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"Be the Duterte you want to see in the world, I guess.
That’s the new line from Donald Trump, the guy who once told supporters he
could personally commit murder and he wouldn’t lose any supporters. He said
that last time. He’s president again, so apparently it’s time to see if this
adage holds up.
Trump has already pretended the mere existence of foreign gang members anywhere
in the world justifies whatever actions he chooses to take under the heading of
“immigration enforcement.” That includes sending people to countries they’ve
never lived in or back to countries they fled from for fear of getting tortured
or killed. All of this has been greeted with shrug from a man with an
ill-fitting jacket and head full of hate.
In recent weeks, things have escalated. Trump is pretending the mere existence
of a worldwide drug trade is a combination of undeclared war on the United
States and an ongoing act of terrorism. So, we’ve just started committing
extrajudicial killings in international waters and expecting DOJ/DoD lawyers to
work out the legal details after the fact.
A few legislators have started to speak up about this, suggesting that, at the
very least, Trump should approach Congress to secure a declaration of war to
justify these… well, let’s call them what they are: murders. Even though he’s
got a majority working for him, Trump doesn’t want to do this. He’d rather just
do whatever he wants and let everyone else deal with the consequences.
Trump has never been the most coherent or erudite of orators. And that’s what
gives statements like these an extra edge: the boorish, almost-bored vow to
commit murder spilling out of the mouth of the nation’s largest single-cell
organism."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
