Too damned much of the same ol’ same ol’ and a government that never really seems to protect and defend true liberty on any given day. It seems to always be growing, demanding more power over all and more control, whether warranted or not.

While I do have a bit of a concern over Trump’s recent action in D,C., by and large, I have to admit that it is the correct move under these particular current set of circumstances and given the nature of the communists who have been looting and driving the area into the ground for decades.

Most normal Americans will understand my commonsense concerns for this creative and legal move by President Trump. Under every legal section one cares to mention, Trump absolutely can lawfully take control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the policing strategies and policies behind D.C.’s policing, but exercising this power in these politically charged days or in any indefinite manner comes with its own set of risks, and it could set a precedent for military-style urban governance in peacetime, much like we already witness throughout Mexico, Central and South America and other Third World shitholes.

No one should ever want to support or facilitate a government contingency that results in the normalization of federal takeovers of local policing as a political tool. This is holds too much potential for blurring the line between temporary security measures and a sustained occupation by federal government agents and the military, and that’s a future no one should really want to see visited upon their children and their children’s children and generations beyond.

This isn’t to say that I am totally against President Trump’s takeover of D.C., only that it’s an action that demands intense oversight by the Congress and the American people themselves, so that it may be set under the proper controls and legal mechanisms itself that may prevent this from evolving into something evil and tyrannical.

President Trump has just taken action to place the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under full federal control, due to the out-of-control crime raging through the area. This is absolutely under his authority as President and a proper response to the situation on the ground. The Constitution, Congress and section 740 of the Home Rule Act backs the President, while his action to “restore order” in crime riddled D.C. and his declaration of a “Liberation Day” for D.C. has the Marxist-Maoist Democrat Party communists’ exploding in fury, while many other Americans are cheering. But what this moment really portends for the future of freedom and liberty in America is really at the heart of the matter.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. officials decried the President’s move as an “unprecedented intrusion on autonomy”, supposedly undermining local governance. However, it doesn’t prevent them from seeing to all of their other duties whatsoever, but simply moves to force the police to implement the best enforcement practices for all concerned, as newly appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, is moving ahead guns-a-blazing so to speak to ensure that criminals are in fact prosecuted and sent to prison, no longer hugged and given teddy bears and sent back out on the streets to pick up a knife or a gun to kill again.

Crime is truly a mammoth problem in D.C., despite the data manipulations by D.C. MPD officials, the outright deceptions and lies and associated propaganda. They want the people to believe that crime is down by 26%, but truth be known, this bit of data is an inaccuracy made possible from the fact that most criminal cases in D.C. have been dismissed – sixty percent in 2022 alone – because the D.C. crime lab lost its accreditation, the result being that prosecutions were disincentivized and criminals repeatedly walked free as justice for the victims was denied.

And so, despite Mayor Muriel Bowser’s and her Democrat communist cronies’ numerous failures, they continue to cry out that “crime is down”, and yet it rages on and prosecutions are nonexistence, especially given the number of leftist prosecutors and judges in D.C. who are simply letting the criminals walk away, free as a bird, on “probation” to the ultimate harm of society on the whole – criminals who are often caught in the middle of some new and horrendously violent crime at the cost of some fine and decent American’s life.

Never much of one for supporting more intrusive law enforcement or the federal government’s ongoing violations of individual liberty and numerous overreaches, there really isn’t much one can fault President Trump or his administration on in this matter, other than their combined hopes and desire and stated wish to expand similar operations into other major cities, such as Chicago and New York City. This is something I would have trouble allowing in under any set of circumstances, since state and local matters of crime are just that – a state and local matter to be resolved by their citizens. And in cases of riots or true insurrections, there are already many laws and mechanisms in place for handling them by way of declarations of emergencies and martial law.

The U.S. Constitution’s Seat of Government Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 17) gives Congress the power “to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever” over the federal district. From its founding, Washington, D.C. was not a state but a federal territory. Congress created and directly administered it for much of its early history.

This means:

* Congress has plenary authority over the District, unlike its limited powers over states.

* Home Rule – granted in 1973 by statute – is delegated local governance, not inherent sovereignty. Congress can alter or revoke it.

* In constitutional theory, federal intervention in D.C.’s governance is always legally permissible so long as Congress authorizes it.

But lawful authority does not automatically make any use of it wise, proportionate, or free of risk to liberty.

As hard as it may be to stomach, if any certain area is experiencing a massive crime wave, they have no one to blame but themselves for electing and trusting people who are weak on law enforcement and criminals, those weak-kneed far left “liberals” and commies who have never met a criminal they didn’t want to hug and kiss and meet in prison for conjugal visits. They get what they deserve.

More than facilitating a questionable move to nationalize the police forces of major urban areas, the people of these areas must be unchained and left unrestrained and free to take action in the defense of their communities and themselves. Loosen firearm carry laws and stop punishing citizens who act in self-defense to kill a criminal aiming to rob, rape or murder them on the streets and in their homes. And then watch how fast the crime stats really drop as the stats for coffin sales for criminals skyrockets.

Trump’s move, executed under Section 740 of the Home Rule Act, brought 800 National Guard troops and federal agents into the streets of Washington, D.C. Trump framed it as a response to “bloodshed and bedlam.” The D.C. Police Union has accused department leadership of manipulating statistics, excluding serious offenses like aggravated assault from public reports. The truth is murkier than the headlines suggest.

