Idiocracy Meets Stripes - the Dumbification of the Military Officer Corps

 

This blog is nothing, as its three readers will attest, if not a long prediction of a turnkey tyranny due to an incompetent and unprincipled military officer class.  Leave it to the Digital Clown Show to provide evidence as usual.  Idiot military officers plus social media does not disappoint.

Brabus, a military officer and pilot, in a profession of lethality, educated by the American taxpayer and sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, doesn't think the strikes on Venezuelan boats even come close a legal red line.

Wow, breathtaking incompetence from a guy who doesn't know the first thing about his job.

Even those without his college education might go, "hmm, using the military to kill people for crimes seems kind of new.  I wonder why we just started doing that?"

They might wonder why suspected criminals, more than a thousand miles away, are suddenly being vaporized without evidence being presented to anybody, instead of the Coast Guard rolling up on them and arresting them, searching the vessels, photographing evidence and putting criminals on trial.  Since simply blowing them up is apparently not even close to any legal line, why didn't we do that all along?

History buffs might remember how the U.S. military went into Panama, and lost American service members during the operation, to arrest Manuel Noriega for suspected drug smuggling and then gave him a trial and imprisoned him.  Why didn't the military simply kill him from the air as the current administration is doing?  Why spend all that money and sacrifice American service member lives for Operation Just Cause when Brabus-the-Braniac would have offered up Operation Just Cuz instead?

Even slightly educated people know one reason is because in the civilized world, post Enlightenment, we in the western world have generally had this feeling that Brabus lacks that, "well, we should be able to prove somebody has committed a crime before we punish them for it, instead of just killing whoever we want willy nilly."  It's kind of one of those things we from America have prided ourselves on that separates us from countries like North Korea or China or from the rule of King George (Brabus, that was the guy who ran Great Britain when we broke away and set up a system that included jury trials, don't spill your juice cup).  And, strangely, until recently it has been widely understood in the United States that crimes like drug smuggling don't come with the death penalty.  But apparently that common more is out the window as well despite the U.S. government's well known history of trafficking drugs and even getting American communities hooked on them (CIA, I'm looking at you).

Educated military officers (not to be confused with Brabus who simply checked a box without learning a thing) who swore to support the Constitution should be able to enunciate this line of thinking more clearly and point out that our supreme law requires "due process of law" before "life, liberty, or property" can be taken from folks.  There are exceptions for war, of course, and Brabus would no doubt claim we're in a war (because he's a moron as cartoonish in real life as he is in his avatar).

Somebody from Brabus' intel shop should sit him down and show him some flash cards.  "Brabus, I'll show you an image, and you tell me if the thing I show you is a war thing, or not a war thing" and then give him a treat when he gets it right.  Show him a flash card showing a tank.  I think he'd get that one right.  Show him a card with a MIG-29 and he'd probably get that one right, too.  But show him a card with a school bus, or an unarmed, unmarked, boat flying no flag and operated by men not in uniform and he might struggle.

Fear not.  Our Founders set up a system of rules and regulations for dipshits like Brabus.  All he has to do is know the rules and follow them and everything is good.  Then he can know if we're at war or not.

And in so doing, Brabus would discover that we are not at war with Venezuela or with Venezuelan boat operators.  How do we know this?  We know this because our Constitution gives the power to declare war to Congress and Congress has not declared war against suspected drug smugglers down south.  "But we haven't declared a war in forever," Brabus might proudly opine, and he'd be correct.  That's because in addition to giving Congress the power to declare war in Article 1 of our Constitution, it also gives Congress the power to make "all laws necessary and proper" for bringing into execution (hint, execution is an important word here) all powers granted to any part of the federal government.  That means that if the Constitution grants a power to the President, Congress can still dictate how that power will be executed.  Or they could pass a law on how to execute their own power and that's precisely what they did with the War Powers Resolution which dictates when the Commander in Chief can execute war powers.  And that law gives three conditions, 1) after Congress declares war, 2) after Congress authorizes war, and 3) if the United States or its armed forces are attacked, the POTUS is permitted to engage in war for up to sixty days with some caveats.

None of those three requirements are met with suspected drug smugglers.  So Brabus is right, this doesn't come close to the red line of legality.  It blows way the fuck past it.  There is zero question that the strikes on these boats are illegal.  None.

But given that our officer corps is filled with absolute incompetent morons like Brabus, our law and our oaths to support that supreme law have become meaningless.  And America is a lawless rogue nation as a result.  And Brabus is perfectly fine with that because he's never actually known America, let alone served her, and so he certainly doesn't care about her being destroyed from the inside.