/midnightriders/ board up on the Popular Boards list
Now sitting at #5.
Nice going fags. Well done.
Notice that QR is now a public board for the first time ever?
Since last week. I don’t think there was an announcement in the change of policy or it would surely be in globals there.
No idea. Possibly to get some refugee traffic as it’s pretty quiet over there now. Idk though.
We went public a few weeks ago to increase traffic to here (which worked), then QR followed by going public last week.
Idk if related.
We’re doing really well for a new board, our notables being listed now on wearethene.ws and qresearch.ch, both excellent achievements for a board of our size.
Together we’re putting out excellent work.
Being a public board means being listed in the 8kun Index, so anyone coming to 8kun through the front door will see the board.
QR was always unlisted until now.
We’ll just keep working it and hopefully more will join us.
DC National Guard commander says Pentagon restricted his authority before riot
Pentagon officials restricted the commander of D.C. National Guard’s authorities ahead of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the commander told The Washington Post in an interview published Tuesday.
Normally, a local commander would be able to make decisions on taking military action in an emergency when headquarters approval could take too much time.
But Maj. Gen. William Walker, the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard, told the Post the Pentagon took that power away from him ahead of the Capitol riot, which meant he could not immediately deploy troops when the Capitol Police chief called asking for help as rioters were about to breach the building.
“All military commanders normally have immediate response authority to protect property, life, and in my case, federal functions — federal property and life,” Walker told the Post. “But in this instance, I did not have that authority.”
Instead, Walker needed approval from then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller before deploying troops.
Asked how quickly guardsmen could have arrived at the Capitol, which is two miles from the D.C. National Guard's headquarters, without the higher-level approval, Walker told the Post, "With all deliberate speed — I mean, they’re right down the street.”
The restriction was placed on Walker after the Guard’s heavy-handed and widely criticized response to racial justice protests over the summer. In June, hundreds of guardsmen from around the country poured into the nation's capital at former President Trump’s request, despite objections from local authorities.
A National Guard helicopter also hovered low over protesters as a show of force, a move that drew widespread scrutiny and rebuke.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/535888-dc-national-guard-commander-says-pentagon-restricted-his-authority-before-riot
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“After June, the authorities were pulled back up to the secretary of defense’s office,” McCarthy told The Post. “Any time we would employ troops and guardsmen in the city, you had to go through a rigorous process. As you recall, there were events in the summer that got a lot of attention, and that was part of this.”
Authorities were pushed back down to Walker ahead of President Biden’s inauguration, McCarthy added.
The inauguration saw an influx of roughly 25,000 guardsmen from around the country to create a security zone around the Capitol and National Mall for fear of a repeat of the Jan. 6 insurrection. About 5,000 guardsmen are expected to stay around the Capitol through at least mid-March as the Senate holds Trump’s impeachment trial for the charge of inciting the riot.
The House Appropriations Committee was set to receive closed-door testimony Tuesday from McCarthy and Walker as it probes security failures that led to the Capitol riot.
Pentagon officials, local D.C. authorities and the Capitol Police have traded accusations about who is to blame for the Guard’s slow response once rioters breached the Capitol. The Pentagon has said Capitol Police denied offers of Guard assistance in the days before the attack. A Pentagon timeline of events says it took roughly an hour and a half to approve the Guard’s deployment on Jan. 6 after requests were made by Capitol Police and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D).
Also under scrutiny in the Pentagon’s response is the phone call in which then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund requested assistance. Sund previously told the Post that Army staff director Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt said on the call he didn’t like the “visual” of the Guard policing the Capitol, a comment Piatt initially denied before backtracking last week.
Walker told the Post there was discussion of optics but said he could not attribute the comments to a particular person.
“There was some talk about optics, but I can’t assign that to one person,” Walker said. “From the Army leadership, there were quite a few people on the call. … It’s clear that somebody talked about the optics. Who said that? I’m not sure.”
Ok. Maybe that’s what pushed Pillow over the edge.
Thanks. I’d say we just do what we’re doing, whatever takes our individual interests and we see that’s needed on the board.
Post, post, post as much relevant material as possible and if we’ve a voice on any other channels, spread the word about the board. Not QR thought to not cause shit there.
Whatever you feel like doing will all add to the whole.
What I was thinking. Shit. Kek
Keks
Definitely. All round.
Poland Urges U.S. to Regulate Big Tech, ‘Every Citizen Must Be Protected’ from Censorship
Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister has called on the U.S. to protect “every citizen” from Big Tech censorship on social media, as his own country prepares new laws enforcing free speech standards online.
Polish lawmaker Sebastian Kaleta said it was “disturbing” that “Christian or patriotic content” was increasingly being branded as “hate speech” by the Big Tech firms which dominate social media, and that the public discourse should not be controlled by “anonymous moderators”.
Mr Kaleta explained that while other European countries, such as Emmanuel Macron’s France and Angela Merkel’s Germany, are already regulating Big Tech in a way that allows them to “force social media to delete some content”, Poland is approaching the online public square from the opposite direction, with legislation “to prevent legal content from being censored”.
The minister told American broadcaster Glenn Beck that “Many publishers, many politicians right now are interested in our concept, because we saw that freedom of speech is in danger and we want to protect it,” referencing the mass banning of former U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration and Poland’s own dark history of censorship under Communism.
While many conservatives say they accept the right of tech giants to ban, shadowban, and restrict or remove the content of social media users, if reluctantly, because they are “private companies”, Mr Kaleta compared them to, among other things, the telephone networks.
These also started out as private enterprises, he argued in his podcast interview, but evolved into regulated public utilities with democratically accountable oversight as their use became ubiquitous — and it would not be considered acceptable to ban people from using telephones for expressing the “wrong” opinions while using them.
“There are many dangers in Big Tech companies which we should face,” he said, expressing concern at the creation of “monopolies” from which “every citizen must be protected; the rights of every one of us should be protected… to preserve democracy itself.”
Mr Kaleta had previously elaborated on these points in an article for Newsweek, recalling how “Poland suffered under Soviet-imposed Communism for 45 years and endured decades of censorship” and was therefore “particularly sensitive to any attempts to curtail freedom of speech.”
More at
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/25/poland-urges-u-s-regulate-big-tech-every-citizen-must-be-protected-censorship/
Reports that troops in DC are lacking supplies -
This was just posted to my local DC-area Nextdoor. I feel like what's happening to the troops deployed to DC right now needs to be a bigger deal.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1354258322904506370