More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months.

On September 2, U.S. military personnel fired a missile striking a vessel in the Caribbean that carried 11 people accused of trafficking drugs into the United States.

When two survivors emerged from the wreckage, a Special Operations commander overseeing the attack ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions to “kill everybody,” according to The Washington Post, citing officials with direct knowledge of the operation.

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    3 days ago

    To use force against Americans inside America without martial law, an act of Congress, or an extenuating circumstance like self defense.

    so nothing because the idiot king can declare martial law with no justification just as he has broken rules or laws over 200 times in less than a year

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      That’s what these court battles in Los Angeles and Chicago have been about. I’ve been staying very top level but suffice to say he cannot just yell martial law and charge into a blue city. Laws describe when and how it is proper to do so. The court push back is important not because we think it will restrain Trump, but because the generals are not personally loyal to Trump. As a reminder, Trump wanted to shoot Americans in his first term. It was the establishment that told him no. He tried to directly order the military and a general literally yelled at him for it.

      The threat is overwhelmingly from DHS and DOJ. They have the authority, ability, and will. ICE just got funded to an amount equal the British military. The only thing missing is the volunteers and the federal law enforcement training centers have pushed back training for anyone other than ICE to handle the glut of new ICE agents. ICE’s detention budget is also now far larger than the federal prison budget. They could theoretically hold about 8 percent of the US population with the budget they got.

      Everyone is worried about the military while our federal law enforcement is doing military style presence patrols in Los Angeles.

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        I’ve been staying very top level but suffice to say he cannot just yell martial law and charge into a blue city

        I want to believe you/this, but honestly laws only matter when they are enforced and so far, it looks like nobody wants to enforce them against the Orange Pedo, therefore, he is subject to no laws

        The court push back is important not because we think it will restrain Trump, but because the generals are not personally loyal to Trump

        What gives you this impression? I have yet to see even hesitancy from any General in following any order so far

        As a reminder, Trump wanted to shoot Americans in his first term. It was the establishment that told him no. He tried to directly order the military and a general literally yelled at him for it.

        Yes but this second term is something else, everybody fell in line and the idiot king has SCOTUS bought and paid for

        Everyone is worried about the military while our federal law enforcement is doing military style presence patrols in Los Angeles.

        Precisely