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Title: “Timing Is Extremely Unusual”: D.C. National Guard Chief Must Stand Down During Inauguration
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Zero Hedge
URL Source: http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-p ... n-during-inauguration_01132017
Published: Jan 13, 2017
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2017-01-14 12:56:28 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2741
Comments: 12
"It doesn’t make sense to can the general in the middle of an active deployment," rages D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) after Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, who heads the D.C. National Guard and is an integral part of overseeing the inauguration, has been ordered removed from command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president. As The Washington Post reports, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz’s departure will come in the midst of the presidential ceremony, classified as a national special security event — and while thousands of his troops are deployed to help protect the nation’s capital during an inauguration he has spent months helping to plan. “The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz would command not only the members of the D.C. guard but also an additional 5,000 unarmed troops sent in from across the country to help. He also would oversee military air support protecting the nation’s capital during the inauguration. “My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz, who turned 65 in October, said, “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said that he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.” Schwartz, who was appointed to head the guard by President George W. Bush in 2008, maintained the position through President Obama’s two terms. He said his orders came from the Pentagon but that he doesn’t know who made the decision. D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) blasted the decision to remove Schwartz, especially on Inauguration Day. “It doesn’t make sense to can the general in the middle of an active deployment,” Mendelson said. He added that Schwartz’s sudden departure would be a long-term loss for the District. “He’s been really very good at working with the community and my impression was that he was good for the Guard.” Unlike in states, where the governor appoints the National Guard commander, in the District that duty falls to the president. Schwartz said that he has not been told why he was asked to step down. “I’m a soldier,” he said, noting that he was following orders and has no regrets. “I’m a presidential appointee, therefore the president has the power to remove me.” Is this just another part of Obama's "smooth" transition? Or is something even more sinister at work here, since we already know that anti-Trump activists are planning "the biggest protest in US history" on the day of the inauguration? * * * As we noted previously, radical leftists are planning to make January 20th the most chaotic Inauguration Day in American history. Their stated goal is to “disrupt” the Inauguration festivities as much as possible, and they are planning a wide range of “actions” to achieve that stated goal. Some of the more moderate groups are using terms such as “civil resistance” and “civil disobedience”, but others are openly talking about “blockades”, jumping barricades, throwing projectiles and “citywide paralysis”. My hope is that all of their efforts will turn out to be a big flop, but it is important to understand that these groups are well funded, highly organized and extremely motivated. The election of Donald Trump has been perhaps the single most galvanizing moment for the radical left in modern American history, and they are working very hard to turn January 20th into a major political statement. In fact, just recently one activist group took out a full page ad in the New York Times… Thousands of activists, journalists, scientists, entertainers, and other prominent voices took out a full-page call to action in the New York Times on Wednesday making clear their rejection of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence with the simple message: “No!” “Stop the Trump/Pence regime before it starts! In the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America!” the ad states, followed by a list of signatories that includes scholar Cornel West; author Alice Walker; Chase Iron Eyes of the Standing Rock Sioux; educator Bill Ayers; poet Saul Williams; CNN‘s Marc Lamont Hill; Carl Dix of the Communist Party USA; and numerous others. The ad pointed people to refusefascism.org, and it asserted that Trump must be stopped whether he was legitimately elected or not… Trump promises to inflict repression and suffering on people in this country, to deport millions, to increase violence up to the use of nuclear weapons on people across the globe, and to inflict catastrophes upon the planet itself. He has assembled a cabinet of Christian fundamentalist fanatics, war mongers, racists, science deniers. NO! His regime must not be allowed to consolidate. We REFUSE to accept a Fascist America! If you go to refusefascism.org, you will discover that the protests that they are organizing in Washington D.C. will begin on January 14th. They say that they want to “stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts”, and they hope to have protests going “every day and every night” without interruption through at least January 20th. Another group that plans to kick things off on January 14th is DisruptJ20. Of course that is short for “Disrupt January 20th”. If you go to their official website, you will find a long slate of events that have already been scheduled. According to Legba Carrefour, a spokesperson for DisruptJ20, one of the goals of the group is to block major transportation routes into and throughout our nation’s capital. And he is not shy about the fact that they literally want to “shut down the Inauguration”… “We are planning to shut down the inauguration, that’s the short of it,” he says. “We’re pretty literal about that, we are trying to create citywide paralysis on a level that I don’t think has been seen in D.C. before. We’re trying to shut down pretty much every ingress into the city as well as every checkpoint around the actual inauguration parade route.” If Carrefour and his fellow conspirators are able to actually accomplish that, it truly would be unprecedented. And while DisruptJ20 is not publicly advocating violence, they are not exactly discouraging it either… Carrefour says DisruptJ20 has no publicly announced plans to jump barricades along the inauguration parade route or throw projectiles at the new president, but that autonomous direct actions are encouraged. “I can’t comment on specific stuff we’re doing like that, mostly because that would be illegal. But, yeah, it will get pretty crazy, I expect,” he says. “‘Have fun!’ I say.” After the rioting that we have seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlotte and many other communities around the nation in recent years, I hope that authorities are taking these threats quite seriously. Once Donald Trump won the election, many conservatives seemed to think that the war was won. But the truth of the matter is that many on the left were completely blindsided by Trump’s surprise victory, and now that they are fully awake they are gearing up for battle like never before. And these protests are not going to end on January 20th. In fact, abortion advocates are hoping to get close to a million women into Washington D.C. on the day following the Inauguration to protest for abortion rights. Filmmaker Michael Moore is hoping that this march will be the beginning of “100 days of resistance” against Trump’s presidency… Filmmaker and liberal icon Michael Moore has announced his plans to attend the Women’s March on Washington to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration later this month and has called for sore loser liberals to go further — by staging protests acts of resistance through the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency. In an appearance, this weekend on MSNBC’s The Last Word, the 62-year-old Trumpland and Fahrenheit 9/11 director made a “call to arms” to those opposed to Trump’s presidency to join the Women’s March on Washington scheduled for January 21, the day after the presidential inauguration. “It’s important that everybody go there,” Moore told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. Of course it is easy to imagine how all of this could spiral wildly out of control. If Trump cracks down on these protests really hard in an attempt to restore law and order, that could end up sparking a dramatic backlash against his “police state tactics”. And if the protests become even bigger and more violent, Trump could respond by cracking down even more harshly. Let us hope for some really cold weather in D.C. at the end of January so that as many troublemakers as possible get discouraged and stay home. Violent protests, blockades and riots aren’t going to solve anything, and they could easily open fresh wounds in a nation that is becoming more divided with each passing day. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
I have not read all of the article, but this seems to have the smell of Obutthole all over it!
