Tuesday, June 26, 2018

CONSENTRATION CAMPS



Concentration Camps – Is it Fascism yet?

This week’s most detestable Republican performance, initiated as theater by the Orange Irritant, has been the decision to become even more hateful, vicious and vindictive in the treatment of refugee migrants seeking asylum at our southern border. The leakage at our northern border is in a different direction and is handled quite humanely by Canada – and ignored by the Trump SS/IKL. The contrast is most instructive.

Dahlia Lithwick writing in Slate reveals how “The Trump administration is playing a game of choose your own facts, but every single version of this story ends with screaming children in cages.”

Ryan Devereaux writing in The Intercept Trump Aims to Dismantle Protections for Immigrant Kids… reports that the Trump administration’s Confederate AG is appealing an earlier judicial decree which restricted the time government could detain migrant children to 21 days. If overturned, future detention of children, with or without family, could be indefinite.

In their zeal to Make Amerika Great Again the Occupying Force, see My May post, has exhausted housing capacity of the corporate-for-profit collaborators and have begun to establish detention camps on military bases in Texas. The very definition of a consentration camp .

First they came for the Hatians. Then they came for the Mexicans, then the LGBTQ folks, then Hondurans, Guatemalans and Ecuadorans...but I thought I was safe – I’m very white and my grandmother on my father’s side was born somewhere in New Jersey – Oh shit, I’m a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, registered Green party, petitioned for Bernie, write snarky letters to the editor…

So, resist and revolt I must ‘cause it’s only a matter of time.

Wayne

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