Read it and weep. This is so far from legal, moral, ethical, or logical, that Trump MUST be insane!
This is about his attack on an unknown boat full of unknown people who MIGHT have been drug dealers but probably weren't. I think this qualifies as murder.
--Kim
The more I think about the boat full of people that was blown up by military officers of the United States of America under Donald Trump, the more things don't add up.
So, a small boat goes speeding past the Navy, and what? The captain picks up the phone and calls the White House?
Of course, he gets through instantly. "Excuse me Sir," says the captain. "A small boat just went speeding by. What should we do?"
"DO?" barks the Commander in Chief. "Shoot it out of the water."
"Done!" says the Captain. He relays the order to the crew, they take aim, and they shoot it out of the water.
"Good job!" says the President with a fist pump. "Fight fight fight!"
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Really? Is that how it went down?
Because Trump and Marco Rubio have made it clear that Trump PERSONALLY gave that order.
But Trump - AND the captain of that Navy ship - had NO idea who was on that speedboat.
They did not have TIME.
They did not board the boat. They did not collect evidence. They did not even have an accurate head count. Not one of them has been identified. Do they have ANY of the names ? Even now? No.
So how could they possibly know if they were gang members?
Or if, as some have suggested, the boat was full of refugees fleeing Venezuela, like hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have done already. Maybe speeding TOWARDS the US Navy ships hoping to find refuge and safety under our protection.
After all, there were 11 to 13 people aboard that boat. The number differs, because the boat was not close enough to tell. Nor could the gender of the people be determined. Or if there were children on board.
One thing is for sure. If there were so many people on board such a small vessel, there was not much room for a drug shipment. Was there?
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But let's just for argument's sake, SAY that they were gang members, with a boat load of drugs.
They were off the coast of Venezuela, in international waters, nowhere near America. They were NOT threatening our borders. They were not threatening any Americans. They were not even threatening our ships. There were no weapons in the pictures. There is not even any EVIDENCE that a crime was being committed.
The Navy officers aboard our ship may have SUSPECTED the boat was carrying drugs, but that is not a violent crime like piracy, or kidnapping that warrants immediate intervention.
And while transporting drugs may be a crime IN Venezuela, or IN the USA, is it a crime to be in possession of drugs on a boat in international waters?
Come on. That is why there are cruise ships that run casinos in international waters. That is why there were cruise ships that traveled into international waters during Prohibition so passengers could drink.
One final thing - the most IMPORTANT thing of all. Let's be VERY clear that the crime of drug smuggling is NOT a capital crime. It does not call for the death penalty.
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So WHO made the determination to fire on that boat and kill everyone on board? Obviously the Captain did not have time to call the President of the United States and discuss it with him while it was speeding past.
So the order must have been given ahead of time. Trump wanted an example to be made to scare drug runners, sure. But he also wanted to scare President Maduro of Venezuela at the same time. He wanted Maduro to know that the ships were not there for show, and that Trump was just dying to use them.
So let's kill some people. Not members of the Venezuelan navy, because that would be an act of war. Some unknown civilians. If we don't have their names, and the boat does not have identifying numbers, then Maduro cannot even claim we killed his citizens. And if we claim they are criminal gang members, then, he has nothing to charge us with at all.
Diabolically clever, isn't it?
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But here's the rub.
This is NOT like other times, when we have sent Seal teams into foreign countries to take out terrorist leaders.
We had the names of those leaders. We had the evidence of their crimes - most of them had already been convicted and sentenced to death in international courts of law. We had the evidence that more acts of terror were about to be carried out, and that innocent people at home and abroad were in imminent danger.
That is NOT the case for the people on that boat. They were just collateral damage. Sacrificial animals. Random nobodies with the bad luck to be at the wrong end of Trump's gun. The victims of some late night tweet to Marco Rubio.
Hegseth announced Friday in the Oval Office, right in front of Trump and General Dan "Razin'" Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, his motto for the newly renamed War Department:
"MAXIMUM LETHALITY, NOT TEPID LEGALITY"
And this changes everything. EVERYTHING.
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This changes everything for US. You, me, and every other person living in this country.
We have gone past the Constitutional Rule of Law, to the tyranny of Executive Orders, and moved beyond that to masked unidentified federal officers brutally kidnapping people without due process and jailing them indefinitely, who knows where.
Not just "violent criminals". People who have lived here decades, going though the process of TRYING to become citizens. People who are working and paying taxes and raising kids who are American citizens. Being undocumented is NOT a criminal offense. It is a CIVIL offense.
Students and tourists have been rounded up. And even US citizens, because of the color of their skin.
Trump is now sending the Military into our cities. The troops are still there in Los Angeles, even though the protests there are no longer covered by the news. And he plans for the troops in Washington DC to stay at least until "the end of the year."
Right now, he has the National Guard doing innocuous tasks like mulching the parks. To put us at ease. To make us feel like he really DID send them to help us.
But Pete Hegseth has just armed them. Not with just their service weapons, but with weapons of war. The military vehicles he has sent with them are fully armed as well. Arms that can take down buildings. Drones for surveillance. Drones that can fire on people from anywhere. Trump loves bragging about those drones.
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In his first term, during the BLM protests, Trump asked General Milley if our troops could just "shoot the protesters in the legs".
Milley said no.
Hegseth is demonstrating that his answer will be yes.
Hegseth has replaced EVERY high-ranking officer in every branch of the Service who would stand up to him. He has done LIE DETECTOR tests to root them out.
Make no mistake. What just happened off the coast of Venezuela was a TEST.
Our military officers and service people were ordered to fire upon unarmed civilians in international waters, and kill them all.
And they did so.
Will they follow orders to shoot the same Venezuelan civilians on our streets, in our own cities, here in America, if they are told they are gang members and drug smugglers, too?
Will they follow orders to shoot OTHER "illegals"?
Will they follow orders to shoot anybody ELSE Trump deems to be an "enemy"?
Will they follow orders to shoot US?
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Trump just proved that he is a killer.
The worst kind of killer. A mass murderer, no different than a school shooter, or a terrorist with a bomb.
A person who has lost his sanity, and is a danger to everyone, friend and foe alike.
The Republicans who are aiding and abetting him, the billionaire donors who are exploiting his cult following, need to take note, NOW.
He has become a danger to anyone he even THINKS disagrees with him. You have given him the kind of power you will not be able to take back.
Look at the fanatical mass killers who have ruled throughout history. They killed their enemies. Then they killed their partners. Every. Single. Time.
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