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
I'd agree - since as President he is the boss of the DC National Guard Commander. More presentation and support for left wing claptrap! We'll end up with Hillary before this is over!
Pretty sure that's what they are hoping for. effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m. Obama will be unable to give any orders at that time since he'll be back to being an undocumented illegal alien. The order is from then president Trump. It's obviously his first order as president, indicating that it's a top priority to get rid of this George W. Bush appointee that Obama kept on, immediately, ASAP! Stopping the military coup and his assassination, before it really gets rolling? http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/Head-of-DC-National-Guard-to-be-removed-from-post-in-middle-of-inauguration.html Have been reading that this guy was asked to stay on by Trump, he said no. Now everyone is screaming about the timing? And this guy is acting like it's horrible? Seems like this is designed to make people look like conspiracy nuts. 'What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?'
Trump is not yet officially President and as such does not have the power to fire the Commander of the DC National Guard. As long as Obama is still POTUS, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz works for him. Obama made the call. There's no indication of that in the article, since Schwartz himself said that The timing is extremely unusual He also added “My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz, who turned 65 in October, said, “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said that he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.” Schwartz, who was appointed to head the guard by President George W. Bush in 2008, maintained the position through President Obama’s two terms. He said his orders came from the Pentagon but that he doesn’t know who made the decision. Nothing “strange” here at all. Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz is an Obama presidential appointee (his appointment under Bush ended on January 20 2009 and then Obama appointed him) and Trump is cleaning house on Obama political appointees. Let the draining of the swamp begin … Furthermore, in a break with precedent, Obama Envoys are denied extensions past inauguration day. Trump’s transition staff has also informed the State Department that politically appointed ambassadors must leave by Inauguration Day. The NYT called it a “break with precedent” to remove political ambassadors, many of whom received their posts by fundraising for Barack Obama Move along, folks….past this “fear mongering” …
Schwartz, who was appointed to head the guard by President George W. Bush in 2008, maintained the position through President Obama’s two terms. He said his orders came from the Pentagon but that he doesn’t know who made the decision. ...Trump is removing Schwartz at 12:01 PM on January 20th. Trump is NOT yet President, he has no such power. Trump is NOT yet President, he has no such power. On January 20th at 12:01 PM....Trump will become president, he will have the power and that is the time Schwartz and all the other political appointees will be removed from their jobs. What is so hard for you to understand about that. Piss and moan and stamp your “wittle feetsies” all you want to….it is going to happen and there is nothing strange about it. He served at the pleasure of the past president….he will not under the new president.
Keep telling yourself that!!!
#2. To: Stoner (#1)
I have not read all of the article, but this seems to have the smell of Obutthole all over it!
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
Trump promises to inflict repression and suffering on people in this country, to deport millions, to increase violence up to the use of nuclear weapons on people across the globe, and to inflict catastrophes upon the planet itself. He has assembled a cabinet of Christian fundamentalist fanatics, war mongers, racists, science deniers. NO! His regime must not be allowed to consolidate. We REFUSE to accept a Fascist America!
#4. To: rlk (#3)
We'll end up with Hillary before this is over!
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Deckard, Stoner, bushbot military coup (#2)
Schwartz, who was appointed to head the Guard by President George W. Bush in 2008, maintained the position through President Barack Obama's two terms.
#6. To: Deckard (#4)
#7. To: hondo68, Stoner, rlk (#5)
Obama will be unable to give any orders at that time since he'll be back to being an undocumented illegal alien. The order is from then president Trump.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#8. To: Dead Culture Watch (#6)
(Edited)
Have been reading that this guy was asked to stay on by Trump, he said no.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#9. To: Deckard (#7)
(Edited)
Trump is not yet officially President and as such does not have the power to fire the Commander of the DC National Guard. As long as Obama is still POTUS, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz works for him. Obama made the call.
Obama made the call to appoint Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz in 2008 and Trump is removing Schwartz at 12:01 PM on January 20th.
#10. To: Gatlin (#9)
Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz is an Obama presidential appointee
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#11. To: Deckard (#10)
(Edited)
...Trump is removing Schwartz at 12:01 PM on January 20th.
#12. To: All (#11)
(Edited)
Trump is NOT yet President, he has no such power.
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