US extrajudicial killings…a direct line from Obama to Trump

 US extrajudicial killings…a direct line from Obama to Trump

 

Millions of Americans are horrified by Trump’s obliterating small, unarmed boats in the Caribbean. He’s bombed 29, sending them and over a hundred unidentified souls to Davy Jones Locker. He’s also killed thousands in drone attacks in many countries.

 

Trump isn’t bashful about revealing his mass murder on the high seas. He releases video of every one…except if it shows survivors hanging onto the wreckage being whacked in a second strike. Trump and his crazed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth positively glory in their secret license to commit extrajudicial murder.

 

Some who recoil from this ghoulish madness lament not having Barrack Obama back in charge. What they forget, or likely never even knew, was that America’s descent into extrajudicial murder kicked off under Obama.

 

During his administration, he chaired the weekly ‘Terror Tuesday’ meeting where he gave final approval what terror suspects were to be offed that week. No indictments, no arrests, no due process. Just kill, kill, kill. Alas that included a 17 year old girl and a 16-year-old American boy Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. Mainly using drones, Obama authorized the killing of thousands, normalizing extrajudicial murder in the US presidency tool kit. And just like Trump now, Obama refused to release administration legal justification for what clearly cannot be legally justified.

 

When it comes to extrajudicial killing, Trump is simply following Obama’s Nike playbook….Just Do It.

Regarding Illinois’ humane end of life option for terminally ill…the Pope is a dope

Regarding Illinois’ humane end of life option for terminally ill…the Pope is a dope

 

Leave it to Illinois native Robert Prevost to throw cold water on Gov. Pritzker’s wonderful signing of ‘Deb’s Law’. Named after Deb Robertson, who championed right to die legislation for terminally ill persons, it makes Illinois the twelfth humane state to allow some form of assisted suicide for those needlessly suffering till fast approaching closing time.

                        

Provost, in his new gig as Pope Leo XIV to the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, remains stuck in denial that human progress only evolves when people are given the freedom to determine societal improvement free from outdated dogma created centuries ago to keep the masses in blissful ignorance.

 

So instead of celebrating the assisted suicide legislation his native state had the wisdom to enact, Leo foolishly injected himself in Illinois politics. He even lobbied Governor Pritzker personally, urging his veto so sorrowful end of life sufferers can continue to needlessly suffer.  

 

But instead of a logical, reasoned argument against assisted suicide for terminally ill, Leo offered up fanciful religious dogma deeply offensive to secular governance: “God became human like us to show us what it means really to live human life, and I hope and pray that the respect for life will once again grow in all moments of human existence, from conception to natural death.”

 

Leo is certainly entitled to have an imaginary friend who is not only a Supreme Being, but who morphed into human form to spread the Word here on earth. And one of those teachings is that anyone facing a horrible, painful end must remain suffering to validate Leo’s bizarre view of reality and human existence.

 

As Pope, Leo can do much to maintain and expand the many good works of the Catholic Church. Meddling in Illinois governance in not among them.