Some Metro stations will close in Washington, D.C., on Friday ahead of Wednesday’ s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, and many federal workers will work from home due to threats of more violence.
At least 20,000 National Guard troops have been called up to guard the District of Columbia until after Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are sworn in. Intelligence reports indicate radical supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump could attempt to foster more unrest after last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol building.
Barricades have gone up around the city, roads have been closed and security fencing has been installed for blocks around the Capitol, the site of the inauguration.
Like a 3rd world banana republic: Razor wire surrounds US Capitol ahead of Joe Biden inauguration
On Friday, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is closing 11 train stations that serve the Capitol area and the National Mall — a commemorative section of the city that spans several miles and includes the White House, Washington Monument and memorials honoring Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and soldiers from World War II, Vietnam and Korea.
Two other Metro stations will close on Saturday, transportation officials said, and more than two dozen bus routes that typically pass through the downtown area will be detoured.
The closures will run through Thursday.
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“We are working closely with our regional and federal partners to keep the public safe during this national special security event and to discourage travel within the secure zone,” Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said in a statement.
“While we are supporting law enforcement plans to enhance security, we are also keeping essential services in place for our residents who need to get to work, to medical appointments and to grocery stores.”
A “national special security event” is a federal designation by the Homeland Security Department for any event that poses a threat of terrorism or other significant harm.
The department originally set the security event timeline to begin on Tuesday, but moved it up after last week’s attack on the Capitol, which killed five people. The period officially began on Wednesday.
The designation means the U.S. Secret Service and other authorities are safeguarding various federal offices in Washington.
The Office of Personnel Management, an independent agency of the federal government that manages the U.S. civilian workforce, sent a memorandum to agencies instructing them to use “all available workplace flexibilities” between Friday and two days after the inauguration — which includes allowing some employees to work remotely over the next week.
“OPM strongly encourages agencies to allow such employees to telework, where possible, to keep the federal government operating while helping to minimize traffic congestion and support law enforcement efforts during these events,” the memo said.
“Employees may also request to use their alternative work schedule day off, annual leave, leave without pay, previously earned compensatory time off, and/or earned credit hours under a flexible work schedule.”
Inauguration Day is a paid holiday for federal employees in Washington, D.C.
UNITE HERE Local 25, a union that represents more than 7,000 hotel workers in Washington, this week encouraged all area hotels to close for several days around the inauguration, citing the potential for violence.
“The best way to guarantee the safety of hotel workers and district residents is to keep [armed] groups out of the city and out of its hotels,” the union said in a statement.
“That is why, unless hotels in the immediate metro area are hosting the National Guard or other security personnel, they should close immediately.”
Property rental company Airbnb this week said it is canceling and blocking reservations for the D.C. area for the period around the inauguration.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and Biden’s transition team have encouraged people to watch the inauguration online and stay out of the city. The Capitol complex will be closed to the public for the event.
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Why are the liberals, all of a sudden, in love with the police and the National Guard? Hypocrites!
You got the hypocrite part right but I think you missed the point the left is making.
Don’t forget they now seem to LOVE building barrier walls..
Do people really thing they are there to keep peace?
Is it a possibility they are there to restore what people believe was stolen?
Which is what?? THe election in 2016 from hillary?
“Responding to warnings of potentially violent demonstrations, governors across the nation are calling out National Guard troops, declaring states of emergency and closing their capitals to the public ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.”
Does this sound like a country that is happy and proud of their new president??
or does it look like a new Democrat Party Gestapo controlled country??
Anybody here that read how Hitler and his Nazi’s took over the German government? What we are seeing is exactly how Germany went from an educated modern country to the Nazi morass responsible for the slaughter of over 13 million people. For those of you who have not read actual history, this is exactly how it happened. Welcome to the 4th Reich.
That’s part of the problem. FOR a good 30+ years, REAL HISTORY has not been taught in schools. JUST the libtard ‘altered history’..
If Biden needs 25,000 armed soldiers and razor wire fences to protect his inauguration from the people.
Then Biden probably weren’t elected by the people.
Has any inauguration in the history of this country ever needed armed soldiers and razor wire fence to protect a president’s inauguration?? Does this sound like a country that is happy and proud of their new president?
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. An estimated 300,000 to 600,000 people attended the public ceremony held on Friday, January 20, 2017, at the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
There were No armed soldiers and No razor wire walls needed to protect president Trump.
AND that’s even WITH a lot of death threats coming his way!
It looks more and more like a coup from the democrats. With police and national guard , they took over the government without a shot. They out smarter us. Now They can use the same national guard to come for your guns. When will they come for us , too????
