GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Trump’s Bombings… legal or folly?

This is getting way less attention than it should, especially among conservative US citizens.

 

The United States is summarily executing citizens from other countries, without any presented evidence. It started in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela and now has expanded to the Pacific.

 

As someone who lives and breaths Mexico, I am worried.

 

A strike in, out of or on the coast of Mexico against Mexican citizens, regardless of guilt, will set off all kinds of international alarms.

 

Not because the alarmed people support rampant and illegal drug use, but because to date, the Administration has provided zero evidence of their claims. The dead in the Caribbean and now the Pacific were guilty the administration  claims in some Orwellian logic, or we would not have killed them.

 

President Trump, who claims we are at war, has not invoked the War powers Act, has submitted no evidence of wrongdoing and in a historic error, actually released two of the people who somehow survived a US bombing back to their home countries.

 

And paid for their flights!

 

If the released were guilty, as the White House claimed, and we had them in custody, which we did aboard US ships, why not bring them here to stand trial instead of sending the home?

 

Why would the Trump Admin release alleged terrorists? It defies logic.

 

The American people deserve answers to these questions, the future of these operations, and the legal basis for these attacks and potential attacks on one of closest allies, Mexico.

 

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Here’s what John Yoo had to say about these attacks. Yoo, no liberal squish, was the author of the famous Bush era “torture memo”.

 

“The White House has yet to provide compelling evidence in court or to Congress that drug cartels have become arms of the Venezuelan government… To confuse them with wartime enemies is to misuse the tools of war, erode constitutional limits, and endanger liberty at home.”

 

Here’s what Senator Rand Paul of the GOP had to say about these attacks.

 

“We have dangerous people in a lot of American cities, but we just don’t just go in and shoot them… I mean, we have trials. They get legal representation. And even on the high seas, it’s been that way for generations.”

 

“We can’t just kill indiscriminately because we are not at war… It’s summary execution! Everyone gets a trial because sometimes, the system gets it wrong. Even the worst of the worst in our country get due process.”

 

“What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.”

 

How does the Trump White House, the GOP and the MAGAverse justify these attacks?