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?
