The National Guardsmen Landscape in DC

 I would suggest that five landscapes now exist for what you see in DC, with the Guardsmen:

1.  It just looks an awful lot like the Baghdad 'Green-Zone'....oddly enough was a 4 square mile area, which is what the current secure area of DC amounts to.

Guardsmen over the age of thirty-five probably remember the Green Zone and did some time there in their youth.

They too....left duty and slept in warehouses/older hotels at the end of their duty-day.

2.  The landscape gives this image of President Biden/Congress/Senate existing.....only, if the Guardsmen are there and protecting them.

3.  A lot of this script resembles the safety concerns of locals in Kent, Ohio in April/May of 1970.  Local cops were not of a sufficient number to protect the business zone of Kent, and disturbances reached a point where the governor of the state was called upon to deploy Guardsmen to protect the city and the campus.

4.  Another segment of this script resembles May, June and July of 1932, where the Bonus-Army riot occurred.  Note, it was the US military that was called in to settle that mess, and caused Hoover to be voted out of office in November.

5.  If you looked at things on 4th/5th of January....what idiot in charge of security of the Capital building would not have increased security, putting up barriers, and ensuring all days were locked and secured?  This looks more like a mall-guard assembly of people instead of actual law enforcement.  Then you bring the Guardsmen in to be what the Capital Police could never be? 

I will suggest this...if we come to May and 7,000 Guardsmen are still in DC, with the suggestion that a 3,500 number of Guardsmen will not go away in 2022 until 3,000 new/extra Capital Police are hired and in place....there's something seriously wrong with trust in Congress or the leadership authority of the nation.

If the new Capital Police of 2023....resemble a group of jackboot Green-Zone thugs, with 50-cal weapons and armored vehicles parked around a dozen areas of the DC Green-Zone?  Something will be seriously wrong with the new democracy that we have.