{"id":12041,"date":"2025-08-13T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:40:07","slug":"macht-euch-unsichtbar-bis-ihr-zuschlagt-trumps-gefaehrlichster-angriff-auf-die-zivilordnung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/macht-euch-unsichtbar-bis-ihr-zuschlagt-trumps-gefaehrlichster-angriff-auf-die-zivilordnung\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Make yourselves invisible - until you strike\": Trump's most dangerous attack on civil order"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Washington, a political experiment is currently underway whose explosive force extends far beyond the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has placed the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under his direct control - based on an emergency clause in the Home Rule Act that allows the president, in alleged crisis situations, to take over police authority and deploy the National Guard. What is disguised as a temporary measure is in reality an unprecedented encroachment on the self-government of a city that denied the president its allegiance by 90.3 percent in the last election. Trump is using the construction of a \"state of emergency\" to create a dangerous precedent - the de facto militarization of a civilian capital against the express will of its elected leadership. In a city whose crime rate in 2024 reached its lowest level in three decades and continued to fall in the first half of 2025, the president resorts to a constitutionally highly questionable measure - and surrounds it with martial rhetoric. \"Now they can do whatever the hell they want,\" he declared about the security forces. This is not only a political declaration of war, but a direct affront to the principle of the rule of law limiting state power.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Under the pretext of fabricated crime, Trump is having the National Guard march into Washington, D.C. - and at the same time wrests from the city control over its own police.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The picture that emerges on Washington's streets is still diffuse: FBI and ICE agents, some in plain clothes, patrol nightlife districts, while the National Guard is to be present with 200 soldiers at strategic intersections - without the right to arrest, while the federal agents do have that right. The operational strategy is clear: no open mass searches as in Los Angeles, but a mix of covert presence and targeted interventions. Yet it is precisely this form of \"invisible\" military-police presence that is extremely dangerous: it evades public oversight, shifts the balance of power toward the executive, and creates a climate of latent intimidation. In terms of human rights, this step is a regression to an era in which the state's monopoly on the use of force was no longer determined by constitutional principles but by political calculation. The United States is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), whose Articles 21 and 22 guarantee the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of association. These rights may only be restricted under strict conditions and in a proportionate manner - conditions that are obviously not met here. The use of federal power is not aimed at averting a real danger, but at provoking reactions in order to then act repressively under the pretext of \"public safety\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n