This is just adding to the future trial of senior American officials. There is no law in America, no constitutional authorization, and no international law that allows countries to execute people in boats because they are *alleged* to be running drugs.
Transiting drugs is definitely against international law and American law, and there are rules and requirements and methods on the books that allows us to justly go after them.
Executing people alleged to be running drugs without any due diligence or proof, is not on the option list.
It is deeply distressing that the America I used to know, the one that was governed by the rule of law, now at the government level so brazenly violates laws and morality, because it truly is proud of being in the “law of the jungle,“ and considers ourselves as the lion of that jungle, above rules and regulations.
But as I often say, those who cheer this on, need to be very careful about what they do. Today, the target of extrajudicial punishment is somebody you may not know and do not like. But tomorrow, you may be of the wrong category, or on the wrong side of someone’s preference in Washington DC, and you or one of your family members may suddenly find yourselves in the crosshairs.
And there will be no one to come to your aid then.
The U.S. military said it killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, bringing the death toll to at least 170 since strikes began last September.
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