Bush and his war criminals came up with the idea of classifying people they had no authority to "detain" as "unlawful enemy combatants." And they declared them to be outside of the Geneva conventions and therefore not subject to any rules or laws. That gave them the "permission" to detain those men at Guantanamo. It led to 100's of men being held for literally decades without charge. I wrote about one of these men for Huffington Post almost twenty years ago. Many people in this country still do not understand the grave harm this caused to the U.S. and the rule of law.
The trump war criminals understand the license that this gave them. Now they are taking it to another step and declaring supposed drug dealers as "unlawful enemy combatants." And killing them- not only to provoke a war - but to give them free reign to round up people here in this country under the guise of the "terrorist drug war."
In the early days of the "war on terror" we dropped leaflets on Afghanistan and Pakistan offering bounties for "terrorists." Will that be next? Will we offer bounties for turning over supposed drug dealer "terrorists."
Stay tuned.
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