Reply #5: Was there two years ago--the WH was on lockdown

[linazelle]

Tarp wrapped around the fence, hills of dirt piled high under the guise of constructing a "mall" (moat is more like it)...security crawling everywhere replete with guys driving around then in White trucks in the manner you describe. It's like our nation's has been home invaded by thugs.

I remember visiting DC many times before then and the White House was peaceful and calm, a few guards stood at the little guardhouse at the driveway.

The change is startling and disheartening. To see it, drives home the despair that we know of and talk of here all the time.