{"id":66787,"date":"2016-07-12T07:42:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66787"},"modified":"2016-07-12T07:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:42:06","slug":"marine-honor-guard-scrutinized-by-capitol-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66787","title":{"rendered":"Marine honor guard scrutinized by Capitol Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66788\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/marineguns_0-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"marineguns_0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-66788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/marineguns_0-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/marineguns_0-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/marineguns_0.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/287321-marines-delayed-from-entering-capitol-with-ceremonial-rifles#.V4RC4lPAInM.facebook\">The Hill<\/a> writes about how Capitol Police made a show of delaying a Marine Corps color guard from their duties while the police verified whether the rifles the color guards were bringing into the Capitol were actually inert training aids or not;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A handful of Capitol Police were at the scene on Monday, which took place at the south entrance of the Cannon Building. Three Marines had entered and were waiting inside the building, while one Marine stayed at the entrance just inside the building with the rifles in their carrying case. <\/p>\n<p>The Marines had arrived to the building in full dress uniforms to &#8220;present the colors,&#8221; a military ceremony to display the American flag, among other national symbols. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At one point, one of the Marines was on his cellphone outside of the building and could be overheard trying to explain the situation to someone. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, if the rifles were functional, they were bolt-action M1903A3s &#8211; World War One technology, who would create a mass-shooting situation with those? Secondly, they were Marines with ID cards, why would they be threat? Thirdly, how long does it take to work the action, look down the barrel and determine that the rifles were indeed inoperable? Fourth, how many times have the Capitol Police been through this drill? I guess the Capitol Police, like the TSA, feel a need to justify their jobs by harrassing the least-likely threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at The Hill writes about how Capitol Police made a show of &hellip; <a title=\"Marine honor guard scrutinized by Capitol Police\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66787\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine honor guard scrutinized by Capitol Police<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}