Dissembling the Centralized, Militarized Federal Police State
We have a real problem with #ExecutiveOverreach, and it did not begin with the orange cancer known as Donald Trump. He simply brought it to painful extremes.
Something this morning got me started on the centralization of #FederalPolicing. It was the growing lack of transparency in Financial Fundraising, yet I'll save that for another moment.
This piece proposes a divestiture of police power away from the Oval Office that would #IMHO better support democracy & security.
It would lay out as follows –
- The US Marshalls shall work under and be paid by the Judiciary, with the writ of commend falling to the full panel of District 1 with SCOTUS oversight.
- Secret Service shall be returned to Treasury as their primary functions are counterfeiting and tax fraud.
- ICE must be abolished & interior #immigration enforcement performed by US Marshalls, acting to enforce orders of #ImmigrationsJustices, appointed as #FederalMagistrates in the #Judiciary, rather than an Executive function. After all, a migrant violation is a violation of a #CourtOrder.
- The Border Patrol (CPB) shall be a function of the Treasury Department as well. It's right in the name, "Customs" - meaning the levying of duties on sanctioned or taxed imported goods, and the interdiction of contraband. These are concerns of the #Treasury.
- Coast Guard shall have a cabinet remit of its own and be a separate command not under DOD and not a Military or Border Patrol Asset. They are Sea Cops, not a navy.
- SEC shall be pert of the #Commerce Department with its own Investigative Police Force, strictly limited to securities crimes.
- FBI shall be the only police force under the DOJ.
- ATF shall be folded into FBI as a division under the FBI chain of commend.
- CIA shall be a cabinet remit, made to report all operations to the #Senate Intelligence Committee in exact duplication of that which is given to the President.
- NSA would be abolished entirely. They are a domestic #SecretPolice are thusly unacceptable.
- #DEA would be abolished. Their only purpose harassment of brown people & they who seek to rearrange their mental furniture. Their activities create more violence & crime than ever prevented.
- The Director of National Intelligence would be abolished.
- The #USAPatriotACT shall be abolished in its entirety. It was a power grab both overarching #PoliceState and #Cheney's desire for #UnitaryExecutive in the #Heritage mold.
Finally, Article 1 must be secured.
- Congress must have its Police Force increased & its remit made to have teeth.
- The Congress should use its jail to hold those who refuse summons or who lie to committees under oath in actual imprisoned contempt.
- The #CongressionalPolice (renaming the #CapitolPolice) would be under command of the Chief of Congressional Police, receiving directives for investigation and enforcement from the Majority Leaders and Minority Leaders offices in both chambers.
- Only by divesting policing power in this manner may the venial urges of an errant executive be dampened and curbed.
This structural model represents a rigorous, Jeffersonian Blueprint for the systematic decentralization of executive policing power.
By mapping federal law enforcement agencies directly to their constitutional, statutory, and subject-matter roots—rather than allowing them to sit under a unified Executive mandate—it effectively dismantles the modern imperial presidency's ability to weaponize domestic law enforcement.
1. JUDICIAL BRANCH: RECLAIMING THE COURT'S ENFORCEMENT ARM
U.S. Marshals to Judicial Authority: Returning the Marshals directly under Article III jurisdiction honors the original intent of the Judiciary Act of 1789. A court without its own independent enforcement arm is dependent on Executive goodwill to execute its orders, subpoenas, and protective mandates.
Abolishing ICE: moving interior enforcement to Marshals acting only on warrants issued by Article III Immigration Magistrates fixes the constitutional anomaly of an Executive agency conducting civil roundups. If a migrant violation is framed legally as a failure to comply with judicial entry/removal proceedings, it's purely a judicial court-order enforcement matter.
2. TREASURY & COMMERCE: ALIGNING POLICE POWER WITH REVENUE & TRADE
CBP & Secret Service to Treasury: This restores historical precedent. The Secret Service was created in 1865 specifically under Treasury to combat post-Civil War currency counterfeiting and shifting it to Homeland Security blurred its core financial mandate. Re-coupling customs tariffs, contraband interdiction, and currency protection under Treasury puts economic enforcement where the financial data actually lives.
SEC Police under Commerce: Strip the SEC out of regulatory limbo and place its investigative body under Commerce with a strict, statutory firewall: securities fraud and market manipulation only. No administrative creep into broader corporate social policy.
3. INDEPENDENT SERVICE & CABINET-LEVEL INTELLIGENCE
Returning Coast Guard to civilian maritime law enforcement: as an Independent Maritime Service, ("Sea Cops") rather than a naval armed force preserves its life-saving, navigational, & maritime law enforcement power w/o military contamination.
CIA as an accountable cabinet remit: Making CIA give simultaneous, identical raw intelligence to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) at the exact moment it hits the President's Daily Brief eliminates Executive ability to selectively leak, curate, or weaponize intelligence to coerce consent for foreign intervention.
Abolition of NSA & DNI: The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) added a layer of bureaucratic cover for Executive narrative-building. Eradicating the NSA dismantles the primary apparatus used for domestic mass-data aggregation and warrantless electronic surveillance.
FBI as the Sole DOJ Agency: The Justice Department was intended to prosecute federal crimes, not run an army of specialized, overlapping domestic police forces.
ATF Absorption: Folding ATF into the FBI removes a redundant, highly political bureau while maintaining basic firearms and explosives tracking under standard federal criminal investigation.
Abolition of the DEA: Ending the federal prohibition enforcement engine eliminates the primary driver of militarized domestic policing, asset forfeiture abuse, and cartel-driven market violence.
A Capitol Police with Real Teeth: Article I has been consistently degraded by its reliance on DOJ federal prosecutors to enforce Congressional subpoenas.
The Congressional Jail: Re-establishing the active use of inherent contempt—where the Sergeant at Arms directly arrests and detains executive officials or corporate actors who defy subpoenas or lie to committees—restores the balance of power.
A joint command structure: (Speaker + Senate Majority Leader + Chief of Police) prevents a single party from using the Capitol Police as a partisan faction while ensuring Congress can enforce its oversight powers without asking the Executive branch for permission.
This model replaces a bloated, centralized Executive police apparatus with a functional checks-and-balances architecture.
The best effect of all this rearrangement?
By stripping the White House of its centralized interior policing levers, every remaining enforcement body is tied directly to a specific constitutional function—whether protecting the courts, securing the currency, executing maritime law, or enforcing congressional oversight.
I welcome all thoughts on this matter.
In peace, your fellow traveler in wartime, Peter.










