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US Institute of Peace sues to block ‘literal trespass and takeover’ by DOGE

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Previous reporting, "DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help", archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250319160259/https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5331354/doge-staff-enter-the-u-s-institute-of-peace-d-c-police-help

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At one point Monday, the firm’s prior private security firm — whose contract was ended after it coordinated with DOGE — also appeared at the building, at one point “proceed[ing] to walk toward the Institute’s gun safe,” pushing USIP staff to ignite its lockdown policy.
Are all private security firms that corruptible?
- Is private security not synonymous with mercenary?
- I'm just sitting here finding it amusing that the Institute for Peace has a gun safe.
  
  Well how else do you expect them to keep the peace?
- And at what point are they armed trespassers? And if the institute has guns….. Why the fuck aren’t they picking them up and defending the institute? What are they for? To sit in a safe, only for you to cry when someone walks toward them?
  The fuck.
- Can you really corrupt something that's already corrupted? Someone else offered them more money and they're for-profit security. Their morals rest on the bottom line.
  
  Yeah, but you’d think that doing something like this would impact their ability to get future clients.
- I know literally no one who has a ethical reason for entering private security - some folks become cops for high minded reasons like wanting justice or to protect the vulnerable... private security is where the weak go when they've been rejected from being an actual LEO (usually due to being absolute turds, only rarely for physical fitness reasons).
  
  Also where a lot of washouts from the military wind up, often for the same reasons.
- Why does the Institute of Peace have a gun safe?
  
  Possessing weapons is not antithetical to peaceful endeavors and wishes.
  
  I’m assuming it was originally for use by the private security personnel, since they knew where it was and apparently expected to be able to access it.
  And/or, the institute may have a strict no-guns policy and the safe is for visitors to store their firearms when entering.
  
  If you would have peace, prepare for war.

DC Police are under the control of the civilian side of the city, presided over by Mayor Muriel Bowser. How the fuck are they just being turned into the Trump admin's henchmen? They have no business handling federal affairs.
- DC is fully funded by congress and the GOP has threatened to defund the city. It's easy to criticize that from afar but going against Trump would mean a lot of pain and a lot of deaths.
  DC needs statehood.
  
  What the fuck is wrong with you people?
  “but tHeY wIlL dEfUnD tHe cItY”
  LET THEM
  they are going to anyway! Fucking STOP THEM. You’re the ones with GUNS and BADGES.
- ...they're police? this is what police do. this is why ACAB.
- because all cops are inherently right wing thugs, who have been longing for the day they can put on the brown shits and jack boots.
- A guy named bowser being the villain. Why cant this be the timeline with bowsette?
  
  It's a woman, and she's a Dem mayor. That's what has me confused. DC the city is not a GOP-friendly place. It's a separate entity from the federal properties such as Congress and the White House.

US Marshals, FBI, and DC police are rogue and cannot be expected to enforce the law. They facilitated an illegal trespass, entry and ransacking of an independent, non-profit not under the jurisdiction of the executive branch.
- American law enforcement has been rogue for decades.
  They even got special immunity to protect them from their actions (at least until an individuals actions get caught on camera and threatens the whole, then that individual is held up as a sacrifice to placate the public/rubes)
  
  Literally rogue, since QI is illegal according to the law as written.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

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Legal justice hasn't happened yet, why do they think it's going to change now?
Our options are vigilante justice, or no justice.

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