#extrajudicial murder

[sweetfirebird]

So... first it's "kill them all." And then when someone goes, hey, that seems like a crime, it's "it wasn't me, it was some admiral guy." Then it was haha posting drunk memes at 4am about how war crimes are fun and funny to show how not sorry he is. And now that a bunch of experts are like, no actually that IS a crime and it's REAL BAD, like IT'S SO BAD, it's "I didn't see any survivors in the boat we bombed for allegedly maybe having some drugs on board allegedly."

That Petey is SUCH a tough guy.

[gostaks]

fiction is weird because, like, most of the violence is a metaphor. Y’know, most people most of the time are not going around cutting people in half with a sword or blowing up entire planets or what have you—we just map those things onto the everyday, less bloody conflicts we have in our real lives.

But then, like, people talk about fiction and they don’t bother to point out constantly that the violence is a metaphor so if your ‘violence is a metaphor’ switch is a little bit sticky and you hang out in the right fandoms it’s like ‘I love watching 12 year olds commit murder!’ and yeah sure it actually means something like: ‘I love imagining that I, at age 12, had agency in my own life and was capable of solving my seemingly-insoluble problems’ but, like, is it? is it really? am I 110% certain that I’m hanging out with people who also believe that 12 year olds should generally not commit murder?

[tabitha1917]

Translation: The police killed her with chemical weapons

[revolutionaryeye]

(via 'You strike a woman, you strike a rock')

[revolutionaryeye]

Togo protesters defy police brutality in fight to topple regime

Mass demonstrations for democratic rights have swept across Togo in recent weeks. They are demanding an end to president Faure Gnassingbe’s regime.

He and his father have ruled the West African country for half a century.

Chanting “50 years is too long”, thousands of people protested in the capital Lome and other towns on Saturday 19 August. The initial protests were called by the newly-formed Panafrican National Party (PNP).

Farida Nabourema, a democracy activist who was on the protests, spoke to Socialist Worker. “I think this is a turning point for Togo,” she said. “For all the years that I’ve been an activist, I’ve never seen people so determined and fearless.

“We’ve had protests before, but this time we can see the government feeling the pressure.

“The government had to organise its own protest to show it has support, this is something we haven’t seen before.”

Protesters’ main demand is to bring back the 1992 constitution, which guarantees some democratic rights and imposes a two term limit on the president. Farida said, “This is the only constitution that’s been voted on by the people.

“The president managed to....

Read on:- https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/45240/Togo+protesters+defy+police+brutality+in+fight+to+topple+regime

[revolutionaryeye]

Chevron Rejects Push From Muslim Shareholders to Divest from Myanmar, Site of Ethnic Cleansing

The world watches as the crisis continues in Myanmar, where the Muslim Rohingya minority faces barbaric acts of ethnic cleansing.

The international community is increasingly critical of leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s resistance to intervention.

But as the Nobel Laureate sits on her hands, a small Muslim-led investment firm led an effort to get a U.S. oil giant profiting from Myanmar’s fossil fuel wealth to divest in protest of the atrocities.

The Virginia-based Azzad Asset Management started engaging in shareholder activism in 2015, a rarity among Islamic finance firms.

Bashar Qasem, Azzad’s president and CEO, was moved to escalate his activism following the election of Donald Trump in 2016. He was the only Islamic finance executive to join a letter to the president from religious shareholders in Feburary 2016 to protest restrictions against immigrants from Muslim-majority countries...

Read on:- https://theintercept.com/2017/09/25/chevron-myanmar-divest-rohingya-ethnic-cleansing/https://theintercept.com/2017/09/25/chevron-myanmar-divest-rohingya-ethnic-cleansing/

[intelligentchristianlady]

Just a Thought

The president has authorized the extrajudicial murder of foreign-national civilians in international waters.

This would suggest that the president can also authorize the extrajudicial murder of foreign-national civilians in the US.

And the extrajudicial murder of civilian US citizens.

I bet Stephen Miller can come up with a way to murder a lot of them at once.

[small-scale-majestic]

Their son’s killing was caught on film like Tyre Nichols’ beating. They want answers

Former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Deputies Andrew Buen and Kyle Gould are charged in the June 2022 death of 22-year-old Christian Glass, S