• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    I demand we bomb boats in Venezuela to stem the tide of fentanyl trucked in from Mexico via China!!!

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    I wonder what will Trump and his cronies will do if Venezuela had attacked US boats.

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    The lawmaker pointed to the Pentagon’s admission to explain why the Trump administration “could not actually hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.”

    Call me old fashioned, but I’m of the opinion that if you don’t have the evidence to try someone, you definitely don’t have the evidence to execute them.

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    It’s a war crime to execute suspected drug smugglers, or even to execute instead of trial someone found in possession of a large amount of drugs. There is no possible identification of anyone on board or even boat owner from high altitude.

    Furthermore, many of the strikes are on speedboats that are going fast enough to plane over the water. It is impossible for any boat to go that fast with enough fuel to get to Florida, and the open cockpit boats themselves look obviously empty. This is simply, provably, pure terrorist evil.

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    WHERE WAS ALL THIS OUTRAGE WHEN OBAMA WAS DRONE KILLING HALF THE PLANET?

    OBAMA WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO KILL A US CITIZEN ON US SOIL WITHOUT A TRIAL. NO OUTRAGE.

    THE LAST TEN PRESIDENTS, AT LEAST, WERE WAR CRIMINALS. NO OUTRAGE

    NOW THAT IT’S OUT IN THE OPEN YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT?

    HAVE THE DAY YOU CONTINUE TO VOTE FOR AND ACCEPT WILLINGLY LIKE GOOD LITTLE PEASANTS.

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    Other countries should just start bombing american yatchs and jets. They’re much more likely to contain drugs.

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    Yeah, no shit Sherlock. There are more illegal drugs on a billionaire’s yacht than a 25 foot Boston Whaler.

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    Giving random people the death penalty, for maybe or maybe not committing a crime that even if it turns out they were, doesn’t even qualify for the death penalty in either the country they are from or the country that is killing them… is so far beyond crazy… it shouldn’t have been able to happen once, let alone keep happening.

    And if that wasn’t crazy enough, people that survive the strikes, can’t be legally brought in because the burden of proof isn’t met to even question them… but killing them is happening?

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    Wow those Epstein files must really be something. The homies are ready to WWIII us to distract from the coverup.

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    How long before the cartels start kidnapping US citizens and forcing them under duress onto fast boats?

    How long til the US Govt starts blowing them away anyway?