Posted on 08/12/2025 8:30:30 AM PDT by delta7
Trump’s decision to send the National Guard into Washington, D.C., will be defended as a matter of national security. History teaches us this is not about protecting the people at all. The National Guard was deployed to protect the political class from the people.
The United States is now following the same path we have seen throughout history. In ancient Rome, once the Praetorian Guard was stationed in the city to guard the emperor, it became the power behind the throne. Their loyalty was to themselves and the politicians in control at the moment.
The guard was not sent to protect the Republic, and certainly not the people. By the time Commodus was in power, the Guard was deciding who would rule, and the Senate’s role was ceremonial at best.
The same predicament happened in America’s short history. There was genuine fear in late 1860 and early 1861 that secessionist militias or Confederate sympathizers might attack Washington, capture federal buildings, or even seize Lincoln before his inauguration. At the start of 1861, Federal troops were quietly moved into the city. Army units from various forts were sent to guard the Capitol building, the White House, and key bridges into the city. Lincoln was inaugurated in March of 1861, but the new administration took power under the protection of a heavily militarized capital.
Various Southern states began declaring secession following the election of November 1860, as they refused to accept Lincoln as their leader. The Battle of Fort Sumter that April took place a month after Lincoln’s inauguration, which acted as the catalyst to the Civil War.
We have reached a point where neither side of the political aisle sees the other as a legitimate rival. They see their opponents as an existential threat. That goes beyond the politicians themselves and extends to their supporters. Governors are refusing to comply with the Trump Administration and tensions have been boiling since Trump won re-election.
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The Economic Confidence Model has been warning about this very period. We are in the decline wave, moving toward the next major turning point in 2028.05 before 2032 when we will see the crash and burn. Between now and then, you will see authoritarian measures increase. The plan to “temporarily” deploy troops to the nation’s capital will morph into permanent security zones and checkpoints. This is precisely how liberty erodes, not with a single decree, but with a steady normalization of emergency powers.
Historically, militarizing a capital is interpreted by foreign capital as a sign of internal instability. The US government fears its citizens, and the leaders believe they need added layers of protection. Capital has little room to go elsewhere at this time. In the short term, the US may still attract capital fleeing the chaos in Europe. Still, over the longer term, capital will begin looking for safer harbors in tangible assets and other regions less prone to political meltdown.
Interestingly, the move comes before the model’s target date of August 18 and Trump’s decision to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska. People are still outraged over the Epstein list that Trump failed to release. They are enraged that Congress, on both sides of the aisle, went to visit Israel during recess. America’s neutrality in the Ukraine-Russian conflict is at risk, and powerful people on both sides are carefully watching Trump’s next move.
The homeless crisis is a false flag and a lackluster excuse. The data shows that homelessness in Washington, D.C., decreased by 9% YoY. Violent crimes have declined 26% over the same period. Sure, homelessness and crime have been rampant across D.C. and all American cities, but why is it suddenly of paramount concern to the point of deploying the National Guard? The troops have been called in to protect the political elite in power ahead of what’s to come.
Militarizing your own capital is a confession of weakness. And once you’ve crossed that Rubicon, there is no turning back without a political reset.
Shut up, Armstrong.
No, idiot. The National Guard was deployed to protect the DC from Democrats. TSHTF when the arrests begin.
At a record of 95% Democrat voters, with all the rest being unregistered Democrats, yes, it needs the military.
And, in the words of The Joker, “This town needs an enema!”
Maybe the Brits can come and do an 1812 redux.
If republicans controlled dc govt and let crime get to this level, and a democrat pres used their emergency powers to take control of key law enforcement areas, the dems and libmedia would be all for it six ways to Sunday. There would be continual praise of the dem president and continual shaming and blaming the repubs for mismanaging dc to the unprecedented point of the president HAVING to step in and clean up their monumental mess. Dem pres would be called a savior. Saving repubs from their ineptness.
> Violent crimes have declined 26% over the same period. <
Armstrong can’t possibly believe the fake crime data coming out of Democrat cities. That he would quote their data makes him a fool. On this issue, anyway.
Oh, and I see this data-faking close hand. There’s a big Democrat city near me. They routinely classify felonies as misdemeanors. And the cops have announced they won’t even respond to minor crimes.
End result? Crime has decreased. Pretty amazing, huh?
“”Armstrong can’t possibly believe the fake crime data coming out of Democrat cities. That he would quote their data makes him a fool. On this issue, anyway.””
He’s not a fool. He’s a propagandizing liar.
The real problem in the breakdown in public order do to Dem criminals coddling the disproportionately black urban criminal class and illegal aliens to gain political support by through prosecutorial or judicial nullification of criminal law. Besides encouraging lawlessness, this effectively violates equal protection by continuing to apply draconian penalties and fines against whites and Asians.
Trump's actions are a Federal response to local lawlessness. Since DC is Federal territory, he is legally authorized to do so. Similarly, local and state officials aiding and abetting illegal aliens or interfering with ICE enforcement are also subject to arrest or other Federal intervention.
The overall problem is, as I believe Mike Walsh put it, the fact that the Democratic Party is the world's largest criminal conspiracy masquerading as a political party. Securing the Constitution and our rights and liberties require that it be suppressed, its official arrested, and its voters lustrated just like the South under Union occupation. How to square that political circle is the biggest political issue facing the United States.
I found it amusing that Armstrong thinks capital will flow to somewhere more stabile. Exactly where would that be? The corrupt autocracies of Russia or China? India? LOL
Anyone who believes these statistics is either hopelessly naive or mentally impaired. The D.C. police commissioner who promulgated the above crime statistics was just removed for falsifying them.
Since we're referencing ancient Rome, exactly where were the author's words of concern when President Biden, Co-President Autopen and Secretary Mayorkas were ferrying millions of barbarians across our borders by any and all methods available???!!!
Got it. Tanks soon ?
Nope, this guard was sent to handle the agitators who protect the deep state criminals. The arrests of these deep state criminals will occur in the not too distant future and while the NG is in place to handle any type of disturbance from the “professional and purchased” agitators.
Commander William Adama: Yeah, but I'm not going to be your policeman. There's a reason why you separate military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. (Battlestar Galactica S1E2)
How’s Bill Bar?
Two American patriots like Rosie Odonnel.
Yup, right after Jan 6 and I didn’t see any complaints from the dems or MSM about it either.
I don’t remember all this hand wringing when Pelosi turned the capital police into a nationwide police organization to enforce protections of the legislators…
Now tell me, which sounds more like a praetorian guard?
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Maybe someone can ask Mayor Bowser’s “wife” Donna Brazzile why she feared for her life after Seth Rich’s murder, and why she dedicated her book to him.
This article(like anything by Martin Armstrong) is udder bovine excrement.
What a dumb-s^^t! All these morons can do is try to scare us.
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