Trump Administration Murders Civilians to Justify use of Alien Enemies Act

On a scarlet-draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd. A little Rumpelstiltskin figure, contorted with hatred, he gripped the neck of the microphone with one hand while the other, enormous at the end of a bony arm, clawed the air menacingly above his head. His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first convinced and then maddened.

On September 2, 2025, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals published an opinion that the Trump administration could not use the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang and/or Venezulan citizens. The logic of the court was that a country cannot be at war with a gang, and that we are not at war with Venezula, so the government can't use the Alien Enemies Act to arbitrarily detain people.

So, what does the Trump administration do? It starts a military build up near Venezula and starts murdering civilians in international waters, trying to provoke a response to use as justification for an interpretation that we are at war with Tren de Aragua and/or Venezula. They have killed at least 21 civilians as of this writing.

And suddenly, the meeting which Trump and Hegseth held with military leaders on September 30th, 2025 makes sense. Trump is telling the military that they will be deployed in US cities and warning they that they will have to go along. The reason for that deployment could be the insurrection act or the AEA. Either way, Trump wants to send in the military to serve his sick fetishistic need for power and control.

By the time the AEA rehearing comes around in the 5h Circuit Court of Appeals, I bet the Trump administration argues we are at war with Tren de Aragua and/or Venezuala, and uses it's own murder of civilians as evidence of such a conflict.