🧩 BND Motif Index · M1293
Judge, jury and executioner
The state is said to kill suspects it could have arrested, a strike on a boat, a raid, a drone, so the accused get a death sentence without a charge or a trial.
- 2claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 The cartels are at war with us the answer: the war on the cartels answered as killing without trial
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Alex Pretti's parents accuse DOJ of withholding evidence in son's killing 2026-10-28 to 2026-10-29
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “extrajudicial killings” “He was effective at bombing fishing boats” “Stack those murders Pete” “why aren't we arresting & charging them, rather than handing out immediate death sentences?”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-10 “Pete Hegseth is accused of killing schoolchildren, bombing fishing boats, and waging unconstitutional kidnapping in Venezuela.” 2
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-28 “The U.S. military is killing people on suspected drug boats instead of arresting and charging them.”
M1293 · first seen 2026-10-29 · last 2026-11-10 · what this is · how the index works