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Hegseth says U.S. strike on alleged drug boat off Venezuela kills 4 "narco-terrorists"
(www.cbsnews.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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I don’t care about going to Heaven but times like these I really hope there’s a Hell because I can’t stand the thought of these people doing what they’re doing with impunity.
even worst, just shunt them to purgatory to make them wonder if they can go to either, since christains are so obssesed with going to either.
Hell is too good for them and would kick them out to somewhere darker.
They are posting all the evidence of their crimes on social media.
This is how certain they are that they cannot be stopped.
This is a dictatorship and it must be taken down.
I mean I’ll be honest, I also think they are just some of the dumbest people you would ever know, so I’m not too surprised they are openly posting this stuff online for the world to see.
So where's the evidence?
Also I wasn't aware that drug trafficking carries a death sentence, without a lawyer and a Jury.
USA is itself acting as a terrorist nation without a doubt, whether the people killed were smugglers or not.
USA is a rogue nation with no regard for the law, either international or domestic.
On my side the boycott of everything American continues.
Did you notice that Trump called them "unlawful combatants" in this article? That phrase may ring a bell.
George W. Bush's cronies invented the phrase during his reign of terror, or as he called it, his war on terror. He said that there were people who were neither enemy combatants, nor civilians. They were a third category: Unlawful Combatants. The conventions that protect prisoners of war did not apply to such _unlawful _ combatants. Such people could be arrested, indefinitely detained, tortured, or even killed without charge or trial. This was the justification for G. W. Bush's extraordinary rendition program that had U.S. agencies kidnapping people off the streets of the US and other nations and shipping them to black sites where they could be tortured indefinitely.
The repeated use of the phrases unlawful combatant and narco-terrorist tells me all I need to know about where they plan to go with this.
Unlawful combatant isn't something they made up, it's a legit part of the Geneva conventions on warfare.
However, as always, the USians are abusing the term and redefining it - kind of like what Israel is doing to antisemitism.
Unlawful combatants are people waging war not clearly identified on their uniforms as being of that-and-that army. This was meant to catch saboteurs, spies, infiltrators, etc., but is abused to target civians (usually a big no-no).
Unlawful combatants aren't given almost any protection by the aforementioned conventions, meaning they can be tortured or summarily executed.
Point of clarification. No protection from Geneva conventions is not lack of any protection. Geneva conventions forbade certain acts and weapons, regardless of the target. This includes torture and sexual violence. Combatant status also doesn't preclude other protections like fundamental human rights protections. You still shouldn't be summarily executed or tortured due to combatant status.
Using subterfuge and deception is perfectly lawful. Otherwise basic stuff like camouflage would be war crimes. But that's not what unlawful combatant is about. Terrorism is always unlawful, for example, because the main target is civilians in order to cause, well, terror. It doesn't matter if the terrorists were using their club's pin badge that day or not. Similarly, if you are a civilian in civilian clothes and take up a rifle to shoot at a party in an armed conflict, congratulations, you just became a lawful combatant. You became a lawful combat target, your Hawaiian shirt notwithstanding.
You're an unlawful combatant if you're targeting protected classes, like civilians, wounded, prisoners, health care personnel, etc. Even if you're clearly in your new uniform with fresh new tags. Clothing is a secondary aspect. The main defining feature is always role and behavior. Like, creating a combat unit of snipers specialized in targeting journalists, that would be a group of unlawful combatants.
he called them enemy combatants.
To Chicago. They plan to go to Chicago with this, and then NYC, and then LA, and then every blue city in America...until all anyone sees is red.
There was a discussion recently where someone said they hope international journalists would independently verify they are actually targeting smugglers - only to realize that the US would probably target the journalists vessels, kill the journalists and then accuse them of smuggling drugs after the fact.
Has the US killed any journalists yet? I know that they roughed some up to the point of landing them in the hospital, but I haven't heard of any deaths.
The greatest and most prestigious award in journalism is being murdered by the CIA. Lots of laureates, sadly.
I can only think of one terrorist entity in this news story.
USA, USA, USA! 🇺🇸
"narco-terrorists" is such a stupid conversation ending thing to call someone I can't believe it isn't parody.
Why did he stop at 4? Surprised he didnt say it was more
The fourth one literally just happened yesterday. They have not stopped at four.
I'm sure they were narco-pedo-terrorists, but Ted Cruz asked him to remove the pedo part.
Look man just because drugs are verboten here in Nazi America doesn't mean they aren't welcome in awesome mccool countries. How did they determine that these were bound for the US? Rude of them to interfere with the free market on getting high as fuck.