Entoraliten
Dec 6, 2025

ON HEGSETH, WHAT TO SAY

There is no war.

Call it what it is.

Felony murder.

WHAT TO DO

State charges to follow.

Recently, the citizens elected to helm the executive branch have been fond of “creating facts on the ground,” then telling the rest of the government to catch up. Time for us to do the same.

State murder charges for everyone, from Hegseth down. Trump left out just to make him squawk.

HOW SO?

A civilian Secretary of Defense who orders or enables the unlawful killing of a non-combatant in international waters may be prosecuted for homicide by the state in which he is domiciled, because a civilian federal official has no UCMJ shield and state homicide law applies fully to its own residents for murder - committed anywhere in the world.

Thus, if the Secretary is a resident of Idaho, Idaho may indict, extradite, and try him just as it would any resident who caused a death abroad, with federal Supremacy Clause protection unavailable because ordering the killing of innocents is never within lawful federal authority. This rule is supported by Skiriotes v. Florida, 313 U.S. 69 (1941), and Blackmer v. United States, 284 U.S. 421 (1932).

AND THE UNIFORMED OFFICERS?

Killing, or ordering the killing of, a non-threatening unarmed person unable to fight back is always unlawful under military, federal, and state law.

Accordingly, any uniformed military officer who commits or directs such an act anywhere may be prosecuted for homicide by the officer’s home state, because killing innocent people is a crime every state punishes when committed by its own residents, regardless of where in the world it occurs - and the UCMJ offers no shield for conduct that is unlawful in all circumstances. This authority is supported by Skiriotes v. Florida, 313 U.S. 69 (1941), and Blackmer v. United States, 284 U.S. 421 (1932).

IT’S INTERNATIONAL WATERS!

Under federal law, soldiers on U.S. vessels in international waters are fully subject to U.S. criminal statutes — including 18 U.S.C. §1111 (murder) — because U.S. jurisdiction follows American nationals aboard U.S. ships outside U.S. territory; this rule is formally defined as the Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction (18 U.S.C. §7).

A non-soldier on an American vessel in international waters is likewise fully subject to U.S. criminal statutes — including 18 U.S.C. §1111 (murder) — because federal jurisdiction attaches to U.S. nationals aboard U.S.-flag ships outside U.S. territory; this, too, operates through the Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction (18 U.S.C. §7), which extends ordinary federal homicide law to Americans on U.S. vessels beyond national waters.

I’M A FAMOUS SEC. DEF. TV STAR IN MY STATE OR A DECORATED GENERAL AND FAVORITE SON

Not any more. Killing unarmed people morally corrupts every American. That’s WHY it is illegal.

And we’ve designed the system to protect us from this very set of people who simply will to power. Looky here: under our federal system, no state may shelter a fugitive from another. Kinda clever sometimes, them framers, right? Once a valid charge and warrant issue, the receiving state must surrender the accused.

In sum, if your home state properly charges you and issues a valid warrant, you will be arrested wherever found and you will be extradited, as shown when billionaire financier Allen Stanford was seized in Virginia and delivered to Texas to face fraud charges — Puerto Rico v. Branstad, 483 U.S. 219 (1987).

I HEARD DE SANTIS REFUSED TO DO THAT TO (NATCH) PROTECT TRUMP

DeSantis publicly vowed that Florida would not “assist” in extraditing Trump, but the issue never reached a legal showdown because Trump voluntarily appeared in New York and no extradition request was ever issued; had New York actually demanded extradition, Florida would have been legally powerless to refuse under the Extradition Clause and Puerto Rico v. Branstad (1987), meaning that despite the rhetoric, a valid interstate warrant would still have resulted in arrest and extradition.

CONCLUSION

This ends the pretense: since there is no “war,” there is only felony murder committed against unarmed civilians.

Call it what it is.

Felony murder.

State charges must now follow. We’ll create our own facts on the ground.

Every participant — from Hegseth downward, with Trump strategically omitted just to make him howl — stands indictable where they reside because neither uniforms nor titles erase homicide statutes.

And no governor’s posturing will save them, because interstate extradition is mandatory and DeSantis’s bluff collapsed the moment Trump surrendered voluntarily, proving that a real warrant would have forced Florida to comply under Puerto Rico v. Branstad (1987).

BAND ON THE RUN - HOW IT TURNS OUT

Captive in your own state and on the run, you rotate between state highway motels and the cramped back seat of your car — your car, which becomes a rolling cell you keep promising to replace, then realizing you can’t, then obsessing over how you might, before accepting that every option only tightens the net.

You arrive at the homes of people who once toasted your promotions: an aunt who opens the door with terrified eyes; a cousin who whispers your name like a question; an old friend whose kids stare at you as if danger itself had knocked.

They give you a couch, a blanket, a hurried plate of food, but never the ease that used to greet you, and you leave before dawn because their faces make clear what no judge has yet said aloud — that the man who fired on the unarmed can’t stay under their roof.

By day you haunt chain restaurants, always the same type — bright menus, plastic booths, anonymity by design. You have cash, plenty of it, the residue of a career that once made you a minor state legend, a favorite son whose return home once drew smiles without effort. Now unshaven in a corner booth, slovenliness like a disguise, only to fear the next second maybe it’s like a beacon.

You pay in cash, tip too much, ache for nothing more than a waitress’s passing smile, the casual warmth that once came to you naturally, as a birthright almost. But none of it comes. Instead, fragments of yourself in the window’s reflection — the man who once pointed to that very code and called it a higher moral calling. You watch that man flicker and disappear, again and again. And for what? All for a moment in the toxic sunlight of a decaying autocrat.