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Tonight, we examine the concept and legality of governmental extra-judicial killings — summarily executing people. Extrajudicial killing is the deliberate killing of a person without legal authority from a judicial process.
It is “extra” “judicial” … or outside the scope of the normal route where a person is arrested, charged and given a trial before a verdict is rendered.
In fact, as we go to air with this episode, the Trump administration has embarked on a deadly serious campaign of openly targeting and killing people who have only been clandestinely labeled as “drug smugglers” — within the administration’s small, secretive, circle without offering any hard evidence, nor extending to these people a single solitary ounce of due process of law.
At the time of recording, since the 1st of September, when President Trump announced the first strike on a boat he claimed – without providing evidence – killed 11 “Tren de Aragua narco-terrorists” under the control of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, through the end of October, the U.S. had claimed to have killed 64 alleged drug smugglers on 16 boats.
This situation is fluid and difficult to track, however, to date, since September 2, Donald Trump has summarily executed 70 civilians suspected of drug trafficking in 17 separate airstrikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.
The administration admitted in a closed-door briefing to Congress that they don’t even know the identities of the people they’ve killed. How in the hell is this possible? Congress has abdicated its power(s), duties and responsibilities to the public.
To support our claims — as evidence, we’ll provide historical examples of other governmental extra-judicial murderous actions.
And we ask the question has America under Trump become even more of a pariah on the world’s stage?
We’ll expose the risky behavior in how governmental extra-judicial killings trigger a cascade of destabilizing consequences across legal, political, social and psychological domains.
These effects can:
— erode democracy and democratic institutions
— inflict trauma on the populace
— and can perpetuate further cycles of deadly violence.
Two people who survived boat bombings were released back to their home countries because the Trump administration lacked sufficient evidence to even arrest them.
In the words of one member of Congress who attended the briefing, “This is just murder.”
We are shining the antiseptic light of the truth further exposing Trump’s illegal killing spree. Some analysts now believe Trump has tasked “his generals” with planning a full-scale regime change war against Venezuela.
So much for Trump’s campaign claim of never entering into endless wars.
Democracy is dying right in front of us.
Justice isn’t about laws … it’s about lives!
In a time of crisis — facts matter most!
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