[metadope]

Watching an innocent and beautiful American woman being shot in the face three times at point blank range in broad daylight by an agent of her own federal government while sitting in the cocoon of her car, in a confrontation that could easily have been avoided if the federal agents had simply waved her on through... this is more than "a domestic crime", as you put it.

You may forget that the US drone strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats are still an open question and an ongoing story. The video evidence is scant, the scandal is real, but we still don't know the details. Who were those fishermen, who will tell their stories? How we learn more about what was real?

The kidnapping of the Maduro couple is another act that is related and still developing. In both of these cases, the events are distant and nebulous, uncertain as to where they land on a spectrum of good and evil.

But this murder of an American citizen in a senseless act of violence by its government is felt deeply because it is immediate and well-documented, highly visible and tragic, with hardly any of the uncertainties that distance from those other events bring.

[SanjayMehta]

Why would you think that anyone outside of the US cares about what your regime does to you?

I'm pointing out - for the umpteenth time - the sheer hypocrisy of the West, and especially the US.

What your regime has been practising since 1945 outside of your borders has finally reached your own towns and cities, and frankly the only question I have is, what took so long?

[metadope]

I would expect humans to care about humans. Your judgment of hypocrisy is yours to own; you point out nothing but your own opinion.

You left umpteenth behind a long time ago; you find hypocrisy everywhere, no?

[SanjayMehta]

"A government that openly talks about invading other countries, threatens foreign leaders, and normalizes cross-border seizure or removal of heads of state is running the same play abroad that it runs at home: rule by fear. Outside the country, it is coercion dressed up as “security.” Inside the country, it is coercion dressed up as “law enforcement.”"

https://open.substack.com/pub/grumpychineseguy/p/americans-d...

[SanjayMehta]

So this link was posted by someone and flagged within seconds.

"American Samoa is the only U.S. state or territory where people are born without automatic citizenship, and without the right to vote in state, federal, and most local elections anywhere outside of American Samoa."

Hypocrisy, institutionalised.

https://boltsmag.org/prosecuted-for-voting-american-samoans-...