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Lasher

(27,606 posts)
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:28 PM Jan 2021

New terror threat points to plot to surround Capitol, lawmaker says

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Thousands of armed pro-Donald Trump extremists are plotting to surround the US Capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, according to a member of Congress who was among those briefed late Monday on a series of new threats against lawmakers and the Capitol itself.

"They were talking about 4,000 armed 'patriots' to surround the Capitol and prevent any Democrat from going in, "Rep. Conor Lamb, a Pennsylvania Democrat, told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day." "They have published rules of engagement, meaning when you shoot and when you don't. So this is an organized group that has a plan. They are committed to doing what they're doing because I think in their minds, you know, they are patriots and they're talking about 1776 and so this is now a contest of wills."

He continued, "We are not negotiating with or reasoning with these people. They have to be prosecuted. They have to be stopped. And unfortunately, that includes the President, which is why he needs to be impeached and removed from office."

Monday's briefing followed an FBI bulletin warning of "armed protests" being planned at all 50 state capitols and in Washington, DC, and provides the latest sense of a heightened state of alarm among lawmakers and law enforcement officials following last week's deadly siege at the US Capitol.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/congress-briefing-us-capitol-threats/index.html



On edit, this is an update of a CNN article, which was posted earlier here in LBN.
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New terror threat points to plot to surround Capitol, lawmaker says (Original Post) Lasher Jan 2021 OP
Well if a riotous anti-American armed force assembles StClone Jan 2021 #1
Trump wanted to defend Federal property in June in Portland with force bucolic_frolic Jan 2021 #2
So constraint then StClone Jan 2021 #6
Just gotta hope they will be greated a lot differently this time bluestarone Jan 2021 #3
All the more reason to more the inauguration inside the Capitol Building KS Toronado Jan 2021 #4
I wish the ceremony would be moved somewhere away from the the whole area. Lasher Jan 2021 #7
Andrews AFB is real close and is heavily guarded because of AF1 KS Toronado Jan 2021 #10
Andrews AFB pfitz59 Jan 2021 #11
Thanks for the memory jog KS Toronado Jan 2021 #12
Well, THAT Would Be Really Secure! COL Mustard Jan 2021 #13
No need to wait until they act. MissMillie Jan 2021 #5
This is NOT a game of chicken. These guys mean to do what they say even if badly. Ford_Prefect Jan 2021 #8
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2021 #9

StClone

(11,686 posts)
1. Well if a riotous anti-American armed force assembles
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:54 PM
Jan 2021

Which I suspect won't, I hope it is met with a massive response unafraid, actually trigger happy, to greet them.

bucolic_frolic

(43,235 posts)
2. Trump wanted to defend Federal property in June in Portland with force
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:59 PM
Jan 2021

I mean at some point, very regrettably, the Federal Government has to decide where to draw the line.

They're just being taunted here, to see how far they can be pushed.

And Trump won't step up with a clear boundary.

StClone

(11,686 posts)
6. So constraint then
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:36 PM
Jan 2021

Unless truly pushed and without some leadership there could be a repeat of the U.S. Capitol? Maybe but I suspect even without Trump's backing an armed mobbed is likely to be dispatched more on the line of BLM than the Capitol putsch.

bluestarone

(17,002 posts)
3. Just gotta hope they will be greated a lot differently this time
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:00 PM
Jan 2021

They CANNOT be allowed to do this without consequences!!! I want , GAS, Rubber bullets, water hoses and even live bullets! ( Very tired of their BULLSHIT)

Lasher

(27,606 posts)
7. I wish the ceremony would be moved somewhere away from the the whole area.
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:45 PM
Jan 2021

Maybe on the train that Biden is riding to Washington. LBJ was sworn in aboard a plane.

KS Toronado

(17,282 posts)
10. Andrews AFB is real close and is heavily guarded because of AF1
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 05:01 PM
Jan 2021

Just add a few more guards with M60s (our machine gun spits out more bullets than your pea shooter)

edit note....had a misspelling, thanks pfitz59

COL Mustard

(5,912 posts)
13. Well, THAT Would Be Really Secure!
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 07:18 PM
Jan 2021

I, of course, have NEVER made a typoe or any other kind of mistake on these inter webs!

MissMillie

(38,568 posts)
5. No need to wait until they act.
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:07 PM
Jan 2021

If intelligence has all this info, they know where they are. The charge is conspiracy. No bail until after inauguration (maybe not even then)

Stop the attack before it starts.

Ford_Prefect

(7,914 posts)
8. This is NOT a game of chicken. These guys mean to do what they say even if badly.
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:49 PM
Jan 2021

Jail is not what they fear. They are afraid of being irrelevant. They fear scorn and ridicule more than weapons. They also believe they are on some kind of holy quest to save Trump and what he stands for in their eyes. I've met these guys where they live and it's scary to see them switch from being neighbors who appear human into very matter of fact jihadists. Their demeanor doesn't change just the words and the emotional undercurrents. It's like watching someone you think you know fairly well casually light a fuse like it was a cigarette and prepare to throw the bomb they just lit.

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