‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishermen who survived US boat strike speak out

“Once the men were on the patrol boat, the US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer, Palacios said.” Heg’s turned to piracy to keep his buzz going.

That’s horrifying. Imagine just doing your job and suddenly being in a situation like that.

So it takes a promise of no consequences to turn to "oh so honorable" US navy into murderers and pirates ?

This alone should be enough justification to have the current administration removed and investigated and then jailed. The US no longer a viable country in my eyes.

How do you serve on a ship committing acts like this and not do something? I thought the military was supposed to be brave but honestly I think the members are some of the most cowardly pieces of shit in society. Prove me wrong. 

Trump rapes and kills kids. Let's not forget that.

hope this gets huge, not that i expect it would amount to anything

USA are terrorists, simple.

> The Don Maca, a 35-ton fishing vessel which worked with six smaller boats, was approximately 200 miles north-west of the Galápagos Islands, when it disappeared on 26 March. So they are blowing up boats in international waters, far from U.S. territory. How is that justified?

No accountability, just the criminal USA going about killing, bombing, shooting people.

The entire chain of command needs to be prosecuted for war crimes

None of this shit is about stopping illegal drugs. The US has the most powerful navy in the world and it would be a policy win to stop boats, search them and find drugs to back up what they doing. Instead they just drone strike and kill people. As usual the cruelty and instilling terror is the point. Wiping the crews phones to destroy evidence and being petty beer stealing thugs on the sea, wtf.

This will end poorly for the service members pressing the launch buttons. Upper management will roll the bus over them without a second thought.

Trump and his lackeys are international criminals.

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Indiscriminate bombings and killings by the Trump administration.

At least 178 murders since September. F****** america, man.

When they go after people for fishing but not for touching kids...

Yo, f*** these sailors who did this. What absolute pieces of shit. Want Americans to turn against the military? Well there you go. F***. I'm so disgusted.

The United States is most definitely not the good guys anymore.

Just awful. Glad they are alive. What is the US playing at?

F*** man...How many innocents did our military murder during these operations?

Innocents being terrified by a country, can we call it state-sponsored terrorism? Or terrorist state? The USA is a terrorist state.

This has been going on for months and I can’t understand why it doesn’t get media traction.

And Trump supporters will say they deserved it for “smuggling drugs”. The U.S is filled with terrorists.

that "we were terrified they were going to kill us" line and then having to actually speak to reporters about it afterward... I can't imagine having to relive that twice.

Americans being americans nothing new under the Sun. When you look at US history is just an endless cycle of wars. Look even deeper and nearly all of them are "choice wars". Their "closest ally" is Israel , what more do you need.

Yeah, that seems like another crime trump and his henchmen will never face accountability for. There are so many. MAGAs: we don't oppose this a****** because we hate you. We just oppose this a******. And, it looks to us like you support everything he does, because we hate everything he does, on its merits. Do you really think that's going to make American great? BTW, there are only about TEN MtF transexuals playing against about 500,000 girls and women in US school sports. One out of every 50,000 girls might lose to a transexual. That's the biggest reason most liberals don't much care about that issue. If affects next to nobody. As for the rest of the LGBTQN+ world, we mostly think it's not our business, what other people do in bed with consenting adults. We think our personal preferences shouldn't affect the freedom of other people. I guess that's some kind of communism.

I think we can stop using the term US intelligence.

This has been going on for Months and I can’t understand why it doesn’t get media traction.

So the GOP are real life religious extremist terrorists.

Shoot first then figure it out. Excellent plan.

Is he just trying to get a Caribbean government pissed at him so he can go make an attempt to take an island for the U.S ? Or…. Dare I say it, fo himself ?

Terrorism, don’t care if they were just following orders everyone who participated in this illegal act should be in jail. If they thought they were narcotics trafficking, how do you not realize what you’re being told to do is wrong when you are literally wiping footage? Then you sink their boat and strand them on some random spot on shore? Where were the drugs? If they were actually smuggling drugs, they would have been detained.

JFC. The US learned about "human safari" from the Russians and decided they wanted in on the action?

One of my brother in laws was a fishermen in Grenada.  He quit because of the drones he was seeing fly over head and the fear the US would blow him out of the water and say he was a drug dealer. 

Never thought we would reach the "fishing while brown" level of racism. 

And in the chaos of everything else that Trump and his cronies are doing, this will barely get any attention in the US. 

I’m kinda glad the government lets veterans rot.

So, do they sell tickets to war crimes tribunals, or... How does that all work?