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2. Brutal. Cruel. Unpardonable.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 10:43 AM
Aug 2019

This is a horrendous nightmare unfolding day by day. What can you call a country that stoops this low and persecutes people like that? Well, it may be time to peel off the veneer about this country and its now defunct values about justice, liberty, etc. The imprisonment is one thing, but the foul treatment and neglect are deplorable, uncivilized and cruel.

It smacks of Gitmo and we now hear that the term of "detention" may become indefinite, and I take that as a very ominous sign that portends a deeper and darker descent into a Fascist state of tyranny. It begs the question, who else might be subjected to this if it continues?

I don't go for newspeak. Nope. I don't buy it. Regardless of whether anyone wants to quibble about definitions in this situation.

When I read words like "detainee" and "detention center" they sound soft and more acceptable. When I read them it is, "prisoner" and "concentration camp". We have adults and children that are being imprisoned and are subjected to something approaching gulag conditions and that's not acceptable at all.

And now, the Trump Epidemic is underway as the camps become vectors for the spread of diseases that can then spread to the general population.

Debacle is to soft a word for this travesty.

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