{"id":17158,"date":"2022-02-26T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17158"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:52:06","slug":"new-york-post-fencing-off-u-s-capitol-is-authoritarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/26\/new-york-post-fencing-off-u-s-capitol-is-authoritarian\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: Fencing Off U.S. Capitol is Authoritarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single__header\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"article-header__social-icons sharedaddy\" data-component=\"socialShare\">\n<p>New York Post, February 26, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/26\/a-permanent-capitol-fence-will-make-america-look-authoritarian\/\">Permanent Capitol fence will make America look like authoritarian state<\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"article-header__meta\" aria-label=\"Byline\">\n<div class=\"updated\">By \u00a0 <a class=\"meta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/26\/a-permanent-capitol-fence-will-make-america-look-authoritarian\/#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"flyout-james-bovard\">James Bovard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"updated__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/26\/a-permanent-capitol-fence-will-make-america-look-authoritarian\/#\" aria-label=\"Date updated\">Updated<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-image featured-image__wrapper m-top\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-image featured-image__wrapper m-top\">\n<figure class=\"featured-image__figure\">\n<p><div id=\"attachment_21327491\" style=\"width: 754px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21327491\" class=\"featured-image__img wp-image-21327491\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/capitol-police.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=744\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/capitol-police.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1488 1488w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/capitol-police.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1116 1116w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/capitol-police.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=744 744w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/capitol-police.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=372 372w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/capitol-police.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" alt=\"The fence that was built following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol (inset) was briefly reinstalled before a Sept. 18 protest complete with cops impersonating Star Wars Imperial Troopers \u2014 a bad look for the greatest democracy in the world.\" width=\"744\" height=\"496\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21327491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Bovard photo, copyright 2021. Inset in photo is copyright Getty Images.<\/p><\/div><figcaption>The fence that was built following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol (inset) was briefly reinstalled before a Sept. 18 protest complete with cops impersonating Star Wars Imperial Troopers &#8212; a bad look for the greatest democracy in the world. <span class=\"credit\"> Courtesty of James Bovard; Getty Images (inset) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single__content entry-content m-bottom \">\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--primary-tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__content\">\n<h3 class=\"story__headline headline headline--xxs\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Spooked by the threat of anti-Biden trucker convoys heading to Washington, high fences will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/23\/us\/truck-convoy-dc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly return<\/a> around the US Capitol in the coming days. When President Biden gives his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, he will have no fears of hearing any caterwauling from average Americans who are being impoverished and injected thanks to his policies.\u00a0Hundreds of National Guard troops will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/national-guard-will-deploy-to-washington-dc-ahead-of-trucker-convoys-protesting-pandemic-restrictions?via=twitter_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also be deployed<\/a> on the streets of Washington, perhaps finally vanquishing the local epidemic of double-parking and jaywalking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any fence that is erected around the Capitol will be designed to protect sanctity, not safety<\/strong>. After the clash between protestors and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/05\/dems-who-portray-jan-6-as-a-near-fatal-attack-on-democracy-are-absurd\/\">police on Jan. 6<\/a> last year, Joe Biden claimed the Capitol building was a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/do-not-follow-big-lie-americans-speak-first-anniversary-us-capitol-attack-2022-01-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sacred place<\/a>,\u201d while <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-government-and-politics-268a3d4fed79bec580beed75b7925e6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rep. Adam Schiff<\/a> (D-Calif.), Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/congress\/statements-on-the-first-anniversary-of-january-6-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bob Menendez<\/a> (D-NJ) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/1621-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the temple of democracy<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Members of Congress apparently feel entitled to impunity from protests regardless of how many laws they pass trampling the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The fence that went up after Jan. 6 was eventually pared back and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/07\/politics\/us-capitol-fencing-to-be-removed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">removed over the summer<\/a>, and then briefly restored for the \u201cJustice for J6\u201d rally on Sept. 18 before being dismantled once more. It should not be erected again.<\/p>\n<p>The National Guard deployment and fencing off the Capitol symbolizes the demonization of dissent that became turbo-charged since early last year, when the fence first went up and tens of thousands of National Guard troops took over Washington. Some members of Congress championed keeping the fence permanently, turning Capitol Hill into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/capitol-siege-spurs-debate-over-permanent-fencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">equivalent of a supermax<\/a> prison. Speaker Pelosi said every day on Capitol Hill should be a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weny.com\/story\/43149372\/the-us-capitol-attack-has-left-an-indelible-mark-on-our-national-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national security event<\/a>\u201d \u2014 thereby supposedly denying Americans\u2019 access to Congress in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p>But there has been pushback even from staunch Biden supporters. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), one of the most liberal members of Congress, complained last year that the fencing \u201cmakes the United States look like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/free-speech\/congress-shouldnt-be-fenced-off-to-the-people-it-represents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a totalitarian regime<\/a> trying to keep its own people out.