Well, at least they are not eating cats and dogs.
Listening to President Trump.
At that time, Trump was just a candidate. Now, he is the commander in chief of the US army with a clear desire to use war troops in the American streets, either for an elegant birthday parade, to enforce his immigration agenda in Los Angeles or stop car thefts in the capital of the nation.
“It is becoming a situation of total and total lack of law,” Trump said during a press conference on Monday, announcing that he was calling the National Guard troops to help with national surveillance in DC.
“We will also get rid of the low neighborhoods. We have marginal neighborhoods here. We will get rid of them,” he said. “I know it's not politically correct. You'll say: 'Oh, so terrible.' No, we are getting rid of the low neighborhoods where they live.”
Where they live “them.”
While the use of the military in the American streets is alarming, it should be so frightening how blatant this president is linking the breed not only to crime, but to the violence so uncontrollable that it requires that military troops stop it. Turning the breed for crime is nothing new, of course. It is a large part of American history and our justice system unfortunately has submerged in it, from the era of Jim Crow to the drug war in the 1990s, which addressed the cities of the interior with the same rhetoric that Trump is recycling now.
The difference between that last attack against minorities, initiated by President Nixon and lasting through Presidents Reagan and George Hw Bush, also under the appearance of law and order, and our current circumstances is that in this case, the notion of war is not just hyperbole. We are literally talking about soldiers in the streets, aimed at black and brown people. Whether they are employees of car washed in California or adolescents on school holidays in DC, real crimes do not seem to import. The color of the skin is sufficient for the scrutiny of the application of the law, a sad and dangerous return to an era before civil rights.
“Certainly, the language that President Trump is using with respect to DC has a racially -based message,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law Faculty.
Chemerinsky said that only a few days ago, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals called the Trump administration for immigration raids that were unconstitutional because they were basically racial sweeps. But he is shameless. His calls to violence against people of color are increasing. It appears more and more than bringing troops to Los Angeles was a trial case for a greater use of the military in civil environments.
President Trump holds a table against the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, during Monday's press conference, announcing the deployment of troops in Washington, DC
(Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
“This will go further,” Trump said sinisterly, making it clear that he would like to see soldiers watching throughout the United States.
“We also have other cities that are bad, very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is,” he continued. “We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don't even mention that, they are so, they are so far.”
Actually, crime is falling through the United States, even in Washington. As the Washington Post pointed out, violent crime rates, including murders, have been mostly in a downward trend since 2023. But all that is needed are some explosive examples to banish the truth of consciousness. Trump pointed out some tragic and horrible examples, including Edward's beating “Big Balls” Coristine, a former employee of the president's efficiency department who was attacked after trying to defend a woman during a theft of cars recently, not far from the White House.
These are crimes that must be punished and certainly not tolerated. But the exploitation we are seeing of Trump is a dangerous precedent to justify the military force for the application of national law, which until now has been prohibited, or at least assumed forbidden, by the Comitatus Law of 1878.
This week, how strong this prohibition will be discussed in a court of the San Francisco court, during the three -day trial on the deployment of troops in Los Angeles. While it is not clear how that case will be resolved, “Los Angeles could provide a bit of a road map for any jurisdiction that seeks to go back against the Trump administration when there is a potential threat to send to federal troops,” said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional legal academic in the Loyola Law School.
Again, California comes out as the biggest sheet for a Trump autocracy.
But while we wait with the hope that the courts are updated with Trump, we cannot be blind to what is happening in our streets. The breed and crime are not linked by anything but racism.
Allowing our military to terror the black and brown people under the appearance of law and order is nothing more than a capture of power based on the exploitation of our darker nature.
It is a tactic that Trump has perfected, but one that will change fundamentally and weakens US justice if we do not stop it.
