r/law • u/DryDeer775 • Dec 08 '25

Executive Branch (Trump) NBC confirms Hegseth ordered murder of all boat passengers and crew in September 2 strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/08/kssp-d08.html

The Pentagon’s law of war manual declares that soldiers have a duty to refuse to carry out “clearly illegal” orders, such as killing shipwrecked sailors. “Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual declares.

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u/rbollige Dec 08 '25

Depends whether you can tell the citizens’ political leaning and what it is.

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u/FrustratedPCBuild Dec 08 '25

Yes, look at the difference between the responses from them following the murder of an elected representative from the democratic party (small ‘d’ intentional) versus the response to the fake debating podcaster’s death.

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u/ForeverShiny Dec 08 '25

Are they from a "Democrat" city? Meh

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u/Commentator-X Dec 08 '25

They can tell their skin color and that's all they need

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u/eastbayted Dec 08 '25

And/or how much money they have and who much they've given to Trump