"And the enlisted sailors and Marines on that ship knew immediately it was wrong. They fought it. They went to JAG. And they were overridden. ...
This is a top-down moral collapse under Pete Hegseth and whoever in the Trump orbit green-lit these illegal strikes. And let’s be clear: if a private citizen killed 85 people with no legal authority, we wouldn’t debate terminology — we’d call it murder."
"And the law — U.S. law, military law, international law — could not be clearer: you document everything. You collect biometrics. You record medical status. You keep chain-of-custody logs. You do not delete evidence. You do convene a competent tribunal. None of that happened.
Instead, someone — almost certainly above the Admiral level — ordered everything wiped."
"Nick [Paro]— Army sergeant, trained interrogator, expert on detainee procedures — breaks down just how profoundly illegal all of this is. The United States is not in a congressionally authorized armed conflict with Venezuela. No war declared, no authorization, no oversight, no nothing.
Which means every person seized at sea is legally a civilian until proven otherwise, not some magically self-justifying 'narco-terrorist.'”
While Rep. Himes of Connecticut says that the video of the murder of two men clinging to the remains f a bot was "one of the most troubling things" he'd seen, Arkansas Sen. Cotton says it was "righteous." to which Tim Miller and Jonathan V. Last respond with mockery:
"Righteous! Righteous! We must kill 'em! Kill 'em all!"
Some people have moral compasses. Others don't, sadly.
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tom-cottons-drug-boat-theory-doesnt
Senator Tom Cotton explains that it was perfectly alright to kill shipwrecked sailors with a second strike, because they were trying to stay alive, and that is just not dead enough to the United States.
His premise is, that if the US labels people “terrorists”, then that puts them outside all international laws, which is obviously incorrect. The Geneva Conventions clearly state that shipwrecked must be saved.
@randahl #TomCotton can be next in line to be put to death when sanity returns. #TheOnlyGoodNaziIsADeadNazi
