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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Tall black fences go up around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave ahead of huge Saturday protest as the DC Mayor renames street outside as 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' and lets protesters paint a huge message after Trump called in the military
2020-06-05
[Daily Mail]
  • DC Mayor Muriel Bowser commissioned a 'Black Lives Matter' mural down 16th Street, which leads to the White House, ahead of a planned weekend protest

  • A portion of the street, where President Donald Trump had his photo-op outside St John's Church at Lafayette Square, has also been renamed 'Black Lives Matter Plaza'

  • After the announcement that she would be evicting more than 1,200 National Guard troops on Saturday, from DC hotels, Trump blasted her as 'incompetent' on Twitter

  • A protest on Saturday in the nation's capital over the death of George Floyd and police brutality against African Americans could draw more than one million people

  • In preparation, tall black fences, between seven and nine feet, have sprung up around the perimeter of the White House as well as public Lafayette Square and 50-acre park, the Ellipse

  • Many compared the new fencing to the wall Trump pledged to build on the US-Mexico land border

  • Trump has referred to himself as a 'law-and-order' president and face criticism for calling on the military to defend DC against so-called rioters
Posted by:Skidmark

#12  Tomorrow is probably going to be "fugly."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2020-06-05 21:43  

#11  Hopefully. Build the defenses correctly and a dozen secret service could hold off an army, and it'd look nice the rest of the time.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-06-05 18:39  

#10  Maybe next month, RJ.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-06-05 18:29  

#9  Regarding the tall black fences.
The White house should have Ha Ha Walls already with the area at the bottom of the wall filled with Century Plant or other really hostile spikey plants. The top of the Ha Ha should thick metal walls that normally lay down to allow a beautiful view but which could be lifted up to form a 10 foot metal wall at a moments notice. The combo of Ha Ha and wall would be extremely difficult if not impossible to cross but be beautiful when the wall is not deployed.

This should all be supplemented with extremely powerful spotlights that can be blasted at protesters making it uncomfortable for them to look towards the white house. Such lights should have bullet proof glass so they can't be shot out, and should be accompanied by fans to blow away any smoke or gasses the idiot protestors might toss.

This should have been done in the 70s under the name of beautifying hte white house by removing the unsightly fence.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-06-05 18:03  

#8  Funny, I remember Obama closing the White House to visitors. He didn't was the lower class around...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-06-05 16:10  

#7  Trump announced from the White House on Monday that if “a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.”
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-06-05 15:43  

#6  Utah National Guard confirms they were kicked out of DC hotel, mayor claims budget issue
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-06-05 15:42  

#5  ^ nice.
Yucaipa E. of San Bernardino
Fishtown in NE Philadelphia
... keep em comin'
Posted by: Lex   2020-06-05 15:22  

#4   Antifa gets the snot beat out them in this CA town.
Bunch of Antifa punks mess with the wrong town.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-06-05 15:09  

#3  'The president of the United States should not feel threatened by his or her own citizens.'

No. He shouldn't. But if he does he should take appropriate action.

This whole article is a pack of damn lies.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-06-05 15:06  

#2  'It's a sad commentary that the [White] House and its inhabitants have to be walled off,' District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters at a press conference on Thursday.'We should want the White House to be opened up.'


Bitch, you'd bloody love for the White House to be opened up tonight, wouldn't you? So the insurrectionists can drag Trump out to the street and beat him? So they can burn the White House?

The fences and the federal law enforcement would not be necessary if you and your "police department" would do your jobs.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-06-05 15:00  

#1  Any bets on them trying to remove him by force? The civil war will truly kick off in earnest then.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-06-05 14:53  

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