Monday, June 18, 2018

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF ......

     Whose mouths does one believe? Does one believe the supposed leader of a free country who calls the media Fake News, calls it Sick in capital letters, who has caused a long time member of Fox to denounce the company, saying he is embarrassed to work for it when a Fox News character says  “always assume the opposite of what they’re telling you on the big news stations.”                                     
     That, my friends, is a challenge to the very structure of our country, a challenge to it, a tactic of all dictators throughout history who have tried to keep the truth away from the people, a tactic which is found memorialized in such classics as 1984 or Brave New World. So, whose mouth?
     When an almost perfect caricature of a southern sheriff tries to use a deadly high speed chase as an example of why the borders need walls and cameras and sensors and does not hear the echo of Iron Curtain countries, of East Berlin, of the horrific losses of life of heroes trying to leave these dictatorial countries?
     And where was the chase? Why in Texas, the same Texas where the government - our representative in this world - has opened a tent camp, yup, just like the refugee camps in the poorest of countries, a camp in the brutal heat, and for whom? For  teenage boys who dared to cross the border, who dared to try to find a better life for themselves, a life away from death threats, a life reunited with family or separated now from families as they dared to ask for asylum - NOT a crime, though that animal Trump calls it one.
     This egregious behavior, this brutality, this keeping of kids in cages - yes, cages! -or old empty box stores, of a no touch policy, so how does one comfort a little one crying for the mother or father, even as Ivanka or Junior take pictures of themselves with their children! Talk about rubbing salt in a wound. Where was Jared? Guess he was busy trying to firm up some more contacts within North Korea so he could anticipate prosperous business dealings. He has been doing this all along so why stop now?!
     So whose mouth? How about the thousands who are protesting this cage policy? How about the ex ethics chief who resigned due to the awful nature of the Trump regime - and yes, it is more and more a regime rather than an administration. He said, " Your problems are nothing compared to the problems you're creating for the terrified children you're ripping from the arms of desperate parents at the border. This is monstrous. Stop it. Stop it now!'  
     When challenged by Nielsen, the one in charge of this abomination, who defended this policy, he simplified it -  "Sorry, @SecNielsen, that was probably confusing. I don't mean to be unfair. Let me try to put it in terms you'll understand: Liar. Period,"                                  ".
     Need more mouths? Okay. How about Melania Trump. Yes, that disappeared First Lady has spoken via  a spokesperson and said, " "Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform, ... we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart."                             "
       Or how about Laura Bush, a model of a First Lady? "this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart."     And added, "Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history.
     Need more? How about Hillary?  
"Like so many others, I am horrified and heartbroken by what is happening to immigrant kids and families because of this administration’s disastrous policies. ... As a mother and a grandmother, it’s devastating to even imagine."
In a further tweet, Clinton wrote, "There is no more important test of our country than the way we treat the most vulnerable among us, especially children. We cannot turn away from what’s happening on our watch - we have to act."
Enough? Certainly we have had more than enough of this brutal policy. Best way to cure us now? For Trump to resign, plain and simple. He is unqualified, mentally deranged, emotionally short circuited, immoral and amoral, and destroying our country.  Let him go and take his cowardly and dastardly people with him.
      Mouths. Choose your own, edit your own. Listen to it and the truth it says - or does not. And then judge yourself in your inner soul according to your mouth.
     

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