And? Your point is?
Posted on 10/19/2025 12:48:35 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday questioned the wisdom and legality of President Donald Trump’s policies toward Venezuela and suspected drug dealers coming from its coast.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Kentucky Republican again raised concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s strikes on boats that it claims are carrying drug traffickers, as well as the president’s statement that the United States might conduct direct attacks on Venezuela’s territory.
“When you kill someone, you should know, if you’re not at war, not in a declared war, you really need to know someone’s name at least,” Paul said. “You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without us knowing their name, without any evidence of a crime.”
He said that given the distance these boats are from the United States, it’s more likely that if there are indeed drug smugglers, they are bringing them to nearby islands such as Trinidad and Tobago, instead of the U.S.
Paul added: “For decades, if not centuries, when you stop people at sea in international waters or in your own waters, you announce that you’re going to board the ship and you’re looking for contraband, smuggling, or drugs. This happens every day off of Miami. But we know from Coast Guard statistics that about 25 percent of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship there are no drugs. So if our policy now is to blow up every ship we suspect or accuse of drug running, that would be a bizarre world in which 25 percent of the people might be innocent.”
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Feel better now?
Probably named something like Jose
Please, tell me the names of all the people killed by the drugs these people bring here. We should as least know their names.
So what, Rand? Maybe you can go down and help them load the boats. How much are the cartels paying YOU now? Enough to keep you whining for them?
I’d bet the US government has a few little disgruntled birds in Venezuela who sing in their ears, that’s how they’d know.
Im sure our intel community can give Rand Paul a bio on the targets they chose, in a closed classified briefing to protect sources and methods
What a jackass comment!
Has he collected the thousand+ names of everyone obama and brennan droned? And the collateral dead? Is he tracking the names of the Ukes and Russians being killed by our Himars cluster shells and other weapons?
“Please, tell me the names of all the people killed by the drugs these people bring here. We should as least know their names.”
Came to post exactly this.
I know three people who OD’d on fentanyl. Young men.
Aaaaand your answer wins the internets
Paul said. “You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without us knowing their name, without any evidence of a crime.”
Typical of the Paul family, completely ignores the evidence of a crime. It doesn’t have to be presented in court to be evidence of a crime. The names of the drug runners is irrelevant.
Why?
Paul’s gene pool is shallow. He doesn’t know where he is.
Why was Columbia getting +200M$ in aid from the US, in the first place? To bring cocaine into the country for the ‘Rats?
Snicker ... Kentucky really, really, has lead it its drinking water ... republicans suffer more than the average liberal. Moonshine capital of the world!!!
I wish Senator Paul was not so public about this, but then again, I wish Trump did this clandestinely, with stealth, not openlt, with bravado. If they disappeared, nobody would miss them, but to brag about the kill and show evidence of it to your enemies? Rand Paul is doing Trump a favor, almost.
BTTT to your comment
Excellent.On point. And convincing.
Excellent.On point. And convincing.
Hey Rand...
“You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.”
Only the Chinese and Soros knows all of our names.
And? Your point is?
Ha.
And no one knows a name for John Wick’s second dog (he calls “Boy” or “Dog” so as not become too emotionally close and lose him as he did with the murdered beagle Daisy).
And Clint Eastwood’s character name in A fistful of Dollars and the two sequels, never told. Nicknames used only.
“Names are for tombstones, baby” -—Yaphet Kotto character Mr. Big in Live and Let Die.
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