(05-03-2025 01:08 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote: (05-03-2025 01:03 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: (05-03-2025 12:58 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote: I guess this is a fake one. Maduro never emptied his jail full of TdA, has never cooperated with TdA, has never had his government facilitate movement to the U.S. to take over parts of U.S. cities, wreak havoc, cause chaos through violent tactics in the US, etc. Yep, none of that ever happened. But if it did I wonder what that might look like or be called.
Cool. Emptying prisons means effective war.
Cool. Cooperating with bad folk is effective war.
If there was direct facilitation to 'take over US cities' -- then put it into evidence. easy peasy. But this Administration even lies about if planes have taken off, and refuses to answer questions about simple things like takeoff times.
Yeah -- Id say make the administration prove their point to a judge now.
I'm going TripleA you if you keep this up. I have no reason to continue to engage with you or debate you if you're going keep coming back with stupid **** like this that I DID NOT SAY. I never said it was war. I'm saying it is the "OR".
I've done all I can to demonstrate this to you within unclassified parameters. If you don't see or don't want to see then that's on you.
Yep I understand the OR. None of what you note above gets it into the definitions of war, invasion, or incursion relayed by the opinion --- let alone by a foreign nation or government.
Quote:It is in fact a predatory incursion overseen and facilitated by well document enemy and adversary to the United States. These are not day laborers that were just looking for a job or a better life. It was intentional and purposeful.
To the italicized, that is quite the conclusory thing you just made. Ill get back to that.
Does overseen ... by well document enemy and adversary to the United States get you to that historical definition of invasion or incursion? Nope.
Does facilitated by well document enemy and adversary to the United States get you to that historical definition of invasion or incursion? Nope.
Does These are not day laborers that were just looking for a job or a better life get you to that historical definition of invasion or incursion? Nope.
Does It was intentional and purposeful get you to the historical definition of invasion or incursion? Nope.
Under the historical framework and language and use of the language in statute, and in the statutory record as well -- yeah, these are all bad things. None of them, alone or in conjunction get to the conclusory statement you just made under that historical definitional analysis.
Quote:I've done all I can to demonstrate this to you within unclassified parameters. If you don't see or don't want to see then that's on you.
Maybe you should draft a memo to the lawyers handing the case to do that.
Based on the words of the Act, the caselaw of the Act, and the words in the Proclamation -- the government failed to make their case that the AEA applies.
I think the statutory record is clear, the Act deals with war, or warlike events. One Senator in the drafting process said he wanted to make sure than 'incursions related to major actions with organized troops or the equivalent of troops.'
Training a gang doesnt come fing close to that level. Not promoting or defending either the gangs, nor any Venezuelan responsibilities in coordination or such -- but there simply hasnt been a 'major action involving organized troops'. End of story.
If they are baddies (and I will even assume they are), there are other tools to get them. The AEA is reserved for events like, Pancho Villa's raid, Indian raids in the 1780s to 1850s, an invasion by foreign power troops without a declaration of war, and an actual declared war.
Not for loose facilitation like TdA, not for loosely affiliated cartel activities like the Juarez cartel being aided by the Mexican government in some loose manner, and all the other style of examples.
When you show that large action with organized units -- yeah, Ill be there. Not the jibber jabber lets stretch bad gangs that have some relationship to some foreign government like this Adiminstation is trying to tango and cha cha cha their way into.
Look, the AEA is a *tremendously* powerful act. It actually allows the ****** fing act of almost no oversight in its power. And no, Im dont want to let some tinpot authoritarian ******** who wants to control universities get anywhere near it -- unless he can show the large scale, direct action by organized troops operating for another country that the authors of the AEA intended that it be used on and for.
And nowhere near it for a bunch of shitbird gang members that can be addressed in literally a dozen of other ways under the law.