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Comment by FridayoLeary

3 months ago

UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected narco terrorist vessels in Caribbean

Fixed it.

These guys are responsible for scores of thousands of deaths a year, both in the US and their own countries i have no idea why they are getting so much sympathy here.

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tototrains  3 months ago

Typically suspects of crime are arrested, which brings them to a trial (Habeus Corpus) in which that evidence must be presented and assessed, and then a consistent punishment is meted out. What is happening is called extrajudicial murder.

Be aware that the US is constructing casus belli for invading Venezuela, who has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. There is more at play.

  • FridayoLeary  3 months ago

    I keep hearing that. I don't know law so i have some questions. Do countries/US have to respect that outside their own borders? Why in war is that dispensed with. I.E what is the underlying framework? How is it legal under US law to assassinate people/terrorists outside their borders? (i feel the answer is that in the US and most countries, they can do whatever they want to people outside their borders. I.E. There is no special constitutional protection for them. The only restrictions are aimed at not starting wars. I could be wrong about this. I'm not fluent in your constitution. The UK has no clear constitution either)

    These are obvious questions, but i feel we don't agree on fundamentals here so it's important to clarify them.

    For you: Do you think the US is facing a serious drug crisis? If they are, who is responsible for it? What do you think the correct response should be?

    Do statistics show a significant drop in drug deaths? If yes, and i don't know, why would your response have better results?

    Venezuela is too complicated, so i won't include it in my current discourse, unless you think it's the key factor without which no debate could be had. I'm not sure why that would be because there are plenty of other South America drug exporters.

fatbird  3 months ago

Because it's very doubtful they're actually transporting drugs at all. The US has presented no evidence of it, and they're well practiced at stopping, boarding, and searching such boats. They could do that here, perp-walk the guilty crew, and photograph them in front of barrels of illegal drugs, but instead they just blow them up and say "trust us". The boats aren't even capable of reaching the US. When they've picked up survivors, they're repatriated them rather than take them to the US for trial.

Also, "narco-terrorist" is a nonsense designation meant to allow the US to apply GWOT methods and tactics against drug traffickers.