US conducts 17th lethal strike against alleged drug boat
US conducts 17th lethal strike against alleged drug boat
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US conducts 17th lethal strike against alleged drug boat
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This was a fishing boat. There is no evidence offered that it is anything more. The Liar Hegseth is rando-killing fishermen.
The rest of the article goes on to say Columbian and French authorities seized `7+ tons of cocaine without fatalities' in the Atlantic.
"Separately, six individuals were arrested and more than seven tons of cocaine were seized in the Atlantic Ocean "without fatalities," Colombia President Gustavo Petro said in a post on X Friday morning.
Petro called it "one of the largest seizure days in my government, with the collaboration of our public security forces and the French authorities."
The seizures were carried out on land and at sea, according to Petro. The nationalities of those arrested are unknown, Petro said."
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17th murder.
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*17xNth murder
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So ... the US navy are basically pirates now?
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No, because they're not stealing anything, they're just murdering.
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Oh, cool, an excuse to trot out two of my favorite videos:
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"US murders more fishermen"
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Crimes against humanity
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Just this, and that all involved, from the military service members that fired the shots, to the captains, generals, senators and the president himself should all be persecuted by the ICC
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In the continuing serial murder conspiracy, one-time hate-mongering TV fameremoved and national security leak Peter Hegseth ordered the 17th unprovoked, racially-motivated high-explosive rocket attack on yet another random group of peaceful citizens in their pleasure boat in waters within the sovereignty of an ally nation. No charges have been filed against Hegseth, and no trade embargoes have been announced against the warlord's home territory, the former United States of America.
Fixed the lede for ya.
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They need to normalize murdering foreign people far away for when they start to do it in the US.
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Are you kidding? The US can't normalize it any more. They've been killing for money and power way before Smedley Butler called it a racket.
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OK, for real though, why is this happening? Is it all around Venezuela? Or is it just random boats around central America?
If it's just Venezuela, then surely these people that are "fishing" know there's a big ass warship shooting them out of the water if they stray too far from the coast. (I say it in quotes because it just doesn't add up to me.)
None of this makes sense to me.
If they are carrying drugs, surely there's leftover debris that can prove it, that can be retrieved after the fact.
Also yeah, whatever the reason, this is not the way to carry out an operation like this. Immobilize the vehicle, stop them and take them to interpol or whatever maritime authority there is on international waters.
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Your last paragraph is the key one here. They could detain, stop and seize and/or turn them back but they are actively choosing to murder them instead. No trial and no evidence beyond “I say so”. This is state sanctioned terrorism. It’s about the fear, the chaos and the domination. It’s not about protecting anyone or preventing anything. The pain and fear is the purpose.
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I've been wondering the same thing and haven't seen reporting yet on who the victims are or their families. I figure there's a decent chance that they are running drugs. Or, at least some of them are.
That being said, I'd totally run drugs if it was the only way to feed my family or they were being threatened. Just like the labor that farms coca, low level workers are mostly ethically blameless in my view.
That shit has to be terrifying, going out in a little boat knowing a military ship may blow you up. Their poor families have to live with the fear as well. Even worse is if they're doing it under threat.
It's the whole Pablo Escobar thing, I could give a fuck less if he gets whacked. However, that doesn't mean some family trying to survive on subsistence farming and growing coca for extra cash deaerves a hellfire missle.
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That must be one sturdy boat.
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Bet Biden is mad he didn't think of this shit first
US rather fight drugs and have poor uninsured citizens than have high well paid well fed citizens that have healthcare
Fucking nuts that either party gets any votes
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Note to everyone else: I tagged this dipshit as "Both Sides R Bad" a week ago and it's hilarious seeing him pop up
Stay on brand king
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Yeah, banana is a fountain of shit takes
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Do you use a mobile client? Which lets you tag users?
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so one side is exclusively and publicly on our side as citizens and the other is not and it is not both sides against the citizens?
only one side is for universal healthcare, less pollution, higher wages, etcetera?
if that were the case where is the healthcare, less pollution in the United States, the higher wages, etcetera?
if it is not both sides then why do both sides not only work together but do it even when not in the best interest of the citizens and it constantly shows all around the country?
the two parties even held a celebrity filled gala together where protesters that were for the welfare of everyone were locked outside
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Shut the fuck up and go away.
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Correction: 17th war crime
War crime kinda buys into the lie that these are wartime actions. These are crimes against humanity and straight up state-directed murder.
It doesn't have to be an official war to be a war crime. Vietnam was never a declared war but My Lai was obviously a war crime.
Oh - I bet you can come up with more than that if you expand beyond drug boats.
Yeah, I was thinking that as I was typing. I suppose "At Least 17 Fake Drug Boat War Crimes" would be accurate
Hmm. I wonder why the USA is not part of the ICJ!