"Paul joined Glenn Greenwald on the System Update podcast where he called out Trump and his Republican colleagues over US strikes against alleged drug boats in South American waters. Paul accused Republicans of supporting actions they would be up in arms over if a Democrat were in office. The senator argued the strikes include no due process and could be leading to the death of innocent people."
"The problem with this, and one of the most damning statistics, is that when the Coast Guard boards ships or boats off of Miami or off the California coast, about 25% of the boats that are suspected of having drugs don't. So if you have a 25% error rate, people have to decide, well, do you think killing people with a 25% error rate is okay? So we have never done it this way, Paul said."
"Paul argued there is so much insane about this policy and he questioned his colleagues celebrating these deaths. He said: I guess what gets me about my colleagues is they seem to think that these people are less than human. They're not even deserving of the respect of animals. Just kill them. And it's sort of this laughing, sort of ha ha ha, you know, these were really bad people."
Sen. Rand Paul condemned President Trump's overseas strikes on alleged drug boats as insane and uncivilized, arguing they lack due process and risk killing innocent people. Paul cited Coast Guard data suggesting roughly a 25% false-positive rate when suspected drug boats are boarded, questioning the morality of using lethal force with that error rate. Trump defended the strikes as targeting gang-run drug boats bound for the United States, while experts raised legal concerns. Paul accused Trump of circularly labeling targets as terrorists without proof and criticized colleagues who celebrate the killings and dehumanize suspects.
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