From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 7, 2026 at 7:52:33 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >> Jan 7, 2026 at 4:23:37 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Michael Kelly, professor with several sub specialties in international   
   >>> law, explained what was wrong with Maduro's capture in terms of   
   >>> international law. He was a guest on C-SPAN Washington Journal 1/7/2026.   
   >   
   >>> First, Trump was blowing up boats, claiming narco-terroris. That was   
   >>> war, not law enforcement. No evidence was preserved. No one was captured   
   >>> to be put on trial.   
   >   
   >>> If there's a war, then Maduro was a legitimate military target as he   
   >>> gives orders to the military.   
   >   
   >>> But... if Trump kills him in an act of war, then that means Trump   
   >>> recognized him as legitimate head of state.   
   >   
   >> Why? We kill a lot of enemy citizens during wars. Doesn't mean we believe   
   >> they're all heads of state.   
   >   
   >>> Capturing him and putting him on trial is a violation of international   
   >>> law.   
   >   
   >> Isn't that what they did with the Nazis at Nuremberg?   
   >   
   > He's saying specifically that a head of state is immune from prosecution   
   > by a foreign government.   
      
   He thinks that if the Allies had captured Hitler, that he wouldn't have been   
   on trial at Nuremberg also?   
      
   >  Killing him as an act of war is not a violatiom   
   > of international law. Putting him on trial is.   
   >   
   > It makes no sense.   
   >   
   > I've never studied what law Nazis were charged under.   
   >   
   >>> But now he gets American justice and might be acquitted!   
   >   
   >>> In other words, fair trial is a violation of international law. The   
   >>> professor implied that killing him as an act of war would not have   
   >>> violated international law.   
   >   
   >>> Frank, I have a sick headache.   
      
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