A judge explains themselves in the judgement.

The moment someone “gets jesus” it’s time to alert the authorities.

Do people who make good choices decide to join the violence industry in the first place?

Didn’t hurt Reddit or OnlyFans.

More like political ambition. I’ll never understand a country that elects its prosecutors. Madness.

Pretty sure it was unlearned 1804-1870, and again 1940-1944.

Local government still has a legal obligation to ensure that every town and village has a functioning bakery, so no-one has a revolutionary urge.

We have already seen this administration, and state and local agencies, discard the concept of due process - legal, natural born US citizens have been caught up in the net already just because they look “foreign”. Indeed, the military itself disregarded due process habitually in Iraq and Afghanistan as they were unquestioned.

So who is a US Citizen? A person requires due process to prove their citizenship. Can you trust Trumpworld to ask questions before they shoot? How do you mount a defense without due process?

We have seen before how mission creep hands ever greater powers to the state. Originally, searches of property were conducted at border crossings. Then searches included devices such as smartphones and the content of those phones including social media apps. Then the definition of “border” search areas was increased to anywhere within 190 miles of a border or port of entry (eg airports), meaning without a warrant your phone is subject to seizure and data retrieval with zero probable cause if you live near any major city, if the authorities so choose.

So today, the military patrol the border. Tomorrow, the border region, next week any state with a land or sea border, next month any state with an international airport…

That’s very valid. But the general culture in the US has been to be uncritical about the actions and policies of their military, to always focus on the individuals so they can be thanked for their “service” without realising how weird and dangerous that is. Now the lessons learned overseas are being applied in the homeland.

About time Americans got a taste of the havoc their military has been inflicting on the rest of the world for decades. Dumbasses. Maybe they’ll actually wake up but I won’t hold out hope.

Build a dominant military, get put to the sword by that same military. History is littered with precedent on this. My empathy has worn down to the level of “thoughts and prayers”.

He had to threaten big auto not to raise prices because guess what, tariffs raise prices.

You have a very melodramatic impression of diplomacy. War is very expensive.

Declarations of war are formal documents delivered by a foreign minister to an ambassador and are legally binding.

Some prat running their mouth, even if they’re a senior governmental official, has never been a legal declaration of war.

Nice going, teamsters.

He’s the opposite of Mary Whitehouse though.

Yup. I can’t remember if it was Aston-Martin, Rolls-Royce or Ferrari, but they raised their prices by a lot on a whim at some point, and sales actually increased because the price tag was part of the brag.

So your argument is that they’re independent terrorists rather than pirates?

They are being contracted by Iran to do this.

Piracy consists of any of the following acts:

(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:

(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;

(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;

(b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;

© any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b).

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982

The “blockade” fits detention in (a). The missiles they fired at the ships fit the violence.

Unauthorised people tried to board shipping with the right of innocent passage. They are pirates.