Posted on 08/14/2025 10:19:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Public safety is a gut issue and it is also the foundation of all other blessings of good government
For decades, Washington, D.C., has been synonymous with crime, murder, and more recently vagrancy, but this week, President Donald Trump is taking a page from an ancient political playbook and looking to finally clean up our nation’s capital.
"Salus Populi Suprema Lex Est," wrote Marcus Tullius Cicero over 2,000 years ago. It roughly means, "the safety of the people should be the supreme law," and the safety of the ancient Roman citizen, at least for a while, was almost unquestioned.
Trump wants Americans to feel just as safe as they live in or visit the seat of our great democracy.
Democrats’ immediate reaction to Trump’s common-sense plan to fight crime in D.C. by surging federal resources and approaches was to play deaf, dumb and blind to the plight of residents, citing statistics that show a recent drop in an already sky-high crime rate.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., perhaps from his Whites-only beach club, took to X to claim that this use of the Home Rule act was only triggered by an assault on a DOGE team member. He conveniently left out the two Israeli embassy staff workers recently murdered in cold blood, the congressional aide killed by mistake in a drive-by, and the rise of 15-year-old carjackers.
Meanwhile, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., taking time off from his TikTok movie productions, posted several examples of crime in D.C. this week with the insane comment, "Trump owns it." One of these crimes, a murder, took place on Monday, just hours after Trump’s anti-crime announcement.
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Constitutionally, generally, the feds are to keep us safe from invasion from outside the U.S. (has failed miserably - the illegal migrant invasion) and the states are to keep us safe from threats of harm from inside the U.S.
The greatest threat to our lives, liberties, and wellbeing is the 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t which has become totalitarian.
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