Caribbean/Pacific - The War on Drugs Sacrifices the Nameless to a Mechanical Creed

Event Baseline: A five-month investigation identified 13 previously unnamed victims of US military boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, part of a campaign that has killed nearly 200 people. All identified victims came from extremely poor communities. The US had rarely identified its victims before attacking.

This is the ultimate dehumanization. The US military fires on boats based on suspicion, treating human beings as abstractions in a flawed equation. The 'self' of the state is so identified with the belief that drugs are an absolute evil that it sees no need to know the names of those it kills. They are not people; they are 'targets' in the 'war on drugs'. This is the thought-virus at its most lethal. The killing of poor fishermen and petty smugglers is a ritual sacrifice to the idol of prohibition. The state mind cannot compute that its own policies create the black market, and then it mechanically eliminates the participants without trial or evidence. The fragmentation is total: 'we' are righteous enforcers, 'they' are criminals. There is no shared meaning, no dialogue, only the firing of weapons into the void. The victims are flesh-and-blood, but the system sees only coordinates on a screen. Until the belief in prohibition is abandoned, this will continue. The state will keep killing because the program is designed to protect its own image of moral purity. The death of innocent people is an acceptable error rate. This is not a malfunction; it is the logical output of a mind that has divided the world into good and evil and lost all capacity for reflection. The collapse will come when the families of the dead finally pierce the armor of the state's self-righteousness, but by then, the ocean will be filled with unmarked graves.