No, of course Hollywierd isn’t behind this manipulated staged drama.
When no one from the Right shows up for Alzheimer Joe’s party the Liberal Media and Marxist Democrats will be so disappointed. No burning buildings, no bodies, no statues pulled down, no old people & journalists beaten. They loved those things when ANTIFA and BLM terrorists did them back in the Summer of Love.
YOU CAN BET they’ve got antifa/blm poised to GO, and will gleefully have the camera crews videoing it, and reporting it as “Conservative insurrectionists”…
SO regardless of whether we show up or not, SOMETHING WILL happen, that will be BLAMED only on us conservatives.
When the Democrat’s Lad Biden guy comes to Washington to assume power in so called times of peace, and more troops have to be used to protect the Capitol than when Robert E. Lee was on the march during actual times of war, you can bet that it’s not the good guys taking over the government. Republican Lincoln slid into Washington alone off a train unannounced with no needed security guards. He gave his speeches in front of throngs, sometimes from the balcony of the Whitehouse itself. Oh, for the days when Americans as well as their leaders were able to move freely and Self-govern their own lives, before the socialists came in and debilitated everyone to dependency of thought words and deeds, and to sit and spin like kids on a merry go round making lots of motions but getting nowhere. American terrorism now gets a hand-off from Bin Laden who was without, to Lad Biden who is within, and about to addict in Trillion dollar give-aways, millions more Americans on the dependency drugs of “Stimulus Checks”, born of a hopelessness, brought on by collectives of weak men too afraid to empower even their own children who they see as potential enemies, that stimulate only the urge to give up and surrender to pernicious political people unfit to govern a once proud independent nation, who when threatened by American freedom of movement or opinion just cry “When in doubt, shut them out.” Who close their ears and open their eyes only when the mob responds.
huh… well, that must have come before the ….
“FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION”
magic trick the communists posing as democrats pulled.
Heck. I remember reading about history, and Marveling at how OPEN our leaders were, back then, to being MET IN PERSON, without having to go through cavity search and screenings..
During the Civil war, you did not need an appointment to see Lincoln who often personally met and serviced the grievances of the walk-ins. Not Lad Biden, who needs 25,000 Troops to use as a wall built not for security of THE PEOPLE, but one miserable corrupt saelf-serving coward.
First of all, I resent the author’s statement “it killed five people”. Three had medical problems. I’m surprised the author left out the officer who committed suicide. I’s like calling a heart attack victim who tested positive for Covid a Covid death. And yet the author goes on to say it is “radical supporters of Trump” are the ones expected to commit further violence. If it’s QNon- Trump had denounced them numerous times, including during a debate with Biden, along with Proud Boys. Secondly, it was only a few months ago that Pelosi was calling the use of National Guard in Portland to protect the Federal building and it’s federal officers- “storm troopers” and cried out that the methods of force- pepper spraying should not have been used, along with the clearing of Freedom Park, which they were not peacefully vacating as instructed. Now we have “arm them with machine guns” prison-style fencing with razor wire. Why did Pelosi not allow or instruct the Sargent-of-Arms to take up the National Guard offer with all her showboating she always does? No one can build a bunch of pipe bombs while standing in a rally crowd, the attack was pre-planned, possibly for weeks in preparations. I believe they know 1/2 of the U.S. are not radical left extremists, believe they cheated, and what they sowed they are afraid they must now reap and Biden/Harris will always be hiding. What we will get is 4 years of Trump bashing.
Sir, you do mean “4 MORE years of Trump bashing”, yes?
NOT just Trump bashing, but BASHING WHITES AND conservatives in general.
It will be and evil day for America, two felons sworn in and sworn at. Dark days ahead
for our fading Republic. If you hear a rumbling noise all about it is millions of patriots
turning over in their graves. What can good have to do with evil……nothing.
William
I thought Biden was having a virtual inauguration. Guess he got over his fear of the virus, eh?
One more thing, this whole show is a trap. Conservatives need to stay out of DC and their own state capitols or be prepared for arrest, thrown in the gulag or being gunned down in the street by agents of the politburo.
Live to assemble peacefully another day.
Let the Democrats look like the fools they are when nothing happens anywhere and Biden stands there surrounded by half a million troops in peaceful streets.
any ‘crowds’ will be full of antifa signs and flags, ditto for blm and isis flags and paraphernalia with a dose of communist china as well.
I’m worried that the antifa and BLM types will actually be carrying Trump signs to incriminate conservatives — the way they did at the Capitol on 6 Jan. This is a Reichstag Fire rerun all the way.
