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Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 12:12 AM Jun 2018

Mattis re: "temporary camps":

NEWS: On plane to Alaska, #SecDef Mattis says DHS has asked DoD
"to build temporary camps on two of our bases" to house migrants. He
would not say which bases. "We are in a logistics support response mode."

HHS officials have recently toured 4 US military bases in TX and AR.
7:46 PM · Jun 24, 2018




(Elizabeth McLau - ABC News Pentagon Reporter)

shit




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Mattis re: "temporary camps": (Original Post) Leghorn21 Jun 2018 OP
You do mean Interment Camps ? Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #1
People are using the term concentration camps because they meet the definition of one. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #5
When Mattis referred the Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #7
British did it to the Boers, we did it to the Filipinos, dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #9
Mattis says "logistics support response" gratuitous Jun 2018 #2
I hear a complicit military ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #3
Mattis could defy orders ...on the basis of torture and child abuse RestoreAmerica2020 Jun 2018 #4
How does Mattis look at himself in the mirror or sleep at night... chillfactor Jun 2018 #6
Mattis is in a sub-negative response mode. Orsino Jun 2018 #8

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
5. People are using the term concentration camps because they meet the definition of one.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:28 AM
Jun 2018

which is why I wrote my sig line in response to this horrific development in Trump's presi-duncy.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. When Mattis referred the
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:09 PM
Jun 2018

building of Camps on Military Bases(they are also know as a Reservation),as Concentration Camps similiar to what the Military did when the Vietnamese came to the US. Wow,insensitive cold hearted Ass Holes.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
9. British did it to the Boers, we did it to the Filipinos,
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:43 PM
Jun 2018

we did it to American Indians, in various forms. Stealing kids young enough to be "converted" was popular. In the Philippines our military shot every male over 10 and forced the younger kids to live in camps, attend American school there, dress like Americans,. etc. Many were then trained as local, pro-American soldiers to fight against the native rebels, many of whom were of course their relatives.
Filipinos were tortured, waterboarding was common. This was early 1900's.

almost seems like a genetic trait.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Mattis says "logistics support response"
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 12:39 AM
Jun 2018

And I hear the ghost of IG Farben management counting their profits from Zyklon B.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. I hear a complicit military
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 12:46 AM
Jun 2018

I hear an asshole who has given up and bowed down to his Orange Holiness. It won't be long before he will plead in court "But I was just following orders".

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,439 posts)
4. Mattis could defy orders ...on the basis of torture and child abuse
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 12:54 AM
Jun 2018

...is against the law, violated the constitution, a crime against humanity; his conscience.

He could resign stating he will not be a party to housing children separated from their parents, or family internment camps. Moral leadership is what is seriously lacking...what will the next order that Mattis will follow blindly... child labor camps, or worse abuse or maybe even death of children.

chillfactor

(7,584 posts)
6. How does Mattis look at himself in the mirror or sleep at night...
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:38 AM
Jun 2018

he must see the devil when he looks in the mirror...…..and must take a ton of sleeping pills to sleep. The military is suppose to be composed of our "finest, strongest" men...they have become instead a bunch of wimps. No courage, no heart, no soul, no conscience.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
8. Mattis is in a sub-negative response mode.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:30 PM
Jun 2018

He is busy with cranial-sand implantation, and at the moment dealing with saffro-abdominalization.

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