Manjushri

Did you notice that Trump called them “unlawful combatants” in this article? That phrase may ring a bell.

George W. Bush’s cronies invented the phrase during his reign of terror, or as he called it, his war on terror. He said that there were people who were neither enemy combatants, nor civilians. They were a third category: Unlawful Combatants. The conventions that protect prisoners of war did not apply to such _unlawful _ combatants. Such people could be arrested, indefinitely detained, tortured, or even killed without charge or trial. This was the justification for G. W. Bush’s extraordinary rendition program that had U.S. agencies kidnapping people off the streets of the US and other nations and shipping them to black sites where they could be tortured indefinitely.

The repeated use of the phrases unlawful combatant and narco-terrorist tells me all I need to know about where they plan to go with this.

Laws are to protect the elite, not the common people.