According to reports, high fences will return around the US Capitol in the coming days due to the threat of anti-Biden trucker convoys heading to Washington. He won’t worry about hearing any caterwauling from the average American who has been impoverished and injected by his policies when he delivers his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
A large number of National Guard troops will also be deployed on Washington’s streets, perhaps finally ending the local epidemic of double parking and jaywalking. Your tax dollars at work.
On Jan. 6 last year (you may have heard about it), Joe Biden declared the Capitol was a “sacred place,” while Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Nancy Pelosi referred to it as “the temple of democracy.”
Insert appropriate “Indiana Jones” joke here.
In spite of the number of laws they pass trampling the Constitution, Congress members seem to think that they are entitled to immunity from protests. From fences in the name of freedom, personal armed security in the name of gun control, and exemptions from all of the other laws that they inflict on the masses, the list goes on.
Eventually, the fence that was erected after Jan. 6 was removed over the summer, and then briefly reassembled on Sept. 18 for the “Justice for J6” rally before being dismantled once more. Instead of dealing with the issues at hand, they-once again-wall up and hide from them while still taking the paychecks.
The National Guard deployment and fencing off the Capitol symbolizes the demonization of dissent that became turbo-charged since early last year, when the A fence was first erected and tens of thousands of National Guards took over Washington. Capitol Hill became the equivalent of a supermax prison, according to some members of Congress who advocated keeping the fence in place permanently.
In order to deny Americans access to Congress in perpetuity, Pelosi said every day on Capitol Hill should be a “national security event.” A good argument for folks that actually might have a lot of reason to fear Joe Public.
However, even staunch Biden supporters have voiced opposition. One of the most liberal members of Congress, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), complained last year that the fencing “makes the United States look like a totalitarian regime trying to keep its own people out.”
As the American Civil Liberties Union points out, Congress hiding behind a fence sends “the kind of message that heads of autocratic regimes send by cloistering themselves away from their populaces in armored fortresses.”
Ms. Holmes, neither America nor Canada “look” like totalitarian regimes. They are actively in the process of becoming them.
