The photo accompanying this post was shared by @MarthaRaddatz on Twitter Tuesday. It shows a few dozen National Guard troops on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
I found it on Eli Clifton’s account. I don’t know who he is, had never heard of him before I came across the image, but he reports “on money in politics.” Here’s what he thought of it:
He didn’t say what he found “deeply disturbing” about it, but my guess is he thinks this is somehow about denying First Amendment rights to protesters.
Here’s what I find disturbing about it: that we need to bring in the National Guard to protect the memorial of one of our greatest presidents from vandals and rioters. This is the same memorial that was defaced on Monday with spray paint that read, “Yall not tired yet?”
I’ll tell you what else disturbs me. The death and destruction being visited on our country by American-hating “Americans.”
The murder of retired Police Captain David Dorn disturbs me:
The beating of this woman in Rochester, NY disturbs me:
The attack on this man allegedly trying to protect a store with a machete in Dallas, TX disturbs me:
This attack on the GM of a local restaurant in Columbia, SC disturbs me:
These are the kind of scenes one would expect to see in an unstable country in which the rule of law has broken down. And yet that defines our current situation.
The dozens of military personnel on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial are there as a show of force and are a symbol of defending our Constitutional Republic “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Maybe it disturbs Mr. Clifton but I, for one, am glad to see their deployment.