The Wall

For John, BLUF:  I wasn't happy when they closed off Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.  This makes me even less happy.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Creating a Capitol fortress: ‘The obvious, easy, and wrong answer’?

Here is the sub-headline:

Increased security – barbed wire and armed military – may protect the U.S. Capitol against another insurrection, but it also hinders a core component of American democracy: lawmakers who answer to the people.

From The Christian Science Monitor, by Staff Writer Story Hinckley, 11 February 2021.

Here is the lede plus two:

In front of the U.S. Capitol this past Saturday, a young mother with a baby strapped to her chest asked a stranger to take her family’s photo.  As the father tried to wrangle their little girl, wholly focused on her dripping ice cream cone, they stood smiling before the Capitol dome.  It was the classic snapshot – the kind destined to be stuck on a refrigerator with a magnet or taped in a scrapbook.

But that marble citadel backdrop was a quarter-mile away, behind the surreal photobomb of a dozen camouflaged men with black assault rifles patrolling a 7-foot-high barbed wire fence.

The Capitol is off-limits to the average citizen.

What a metaphor for how the Democrats are governing the Country.

To quote from a friend of mine, we are seeing, not leadership, but "inchargeship".  This is different from leadership, including the fact that there is a lack of leadership.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff