TYRANNY ALERT! Trump militarizes DC police, promises to go national!

In a clear display of the kind of tyranny we have been warning about when it comes to Donald Trump, the dictator wannabe seized control of the Washington, DC police yesterday, militarized law enforcement in our nation’s capitol by deploying hundreds of National Guard troops, and promised to do the same thing on a national level in major US cities.

Calling his plan “liberation day for DC,” Trump announced his “historic” takeover (via NationalReview.com):

President Trump on Monday announced plans to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and to deploy several hundred National Guard troops and more than 100 FBI agents to the streets of Washington, D.C., to assist local law enforcement in fighting crime.

“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, squalor and worse,” Trump said during a press conference on Monday. “This is liberation day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back.” (Emphasis mine)

Trump went on to say that seizing control of Washington, DC law enforcement was necessary due to an explosion in crime even though our nation’s capital has seen violent crime drop to a 30-year low.

For the record, Trump has the authority to take over the Metropolitan Police Department under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which includes a provision granting him the ability to take over the department when there are “special conditions of an emergency nature.” Ironic, because he didn’t take this action on January 6, 2021 when thousands of his sycophants invaded the Capitol in an attempt to help him steal the election.

However, yesterday’s takeover of DC had nothing to do with an “emergency” and everything to do with tyranny and his desire to be the defacto king of America, as we see in this excerpt taken from yesterday’s press conference where he promised to go national with his plan to militarize police forces across America (via USAToday.com):

President Donald Trump said he might expand his crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital to other major U.S. cities as he announced plans to send 800 National Guard troops into Washington, D.C.

Trump singled out New York City, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago and Oakland, California during a Monday, Aug. 11, news conference as potential future targets in what would be a drastic escalation of federal presence on the streets of American cities.

“We’re not going to lose our cities over this. This will go further. We’re starting very strongly with D.C., and we’re going to clean it up real quick,” Trump said.

Trump did not elaborate on his plans for other cities. But one of the two executive actions he signed Aug. 11 directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to coordinate with governors of states and “authorize the orders of any additional members of the National Guard to active service, as he deems necessary and appropriate, to augment this mission.” (Emphasis mine)

Having Hegseth and the Defense Department involved in his plan to militarize police on a national level confirms what I wrote yesterday about a DHS memo that confirmed Trump’s plan to use immigration as an excuse to spread tyranny across America:

The memo lays out the need to persuade top Pentagon officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigration—and not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed “for years to come.” And it likens the threat posed by transnational gangs and cartels to having “Al Qaeda or ISIS cells and fighters operating freely inside America,” hinting at a ramped-up militarized posture inside the interior.

“The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” Carrie Lee, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, told me. “The military is the most powerful, coercive tool our country has. We don’t want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law.”

The memo was authored by Philip Hegseth—the younger brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—who is a senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liaison officer to the Defense Department. (Emphasis mine)

Trump started going down this road with his Inauguration Day executive order declaring a national emergency on the southern border — an order requiring Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to provide a joint report updating conditions at the border along with their recommendations on whether the invocation of the Insurrection Act might be necessary.

“Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.”

Though Hegseth and Noem pretended to oppose the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act, Trump ignored the Insurrection Act when he deployed the National Guard to LA to allegedly “protect” Immigration Control Enforcement (ICE) officers from protestors who disagreed with his immigration policies (via LATimes.com):

It took less than 24 hours of isolated protests in Los Angeles County for Trump, more aggressive than ever in his use of executive power, to issue a historic order. “The federal government will step in and solve the problem,” he said on social media…, issuing executive action not seen since civil unrest gripped the nation in the 1960s.

It was the latest expression of a president unleashed from conventional parameters on his power, unconcerned with states’ rights or the proportionality of his actions. And the targeting of a Democratic city in a Democratic state was, according to the vice president, an intentional ploy to make a political lesson out of Los Angeles.

The pace of the escalation, and the federal government’s unwillingness to defer to cooperative local law enforcement authorities, raise questions about the administration’s intentions as it responds to protesters. (Emphasis mine)

In his memo deploying the National Guard to LA, Trump also threatened to have the Pentagon send active-duty military to Los Angeles when he wrote that “the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.” A mere 48 hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mobilized nearly 1000 marines to LA to “support” the National Guard with their police actions.

I know that there are some who object to comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, but when I was doing my research for this article, I stumbled across this little tidbit from the Holocaust Encyclopedia that tells us how Hitler began building his Nazi empire years before he became the evil dictator that started WWII. I think you’ll find the same similarities I found when speaking of Trump:

After Adolf Hitler became chancellor on January 30, 1933, he worked to turn Germany into a dictatorship under his sole control. To do so, the new government reoriented Weimar Germany’s previously democratic organizations and institutions to serve Nazi ideals. This meant eliminating constitutional rights and protections for individuals. It also meant inserting Nazi ideology into all aspects of life. This process is known as Nazification.

The Nazis believed that the police would have a particularly important role to play in the new Germany. Therefore, almost immediately after Hitler’s appointment, the Nazis sought to take over and transform Germany’s police forces. But the decentralized nature of German policing in 1933 made this difficult. At that time, various state and city governments—not the German chancellor—oversaw the country’s police forces.

On February 17, 1933, Nazi Hermann Göring issued a decree to Prussian policemen instructing them to work with Nazi paramilitary organizations and to treat political enemies ruthlessly. The decree clearly stated that policemen would not be punished for shooting a Communist, and, in fact, they might even be disciplined for failing to do so. (Emphasis mine)

Taking over the police and indoctrinating them with Nazi ideology sounds a lot like Trump and his indoctrination of Trumpism. Ordering the police to work with Nazi paramilitary organizations sounds a lot like Trump ordering local police to work with the National Guard. Allowing German police to treat their enemies “ruthlessly” and permitting them to shoot at their discretion sounds a lot like Trump’s “you spit, we hit” threat issued when he took over LA:

Trump’s tyranny-inspired “leadership” since his inauguration — and most recently his actions in DC — prove that he will militarize police at the national level and, eventually, suspend the Constitution, appoint military commanders over civilian authorities (local police), and replace the judiciary with military tribunals.

It’s only a matter of time.

 

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