5th MEB]

8th & I is just down the street.

695 to 395 to Constitution Avenue, for the Corps probably only about an 8 minute ride, for heavy traffic just use a couple of M-1 Abrams.

[Lurker]

“If you want to get inside the White House, make an appointment and have a rational discussion.”

We are way beyond rational discussion.

Don’t you get that?

L

[GOPJ]

Mayor Muriel Bowser is part of the insurrection? Or a useful idiot...

[5th MEB]

Bath House Barry

The WOOKIE

Samantha Power

Valerie Jarrett.

There’s about 2 or 3 hundred that this country would be better off if we used lampposts and rope appropriately.

[neverevergiveup]

"We are way beyond rational discussion. Don’t you get that?"

As I read your comment, I started thinking of Obama's role in this. He had a responsibility, as the first 'black' American President, to help usher in better racial relations, and to use his election as motivation for blacks in America to have high ambitions, and know that they can achieve anything.

Instead, he laid the foundation for more racial division. He bears significant responsibility for what is happening.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

You’re right.

The term “the people’s house” always referred to the US Capitol - the House of Representatives. It was Obama who referred to the White House as “the people’s house” because, well, … he’s a communist.

[Lurker]

“He had a responsibility, as the first ‘black’ American President, “

Sure he did. And that is not relevant. He had a goal.

And he’s accomplished it beyond his wildest dreams.

Better get ready for what’s next.

L