Is America Failing Its First Duty to Protect Its People?
Written by Peter Boykin on December 1, 2025
Is America Failing Its First Duty to Protect Its People?
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Is America Failing Its First Duty to Protect Its People?
A quiet patrol near the heart of Washington should feel safe. Two members of the West Virginia National Guard moved through a familiar area a short distance from the White House. The night was calm. The streets were still. Then gunfire broke the silence. In a moment, everything changed. One soldier died. Another suffered critical injuries. Citizens watching the reports were left with a question that cuts deeper than politics. If danger can reach the most secure streets in America, what does that mean for the rest of us?
The story did not end with the gunfire. It grew into a series of events that reveal something larger about the direction of the nation. Immigration failures, foreign pressure, and political influence abroad collided into a single picture of a country that has forgotten its priorities. This article breaks down each piece and explains what it means for a Constitutional Republic that claims to defend liberty.
National Guard Shooting and the Collapse of Basic Security
Who Is Guarding America When the Guard Is Under Fire?
The attack on two National Guard members shook the public for a reason. The suspect is an Afghan national who was legally admitted into the United States. This incident reveals a painful truth. A system that allows dangerous individuals to enter the country and remain unchecked is a system that has lost its purpose.
After the attack, the administration rushed to suspend asylum applications and announce mass deportations. These decisions came only after lives were lost. Leadership reacted rather than prevented. That is not safe. That is damage control.
A Constitutional Republic cannot function when the protection of citizens becomes a secondary concern. Liberty requires security. Without safety, rights become fragile, and freedom becomes vulnerable. When a deadly attack happens near the White House, the message is clear. Something foundational is broken.
Venezuela Airspace Crisis and America’s Foreign Distraction
While the country faces a failure at home, the United States escalates pressure abroad. Venezuelan airspace has been declared closed. Naval activity near the region increases. Reports describe the potential expansion of anti trafficking operations. These moves are presented as strength, but strength without direction becomes a distraction.
Drug trafficking harms American communities, but foreign escalation cannot replace domestic responsibility. Protecting the homeland comes first. A Constitutional Republic must focus on solving internal crises before projecting military power into other nations.
There is a limit to foreign missions. When the government struggles to secure its own streets, it should not prioritize flexing overseas. A country that cannot enforce its own border has no business closing the sky above another nation.
Honduras Election and the Trouble With Manufactured Democracy
Across Central America, a tense presidential election has gained international attention. Fraud accusations, political pressure, and a steady influence from the United States hover over the results. America often claims to promote democracy, yet it repeatedly attempts to shape the leadership of foreign nations.
True liberty cannot be installed through financial aid, diplomatic pressure, or political engineering. Sovereignty belongs to the people of that country, not to outside governments. When the United States interferes in foreign elections, it invites long-term instability. That instability returns through migration waves, cartel expansion, and political fallout across the region.
A Constitutional Republic should support freedom everywhere, but it must not interfere with the self-determination of other nations. Influence abroad becomes hypocrisy when liberty at home grows weaker.
Is America Fighting for Liberty or Just Acting Like It?
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Let us step back from the headlines for a moment. Let us stop scrolling, stop refreshing, and stop letting every crisis pass through our minds like static on a screen. Something deeper is happening. Something bigger than one attack, one foreign confrontation, or one election abroad.
We are watching the slow erosion of a nation that once knew exactly what it stood for. We are watching a government that has forgotten its own job description. And we are watching citizens struggle to understand how the country that was supposed to protect them became the country that puts them second.
This is not fearmongering. This is not sensationalism. This is a reality that shows itself every time a tragedy strikes close to power, every time our government reaches for foreign influence while ignoring problems at home, and every time liberty takes a back seat to political performance.
A soldier died while walking near the White House. That should never happen. That should never be possible. That should shake the nation to its core. But instead, it becomes another story that fades after twenty-four hours because too many people have become numb to danger and too many leaders are more concerned about optics than obligation.
America was not built on optics. America was built on duty. America was built on responsibility. America was built on a government that existed to serve and protect the people, not to impress them, not to distract them, and not to treat their safety like a public relations problem.
We cannot pretend that liberty is safe when the streets near the seat of our government are not safe. We cannot pretend that the Constitution is strong when the enforcement of our laws is weak. We cannot pretend that national sovereignty matters when we treat the border like a suggestion instead of a line of defense.
And while all of this happens at home, our leaders have the energy to close airspace over Venezuela, send ships into foreign waters, and pressure elections in Central America. They have the time to project power outward, but not the courage to enforce the laws inward. They have the passion for foreign missions, but not the clarity for domestic ones.
This is backwards. This is upside down. This is how nations lose themselves.
Because here is the truth. You cannot lead the world if you cannot lead your own streets. You cannot confront foreign corruption if you cannot confront your own. You cannot protect freedom abroad if you cannot protect freedom at home. You cannot talk about democracy overseas while your own citizens wonder if their rights are next on the chopping block.
A Constitutional Republic requires discipline. It requires moral clarity. It requires priorities. It requires leaders who understand that their oath is not to fame, not to polls, not to global approval, but to the citizens who trusted them with power.
Liberty does not survive on autopilot. Liberty does not survive through speeches alone. Liberty does not survive when the government pretends to act strong while avoiding the hard decisions that actually protect the people.
Liberty survives when leaders enforce the law.
Liberty survives when borders are secure.
Liberty survives when foreign policy is restrained and purposeful.
Liberty survives when the government remembers that its authority comes from the people, not from the world stage.
So here is the question that every American should be asking. Are we living in a country that defends liberty or a country that performs liberty for the cameras? Are we living in a nation that protects its people or a nation that tells its people they must accept more danger in the name of politics?
Every great nation faces a moment where it must decide what it truly is. That moment is here. The choice is not between left and right. The choice is not between parties or personalities. The choice is between reality and illusion.
Either we return to the principles that built this nation or we drift further into a future where tragedy becomes normal and foreign crises become excuses for domestic neglect.
I choose liberty. I choose sovereignty. I choose accountability. I choose the vision of America that believes citizens deserve to be protected before foreign interests. And I believe millions of Americans feel the same way.
The path forward is simple, even if it is difficult. Secure the border. Enforce the law. Prioritize American lives. Limit foreign intervention. Restore the meaning of the Constitution. Stop pretending and start governing.
A nation that cannot protect its people cannot protect its future. And right now, the future depends on whether we are willing to speak truth to a government that has lost its way.
This is not the time to be silent. This is the time to stand, to speak, and to insist that America return to the principles that made it exceptional.
Because liberty is not guaranteed. It must be defended. It must be guarded. It must be chosen. And it must be chosen now.
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