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   From: deinazis@4imprint.com   
      
   On 13 Aug 2025, Baxter  posted some   
   news:107ihcb$sg4$5@dont-email.me:   
      
   > a425couple  wrote in   
   > news:SG2nQ.6865$4dS5.5228@fx16.iad:   
   >   
   >> On 8/13/25 08:46, Michael Ejercito wrote:   
   >>> https://ethicsalarms.com/2025/08/12/on-trumps-d-c-law-enforcement-tak   
   >>> e over   
   >>>   
   >>> On Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover   
   >>> August 12, 2025 / Jack Marshall   
   >>>   
   >> a good one.  A key:   
   >> > 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 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.”>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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   
      
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