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Welcome to this incendiary, shocking and investigative episode of Light ‘Em Up!

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Tonight, we examine the concept and legality of governmental extra-judicial killings — summarily executing people. Extrajudicial killing is the deliberate killing of a person without legal authority from a judicial process.

It is “extra” “judicial” … or outside the scope of the normal route where a person is arrested, charged and given a trial before a verdict is rendered.

In fact, as we go to air with this episode, the Trump administration has embarked on a deadly serious campaign of openly targeting and killing people who have only been clandestinely labeled as “drug smugglers” — within the administration’s small, secretive, circle without offering any hard evidence, nor extending to these people a single solitary ounce of due process of law.

At the time of recording, since the 1st of September, when President Trump announced the first strike on a boat he claimed – without providing evidence – killed 11 “Tren de Aragua narco-terrorists” under the control of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, through the end of October, the U.S. had claimed to have killed 64 alleged drug smugglers on 16 boats.

This situation is fluid and difficult to track, however, to date, since September 2, Donald Trump has summarily executed 70 civilians suspected of drug trafficking in 17 separate airstrikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.

The administration admitted in a closed-door briefing to Congress that they don’t even know the identities of the people they’ve killed. How in the hell is this possible? Congress has abdicated its power(s), duties and responsibilities to the public.

To support our claims — as evidence, we’ll provide historical examples of other governmental extra-judicial murderous actions.

And we ask the question has America under Trump become even more of a pariah on the world’s stage?

We’ll expose the risky behavior in how governmental extra-judicial killings trigger a cascade of destabilizing consequences across legal, political, social and psychological domains.

These effects can:

— erode democracy and democratic institutions

— inflict trauma on the populace

— and can perpetuate further cycles of deadly violence.

Two people who survived boat bombings were released back to their home countries because the Trump administration lacked sufficient evidence to even arrest them.

In the words of one member of Congress who attended the briefing, “This is just murder.”

We are shining the antiseptic light of the truth further exposing Trump’s illegal killing spree. Some analysts now believe Trump has tasked “his generals” with planning a full-scale regime change war against Venezuela.

So much for Trump’s campaign claim of never entering into endless wars.

Democracy is dying right in front of us.

Justice isn’t about laws … it’s about lives!

In a time of crisis — facts matter most!

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Welcome to this explosive, investigative, fact-finding edition of Light ‘Em Up!

We are incredibly pleased you decided to join us for one of our most comprehensive episodes to date!

Tonight, we shine the antiseptic light of the truth at the intersection of hate speech and the violence that stems from it.

While a great many people on the right strongly disagree with the truth, and struggle to accept it, the fact that the radical right is far more violent than the left is unwavering. Far-right attacks continue to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.

As a kid do you remember expressing the children’s rhyme that says, “Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can never hurt you?” While this is a nice thought — it isn‘t true. Words matter; words can hurt — words can lead to murder.

In the Holy Bible, the Book of Ephesians (4:29) advises: “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, which may benefit those who listen.”

We need only look to the country of Rwanda in 1994 and the genocide that took place there. Collectively and pejoratively, the Tutsis were referred to as “cockroaches”. Who acts neighborly or welcomes a cockroach into their home? Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days. (The Tutsi and Hutu are ethnic groups established primarily in Rwanda and Burundi.)

Evidence shows that the use of radio impacted and effected mobilization for violence in the Rwandan genocide.

For more than a decade we’ve been exposed to the hate filled vitriol of Donald Trump. The words he willingly and intentionally chooses are often filled with hate.

It is evident from his outward behavior; Donald Trump is not happy. Barack Obama haunts him in thought, word, and past deed.

Trump regularly refers to anyone who isn’t in his “in-group” as “the enemy of the people” … “animals” and “scum”, you name it.

His targets have been the press as a whole and individual journalists, immigrants, Blacks, LGBTQ+ people, Democrats, and whomever he chooses in the moment.

His third-grade vocabulary has no filter. His political party does nothing to hold him to account for his vile, hate-filled rhetoric, even opting to echo and use it often.

Rarely does he open his mouth without denigrating, dehumanizing, blaming, or accusing another person of doing something with no evidence.

In this explosive episode we will highlight:

— As a case study we’ll examine how hate speech can and does facilitate violence. From the genocide that took place in 1994 in Rwanda we offer a special feature in hearing from Henriette Mutegwaraba, survivor of the genocide and founder of the Million Lives Genocide relief fund.

— Multiple examples of the vile, hateful, and demagogic language that Donald Trump spews with regularity and comparing and contrasting his words with that of the Rwandan genocide.

And much, much more!

“The enemy of the people” are words Adolph Hitler used to describe the Jews before his “final solution” was put into effect which killed some 6 million people.

This is the language of insecure, fascist, racist, dictatorial demagogues, and it is extremely dangerous.

In his book entitled Behemoth, first published in 1942, Franz Neumann wrote that violence served to establish totalitarian control over German society.

Violence throughout the Third Reich was used as a rational instrument of political power.

Donald Trump’s administration does the same.

Democracy is dying right in front of us.

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