Arizona Senator Calls Venezuela Boat Strikes 'Sanctioned Murder'

Monday, October 27, 2025

Senator Ruben Gallegos has described the recent U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan vessels as "sanctioned murder," pointing directly to President Donald Trump's policies that he alleges led to unnecessary deaths.

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Sen. Rand Paul on Trump's strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific: "One boat was said to be in distress and trying to get back to land that was bombed--that was said to be a fisherman. I don't know because I don't have any of the evidence."

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"If this president feels that they're [alleged traffickers] doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If it's an act of war, then you use our military, and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder. It's sanctioned murder that he is doing," he explained."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-27 05:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Sanctioned" murder?

Simple, cold-blooded murder.

Trump calls a boatload of anonymous people a bad name and then incinerates them.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-27 06:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

These murders would not be happening had the Supreme Court not tossed out the Constitution when they ruled on presidential immunity from prosecution.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-10-28 01:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Let's not forget the role congress has in this by ignoring every single illegal act that Pedo 47 is doing.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-28 07:21 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Sooner or later, they will be coming for you and I, if we continue to think that we have the right to expression is this country, if we still think we have the right to assemble and petition our government for a redress of grievances. As it is, I am seeing more and more people afraid to speak their minds on electronic media, even in a private capacity.
American fascism is on the march in America and at first the dying will be overseas, then, if another Jan 6 happens to stop the midterms...it will happen here.
"Four dead in Ohio...".

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-10-28 07:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I'm ready.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-28 09:00 AM | Reply

I am seeing more and more people afraid to speak their minds on electronic media, even in a private capacity.

5 | Posted by Hughmass

Coming to this blog used to be a lark.

Now, and have no mistake, coming here is increasingly dangerous.

We don't get out of scrapes such as Trump is constructing without a lot of people being hurt.

That process, of course, has already begun.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-28 09:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I bet rcade will get another National Security Letter eventually.

#8 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2025-10-28 09:36 AM | Reply

I bet rcade will get another National Security Letter eventually.

#8 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine

Trump is already using the national security apparatus to find people who are "anti-ICE".

Can't imagine that he won't reach here eventually.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-28 10:11 AM | Reply

"Four dead in Ohio...".

#5 | Posted by Hughmass

There will be unambiguous martyrs for the cause of American democracy, and it is reasonable to expect them around November of next year as Trump interferes with the mid-terms.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-28 10:17 AM | Reply

You mean there's no Republicans who want to take Rand Paul's side against extrajudicial execution without trial?

Shocking.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-28 11:46 AM | Reply

like Obama's Drone strikes

Obama launched nearly 400 drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen alone.

Targeting of U.S. citizens: The program included the controversial targeting of U.S. citizens abroad, with the Department of Justice issuing memos to provide a legal justification. One notable case was the 2011 killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and U.S. citizen. The strikes also unintentionally killed three other American citizens,

#12 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-10-28 06:22 PM | Reply

One notable case was the 2011 killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and U.S. citizen.
#12 | Posted by Maverick

Some of us actually objected to that...

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-28 06:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1