trump: Murderer and Destroyer

t...p's (il)legal advisor has infomed the now Dept. of (In)justice that the War Powers Act does NOT apply
to the continuous bombing of ships "alleged" to be carrying drugs (which would hurt poor widdle Americans); therefore, as federal troops are not being put "in harm's way," the bombings have no restriction.

FUCK YOU, WORLD! AMERIKA RULES! SIEG HEIL!

 

Fucking unbelievable

 

And Yet; these "Drug Boats" continue to launch and three more were hit this weekend.
Imagine being a member of a cartel and drawing the short straw, to pilot one of these boats?
Curious to know if this interdiction has increased the prices for the narcotics.
Previous media reporting would consider the street cost of drugs targeted for interdiction.

That the shipments continue regardless of the risk to life will show the inhumanity of the drug cartels.

At least the fish are getting high as a kite. Wondering if I eat a Grouper if I'll get a contact high?

 

If you know running a boat full of drugs is going to get you killed were the 37 people murdered or did they commit suicide ?

I can't jump in front of a bus and say the bus and say driver killed me.

1949 is not all that historic and was it cool enough to keep around for say another 100 years or start over? I looked for pictures of the west wing about a week ago and was not impressed.

 

What facts do you have that cause you to claim these boats were running drugs?

I certainly cant claim 1st hand knowledge of events in the Caribbean basin. I read an article by Mary Anastasia O'Grady who is a Latin America correspondent.
Trump is staking a lot on his elimination campaign.

 

This Publication has a pay-wall. here it is.

The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier left Split, Croatia, Oct. 26 for the Caribbean. The ship is part of Carrier Strike Group 12, which includes several destroyers and a cruiser. It will join other U.S. military assets deployed to the vicinity since President Trump began a naval buildup there in August.

The official reason for the growing contingent of warships off the coast of Venezuela is to enforce the U.S. prohibition on drug trafficking. Since September U.S. drones have destroyed numerous vessels and killed scores of crewmen in the Caribbean, allegedly because they were carrying illegal narcotics. Three similar strikes in the Pacific killed more than a dozen.

Tomahawk missiles, which can travel 1,000 miles, can be fired from cruisers already in the Caribbean. There are also 10 F-35s in Puerto Rico. But Carrier Strike Group 12, with its Super Hornets and Hawkeye aircraft, is a step up in firepower. Its Caribbean deployment has increased speculation that the Trump administration has decided it can’t break up Venezuelan cartels without removing alleged mob boss and dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Two weeks ago Mr. Trump said he was eyeing targets on land. Citing sources with knowledge of the matter, the Miami Herald reported on Friday that the administration has decided “to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment.” The president denied the report.
A U.S. invasion seems doubtful given Mr. Trump’s aversion to sending Americans abroad to fight. More likely the U.S. aims to signal to Mr. Maduro that his life expectancy will improve if he relinquishes power. To make a transition work, disgruntled Venezuelan generals would need to rise up against Maduro security forces. The arrival of the Gerald Ford could be intended to motivate them.

The trouble for Mr. Trump is that bluffing may not be enough. The president is using the narrative that drug traffickers “poison” Americans to build public support at home for a strike inside Venezuelan territory. But the real danger posed by transnational criminal organizations—such as Venezuela’s Cartel de Soles, run by the Maduro dictatorship, and Colombia’s FARC and ELN—is their political agenda.

The Cold War is over but the appetite for power among anti-American “nonaligned” ideologues is as it ever was. Enemies of Western values in the region that used to rely on Soviet largess now fund themselves by selling drugs to gringos and Europeans, practicing extortion and trafficking weapons. Those businesses underwrite their asymmetric warfare on democratic capitalism. This is why a return to Venezuelan democracy would enhance U.S. national security.

Hugo Carvajal, a former Venezuelan army general known as “El Pollo,” pleaded guilty in June to U.S. federal charges of “conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, engaging in narco-terrorism for the benefit of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the ‘FARC’), and related weapons offenses,” according to a Justice Department news release.

As Venezuela’s director of military intelligence from 2004-11 and in 2013, Mr. Carvajal worked to benefit the Cartel de Soles, according to the Justice Department. He “armed the FARC with automatic weapons and explosives to further the group’s drug trafficking and terrorist activities,” Justice says. FARC honchos retired in 2016 when Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos let them off the hook for decades of crime. But new leaders keep the FARC going.

The Maduro dictatorship has been telling Venezuelans that the U.S. won’t dare violate Venezuelan sovereignty and, if it does, the nation is prepared to fight to the last man.

It’s a nice try. But it isn’t what’s holding back the putschists in the barracks from launching a democratic rebellion. They’re hesitating because the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence, or DGCIM, is enormously effective at its job of repression. Anyone in uniform suspected of lacking loyalty faces imprisonment, torture and possibly death.

The killing of retired Venezuelan navy captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo six years ago exemplifies DGCIM brutality. He was “blindfolded, hung from a tree, and viciously beaten” and “his captors forced him to play Russian roulette while he swung in the air,” I wrote in a 2019 column headlined “Life and Death in Caracas.”

When he was wheeled into a courtroom—though there were no charges against him—“he couldn’t lift his arms, stand, nod his head or speak. . . . His eyes rolled around in his head.” The judge was so disturbed by his condition that he ordered Acosta to be taken to a hospital. Hours later he died.

There was no attempt by the regime to hide the crime. It was a warning to the armed forces of the consequences of falling under suspicion. According to the nongovernmental organization Foro Penal, of the 875 political prisoners who now languish in Venezuelan dungeons, 173 are military personnel.

If the U.S. hopes to topple Mr. Maduro, it needs to hit the DGCIM first.

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Curious as to your theory as to what these boats are doing?

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Trump the Grifter! Here he's selling badges?

We don't need no stinkin' badges!!!

Note: it was up on YouTube for six hours, yet not one person wanted to view it. Neither do I. It's a scam one way or another.