How long?
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 03:16 last edited by
Give your best guess about how long Washington stays under military lockdown?
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 03:41 last edited by
Define ‘military lockdown’.
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 04:14 last edited by
Fences and troops.
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 04:15 last edited by
Forever.
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 04:16 last edited by
You're happy with that?
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 04:17 last edited by
No.
There are still troops at JFK. 20 years on.
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 04:18 last edited by
But to be fair, I wouldn’t call fences and troops ‘military lockdown’.
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 04:37 last edited by
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 04:41 last edited by
Fencing is a bit of a one-way ratchet.
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-timelines/history-of-the-white-house-fence
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wrote on 5 Mar 2021, 16:41 last edited by Copper 3 May 2021, 16:41
May 20 1995, President Bill Clinton closed Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all vehicular traffic, a security response to the Oklahoma City bombing.
That remains a mess, forever.
I want to be able to walk up to the Capitol and take a self-guided walking tour with nobody saying anything to me and no security checkpoints to walk through.
And on a Saturday morning I want to park right at the foot of the Capitol steps, without passing through any kind of security checkpoint.
That is how it was for most of the times I went there.