Harold Pease, Ph. D.
Everyone knows the present civil war, although bloodless but ongoing for at least a decade, could easily turn violent when arrests, trials and convictions begin. The people are more ready for treason trials now, because of the slew of classified documents that have come out the last three months, than they were when Donald Trump took office or at anytime the last century that we have dealt with the shadow government. With Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennon, James Comey, James Clapper and others under investigation for possible treason and the formation of grand juries to assess most of these, things could get really bad in D.C.
Everyone knows not a single person accused of subversion, espionage or treason paid any penalty—not even Diddy for child sexual abuse—only those politically on the right. Particularly is this so for those on the lawn of the Capitol or in the House chamber January 6, 2021. Without retribution the Deep State stays in place and can repeat subversion, espionage and treason 10, 30 or 100 years in the future, and it will! By now anyone not addicted to the Deep State media, who reads and thinks for themselves, knows that the Deep State is real and it overthrew the existing government in 2020 ushering in the president it chose, Joe Biden.
Also everyone knows that the Deep State will not go quietly into the night or surrender or cease operations. Its very likely there will be chaos in the streets worse than the summer of 2020. This would have happened in January had Trump not moved so fast on auditing the federal government and cutting USAID funding to the Deep State that it had no time to assemble a resistance before he moved to another front. No president moved so fast his first 8 months.
The people overwhelmingly rejected Deep State tyrannical rule under Biden and in a backlash landslide victory returned Trump to power but to a Capitol entirely controlled by his enemy, unsafe and filled with crime. Whoever wins the civil war must have the country’s capitol as well. Trump did this by established law, entirely constitutional. Outside his return to office this may be his second most important victory, holding and securing our Capitol from the Deep State.
Washington DC is a federal city, unlike any other city in the nation and owned by each one of us. We have a right to insist it be one of the cleanest and safest cities in the nation. That is why National Guard troops from every state, at the request of the president, can come and patrol its every street and why President Trump can inspect the tunnels under the Smithsonian. In keeping with this philosophy Trump issued Executive Order 14333 on August 11, 2025, “Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia,” (President Donald J. Trump, The White House , Executive Orders). Trump’s move to secure the Capitol because of extreme crime was intentional and necessary but it was also mostly to secure D.C. for coming Deep State Arrests.
Street crime and illegal entry are common to all big cities especially to Democrat sanctuary cities who harbor illegals willfully breaking the law. ICE and the National Guard can function together, ICE to get the illegals, and the National Guard to support local law enforcement in taking the criminals off the streets. Both will be present in blue cities when trials and verdicts come out—especially when illegals participate in the riots. This works well since subversion, espionage and treason are all federal crimes as is being in the country illegally.
Obviously Trump is preparing patriots for renewed riots in the streets and with cause. One such may be Kamala Harris’s call for violence at the Teamsters National Black Caucus: “Take it to the streets,… to fight! Take it to the people.… It is time to fight fire with fire.”(Kamala Harris’ speech at the 2025 Teamsters National Black Caucus Conference in Los Angeles, recorded by Anne Smith, YouTube).
In response, Trump is creating the Domestic Disturbance Quick Reaction Force of the National Guard. The “proposed unit will consist of 600 National Guard troops split into two groups of 300 stationed in Alabama and Arizona on constant standby. Equipped with weapons and riot gear and trained to deploy rapidly within one to 12 hours, to US cities experiencing protest or civil unrest.” The plan coming together in “late July and early August 2025 would operate under Title 32 orders allowing federal mobilization potentially without full state government cooperation” (“Trump’s Pentagon plans to create a ‘Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force’ with hundreds of National Guard troops to swiftly deploy to US cities during protest or civil unrest,” Washington Post, August 12, 2025). Alabama to protect east of the Mississippi, Arizona west.
A curious note of the President to the Smithsonian Institute was his request to have access to the tunnels below the Smithsonian to the mall. These tunnels are known to exist “They exist to transport artifacts between museum facilities without violating public spaces.” These tunnels could be used to mask the movement of troops, equipment, and etc or to help someone hide or escape. The Smithsonian denies they exist, documents say otherwise (The Secret Underground Tunnels Of Washington, D.C., Tourists Secrets, October 28, 2024, by Marnia Cornell).
Trump is doing something else highly unconventional. Since DC judges are so corrupt (five of the 15 not even born in this country, some Obama and Biden appointees never serving before as judges) and proving that they will return criminals to the streets, has authorized military lawyers to assist the U.S. Attorney’s Office (Twenty JAG attorneys assigned to U.S. Attorney’s Office, by Peter D’Abrosca, Fox News, Aug. 21, 2025). These “will prosecute misdemeanor crimes.” To which, “U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement, “The assignment of 20 JAGs to my office is further proof of President Trump’s commitment to fighting and reducing crime in the district,” Most importantly the Capitol is kept secured and in Patriot hands in the present ongoing civil war.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. Read more of his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 836
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