How long?

[Jolly]

Give your best guess about how long Washington stays under military lockdown?

[jon-nyc]

Define ‘military lockdown’.

[Jolly]

Fences and troops.

[jon-nyc]

Forever.

[Jolly]

You're happy with that?

[jon-nyc]

No.

There are still troops at JFK. 20 years on.

[jon-nyc]

But to be fair, I wouldn’t call fences and troops ‘military lockdown’.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in How long?:

But to be fair, I wouldn’t call fences and troops ‘military lockdown’.

Yeah it's really not a "lockdown." Like at all.

[jon-nyc]

Fencing is a bit of a one-way ratchet.

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-timelines/history-of-the-white-house-fence

[Copper]

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.