It’s pretty amazing that the protest on January 6 at the US Capitol has spawned such a mysterious response. There are still tens of thousands armed National Guard troops surrounding the Capitol behind a giant razor wire-topped fence.
One Republican Congressman noted this week that no one has stopped by Congress and actually told them WHY all those troops and fencing are there. National Guard troops who have been interviewed incognito have said they haven’t really been told why they are there, either.
So… why are they there? And more importantly, who’s in charge of this operation?
They showed up before the inauguration, and the Commander-in-Chief at the time (Donald Trump) didn’t send them. Joe Biden couldn’t have sent them, because he wasn’t in charge of anything when the troops arrived.
And now we’re being told that the cost of the deployment will be almost a half a billion dollars by mid-March. Wait, mid-March? It’s only February! Why are they going to be there through mid-March?
No one’s in charge, no one who should be in charge knows why the troops are there, the troops don’t know why they’re there, and no on seems to know how long they’ll be there. Looks like the country is in the very best of hands!
