The Price of Perfect Nihilism
When President Donald Trump first announced that he had ordered the Pentagon to attack fishing boats and speedboats on the high seas which he said carried dangerous drugs destined for willing buyers in the United States, many of us who monitor the government for its indifference to the Constitution perceived it as truly criminal and utterly scandalous.
The military commits murder when it intentionally kills a civilian non-combatant who poses no immediate threat to the U.S. or to military personnel. The crime is committed by all personnel in the chain of command who knowingly participate in these attacks.
The order to kill civilian non-combatants is an unlawful order which the military personnel who receive it have a legal and moral duty to challenge and either decline to carry out or resign from the military.
It was scandalous because the president and his secretary of defense boasted about it.
When this view was articulated by six members of Congress, the secretary of defense sought — without a hearing — to reduce the military pension of one of them who is a retired Navy captain, and the Department of Justice sought to indict all six. Trump called for their summary execution.
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/02/26/the-price-of-perfect-nihilism/
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