But here, just to help you with some historic US precedence, here is a nice picture of President Thomas Jefferson's Navy and Marines giving full due process to Islamic pirate slavers. Show it to Rand Paul if you get a chance.
Posted on 12/08/2025 10:16:32 AM PST by FreedomPoster
Everyone knows that so called “double tap” strikes on land are legal, Obama did it all the time, but CNN keeps inviting land lawyers on to say narco terrorists have special privileges at sea.
Let’s look at the admiralty law: 🧵
Source: International law studies
@NavalWarCollege
“Rudderless and Adrift: States’ Unwarranted Timidity Respecting Stateless Vessels
Andrew Norris”
Ships without a recognized flag, “stateless vessels”, are the outlaws of the ocean. They don’t have a clear nationality, so no country claims responsibility for them.
International law already allows governments to stop, board, and enforce laws against these vessels.
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Here’s the whole thread in another easier to read format.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1997996613076189249.html
Good stuff.
As usual, The Gaslight Media is spewing lies.
Never did that to Droolin’ Joe Biden, though.
Hey, it’s a historic tradition of the sea. Japanese Zeroes strafe men in lifeboats. At Midway the Captain of a Destroyer threw the weighted-down crew of an SBD into the water after interrogating them.
The Nazi U-boat U-852 machine ginned survivors in the water.
Not the look America has traditionally had, but hey, times are different.
We shot our share of Jap sailors in WWII.
This is an organized effort to go after Hegseth. It has been going on since the minute he was sworn in...even before if you remember the skank who met him in the bar and went to his room to get plowed, then concocted a rape story for her husband.
This thing in Venezuela is about oil and geopolitics, not dope. Glad these boats are being interdicted, but this is a stupid self inflicted wound. We have more than enough combat power to stop these boats and capture the loads if it was about dope.
This is a distraction.
Here’s the whole thread safely archived offshore where neither X nor the Feds can flush it down the Memory Hole:
archive.ph/Hk0fb
Yeah, as someone else pointed out General Kinney did so at Bismarck Sea. But he said that was in direct retaliation for Japs shooting at American pilots in parachutes and further because the survivors were 15-25 miles from Lae where they would rejoin the battle.
But in general, shooting guys floating on the wreckage is not what American forces do.
War is Hell, don’t start them.
Not to mention marooned Jap sailors or downed pilots would regularly attack the sailors of a US sub trying to rescue them.
They made the choice -for- our men.
But here, just to help you with some historic US precedence, here is a nice picture of President Thomas Jefferson's Navy and Marines giving full due process to Islamic pirate slavers. Show it to Rand Paul if you get a chance.
Give us the operational details on how you propose to stop those boats.
Long standing tradition.
During WWII:
if a german pilot bails out over england, he is protected since it is assumed he will be captured and cannot return to the war.
if a Geman pilot bails out over German occupied territory he is not protected and can be fired upon since it is assumed he will return to combat.
The British government ended slavery with a simple plan of action: If a slave ship was discovered on the high seas, it was boarded and the crew were hanged.
That ended slavery transport on the high seas.
Two to the chest, head gets the rest.......
The Geneva Conventions now in effect I believe date from 1949.
What was legal in WW2 may no longer be.
I don’t believe the discussion in the OP I linked references the Geneva Conventions.
“(ii) Anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, shipwreck, wounds or sickness. This category is based on the Hague Regulations, common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I, which prohibit attacks on defenceless persons”
“immunity from attack is conditional on refraining from any hostile act or attempt to escape”
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule47
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