This is the logical conclusion of the neoliberal principle of expediency. It was most obvious when Trump said “it would be too expensive and take too long to give these people a trial” before he deported them. Legally that doesn’t mean you can deport people without a trial if it would take longer than you would like, but I might just be old fashioned too.

How did you arrive at that conclusion? Specifically the conclusion about what was on those boats.

This is the wrong approach imo. It doesn’t matter whether there were drugs on those boats or not (there were, those were obviously drug boats and there was much more cocaine on them than on a billionaire’s yacht) the problem here is the collapse of international law and the USA for the umpteenth time committing acts of aggression in foreign countries, trying to start a war. Even if the US grants itself power of World Police, there is a protocol for drug arrests and it is not blowing them out of the water. That is fascism, the logical conclusion of the neoliberal principle of expediency.

The same thought keeps occurring to me: “White America is just finding out that America is fascist.”

No outrage for the firehoses, the dogs… they think the Keystone pipeline protest was just a fluke.