I had to laugh (/s) at this one: at 14 minutes, the guy says yes those guards at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier will stop you if you cause problems.
Yes, I've visited the cemetery to see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and JFK's grave. But you know, one of my grade school classmates is buried there: He was a winner of the Medal of Honor for saving his unit in VietNam, and when his parents got too old to visit him, they asked if he could be reburied here. Our class actually had a reunion and some accompanied his body to Arlington.
as for the Pentagon: when I went to a medical conference in Washington DC, I stayed with my step daughter, and caught the train to Washington at the Pentagon bus/subway station. Her husband, who was working there at the time, showed me the memorial on the side of the Pentagon to commemorate 911. No, it is too far from the parking lot for a "truck bomb" to work, (and just ignore the security guards) but never mind since that conspiracy theory came out of a leftist writer in France who obviously had never been to the place, or even flew over the Pentagon on the flight path to Reagan National Airport.
and again, one of my Medical school classmates was working there and helped to triage casualties in the parking lot.
Now, of course, tourism is down: tourists are worrying that they and their kids will be attacked by "peaceful protests", never mind the mask and covid danger. Too bad, because it's a great place to take the kids and most of it is free.
I lived through the 1960s, so am cynical about the "protests".
the press keeps spinning the "peaceful protests" (LOL) but no one outside the bubble believes them any more.
A lot of the destroyed stores are owned by local minorities and/or immigrants, but never mind: the protesters are elites and the cops/firemen/shop keepers etc are working class. So the protests are more about class warfare than about racism.
my take: it's fun to go out and virtue signal while letting off steam by bashing windows and hating the cops who protect normal people from gang related violence.
Yes, I am sarcastic, because the stress is on being a "social activist" but not actually doing the hard work of helping people.
How many will get a degree in something useful and work in jobs that help people? (teaching, nursing, social worker, garbage collector, street cleaner, policeperson, bus driver etc.).
And of course, there are volunteer jobs for student aged types, like cleaning up the street garbage after the protesters left, working at a food bank so those out of work can eat, or volunteering to help the isolated families and elderly who are stuck at home (e.g. meals on wheels, driving them to the store or doctor's office, cleaning up their houses or lawns). Or maybe even helping those out of work in their own extended family...
a lot of this type of work is done by the local churches, so of course never gets mentioned in the MSM because ordinary folks doing ordinary things doesn't count.
Sigh.
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update: the nonsense of the "white Jesus" nonsense is because of the bad American protestant art. Catholic art tends to be Italian, so Jesus is Italian. Icons tend to be Greek.
and here in the Philippines? our older traditional church art tends to be Spanish (some of it based on Christ's passion is quite graphic and R rated).
and The child Jesus is a mischevious kid.
Film about the artist Joey Velasco.
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