The military has murdered eight more people on the president’s illegal orders:
The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in Congress.
U.S. forces have deliberately killed 95 civilians at sea in the last three months. The administration claims that the U.S. is in an armed conflict with various designated groups, but this is a lie. There is no conflict, and the men being slaughtered on these boats are not combatants.
Nothing that the administration says about its boat attacks can be trusted. They call these men members of “designated terrorist organizations,” but those designations are nonsense. The administration’s designations give them no authority to use force against anyone. Like the “conflict,” the designations are lies spun to excuse mass murder.
The president and the Secretary of Defense want the military to “kill people and break things,” and they will tell as many lies as they must to make that happen.
Perhaps the biggest lie is that there is something called “narco-terrorism” and the administration is fighting against it. There are no “narco-terrorists.” This is a propaganda term cooked up to blur the line between drug trafficking and international terrorism. Calling civilians “narco-terrorists” doesn’t make it so.
The U.S. military is currently sowing terror in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific with these boat attacks. The Trump administration is not combating terrorism. It is engaging in it.
