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   On 13 Aug 2025, Michael Ejercito  posted some   
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   > https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/08/12/on-trumps-d-c-law-enforcement-takeo   
   > ver   
   >   
   > On Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover   
   > August 12, 2025 / Jack Marshall   
   >   
   >   
   > Invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,   
   > President Trump has deployed National Guard troops to D.C. and is   
   > taking over the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to “help   
   > reestablish law, order and public safety” in the city. The President   
   > has the power to do this for 30 days; anyone calling it a frightening   
   > use of autocratic power is in the revolting camp of those who believe   
   > that any legitimate exercise Presidential power is fascistic and   
   > dangerous if this President is the one exercising it.   
   >   
   > Naturally, Trump being Trump, he has been exaggerating the extent of   
   > D.C.’s problem. PBS, which, to its enduring shame, used phony   
   > factchecking site PolitiFact to challenge Trump’s hyperboles, noted   
   > that Trump’s stats were from 2023 and that “at least 49 other   
   > cities in the world had higher homicide rates” in that year. Oh!   
   > Then what’s all the fuss about? Here’s one: none of those cities   
   > is the capital of the United States of America. D.C.’s crime and   
   > murder rate are above the national average. The nation’s capital   
   > should be a model of safety, public civility and fealty to the law,   
   > not a city that’s “not as bad as it used to be and you can find   
   > others that are even worse.”   
      
   PolitiFact leans towards whoever made the last contribution.   
      
   > It is unconscionable that D.C. is the dangerous city it is. It was   
   > considered dangerous when I moved there to go to law school, many   
   > decades ago. The progressive narrative to attack Trump’s move is   
   > that level of violent crime are coming down from last year. Yes, it is   
   > coming down from an unacceptable level and will be at an unacceptable   
   > level still. This defensive logic is literally Rationalization #22   
   > “It’s not the worst thing.” Maybe not, but it’s still   
   > terrible.   
   >   
   > Congress or a President should have intervened in D.C.’s crime   
   > problem long ago. They didn’t, because they were afraid of being   
   > attacked as racist: D.C. is overwhelmingly black, and the serious   
   > crimes are committed overwhelmingly by blacks. Trump isn’t afraid,   
   > because the Axis of Unethical Conduct calls him a racist regardless of   
   > what he does, and he can’t lose any votes in D.C. because he never   
   > had any.   
   >   
   > Naturally, the news media is characterizing the D.C. policing   
   > take-over as “racist.” When a large, Democratic-run city ceases to   
   > have a disproportionate amount of crimes committed by its black   
   > residents, I’ll be ready to consider such complaints. Black America   
   > has a serious crime-culture problem that will not abate until black   
   > leadership and community leaders accept responsibility and begin   
   > leading the community away from toxic lifestyle choices. That,   
   > however, undermines the perpetual victim fiction, so it isn’t going   
   > to happen.   
   >   
   > Absurdly, the D.C. City Council makes the prosecution of   
   > juvenile—and often young non-juvenile—criminals an exercise in   
   > futility. They are often not charged and if they are, seldom get   
   > anything but light sentences. Trump’s troops won’t be able to do   
   > anything about that, but maybe D.C.’s voters will begin to see the   
   > wisdom of serious law enforcement.   
   >   
   > D.C., one must remember, elected a convicted felon ex-mayor to the   
   > City Council, and he has a statue in the city representing him as a   
   > hero. Many other members of the city council in the past have had   
   > criminal records, either before or after their tenure. Many were   
   > juvenile offenders. No wonder they are sympathetic to young offenders.   
   >   
   > I heard one Democrat fuming over Trump’s latest adventure by   
   > complaining that “he seems to think he should get involved in every   
   > problem.” If a President has the power and opportunity to fix a   
   > problem that other elected officials refuse to take on, he should get   
   > involved.   
   >   
   > Trump’s critics look foolish and desperate attacking him for the   
   > D.C. action, and, as is now the norm, are lying as hard as they can.   
   > Slate: “D.C.’s 700,000 residents will live the next month under a   
   > police force that has been openly encouraged by the President to   
   > commit acts of brutality against civilians.” This is news for the   
   > Trump Deranged, because they will believe anything.   
      
   Jack Marshall is a fucking idiot.  Washington DC is the capital city of   
   a predominantly white country.  It is totally infested with niggers   
   and the crimes they commit.   
      
   Is that the face the USA whould present to the rest of the world?   
      
   Nigger slums and crime is what world leaders and visitors should see in   
   the nation's capital city?   
      
   Are Democrats really that stupid and far gone?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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