President Trump orders attack on Venezuelan drug runners at sea

Oh really.. show us
Posted here, previously.
You probably missed it because you were too busy being wrong.

14 U.S.C. § 522 explicitly authorizes the use of all necessary force to compel compliance
https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-14-coast-guard/14-usc-sect-522/
(a)(1) Whenever any vessel liable to seizure or examination does not stop on being ordered to do so or on being pursued by an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft which has displayed the ensign, pennant, or other identifying insignia prescribed for an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft, the individual in command or in charge of the authorized vessel or authorized aircraft may, subject to paragraph (2), fire at or into the vessel which does not stop.:
 
Posted here, previously.
You probably missed it because you were too busy being wrong.

14 U.S.C. § 522 explicitly authorizes the use of all necessary force to compel compliance
https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-14-coast-guard/14-usc-sect-522/
(a)(1) Whenever any vessel liable to seizure or examination does not stop on being ordered to do so or on being pursued by an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft which has displayed the ensign, pennant, or other identifying insignia prescribed for an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft, the individual in command or in charge of the authorized vessel or authorized aircraft may, subject to paragraph (2), fire at or into the vessel which does not stop.:
Read that again. You seem to have missed most of it
 
There is no due process in a pursuit situation.
Due process doesn't come into effect until you are apprehended.

You may not like the fact Congress created a law with authorizes our forces to engage a craft which refuses to heave to as a means to stop it - but they did.
Where was the request to heave to?

I guess I missed that
 
It's amazing the ease with which you identify a legal rationale when the regime's lawyers struggle with it. A good first step here would be for the regime to prove the people who were killed were who the regime said they were and doing what the regime claims they were doing.
I didnt identify it. I read about it.
They should certainly be transparent about it.
 
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