The sister of one of my friends was at the rally, and at one point she told us, “Antifa showed up.” At first we thought she meant they were being attacked, but afterward we realized she meant they’d been infiltrated. Another friend of mine was there and has sent me a video of some of the Capitol business that shows Trump supporters shouting “no antifa” as they tried to pull black-clad thugs away from starting to break windows. In other words, most Trump supporters were trying to prevent vandalism, not cause it. But you’ll never hear about that now.
WHAT makes you think, trying to ‘peacefully assemble, ANY OTHER TIME would not be met with the SAME force??
Please. China joe help plan everything going on in DC. Dc has become a hell hole with that mayor. Bussing in antifa and blm to start the ****. Police told to stand down. Congress people acting like cowards. Aoc saying almost die. That is a lie. Joe Biden didn’t say a word about cities destroy all summer. Now the he calls Trump supporters terrorists. He doesn’t belong in the white House he belongs in jail. Everyone going after President Trump will pay a big price for their betrayal.
This election was stolen by fraudulent Democrat Party supporting company made election counting machines, democrat party supporting election officials , and democrat swamp loving media moguls. No election can now be righteous because of Democrat Party legislated tyranny. In 2019 there were over 42 million babies legally murdered worldwide in their mothers wombs, by doctors and nurses, by Democrat Party and Liberal legislation with the help of their appointed Supreme Court Injustices. Democrats love blood on their hands because they have legislated evil. The US, and Western Civilisation have embraced an evil worldview in Government , Law . Education thus their environment.
Our Dem loving Media Moguls are like the ones Time Magazine of June 25, 1945 wrote about. ” The Undefeated: At last the victors met the German people. Not The Nazi Party, not the horror-masters of Buchenwald and Dachau, not the General Staff and the Wehrmacht, but the people, from whom all the evil and vigor sprang.”
We are going to see the Democrats in action in Biden’s first 100 days. And even the Democrats are going to be shocked.
Those bureaucrats in DC are rejoicing that they are getting a couple extra days of vacation.
At least we all KNOW (now) that those “big crowds” at Biden’s inauguration will be the National Guard troops ORDERED to be there!
I will not be watching the imitation inauguration in DC or on TV or the Internet. It’s not real.
I will be reading the documents that Trump is releasing about the FBI spying on hem, the Democrats making up “facts” about him, and Hilary’s paying for the Steele documents they made up in France or England. I will also be reading the documents about Hunter Biden taking money from the Ukraine, China, and Russia, and sharing the money with Sleepy Joe. That’s going to be some eye-opening stuff.
Trump is taking off the Security clearance that the Democrats used to hide the facts.
ITS truly a pity, that those documents, could have not been declassified SOONER, and released LONG BEFORE november’s election.
This cinches it. Even if President Trump goes ahead and declassifies everything by executive order related to the Russia Hoax, Ukraine & etc., nothing will be done as the Deep-State drones will be any and everywhere but at their stations pushing pixels (no more paper pushers they) and at noon on the 20th, Biden will countermand the declassification(s).
If this Fraud Election was So Legal as Stated by the New Democrat Socialist Party, why is the Parade and Train Ride Canceled and now the main Train station ???? Are these Radicalized Demoncrats becoming worried about their safety, so it would seem !!! Never before in my many years of life in America have I nor would I ever expect to see such UN-Ethical, Immoral and UN-American response to an inauguration event such as this is becoming!!!! It seems they are worried for their safety over that of We The People, which has been stated that all Conservatives will be prosecuted !!!! This new Regime is totally out of Touch With Our America and Reality !!! Now they have even gone beyond any reasonable nor rational bounds to Impeach the BEST President We Have Had since President Reagan !!!!! We The people and Our True America Is In Dire Trouble !!!!!
It is my fervent hope that people avoid the big event like the plague, and also the Congressmen should boycott it like the Dems did when President Trump was inaugurated…remember that ??
We must now be the laughing stock of all the 186 nations, so thank you commie democrats and you RINO garbage – the stench in the District of Corruption will actually increase from 90% palpable by next week.
You can bet, all the RINOS will be there, standing PROUD that they ‘served themselves’..
No body has worked in 4 years, but President Trump in our government why should they work now. The left needs to realize without conservatives working their will be no income to run there government and China will take over because we owe China too much money now, but that’s OK we have been told America will have to be out of the way in order for China to take over. Remember the conservatives have all the guns and if you try and take the guns you will not get them without a fight; so we will not be here and guess what, with just gunless cowards left China will take over.
