History Has Taught Us That Concentration Camps Should Be Liberated. We Can't Wait Until 2020.

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It’s not an accident. These systems are cruel by design.
Over the past year, seven children have died in U.S. immigration custody or shortly after being released. These deaths occurred after 10 years during which not a single child died. Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, told The Atlantic that the stench in some detention facilities is so horrible that it was hard for her to even have a focused conversation with the children. Babies didn’t have diapers. Young kids were forced to care for infants who they didn’t even know. Clothes were covered in snot and excrement. Baby bottles were used without being properly cleaned and sterilized. All of these conditions have created environments where sicknesses and diseases spread like wildfire. In one facility, lice spread from child to child, and when the children were forced to share “lice combs,” and one somehow got lost, dozens of kids were punished by having their bedding removed. They had to sleep on the cold concrete floor.

This is why we say that cruelty is the point. It’s not an accident. These systems are cruel by design. The idea is to make it miserable to deter people from coming to the U.S. These detention centers are reckless and dangerous.

As many have pointed out, we need to remember exactly how and why the teenage diarist Anne Frank actually died. She was not gassed to death in a Nazi death camp. Instead, she died of neglect, malnutrition, and disease. It’s believed that she and her sister Margot contracted and died from typhus. In December 1944, a minor miracle occurred when Nanette Blitz, a lifelong childhood friend and classmate of Anne’s, was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen camp where the Frank sisters were being held.

“She was no more than a skeleton by then,” Blitz recalled. “She was wrapped in a blanket; she couldn’t bear to wear her clothes anymore because they were crawling with lice.” Guess what? Lice are the primary carriers of typhus. That’s how the disease spread.

And right now, today, we have prison camps across the United States where the same thing is happening. Multiple reports state that emergency conditions are repeatedly ignored until they result in death. The adults and children in these camp aren’t accused of being a danger to society. They haven’t been charged with violent crimes. Yet they are clearly being punished in the most severe ways.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/29/concentration-camps-border-detention/

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1. Our system of government is broken in that it cannot override the acts of the kremlin/GOP

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3. Hold our beer

while we show you it can be stopped.

[I M Charlie]

2. Are you talking about Donald Anti-Christ Trump

Please use this name when talking about him because it is his real name. Maybe some of his supporters will recognize who he really is. Other names will do nothing to hurt him but this name might. Thank you

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4. Welcome to D.U.

Words have no effect on an autocrat.

Action does.

[I M Charlie]

5. I want to wake up some of his "Christian" supporters

Nothing will affect this man who has made a deal with the devil. How do you think everything could have fallen in place so that he was elected? Think about it.

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6. Russia

had a lot to do with it.