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The day has arrived. Trump has begun ORDERING the DEATHS of CHILDREN!! (Original Post) ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 OP
Just as dead as if they gassed them Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #1
You have been right all along, Johnny. ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #3
We are the Good Germans, now. CrispyQ Aug 2019 #13
Jeez, you're right. ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #14
I completely agree with you. smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #20
the international community bdamomma Aug 2019 #2
Americans should be hitting the streets - ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #4
yes, we need mass mobilization bdamomma Aug 2019 #6
Somehow treason and causing the death of children ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #11
We, the American People, lapfog_1 Aug 2019 #5
Canada is more compassionate bdamomma Aug 2019 #7
He's the type of ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #12
Excellent suggestion! ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #9
I've been wondering where all the children have disappeared to. kskiska Aug 2019 #8
Nor would I. ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #10
Remember when this all started bdamomma Aug 2019 #15
I wouldn't put ANYTHING past this gang of shameless criminals. ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #17
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2019 #16
The nightmare keeps getting worse and worse lunamagica Aug 2019 #18
Shameless kick ElementaryPenguin Aug 2019 #19

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
1. Just as dead as if they gassed them
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 10:51 AM
Aug 2019

I've caught a lot of crap on DU for suggesting that the concentration camps for migrants are not much different than the ones in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. Been screamed at, "But they aren't exterminating people." My response has always been, "how do you know what is being done? Tens of thousands of migrants are unaccounted for."

Whenever in history a leader has demonized and dehumanized a group of people who are then imprisoned in secret, atrocities have happened. Without exception. Trump has told his Border Patrol that immigrants need to be punished and suffer, he has told them that these immigrants are "animals" and "not even human." He's been clear that they need to be treated in the harshest ways. Our own members of Congress can't even get to see most of these detention centers, we have no idea what the conditions are like in the worst places.

It is not a matter of if, but of when mass graves are found. History doesn't have a single example of what is happening where atrocities didn't occur under these conditions with a leader calling for harsh and inhumane treatment. So whether it will be found that that a rogue group of guards took a group of migrants into the desert and executed and buried them or that it was more systemic than that. Mark my words, there are mass graves right now filled with innocent immigrants.

CrispyQ

(36,464 posts)
13. We are the Good Germans, now.
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 11:27 AM
Aug 2019

It makes me sick, but it's true. We didn't even have a march for the kids. Three marches for women, one for the scientists, & zero for kids in cages. Not that I think a march would change anything. And I don't know what to do. I don't have the resources or support network to travel to the border or to DC, & protest for a week, much less for weeks on end. Not many people do. So I'm stuck writing & calling my members of congress, a mostly broken institution at this point. It's certainly not capable of stopping this nightmare.

I'm sick about this whole mess & can't believe our only solution is to wait until November 2020 & hope the GOP doesn't lie, cheat, & steal another term for this destructive inhumane piece of shit.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
20. I completely agree with you.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 01:00 PM
Aug 2019

And he's only 2 1/2 years into his first term. I guarantee that if he is given a second term we will look very much like Nazi Germany did at the end.

He is hateful, evil, vengeful and completely immoral. He has already shown that he has no regard for the law. There is no telling to what lengths he will go to eliminate his perceived enemies and those that he believes are inferior.

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)
2. the international community
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 10:51 AM
Aug 2019

must call this regime what it is a crime against humanity. We need to call it a crime of humanity. This is Stephen Miller, fuck him.

ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
11. Somehow treason and causing the death of children
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 11:04 AM
Aug 2019

Has become a PARTISAN issue (as has saving democracy in America).

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
5. We, the American People,
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 10:57 AM
Aug 2019

should appeal to Europe and Japan to take these medical refugees and create a gofundme account for each and everyone of them. This would be a good time for Tom Steyer to head up this effort to prevent the unnecessary deaths of these children.

I'll donate.

We are not monsters like Trump and Miller.

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)
7. Canada is more compassionate
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 10:59 AM
Aug 2019

we are sitting ducks for this regime, who is next??? us??? tRump is an animal.

ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
12. He's the type of
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 11:07 AM
Aug 2019

Inhuman, utterly compassionless being that Hitler was.

There are few to compare him to.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
8. I've been wondering where all the children have disappeared to.
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 11:02 AM
Aug 2019

I wouldn't put it past him to "dispose" of them.

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)
15. Remember when this all started
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 01:43 PM
Aug 2019

everyone was asking where are the girls?? you think now what happened to them human trafficking possibility.

ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
17. I wouldn't put ANYTHING past this gang of shameless criminals.
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 02:51 PM
Aug 2019

You CAN'T overreact to this actions of these disgusting hoodlums!

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