Editor’s Note: One of the common disinformation being spread in the controversy over Trump’s road to war in Venezuela is the notion of “non judicial killings” of “private citizens” on the high seas.
However, the use of military force by sovereign powers against any and all kinds of immoral, illegal, or contraband activities is a certain and clear application of the natural right of self-defense, even if, according to the laws of the United States or any other existing positive laws, it is not considered as such. The deceptive error in these assertions would condemn every natural or Christian Kingdom and Sovereign Power in history, and, indeed, that is the purpose of the lie, even if those using it do not understand that.
In addition, grave necessity can be a just cause to impose the death penalty, not only in judicial procedures, but also in police actions, when civil or public disorders become so great that they must be immediately suppressed. To deny that would open the door of easy success to nefarious revolutionary movements everywhere.
Moreover, the military forces of every sovereign power already have the natural right to engage in extra-judicial killings, since the category of warfare or military operations is extra-judicial by nature. The notion that only the judicial authorities of a sovereign state have the authority to put anyone to death, or use capital penalties, is an invention of Enlightenment Thinkers who wanted to separate the three powers of kings into three separate institutions in a representative government: executive, judicial and legislative.
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“Moreover, the military forces of every sovereign power already have the natural right to engage in extra-judicial killings, since the category of warfare or military operations is extra-judicial by nature. ”
Suredly i am missing something, but not sure exactly what point it is, because this would seem to make the Czeka a legitimate force within the Soviet union once it had been established? I can’t imagine it as such, but maybe it is by the quoted text.
Short history of the Czeka. 11 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3O42DiN3Aw
You cannot take a principle and then use it to justify every application. There are moral principles which govern application.