\u201d Even the American Civil Liberties Union recognizes that Congress hiding behind a fence projects \u201cthe kind of message that heads of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/free-speech\/congress-shouldnt-be-fenced-off-to-the-people-it-represents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">autocratic regimes<\/a> send by cloistering themselves away from their populaces in armored fortresses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nowadays, any threat of \u201cdomestic extremism\u201d can apparently justify the preemptive destruction of freedom of speech.\u00a0<\/strong>Last year, on Inauguration Day, only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/12-dc-mayor-security-presser-on-inauguration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two mini-protests with 100 or fewer participants<\/a> each were allowed at spots far from the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>DC Mayor Muriel Bowser justified the crackdown: \u201cWe have a special responsibility: that there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/01\/15\/inauguration-protest-updates-security-dc-states\/4159445001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">peaceful transition of power<\/a> in our country.\u201d After four years of endless howling that Trump was literally Hitler,\u00a0Biden took power with a level of suppression of dissent and a display of military force that resembled an old-time Kremlin May Day Parade more than a traditional American inauguration. Instead of a massive throng of citizens watching the swearing in, only a smattering of Washington elites were permitted at the ceremony. In lieu of a live audience, Biden spoke that day to <a href=\"https:\/\/dcist.com\/story\/21\/01\/12\/joe-biden-inaguruation-schedule-plans-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">190,000 flags surrounded by daunting fences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Pelosi kept the fence and the National Guard long after any viable threat existed to the Capitol.\u00a0Perhaps the menacing trappings were designed to help Biden prove that he needed a <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/10\/capitol-hill-riot-domestic-terrorism-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new domestic terrorism law<\/a> to prevent Trump supporters from conquering DC. Will a resurrected fence spur Biden to appeal to Congress for a new law repressing his political opposition?<\/p>\n<p><strong>If Congress can fence out the American people\u00a0any time there is a rumor of a pending protest, will school boards follow suit and erect barbed wire around buildings prior to meetings?\u00a0That would burnish the Biden-FBI effort to treat parents\u2019 harsh complaints against school board members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/fbi-is-monitoring-threats-against-school-board-members-whistleblower-email-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as terrorist threats<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe members of Congress can get a detachment of Capitol Police with bayonets and a roll of barbed wire to escort them to their home districts and keep constituents at a safe distance during public meetings.\u00a0The Capitol Police already announced plans to set up \u201cbranch offices\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/january-6-capitol-riot-capitol-police-field-offices-florida-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California and Florida<\/a>, and their operations far <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2020\/06\/15\/capitol-police-a-department-shrouded-in-secrecy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from DC will be secret<\/a> \u2014 thanks to their exemption from the Freedom of Information Act that applies to other federal law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Tolerating the banishment of protestors from Capitol Hill is especially unwise after the harrowing example of Canada. After angry truckers converged on Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided that honking horns was the legal equivalent of hijacking airplanes and declared martial law. The Washington Post portrayed the subsequent police crackdown as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/02\/20\/police-regain-control-most-canadas-capital-say-protesters-will-continue-be-identified-charged-holdouts-persist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largely restrained<\/a>,\u201d even though police used pepper spray, stun grenades and \u201cother anti-riot weapons\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vOCuFKwlB_Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on peaceful protestors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Videos from intrepid reporters showed police horses plowing into crowds and knocking people down, police <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectionWiz\/status\/1495409855468916749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brutally beating and kneeing<\/a> a downed protestor, and cops threatening to arrest a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeftismForU\/status\/1495500056799199236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lady from Alberta<\/a> who merely sought to get a cup of coffee. Trudeau\u2019s lackeys have warned that the government will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/trudeau-government-moves-to-make-expanded-surveillance-powers-over-financial-transactions-permanent\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hound and financially cripple<\/a> or destroy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OttawaPolice\/status\/1495367658132361216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anyone involved<\/a> in the protest.<\/p>\n<p>If it happens in Canada, it could happen here \u2014 especially since much of the American media despises anti-Biden protestors. A poll found that 65% of likely Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/democrats-overwhelmingly-approve-of-trudeaus-crackdown-on-freedom-protestors-freezing-of-bank-accounts-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voters approved<\/a> of Trudeau\u2019s brutal crushing of the trucker protest. This epitomizes how policies that were considered authoritarian prior to Biden\u2019s election are now welcomed by many voters who feared that Trump was hiding under their bed.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress may be comforted by a high fence that keeps angry Americans far from their cherished turf.\u00a0But they should remember what heavyweight champion Joe Louis said before fighting a fleet challenger: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.espn.co.uk\/espn\/sport\/story\/195910.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He can run but he can\u2019t hide<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Congress can duck protests on Monday but plenty of members will be knocked out on Nov. 8, the midterm Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, February 26, 2022 Permanent Capitol fence will make America look like authoritarian state By \u00a0 James Bovard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Updated The fence that was built following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol (inset) was briefly reinstalled before a Sept. 18 protest complete with cops impersonating Star Wars Imperial Troopers &#8212; a bad look for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1052,2124,2609,3190,3189,2652],"class_list":["post-17158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authoritarian","tag-biden","tag-capitol-protest","tag-eleanor-holmes-norton","tag-fencing","tag-january-6"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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