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The United States of America (formerly known as the Land of the Free) is running concentration camps. These camps are not housing terrorists or criminals who pose a threat to our nations security or the safety of its citizens; they are being used to imprison innocent children.
As though being separated from their parents isnt traumatizing enough, these children are living in filth and squalor. They are being denied every possible human comfort or necessity from bedding, to clean clothing, to diapers. They are being subjected to constant fear, and treatment that no animal lover would allow to befall a stray dog.
Now there is an outbreak of lice. How long before these children have their heads shaved to deal with the situation (sound familiar?) How long before they are tattooed with numbers to keep track of their whereabouts (sound familiar?) How long before theyre used for labour, because work sets you free ( sound familiar?) How long before they are subjected to medical experiments in order to pay for their keep (sound familiar?)
No, no, no surely it will never come to that. Thats what Hitlers supporters said as they watched their neighbours loaded into cattle cars. And thats what Trump supporters are saying now despite whats happening right before their eyes.
The justification for these concentration camps among the Trump faithful is that the parents of these children have broken the law which begs the question: What laws have these children broken to warrant imprisonment under inhumane conditions? By this reasoning, the children of criminals deserve to be punished.
If that be the case, why arent the children of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen in jail? Theyre both convicted criminals, so why are their kids not languishing in a cell somewhere filthy, lice-infested, cut off from any contact with their law-breaking parents?
Why arent the children of all convicted felons being suitably punished for the sins of their fathers? Why arent the offspring of rapists, drug dealers, and murderers not living in concentration camps alongside the children of migrants?
I think the answer is clear. The children of black and brown law breakers are different from their white counterparts, and thereby less worthy of even a modicum of humane treatment.
Again, that mindset should sound hauntingly familiar, and remind all of us how the children of Jews were also deemed less worthy than their blond, blue-eyed, Germanic-looking schoolmates.
If you are turning a blind eye to how innocent children are being treated, you are no different than the good Germans who denied the stench of crematoriums filling the air. If you are pretending that whats happening right now is somehow NOT happening, you are no different than the German citizens who insisted that concentration camps never existed, and were merely a myth conjured up by lying, thieving, less-than-human Jews.
If you condone the imprisonment and inhumane treatment of children babies, toddlers, kids too young to even understand what laws theyve allegedly broken and what threat they pose to our nation you are as despicable as the Nazi sympathizers who also condoned such behaviour.
So embrace it, wear it, own it. We know who the collaborators among us are and after Nazism was defeated, they didnt fare any better than you will. This might be the opportune time for those cheering the imprisonment of migrant children to check out the living conditions in Argentina.