The Trump administration's assault on alleged drug boats has killed about one person per day since early September. These are murders, and basic humanity demands that we not get complacent about them.
The childishness of all this adds to the grotesquerie. The moral worldview of Lonsdale, Hegseth, and company is that of a bad Saturday morning cartoon show. They simply will not reason about what it is that makes modern civilization worth defending and what kinds of constraints that might impose; the conservative idea of man's fallen nature and need for self-restraint is utterly absent; and so they reach in the stupidest possible way the classic fascist conclusion that for the Good Guys (tm) all is permitted.
The Trump administration's acts fall nicely into the US legal definition of piracy, since there is no state of war according to US law. Piracy is a "universal jurisdiction" crime: any state can prosecute it, no matter where it occurs. A US pardon has no extraterritorial effect. Yo, ho, ho.
The childishness of all this adds to the grotesquerie. The moral worldview of Lonsdale, Hegseth, and company is that of a bad Saturday morning cartoon show. They simply will not reason about what it is that makes modern civilization worth defending and what kinds of constraints that might impose; the conservative idea of man's fallen nature and need for self-restraint is utterly absent; and so they reach in the stupidest possible way the classic fascist conclusion that for the Good Guys (tm) all is permitted.
The Trump administration's acts fall nicely into the US legal definition of piracy, since there is no state of war according to US law. Piracy is a "universal jurisdiction" crime: any state can prosecute it, no matter where it occurs. A US pardon has no extraterritorial effect. Yo, ho, ho.
They blindly march behind authority, with only brainstems for guidance.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_and_politics