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Posted on 10/09/2025 5:11:45 PM PDT by RandFan
When challenged that killing citizens without due process is a war crime, the vice president responded that he "didn't give a sh*t."
Sometimes in fits of anger, loud voices will say they don't care about niceties such as due process—they just want to kill bad guys. For a brief moment, all of us may share that anger and may even embrace revenge or retribution.
But over 20,000 people are murdered in the U.S. each year, and yet somehow we find a way to a dispassionate dispensation of justice that includes legal representation for the accused and jury trial.
Why? Because sometimes the accused is actually not guilty.
As passions subside, a civilized people should ask: To be clear, the people bombed to smithereens were guilty, right?
If anyone gave a you-know-what about justice, perhaps those in charge of deciding whom to kill might let us know their names, present proof of their guilt, and show evidence of their crimes.
The administration has maintained that the people blown to smithereens were members of Tren de Aragua and therefore narcoterrorists.
Certainly, then, if we know they belong to a particular gang, then someone must surely have known their names before they were blown to smithereens?
At the very least, the government should explain how the gang came to be labelled as terrorists. U.S. law defines a terrorist as someone who uses "premeditated, politically motivated violence…against non-combatants." Since the U.S. policy is now to blow people to smithereens if they are suspected of being in a terrorist gang, then maybe someone could take the time to explain the evidence of their terrorism?
Critics of this whole terrorist labelling charade, such as Matthew Petti at Reason, explain that: "In practice, that means that a 'terrorist' is whoever the executive branch decides to label one."
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Nobody cares what the whiner Rand has to say.
We have a WAR against drugs going on. This is part of that war.
Rand is concerned his supply is going dry.
All over the world our special forces are killing terrorist groups...I don’t recall getting authorization every time we take them on...these guys are terrorists... they are worse in my opinion, they kill more Americans in a month than terrorists have done in 30 years
Doesn’t disallow it either.
“The Constitution Does Not Allow the President To Unilaterally Blow Suspected Drug Smugglers to Smithereens”
Yes! The Commander in Chief can blow up aspirin factories or whatever they believe is a threat to the United States. These editors act like this is something new.
Congress has become useless. They have ceded off all their responsibilities to the administrative state, the presidency, and the judiciary. Congress largely consists of an establishment party that give the appearance of a democracy.
Too right!
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Well Rand, it’s kinda like this, sometimes a True Leader has to write and implement his own rules, especially when the other branches of government are doing their best to slow walk, reverse or dismantle everything the present CIC is trying to do. I.E. “Alligator Alcatraz”.
It quickly becomes a tedious game in futility and frustration, if you limit yourself to playing by ‘their’ rules.
Randy is a doctor ...he can write RX’s for all the shit he needs himself.
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Well Rand, when you get elected three times to be CIC, then you get to make those calls. Until then, you can keep making eyes at Maduro, who Trump has designated a terrorist
People in a drug sub from Venezuela are not USS citizens.
Who cares?
Rand is an idiot.
Dims and RINO’s trying to protect the kickbacks they get for insuring Hunter gets his Venezuelan Marching Powder
They're responsible for spending and managing the budget. Spectacular failures at that. So Congress is worse than useless.
Maybe we have someone on the inside. Trump can’t announce that.
Fredericksburg was shelled during the Civil War, as were Vicksburg and Richmond.
The Vietnam War wasn’t a declared war. Ask some Vietnamese that traveled down the Ho Che Mihn Trail about their experiences.
Actually the Constitution does exactly that.
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