Here we go again. It was not so long ago that we were all horrified at the sight of children, even infants, locked up in cages, freezing, deprived of not only medical care and education as required by law, but also suffering from the cold, without proper clothing, beds and blankets, going hungry for lack of proper nutrition with children being asked to take care of those younger than them, strangers, even infants!
The Border Patrol, Homeland Security and ICE tried to hide these new concentration camps for children, those ripped from their parents' arms, literally, left to live in terror, to die from illness, and then get lost in the system as they were shipped and trucked for hours in the dark of night to distant locations far from parents and anxious relatives waiting to claim them.
We, America, the United States of America, did this. Oh, they tried to hide it, but could not and as the news spread, the outrage grew. Adding to the miseries and the horror was the fact that Americans, neighbors, were able to live with this, to terrorize and mistreat children, to encage them as wild animals, to treat them as vermin. Our neighbors!
So do not be so quick to say this could never happen here. Evidently it can - and did - as they "followed orders". So did the Nazis who shoved Jews into the gas chambers, who wacked the heads of children on sidewalks, who caught infants on their bayonets, who crammed Gypsies, gay people, opponents of Hitler to their deaths in those gas chambers too. Following orders. What a horrid echo of the past. What a gruesome present we have designed.
So we all screamed, cried, some with crocodile tears, and we thought the problem was mostly resolved, with better conditions, some education activities, but really? No, not really. Now we find that the ICE contingency is warehousing kids who are without adults, in hotel rooms. Yep ! Hotel rooms. No one is there to supervise and see that the children are getting the proper treatment mandated by law.
Going hungry in a hotel room is no different than being starved in a cage. Going unsupervised with children left to live their own Lord of the Flies, is not the American way. No - this is all wrong. So wrong! And where do they send these kids? They dump them - DUMP - them over the border or send them back to impulsively chosen countries in Central America.
Where are the parents? Are they notified? No, for ICE could care less. This is the same dumping of humans that the Germans did as they revoked citizenship of Jews and sent them to starve and die of exposure. The hotels are members of huge national chains and they claim they have guidelines. Guidelines for maltreatment of children with little brown bodies? Mistreatment of little and larger children bereft of parents and guardians. Mistreatment of infants who have no clue as to who they are, their names, their parents, nothing - and what happens to them? Are these children who are abandoned then stolen into human trafficking? And that would be our fault, our guilt, our complicity.
Personally, I will never check into another room of these hotel chains and you would be surprised - or not - as you read of which chains they are. Shame on them. They are as bad as the German factories and farms that used slave laborers in the war and claimed not to notice how skeletal they were, how they froze in winter, how starved they were, how ill. No, we cannot shut our eyes to this. Never. Never.
J'accuse! J'accuse every single American who knows of this and does nothing. This is beyond even the blatant attempts to destroy our democracy, undermining its supports and foundations. This is about humanity. We have people who protest the treatment of animals yet do nothing for these kids, these what - future criminals, according to the biggest criminal of all - Trump!
God Almighty, people. We must stop this - for good, forever. We must punish whoever took part, who designed these plans, who okayed them - right to the top of this filthy chain.
J'accuse! J'ACCUSE!!This horror must stop.
We must all vote against the perpetrators of these deeds, their bosses, their philosophy. Understand that. Feel that. It is not so far from these victims to ourselves. Do not try to fool yourself into thinking otherwise.
Dear Lord, this must stop! Now!
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