These American rights groups never miss an opportunity to defend foreigners, but, I wonder, would they do this if Biden or Kamala were president? Actually, yes. They sued Obama multiple times for drone strikes in foreign nations which killed American citizens who were fighting with ISIS and al Qaeda. Because groups like the ACLU are nuts
Rights groups sue administration for release of memo justifying boat strikes
A group of civil rights advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration, seeking the release of a legal memo and other documents related to lethal U.S. military strikes on boats suspected of trafficking drugs from Latin America.
The complaint alleges that the nearly two dozen boat strikes carried out since September are illegal and that the public deserves to see how President Donald Trump’s administration has justified them. The strikes have killed at least 87 people.
“The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of civilians as lawful and why it believes it can hand out get-out-of-jail-free cards to people committing these crimes,” Jeffrey Stein, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the plaintiffs, said in a statement Tuesday.
The ACLU, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. According to the complaint, the groups filed a freedom of information request with several federal agencies on Oct. 15 seeking the release of a legal opinion from the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel. The Washington Post reported that the memo argued the country is in a “non-international armed conflict” with unspecified “drug cartels.”
Last time I checked, none of the drug runners were American citizens. Certainly not citizens of the State of New York. None of them have Constitutional rights. The whole thing is wild that Liberals/Democrats are hanging their hats on defending foreign drug smugglers.
Saying drugs are not bad because Trump is blowing up foreign drug running boats is a hell of a take.
If you ever get to foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia, be sure to visit the Kensington neighborhood, around the SEPTA train station at Kensington and Allegheny Avenues, under the El. You’ll see the junkies sleeping on sidewalks, on people’s front stoops, laid out against storefronts, and the decent people in the neighborhood, the ones who can’t afford to get out, living in fear and filth and disgust, because nothing can be kept clean or safe around an open-air drug market so notorious that the Mexican government used images of it in their campaigns against drug use!
Former Mayor Jim Kenney just let it fester, while current Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins has made some efforts to try to clean up the place, but has been fought in her efforts to do that by the ‘harm reduction’ people, people who in their oh-so-well-intended efforts to reduce harm to the junkies have instead transferred the harm to the innocent neighbors.
The junkies are now in a major health crisis themselves, because the dealers have been cutting heroin and fentanyl with the veterinary tranquilizer xylazine, street name tranq, which was never approved for use in humans, and has resulted in open, festering, and non-healing wounds, and many amputations.
Tranq does have the unfortunate effect of cutting into their customer base, so now the dealers have been substituting another animal tranquilizer, medetomidine, also never approved for human use, and which causes severe withdrawal symptoms, which pushes the junkies to even greater urgency to buy their next fix. Yet our good friends on the left want to defend the drug suppliers!
Commenter typed: “…our good friends on the left want to defend the drug suppliers”
But, but, illegal xylazine and fentanyl are manufactured from ingredients received from China, NOT Venezuela.
For whatever reason, Donnie and his MAGAts prefer to video missiles blowing up boats in international waters carrying cocaine while ignoring the much more serious fentanyl (and now xylazine) problem. It’s not a coincidence that the Ministry of War releases videos of the missile strikes! It’s political theater to distract from Donnie and the MAGAts true objectives in Venezuela.
Yet our good friends on the right want to defend the Chinese drug suppliers! And Big Donnie inexplicably pardoned major drug kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández, former President of Honduras, who was serving a 45 year prison sentence in the US for importing hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S.! Prosecutors asserted that Hernández had received millions in bribes from drug traffickers, including $1 million from “El Chapo”, leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Donnie believed the convict’s claim that he was framed by President Biden.
Why no missile attacks on Chinese ships?
The commenter mocks the pitiful drug abusers that Donnie is trying to “save” with his televised missile attacks! How hypocritical.
“A significant proportion of drug abuse involves self-medication, where individuals use substances to cope with underlying physical pain, emotional distress, anxiety, depression, or trauma, rather than seeking professional help, though this behavior often escalates into full-blown addiction, notes American Addiction Centers and Frontiers. Studies show many who misuse drugs or alcohol report using them for pain relief, and this pattern is common for mental health issues like PTSD, anxiety, and depression, turning a coping mechanism into a substance use disorder.”
No doubt, the commenter disagrees that drug abuse is a health issue, preferring the approach that it’s a military/police issue.
Ellie, Venezuela is part of the pipeline.
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Jamie,
Yes, Donnie has to stay on TV to keep his MAGAt Klan engaged.
Dana
Likes to believe that all problems are caused by “them”
The states that have the highest rates of death by overdose? Prescription opioid use?
southern states and Appalachian
Alabama has the 2nd highest opioid dispensing rate
“We have met the enemy ana it is us”. Pogo
William should make it clear. Donnie is blowing up boats (supposedly) carrying cocaine from Venezuela to the U.S., Suriname and Europe. Fentanyl and methamphetamines are MUCH larger problems in the U.S. than is cocaine. The majority of these “cocaine deaths” involve the co-use of opioids, especially illicitly manufactured fentanyl, which is a major driver of the rising death toll.
Donnie is scamming you once again.
A.S.S.
So you have no solutions, just whiny complaints.
Come on, what would YOU do to fix the problems??????????????
Just how much money do the democrats receive from the cartels?