Murders On The High Seas

By Lucius Gantt

       President Donald Trump loves to attack Hispanics. He hits them with verbal attacks, calling them rapists

and killers, and he is now literally attacking Venezuelan fishermen in international waters and falsely accusing

row boats of being drug delivery vessels.

        Trump, a convicted felon with a criminal history rap sheet, feels, as President, he can commit any killings or

crimes he desires because America’s ultra-conservative Supreme Court justices have ruled, he has total immunity,

and can loot and kill anyone anytime he wants to.

         My question is, why aren’t people with Spanish ancestry more angry than they seem to be?

         Venezuela is not a major drug producer or drug seller. There are more drugs on luxury yachts and high-end

 cruise ships than on Venezuelan fishing boats.

          I pray that Hispanics realize they were lied to in the 2024 election messages to Latino Americans and now they

 are being lied about.

          Under Trump, killing is a priority. The President is afraid to confront Russia or China militarily, but he is quick

 to attack unarmed fishing vessels in the Caribbean Sea, far away from America, and claim the fishermen were huge

 drug traffickers.

           Why aren’t members of the United States Congress demanding proof that all of the illicit drugs in the United

States are being delivered by Pablo and Poncho in tiny boats that are designed to transport tiny loads of tiny fish?

           Political cowards only strike people and countries that have little or no power to strike back. Perhaps Trump is

 using a “Gaza” strategy by waging a brutal war with high-tech weapons on defenseless people boats who only have a

 rowboat, a fishing pole, and a cup of earthworms.

            Trump is not the first US President to get involved in warfare when he anticipates the reality of being a politically

 “Lame Duck”. Conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq, and other countries were created by Presidential misinformation and fought by soldiers who had no desire to fight a so-called false enemy.

             My father served in a “Black military unit”. You might have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen. I didn’t learn about his military service until after his death because my dad hated the way he was treated.

             Daddy was an aircraft mechanic. He and other mechanics kept the raggedy planes flying that the pilots had to fly in

The beginning of their deployment. He never discussed his military service with me but I think he was angered because

White aircraft mechanics got jobs with commercial airlines after the war, but Black aircraft mechanics could hardly find minimum wage jobs after the war.

             Hispanic servicemen should also be angry. No serviceman of Hispanic ancestry should be happy about killing innocent fishermen! I hope Hispanic soldiers deployed to attack Pepe, Cisco, and other mullet or whiting fishermen are treated better than Black soldiers were treated by lying politicians. I hope Hispanics, once discharged, can get better jobs than cutting grass or raking leaves!

             Murder on the high seas must be discredited and curtailed. The Congress and the courts must stop the orange gringo from using the military to kill innocent Hispanic fishermen.