📣 Law and Order for Who?
A new Executive Order takes aim at your rights, not just “criminals”
There’s a new Executive Order on crime, and it’s got all the subtlety of a boot to the ribs. The White House says it’s about protecting the “innocent” and backing the “heroic” police. In reality, it reads like a federal permission slip for crackdowns, cover-ups, and military cosplay in your neighborhood.
Let’s translate the government-speak into human language.
The document itself: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens
More Gear, Fewer Questions
The order says police should be “aggressively” policing again. If you've ever had the pleasure of being on the wrong end of “aggressive policing,” you know that means more stops, more searches, more arrests—and more people getting hurt or killed for things like walking while Black, sleeping outside, or looking “suspicious” in a hoodie.
Military Hand-Me-Downs, Straight to Your Block
The Pentagon will now be giving even more “excess military assets” to your local police department. The small-town sheriff can now roll up in a tank to break up a housing protest.
No more local control
If your city or state tried to reform its police—if it banned chokeholds, limited traffic stops, or passed rules about excessive force—that’s now “obstructing criminal law.” The Attorney General is being ordered to intervene. Not to stop abuse, but to stop people from trying to stop it.
“Equity” Now Means “Anti-Police”
Efforts to train cops not to racially profile—or, heaven forbid, hire a diverse police force—are labeled illegal discrimination. Apparently, the real victims of oppression are cops being asked to learn someone’s pronouns or not beat people up quite so much.
Undocumented or Unhoused Are the New Enemy
Tucked in this mess is a link to another order calling immigrants an “invasion.” So we can expect “public safety” to mean ICE raids, anti-protester task forces, and jailing people for being visibly poor. The housing crisis is expensive; jailing the homeless is cheaper.
It Gives Off Robocop and a HR Memo
All this talk about “unleashing” police, “empowering” them, and “removing legal handcuffs” sounds bold—until you remember those “handcuffs” were the few rules keeping officers from using actual handcuffs on whoever they feel like.
But don't worry, the Order closes by saying it doesn’t technically give anyone new legal rights. Just lots of new tools to suppress yours.
What you can do
Look around for that third party. There are MANY, waiting for people to join. Of course I wish you’d join a left populist party like us, but man, just join any flavor you want, commit to creating alliances, don’t lock yourself ideologically into a slot you can’t work from.
Once out there, start looking for others, don’t work alone.
Kyle Kulinski explores this policy change and what has just happened on the US/Mexican border:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqTnjQG_RyI
Another thing to keep in mind, for a distance of 100 miles from the Mexican and Canadian borders the Border patrol has more power and you have less rights. When you look at a map, that 100-mile zone of abusive policing is a HUGE amount of the country.