Is this what you Trump voters had in mind when you voted for this
megalomaniacal moron? If so, congratulations, you’re getting just what
you wanted, non-white humans being treated like animals; round up,
sorted, and herded like cattle set for the slaughterhouse. Not to
worry, the unskilled Guatemalan laborer isn’t going to be moving into
your corner office anytime soon, not even to empty your trash.
Little babies, and children being torn from their parents and put into
cages. That’s fucking lovely. Older kids having to take care of younger
kids, who are strangers to them. They’re showing more humanity than
this so-called first-world nation.
When former First Lady and soft-spoken, conservative Texan, Laura Bush
comes out of retirement to denounce this practice as “cruel and immoral”
and liken it to Japanese Americans being kept in internment camps
during WWII, you’ve got yourself a real moral conundrum. Even Melania
Trump has issued a statement deriding the practice. Who knew she would
be the modern-day Eleanor Roosevelt?
No cameras allowed when journalists toured the facility in Texas,
government issued video of the place, and Jeff Sessions citing the Bible
for reasons why these atrocities can be committed with clean
consciences. For fucks sake! This has devolved into a banana republic
faster than I cynically thought. Oh, and who pushed for this ridiculous
zero-tolerance policy? None other than Stephen “prematurely balding and
everyone is going to pay for it” Miller. He’s the Josef Goebbels of the
Trump administration, only without the sense of humor and good looks.
But what is the loftier moral question here, all derision aside? Should
children be made to pay for the so-called crimes of their parents?
These are innocent kids who are being irreparably scarred by this
heinous process. What kind of monstrous existence must these refugees be
fleeing if these inhumane “detention centers” (more like human puppy
mills), are the lesser of two evils? How fucked up is that? Because
according to the statistics, the number of immigrants trying to cross
the border is not slowing, so they are coming knowing this is what waits
for them.
Further, how would any of us feel if we had to have our children pay for
our high crimes and misdemeanors? Every time we drove having too much
to drink, took an illicit drug; hell, every time we jaywalked they were
met with another lash. What about our sins? How about every time we
told a lie, took a little extra for ourselves, or strayed from our
marital vows, they got a little electrical shock or were berated until
they cried. Would we stop the vices and habits that make us human?
Probably not.
These are people running from terrible situations of violence, poverty,
and famine. They can’t all be criminals, you know, just by law of
averages. But it seems rather piquantly ironic that this administration
has no trouble abusing children to the point of irreparable harm, where
they are more likely to turn crime or vice, in this creepy
self-fulfilling prophecy/human experiment. It seems to me, that the
Trump administration is setting out to create the situations they are
supposedly purporting to prevent by sowing these seeds of discontent.
I have to wonder if Trump voters feel at all responsible for his
policies? Ones he proudly touted from the podium during the campaign. I
wonder if they have fitful sleep, or think about their children being
ripped away from them for crossing imaginary lines? Were the tax breaks
for the rich worth all this? Do they just not care? Or can’t they see
it? Do they truly believe that every uncomfortable, disconcerting, or
terrible thing said about Trump and his administration is just “fake
news”? In an extreme and twisted group cognitive dissonance, manifesting
itself to save face? Or that he is somehow beyond reproach, like the
fat, toupeed second-coming of Christ?
Human rights abuses are the worst crime a country, government, or regime
can commit. This is far beyond bilking money from naive rubes enrolled
in Trump University, or selling cheap ties made in “Gina” while
decrying the loss of manufacturing jobs here in the U.S. This is even
several rungs below waging trade wars, propping up white supremacy,
sexually assaulting women, or palling around with ruthless dictators to
feel like a big man. This is really a bloodstain on our history. And
real human beings, many of them children, are literally suffering at the
hands of these heartless victors. Is this what you truly desired when
you chanted “Make America Great Again!”?
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