Lobbying Bowser to call up the national guard

[Anonymous]

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I don't think you know what a literal police state is... that's part of the hyperbole that got DC to the point we are at now.

Setting up police checkpoints to stop every vehicle for proper papers leads to ID'ing of drivers and passengers and searches of vehicles. Things authorities do in police states. It's also blatantly unconstitutional. Ask Cathy Lanier.

I’d settle for police regularly stopping drivers operating vehicles recklessly and people jumping Metro fare gates. They’ll catch a lot of individuals on outstanding warrants and likely prevent or at least hinder the commission of other crimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please don’t stand on the plaza. You’ll damage the paint job. Then she’ll again have to spend the money we don’t have to yet again paint up her one accomplishment in DC

If Bowser can spend hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to repaint BLM Plaza, why can’t she paint the crosswalks near my kids’ DC public school?!?!

[Anonymous]

Mayor Bowser does not have the authority to call in National Guard. She is not a governer. She wanted to during the Jan 6 insurrection but the president has to make that final call in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And make the checkpoints dynamic . This behavior will stop real fast. My spouse didn't fight in Fallujah and I raise the kids and work, so when we are all finally together we can live in Fallujah. This city is maximum BS.

They should change the slogan on DC license plates from "Taxation Without Representation" to “DC - America’s Fallujah”

It’s Fallujah now. It’s going to become America’s Falluja which is way better.

Then we’ll get Sista Falluja to write an official “state” song.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mayor Bowser does not have the authority to call in National Guard. She is not a governer. She wanted to during the Jan 6 insurrection but the president has to make that final call in DC.

So, as you stated, she asks the president. And?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is needed to convince Bowser to call up the national guard to confront the random violence (driven by very hard to solve/prosecute carjackings)? Can she just "do it"? Does fed gov need to sign off?

She can’t do it because it’s not in her interest. She’d be missing her career goodbye

Breaking news: Bowser already kissed her career goodbye with her accomplishments like Crime for All and novel plans for spreading “urban vibrancy” to every ward. Talk about her “vison zero.” Mission accomplished, Mayor!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Elections have consequences.

+100
Funny how some voters forget this.

+1000. So does "defund the police". And here we are . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is needed to convince Bowser to call up the national guard to confront the random violence (driven by very hard to solve/prosecute carjackings)? Can she just "do it"? Does fed gov need to sign off?

She can’t do it because it’s not in her interest. She’d be missing her career goodbye

Breaking news: Bowser already kissed her career goodbye with her accomplishments like Crime for All and novel plans for spreading “urban vibrancy” to every ward. Talk about her “vison zero.” Mission accomplished, Mayor!

What was her weird motto about Deal? Maybe it should have been Crime for All! Yes, Bowser, the developers, and the social justice warriors have done a tremendous job on our city. But let's not forget the clown parade that is the city council, and the prosecutors and judges. You couldnt ask for a more perfect coterie.

[Anonymous]

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Breaking news: Bowser already kissed her career goodbye with her accomplishments like Crime for All and novel plans for spreading “urban vibrancy” to every ward. Talk about her “vison zero.” Mission accomplished, Mayor!

How did she kiss her career goodbye? She was re-elected in 2022, with under half of the vote in the D primary, unfortunately. Minority rules in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is needed to convince Bowser to call up the national guard to confront the random violence (driven by very hard to solve/prosecute carjackings)? Can she just "do it"? Does fed gov need to sign off?

Maybe she can get MPD, who she is in charge of, to do their jobs for a start. I have never seen such a large group of people with such lack of will to work. The WAMU expose showed the morale issue is a management problem, not a Council or BLM problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is needed to convince Bowser to call up the national guard to confront the random violence (driven by very hard to solve/prosecute carjackings)? Can she just "do it"? Does fed gov need to sign off?

Maybe she can get MPD, who she is in charge of, to do their jobs for a start. I have never seen such a large group of people with such lack of will to work. The WAMU expose showed the morale issue is a management problem, not a Council or BLM problem.

Maybe MPD isn’t motivated because they make arrests and then the criminals are released after only a few days. Seems pretty demoralizing if you try to get the criminals off the streets and then the prosecutors act like activist defense attorneys and decline to actually prosecute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is needed to convince Bowser to call up the national guard to confront the random violence (driven by very hard to solve/prosecute carjackings)? Can she just "do it"? Does fed gov need to sign off?

Maybe she can get MPD, who she is in charge of, to do their jobs for a start. I have never seen such a large group of people with such lack of will to work. The WAMU expose showed the morale issue is a management problem, not a Council or BLM problem.

Or the realization that if a criminal is such a fckup he can’t even handle driving on a children’s moped, they may be liable for murder for doing their job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is needed to convince Bowser to call up the national guard to confront the random violence (driven by very hard to solve/prosecute carjackings)? Can she just "do it"? Does fed gov need to sign off?

She can’t do it because it’s not in her interest. She’d be missing her career goodbye

Breaking news: Bowser already kissed her career goodbye with her accomplishments like Crime for All and novel plans for spreading “urban vibrancy” to every ward. Talk about her “vison zero.” Mission accomplished, Mayor!

I don’t think she did that. I distinctly remember Allen Nadeau Mendo and that idiot woman from 4 doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is needed to convince Bowser to call up the national guard to confront the random violence (driven by very hard to solve/prosecute carjackings)? Can she just "do it"? Does fed gov need to sign off?

Maybe she can get MPD, who she is in charge of, to do their jobs for a start. I have never seen such a large group of people with such lack of will to work. The WAMU expose showed the morale issue is a management problem, not a Council or BLM problem.

I would do as little as possible to if you were going to put me in jail for doing my job. Yeah, nah.

[Anonymous]

Our elected leaders, such as Charles Allen, created a nightmare scenario when Charles Allen chaired the "Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety" and offered legislation that decriminalized theft and made anyone under 26 a “juvenile offender” (instead of age 18 and under).

Now we expect the National Guard to clean up Allen’s mess, even while those same idiotic laws are still on the books, and Allen is unapologetically defending these problem laws on the council?

Seriously?

Remove Allen and change the laws back.

Then we can talk.