I often find myself wondering just what country we now live in. Here’s another puzzling example of the strangely fascist nation we find ourselves in:
Organizers of the Pentagon’s 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.
The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and “sterile,” said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.
The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.
Emphasis mine.
So, we now have reached a point where a “march” in “memory” of the victims of a historic, tragic event in our nation’s history, a march that is organized by the Pentagon, a public institution, is not open to the public. This event will take over public roads — although they’re not disclosing the route — and the public is not invited.
Oh, and:
One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route.
In the last week, with the sudden ban on media in the hurricane zone and places where evacuees are gathering, it seems like the free press is increasingly less so. Another warning sign of fascism.
This incredibly bizarre propaganda event is, well, un-American.
