Manufactured Emergencies & Militarized Repression
Why Deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C. on False Pretenses is Unconstitutional and Historically Resonant with State Terror
📜 Overview
This project argues that the 2025 National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C.—justified by a manufactured “crime emergency”—violates the Constitution and existing federal law.
Through constitutional doctrine, case law, and historical parallels, it demonstrates how fabricated crises enable executive overreach and reproduce a lineage of state-sanctioned repression, from the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow to COINTELPRO and contemporary detention regimes.
It advances four core claims:
- Unconstitutional under separation of powers, the Take Care Clause, the Posse Comitatus Act, and constraints of the Insurrection Act.
- Ultra vires because fabricated emergencies cannot create extraordinary executive power.
- Historically continuous with militarized repression against marginalized communities.
- Ethical duty: Guard members must refuse manifestly unlawful orders.
🔍 Features
- Interactive Table of Contents (in-article) generated from
h2/h3 headings.
- Modal PDF viewer for the full document.
- Smooth scrolling + anchor offset so headings aren’t hidden under sticky elements.
- Footnote popovers for inline citation preview.
- Mobile-first accessibility with keyboard and escape-close support for modals.
- Performance:
preload/prefetch for assets, PDF, and navigation.
📑 Table of Contents (Article)
🛠️ Technologies Used
- HTML5 / CSS3 for dark theme, responsive layout, and accessible typography.
- Vanilla JavaScript for:
- TOC generation
- Smooth scrolling with
scroll-margin-top offset
- Modal open/close + focus management
- Scroll-to-top/bottom controls
- Perf-friendly hints:
rel=preload / rel=prefetch for images, CSS, and PDF.
🎯 Highlights & Takeaways
- Youngstown places the executive at its “lowest ebb” when acting against Congress; fabricated emergencies cannot bypass the PCA/Insurrection Act.
- Milligan and Duncan limit military authority where civil courts are open and no imminent public danger exists.
- Hamdi affirms due process even in genuine emergencies; fabricated ones doubly fail.
- Historical manufactured crises (Bonus Army, Kent State, COINTELPRO) show how false threat narratives rationalize repression.
📚 Citation
DeJahn. “Manufactured Emergencies and Militarized Repression — Why Deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C. on False Pretenses is Unconstitutional and Historically Resonant with State Terror.” Food4Thoth (2025). https://www.food4thoth.com/NationalGuardKKK/
🙏 Acknowledgments
Gratitude to survivors, journalists, legal scholars, and community researchers whose testimony, data, and analysis inform this work, and to the Food4Thoth collective for editorial support and hosting.
License
This project is released under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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