{"id":12956,"date":"2021-01-07T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12956"},"modified":"2021-01-07T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T20:05:07","slug":"plenty-of-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12956","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose the D.C. police, and the Capital police, and the Sergeant-at-Arms will have their apologists but, honestly, I don&#8217;t know what to make of their failures yesterday to protect the Capital but that &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Their respective leadership is grossly incompetent, or &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>They were cooperating with the insurrection.<\/ol>\n<p>After all &#8230; <i>I<\/i> knew that yesterday would be violent.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is there any sane reading of this tweet as anything but a threat of violence to prolong his tenure? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/By2MdFW7aI\">https:\/\/t.co\/By2MdFW7aI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Felton (@BobFelton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobFelton\/status\/1346612277856894976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Somebody named Melissa Ryan knew yesterday was going to be violent.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should probably talk more about how Donald Trump wants his supporters to get violent on his behalf tomorrow. He&#39;s been encouraging them to come for a few weeks, and now inciting them. The only reason you&#39;d tweet something like this is if you want electeds to fear violence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EtcfsMV0J0\">pic.twitter.com\/EtcfsMV0J0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelissaRyan\/status\/1346582070848581638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I had a text discussion with my brother and nephew yesterday morning, and they knew yesterday was going to be violent.<\/p>\n<p>But the pros, the people who draw a salary for protecting the District of Columbia &#8230; <i>they didn&#8217;t see it coming?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I reject without equivocation any suggestion that nobody imagined Donald Trump would incite violence against another branch of government.  He was inciting violence at his rallies w-a-a-a-y back in 2016, and he specifically threatened violence in connection with the Congressional certification of the Electoral College&#8217;s vote count; that what it means to say that the Deplorable One-third &#8220;&#8230; won\u2019t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Again, then, we are talking about gross incompetence, or cooperation with the Insurrection.  In either case, there needs to be a wholesale cleaning of those organizations&#8217; management ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose the D.C. police, and the Capital police, and the Sergeant-at-Arms will have their apologists but, honestly, I don&#8217;t know what to make of their failures yesterday to protect the Capital but that &#8230; Their respective leadership is grossly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12959,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions\/12959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}