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Congress Needs To Stop The Drug Boat Bombings
Obviously, the US government shouldn't be involved in the commission of war crimes.
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The next time there were survivors they got picked up and sent home which seems like an understanding that they had messed up and committed a war crime. We prosecuted the Japanese after WW2 for exactly this type of crime.
Even if these drug runners initiated combat, it is still a war crime, maritime law also concur
That every attempt should be made to rescue them. Not murder or left for dead.
The very first strike I heard about I simply called piracy.
I thought the war on drugs was a political war of words.
How many US citizens have been given the death penalty for a drug offense?
To think, when my grandmother was a child, she can go to the corner pharmacy, have a glass of Coke with cocaine in it, and buy a container of heroin cold pills.
This is all happening, cause some people OD
Unprescribed drugs is a form of Russian roulette. People using their drugs know it full well.
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. ~ Margaret Atwood
“ …why not bomb the hills of Sinaloa? And labs in the Andes? Etc.” That is where all this is headed. We still have 3 more years to go.
Just how would you go about stopping the murder of thousands of our children via these drugs? Just askin!
Where there’s demand, someone will supply, James. Just sayin.
How many children do you actually have?
Tobacco and alcohol kill orders of magnitude more people than cocaine. Maybe we should start blowing up transport trucks leaving Kentucky on the basis that maybe they are carrying bourbon.
LOL
Americans consume 80% of the world’s opioids and two-thirds of its illegal drugs. With just 4.5% of the population.
@ James:
I don’t even know where to start.
Anyway, I’ll try:
First, maybe not by pardoning the biggest online drug lord in history (throw in some murders he facilitated via his website, too) or a presidential narcotraficante who was sentenced to 45 (!) years in prison because of his crimes.
Second, read “deaths of despair” and draw some conclusions regarding changes in the fabric of society which should have been instituted yesterday.
Third, maybe make sure people have access to healthcare that deserves its name and are not required to get their substitutes for opioids (which they should not have been prescriptes in the first place) on the streets.
Fourth, hold the pharmaceutical companies which have profited from this mess to the tune of tens of billions of dollars to account. And I’m not talking Luigi Mangione-style but by fining them and using the money for drug rehabilitation programmes.
I could go on, but I do not wish to take up too much space here.
Final thought though, IF it is considered acceptable to just blow up drug boats, fine, but surely there is sone evidence that these boats actually ARE carrying drugs, right? So far we haven’t seen any.
Fifth, read this: https://heisenbergreport.com/2024/02/28/sinners-and-saviors/
Trump’s in the Ebenezer Scrooge mindset for the holidays; precedent, custom, rules, laws, constitutions, bah humbug to them all. This really is Trump Unchained time. He’s crazy, unconstrained and unhinged on an almost hourly basis, except when he’s napping. Whether it’s the Fed, White House reconstruction, our allies, geographic norms, healthcare and host cities for the FIFA World Cup, Trump is doing whatever his vengeful mean little mind tells him and this time there’s no one on his team to stop him. There are a few cracks showing, but if history is any guide, this won’t deter him he’ll just go faster. I find it interesting that the likes of the two wannabe alpha males, Trump and Hegseth, have both denied knowing anything about any second strike. If it had been received positively they would have been fighting each other for the credit. But for now ‘it was that crazy admiral’s fault (probably a DEI hire). The recently retired admiral who was head of the Southern Command looks like he got out while the gettin was good.
The Vietnam war was over, but its legacy lives on: https://youtu.be/kMzJvwG2rsQ?si=A2EVlgV4p_8Qo76J
Only the dead see the end of war. Or shit happens, I guess.
The drug runners being blown out of the Caribbean Sea is not Trump’s underlying goal, nor is Maduro’s removal from office. He pardoned both the Honduran kingpin and the Silk Road drug dealer without breaking a sweat.
America is building military strength in Venezuela to take the oil.
This chaos simply serves to confuse the MAGA base before the real action gets going.
I agree that trump has his sights set on South America for some sort of payoff, oil or otherwise, that’ll someday benefit him in $. But the MAGA base is way past the need to hide the ball and confuse them. They lined Jim Jones-style long ago.
Sure, Congress Needs To Stop The Drug Boat Bombings.
But more importantly, Congress Needs to Stop TRUMP. ASAP!