Washington DC--Drowning in Crime

By Jessie Seigel / August 16, 2025

Washington, DC--the capital of our nation--has been taken over by the criminal element. A gangster and his crew, working out of the White House and other government buildings, are engaged in ongoing theft, extortion, bribery, assault, kidnapping, and false imprisonment on a national scale. They have managed to install corrupt officials at the U.S. Department of Justice to back their play and go after any who oppose them.

And now, the Gangster-in-Chief has seized control of the DC Metropolitan Police Department and deployed 800 National Guard troops to the nation’s capital. Because Washington, DC is not a state, we who live here have no legal avenue to stop him for at least 30 days, perhaps longer.

In 1973, after 99 years of rule by Congress, DC citizens were finally allowed to govern themselves through election of a Mayor, a District Council, and Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners. But Congress kept for itself power to control the District’s budget and key parts of its justice system, and overturn any local District law it doesn’t like. It has often threatened to take away the little self-governance we have.

We in the District of Columbia have no senator or voting congressperson to represent our interests. Since we are not a state, we have no governor like California’s Newsom, Illinois’ Pritzker or New York’s Hochul to stand up for us.

So, when these right-wing thugs find themselves not yet able to fully impose their will on states nationwide, they impose it on DC, making an example of us for others to follow or fear.

Thus, the head mobster has claimed that a crime wave warranting emergency action supports his takeover of law enforcement in the District. But this is simply a brazen pretext for expanding his illegitimate power.

Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low, and it has no more crime than any other big city or rural area. In fact, even in the early years of my time here in the District, I remember suburbanites asking whether I felt safe in the city. I responded by asking whether they felt safe in the suburbs because I was constantly hearing of kidnappings at isolated bus stops or dead bodies found in car trunks at suburban shopping malls.

The chief crimnal's White House further gave his game away when it issued a statement that homeless people here have only two choices: go to a homeless shelter or go to jail. Never mind that there are not sufficient homeless shelters for them. Or that they are homeless, not criminals. Or that this stance has nothing to do with stopping violent crime, but with a contempt for the vulnerable, and the sadistic pleasure he and his cohorts take in abusing them. Existence can be made against the law. And under this regime, it probably will be.

The 34-count felon holed up in the White House has loudly brayed: “This is liberation day in D.C. and we’re going to take our Capitol back.”

I’ve lived in the District for 47 years. DC is my town—not his.  It’s also the town of the homeless people living on the street in my neighborhood who’ve never bothered anybody. Not the town of that racketeer, with his gold toilets and insurrectionist followers. 

What we need is liberation from the likes of him.

Instead, we’ve got a mayor who is not sufficiently fighting for us. We’ve got the head of the DC police union praising the federal takeover. And DC’s Chief of Police stating that our police will assist ICE in its masked raids and kidnappings by supplying information about people not in custody.

It is only the citizens themselves who are fighting back.

The organization, Refuse Fascism, held a vibrant, peaceful rally in Dupont Circle on August 16, 2025, followed by a march to the White House

Last week, one citizen called the federal intruders fascists and threw a Subway sandwich at them. Now the representatives of the true Deep State Swamp--Attorney General Pam Bondi and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jean Pirro--are having him charged with felony assault, with a possible eight-year sentence. For throwing a soft sandwich. I wish them luck in finding a jury in this jurisdiction that will convict. Maybe they’ll take away the right to a trial-by-jury next.

A pointed poster at the August 16 Refuse Fascism rally

While the nation's head hoodlum lies about the dangers of DC, he has simultaneously encouraged tourists to come to DC.

My advice to tourists: don’t come to the capital until the National Guard stands down and the DC police are no longer under control of the criminals in power. Go to other historic cities instead. Try Philadelphia. Or Boston.

And to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the National Guard, I say: you have two choices.

You can follow orders like the German Nazis followed their murderous leader.  But “I was just following orders” did not work out well for them when their vicious dictatorship ended.

On the other hand, you can decide that it is time for a little quiet mutiny in defense of democracy. Take the side of the people and fail en masse to follow illegitimate orders. When you’re told to detain individuals who have done nothing wrong—be they immigrants or homeless—fail to find them.

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