But this isn’t just about crime. It’s about power.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s declaration that “At your direction, sir [President Trump], there are other units we are prepared to bring in” had heads snapping around as puzzled looks flew through the air. The generals looked uncomfortable and a flurry of texts went out over the wires from those foreign journalists on hand, as new conspiracy theories burst open the social media flood gates.

Trump’s allies, including Kash Patel, have pointed to counter-terrorism level data: thousands of child victims recovered, hundreds of traffickers arrested, and international networks dismantled. These are not street crime metrics. They suggest a deeper operation – one targeting organized trafficking and perhaps foreign infiltration. The deployment of elite military units like the 82nd Airborne and Marine forces from Quantico only reinforces that this is no routine cleanup.

Historically, federal intervention in American cities has been rare – and consequential. President Abraham Lincoln illegally suspended habeas corpus and deployed troops during the Civil War to preserve the Union. Likewise, President Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock in 1957 to illegally enforce school desegregation and uphold an erroneous interpretation and application of constitutional law, violating white Americans right to assembly. Both moments were controversial. Both reshaped the nation.

Ironically, today we find a vast number of America’s black people self-segregating out of their unhinged hatred for white people. And as we note that 43% of D.C.’s population is black and 39% white, we must also note that, according to FBI Uniform Crime Reporting and D.C. Metropolitan Police data, between 2020 and 2024, approximately 82 to 86% of all arrests for violent crimes, including murders, rapes, robberies and assaults, were committed by black people. These percentages have remained relatively consistent over the past five years, and they reveal that there is a significant problem within D.C.’s black community.

And as seen in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, in 2019, although black people only represented around 12% of the population, at the time, they were responsible for 51% of the murders, 53% of the robberies, 29% of the burglaries, 28% of auto thefts, 26% of drug crimes and nearly half of the prostitution and human-trafficking racket in the entirety of America.

In truth, there is a massive problem within the entirety of America’s black community, but that’s a topic for another article and another day.

On August 6th, U.S. District Attorney Jeanine Pirro told journalist Laura Ingraham:

“Youth violence is on the rise — not just in D.C., but across the country. And if you think that these kids need to be coddled and they need to be hugged — they need to have consequences, they need to understand that enough is enough, that we’re going to put them in jail or some kind of youth rehabilitation detention facility and not allow the D.C. Council — one of whom I just recently indicted — to take cover for these kids.

“They go to family court, where the effort is rehabilitation. The D.C. Council — and the president is right — they’ve got to stop their coddling. Number one, we’ve got to lower the age of responsibility to 14. I’m tired of having these kids commit crimes — and they’re crews, not gangs, in D.C.“

Trump’s aforementioned actions echo these precedents. But they also raise urgent questions. Is this truly liberation – or a consolidation of federal power? Is this justice – or control?

How Trump and his administration exerts this new control that is old in its construct and nature determines whether it safeguards the public good or provokes the far left radicals and amerikkan communists to react in a manner that further erodes its social infrastructure and the republican nature and character of the capital. The August 2025 intervention is not unconstitutional in origin – but in its scale, rhetoric, and potential to set precedent, it marks a pivotal moment. Whether it becomes a one-off security measure or a model for expanded executive dominance will define much of America’s liberty narrative going forward.

Some have suggested this is just the opening salvo in a plan to destroy those who have been attempting to destroy the Republic and Trump, since at least 2008 and the Obama administration, those who doubled down on that destruction under Biden. Oh, but if only … I just might jump on board such a move wholeheartedly even though this does open Pandora’s Box and moves the nation a few steps closer to a hot full-blown civil war.

The nation’s major cities and most dangerous urban areas are on notice, as Trump establishes federal control and deploys those military assets at his disposal, all with an authority confirmed under the U.S. Constitution, still bastardized and malformed from decades of abuse and manipulations and illegitimate amendments.

And so the whole world watched as National Guard vehicles rolled through the streets of Washington, D.C., not unheard of in the past but taking on new meaning in the present.

Civil liberties groups warn of executive overreach. Legal scholars caution that this sets a precedent for militarized governance. And local leaders argue that it undermines municipal autonomy. As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, we must ask: What does liberty mean in an era where federal authority can override local governance with military force?

Just exactly what was Trump’s full meaning behind the declaration of “This is Liberation Day in D.C.“. What is he going to liberate D.C. from having to bear any longer. This could mean anything and everything, whether we speak of the status quo street crime phenomena, local criminal crews, crimes against humanity or international criminal networks, urban decay and systemic evil in general.

Freedom is not just the absence of crime. It is the presence of accountability, transparency, and democratic consent. If we allow power to be exercised without scrutiny – especially under the banner of liberation – we risk losing the very liberties we claim to defend.

This moment demands vigilance. It demands debate. And most of all, it demands that we, the people, remember that freedom is not given by presidents. It is preserved by citizens.

Even so, if one is a conservative, Christian, independent freedom and liberty-minded American who loves the country and the bulk of Her great people, it has to warm the little cockles of one’s heart to see America’s enemies-from-within and Her treasonous, black-hearted traitors already running. We’ve seen this coming for years now. The storm has arrived and there will be hell to pay, one way or the other in the coming days and years ahead. Make them pay with blood.

August 14, 2025

~ the Author ~
Justin O. Smith Has Lived in Tennessee Off and on Most of His Adult Life, and Graduated From Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, With a B.S. And a Double Major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – Minors in Military Science and English, for What Its Worth. His Real Education Started From That Point on. Smith Is a Frequent Contributor to the Family of Kettle Moraine Publications.