Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

[wing2000]

That is true but the coast guard is authorized to use deadly force if necessary and am sure that there has been those times in the past.

Use of deadly force is authorized if necessary (i.e. to defend Coast Guard personel).
Blowing boats out of the water with missiles from aircraft or drones is not necessary. It's a deliberate act of murder.

 

[wing2000]

They are drug traffickers and they are narco terrorists.

"Narco terrorists" is a MAGA invention.

As Tom Nicols noted today:

"The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat. And Congress is letting it happen."

 

[Aryeh Jay]

"Narco terrorists" is a MAGA invention.

As Tom Nicols noted today:

"The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat. And Congress is letting it happen."

And, Trump told everyone what his plans were months before the election and he was still elected. Who could have imagined that voting was more important than staying home and watching Kimmel on Netflix.

 

[Hentenza]

Was somebody convicted of drug smuggling?

Go back and read the context of why I asked that question.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Two “narco-terrorists” were killed in the strike off Colombia’s coast Tuesday, he said. The latest strike raises the death toll from the administration’s attacks to at least 34 people.

Live updates: Trump expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean

At least 34 people have died in the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats

www.the-independent.com

There was a lot of money made in human trafficking during the Biden administration and the money the crime organizations now have to push drugs is going to make this a long war.

The use of military strikes to kill 36 alleged drug dealers at sea is an extrajudicial death penalty. Those who currently defend this action will be the first to condemn it when the precedent expands to strikes against suspects on land.

 

[Hentenza]

Use of deadly force is authorized if necessary (i.e. to defend Coast Guard personel).
Blowing boats out of the water with missiles from aircraft or drones is not necessary. It's a deliberate act of murder.

I disagree. Read the article that I posted in my post 29. Committing crimes has consequences.

 

[NxNW]

And Obama sent the military to kill a family man with kidney problems sleeping in his private residence during the night without any trial or conviction. And then brags about it on TV!

He'd confessed to murdering 3000 Americans, and the Republicans had proven themselves inadequate to the task, after all.

 

[NxNW]

Go back and read the context of why I asked that question.

This thread is the context.

 

[NxNW]

I disagree. Read the article that I posted in my post 29. Committing crimes has consequences.

Having a fishing boat is a crime?

 

[Hentenza]

Having a fishing boat is a crime?

Carrying drugs is. Did you read the article?

 

[NxNW]

Carrying drugs is. Did you read the article?

Who was convicted of carrying drugs?

 

[Hentenza]

Who was convicted of carrying drugs?

Did you read the article or not?

 

[Belk]

If nations have to capture and put on trial terrorists responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, then how would nations prevent their citizens from being killed by the hundreds of thousands due to illegal drugs?
If I'm choosing between our people and drug smugglers, drug pusher, and narco cartels, then I am choosing our people each and every time.

I eagerly await this reasoning being put to the test in a court. If the reasoning holds and simply selling a product that results in peoples death is worthy of the death penalty then the gun manufactures are on the hook. If it does not hold the Trump admin is guilty of murder. Fun times.

 

[NxNW]

Did you read the article or not?

Why are you incapable of answering the question? You can't call someone a drug smuggler if they haven't been convicted of it. Your little so-called article doesn't change that fact.

For example, I can call Trump a fraud and a rapist, because he's been convicted of those crimes.

 

[Hentenza]

Why are you incapable of answering the question? You can't call someone a drug smuggler if they haven't been convicted of it. Your little so-called article doesn't change that fact.

For example, I can call Trump a fraud and a rapist, because he's been convicted of those crimes.

Why are you incapable of reading the article? You know darn well that Trump is citing Article 2 to declare that we are in an “armed conflict” with the narco-terrorist so until the courts declare his actions illegal he has every right to shoot and kill them.

You know that I don’t care for Trump but the argument from some here that Trump is killing fishermen is just plain disingenuous and trying to create drama. The article that I posted shows that several of these boats were in fact carrying drugs so now what? Are you defending drug smugglers now?

 

[Landon Caeli]

I eagerly await this reasoning being put to the test in a court. If the reasoning holds and simply selling a product that results in peoples death is worthy of the death penalty then the gun manufactures are on the hook. If it does not hold the Trump admin is guilty of murder. Fun times.

I just wish people would start being honest. Gun owners openly admit that they love their guns, but nobody wants to admit that they love their cocaine and fentanyl. Just admit it, people.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

He'd confessed to murdering 3000 Americans, and the Republicans had proven themselves inadequate to the task, after all.

Was it a confession or just locker room talk with the boys?

 

[Landon Caeli]

He'd confessed to murdering 3000 Americans

In a court of law? What was the trial like?

...Wait. no trial? Ugh, how un-democratic.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Looks like the only difference between killing Islamic terrorists, without a trial, and killing narco-terrorists, without a trial, is that one offers your favorite illegal product, and the other offers you nothing.

...It's the only logical conclusion. Just say no.

 

[Desk trauma]

I just wish people would start being honest. Gun owners openly admit that they love their guns, but nobody wants to admit that they love their cocaine and fentanyl. Just admit it, people.

Don’t think we have any fent aficionados in the thread.