PART of me, fears, that’s their GOAL.. TO get us conservatives into a shooting match with the ‘federal officials’ that are coming to seize their guns, SO THEY CAN DEMAND China/the UN come in, to “HELP quell’ the rebellion…
Here we go, folks, political theater at its best! When you don’t have a crisis, invent one. The propaganda masters make a big show of defending against a mass riot. There’s no such thing in the offing, but the sheeple will buy it. When, of course, no mass attacks occur, the media will step in and report that it was the measures taken that averted the planned insurrection. Hoorah for Harris/Biden’s team!
There’s a bad moon rising in the U.S.
Yet another tempest in a teapot in honor of the lying cheater who tried but failed (again) to become the president.
Trump won. Biden lost.
The election was a fraud.
MAGA.
DAS KAPITAL is here and now.
Zeig heil. ALL Bow down and worship our annointed great leader.. Heil biden.. And all that jazz.
Orange Man Bad is coming to get you! Run for your filthy stinking leftist lives.
Our civilizations new atheist worldview since 1962 in Government, Law, Education and thus Environment has created this legislated, and high supreme court decreed murder of babies in their mothers wombs in the multiplied millions , by doctors , nurses . This is indoctrination in evil, not good education. Our educators normalize evil pornography beginning with malleable school children as comprehensive sex education by, Dem Government Legislation. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and their supporters love this indoctrination of our civilization by decree. Before 1962 Educators led students in The Lord’s Prayer and our Lord’s worldview, not perversion and abortion normalization called Comprehensive Sex Education.
The Nazi Government and Supreme Court passed over 400 laws legalizing murder and atrocities. This is the argument our Chief Counsel Robert H. Jackson used to convict Nazi Leaders at the Nuremberg War Criminals Trials, ” Of course, if one argues that there is no God given right to life or no natural rights at all , but only rights granted by governments, then one is put in the precarious position of having no objective moral basis by which to condemn The Holocaust , since it was a Government Sanctioned Activity.”
The Dem Legislated Atheist Worldview since 1962 has reversed Robert H. Jackson’s argument in Government, Law and Education and thus Environment .
Why would the legitimate winner of the popular vote need this level of security? Do you remember or have you read of any inauguration which required even a tiny fraction of this level of security? I can not remember any extra “security” required when any legitimately elected president was sworn in. This level of force can only be explained by the attempted installation of a completely illegal administration. The overall fraud here is so in our faces they are going beyond limits to try to make it appear legitimate.
The most damning early signs of a failing government is the government having to put up barbed wire fencing around the capital to protect themselves from the people that they’re supposed to represent.
Apart from the obvious optics issues of this way over reacted show of military force for inauguration day (despite the irony that most military personnel most likely have very little, if any at all, use for the Obama holdover, President elect), one has to wonder if the President elect had taken into consideration that such an ostentatious show of military force, ostensibly to protect him, could and possibly will be interpreted as a public reflection of his unpopularity and their distrust of him.
WHEN the people fear the govt, there is Tyranny. WHEN THE govt fears the people, there’s freedom.
NOW TELL ME which of those two, militarizing the whole of DC makes you think of!
Unlike the many previous BLM and Antifa armed mob riot events with their cowardly targeted attacks on senior citizens, gangings up on unaccompanied women, men or children; with their Molotov cocktail bombings and arsonist destruction of private businesses and buildings; and, with their ambush shooting murders of police officers … the only gun play in the entire John Belushi beserker-like, out of control frat party type riot on January 6th was that of a black Capital cop shooting an unarmed, 14 year Air Force veteran, white woman in the neck, killing her as she was climbing through a window, when she was not presenting any immediate danger to anyone. (Had their skin pigmentations been reversed, we’d never heard the end of it … instead, the media buried this bad shooting story, like they buried the Biden family’s pay to play influence peddling crimes stories.)
And you can bet, MILLIONS of conservatives, have taken the hint, STAY THE HELL AWAY From DC (and any state capital for that matter)< BUT the leftists will more than likely, engineer an "Incident" (all by loyal Antifa/BLM crooks), just so they can blame it all ON US conservatives again…
Democracy dies in darkness. It also dies behind walls, fences, armed military and lockdowns. What the hell are the Democrats afraid of if, supposedly, 80 million people voted for them? This administration knows it is a fraud; they know they just made America a colony of China; and they know that they have just caused the biggest rift ever in this country, Unity is not built on identity politics; not on playing one class of people against another; not by destroying our Constitution in the name of a globalist agenda and not by threatening to cancel 74 million people and re-educating (brainwashing) their families.
THey’ve NEVER WANTED unity. Ever.
They’ve wanted COMPLIANCE and servitude.