I Was Today Years Old When I Learned This

I have been aware for some time of the term, "Perfidy," which is used as a synonym for disloyal or treacherous, what I did not know was that it was a specific term used in the context of the international laws of war, and that when the Trump administration fired missiles at fishermen to distract from Jeffrey Epstein from a plane in civilian markings, they had violated this law.

Even if one accepts Trump's claims that this is a real war, which makes you a blithering idiot, they are still required to follow the laws of war, so in addition to the double-tap strike on men clinging to the remains of a boat, the whole attack constitutes a war crime.

If there is another Presidential election, and there is a Democrat elected, not prosecuting the rat-fucks would be a betrayal of the Republic.

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.

The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.

But the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”

Retired Maj. Gen. Steven J. Lepper, a former deputy judge advocate general for the United States Air Force, said that if the aircraft had been painted in a way that disguised its military nature and got close enough for the people on the boat to see it — tricking them into failing to realize they should take evasive action or surrender to survive — that was a war crime under armed-conflict standards.

There should be trials, but I do not think that there will be trials, because our elites are terrified that accountability applied to the most perfidious of them will eventually be applied to them as well.

Nixon gets his pardon, Obama says that we have to look forward, not back, and our country continues to circle the moral drain.