Friends, I'm outraged. The thought that anyone can just bust into the home of the Speaker of the house and attack her husband is incomprehensible to me. Typically this sort of failure is facilitated by a chain of other failures. We need to demand a full review of our executive Protection apparatus. I'm praying for the safety of our elected and appointed officials everywhere.
You're absolutely right Charles. While the legal apparatus could be improved, a bigger contributor to the problem, IMHO, is the demonizing rhetoric in politics right now, especially on the right. Trump, QAnon, etc. This detached from reality fellow that broke into Paul Pelosi's home thought he was dealing with pedophiles that ate babies and stole elections and all kinds of other ridiculous conspiracies.
Congressional legislators typically do not receive executive protection for them or their families. One would might that as speaker, Nancy would receive elevated protection, but I’d be surprised if that normally extended to her family. Personally, I’ve never seen what I’d typically construe as exec protection around a congressman in-person. Yes, what occurred is a horrific outrage and I’m saddened at how our society has become so toxic.
Not to wish this into existence or anything, but I used to wonder why al-Qaeda, etc., never picked off any members of Congress when even after 9/11 they all just kept wandering openly around Capital Hill. After one or two the rest would all go into hiding, which would be a PR coup for a group like that.
Congressional leaders do receive protection. NB - Republican Whip Steve Scalise's Capital Police Unit saved the day at the Congressional Baseball Game Shooting.
Capital Police provide protection in DC for official congressional business, such as organized and publicized events as that game was. Outside of DC and big press release events (with local LE presence)… I don’t think they receive much protection… I’ve seen a handful of legislators at airports, restaurants, local/small events, meetings, and have never seen protection outside big public/official events.
Agree and surprised. I was positive that there are security services protecting them 24x7. These makes the Lady Speaker vulnerable to extortion etc. I understand that she has protection and when she is traveling the security travels with her. We may agree or disagree with a politician but violent attacks are terrible and should be condemned. Unfortunately all sides have ways to endanger politicians or judges by advertising their home addresses. I think its a miracle that SCOTUS Justices in latest events didn't get hurt. Republicans, Conservatives including main stream right media condemn an attack on Nancy Pelosi household, on her husband. This was not a random act. This was intentional. And it's wrong,
Fascinating to hear this and also terribly unfortunate. Appears that the Capital Police had a live stream camera of Pelosi’s home and caught the breaking… but no one was actively monitoring and caught it in time. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-at-pelosi-home-but-no-one-was-watching/ar-AA13D3lK
Factcheck: FALSE Claim: The demonizing rhetoric is coming mostly from the right. The Facts: The left is the primary contributor to political violence and demonizing rhetori. See below for examples. The Twitter blue check mark people are demanding Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC be fired for telling the truth that Republicans have been targeted for political violence. https://twitter.com/NewsroomJim/status/1587493279674892297 Look at all the blue-check mark monsters happy to celebrate the delusion of Trump dieing on Nov 1st. They love to spread hate and disinformation. https://twitter.com/search?q=#trumpisdead filter:verified&src=typed_query&f=live Protesters Put Life-Size Donald Trump Doll in Guillotine Outside White House https://www.newsweek.com/protest-trump-doll-guillotine-outside-white-house-rnc-1528381
I don't think your fact check, passes the smell test. Reread my statement, "While the legal apparatus could be improved, a bigger contributor to the problem, IMHO, is the demonizing rhetoric in politics right now, especially on the right." Please note that I did NOT say that such things never happen on the left. I actually said that they in fact did. Therefore your examples really prove nothing.
Let me try to help since it seems that rational thought and politics don't mix with some people. There's two obvious reasons that it is clear that "especially on the right" is factual, the Big Lie and QAnon. Some basic aspects of QAnon are believed by some 20% of Republicans, including the nut job that fractured Paul Pelosi's skull. The Big Lie is believed by about 70% of Republicans. This was the root cause of the January 6 attempt to delay or prevent the lawful transfer of power to the new administration, i.e., the insurrection.
