And Now THIS!!!

            Terrified children torn from their mothers’ arms after horrendous conditions, refugees who must then witness the land of their dreams behave even more cruelly as the mafias or poverty they escaped.  This is an Alfred Hitchcock nightmare as infants to toddlers, boys and girls are torn away with no certain future…an event which will haunt them, and us, for the rest of their lives, and impact their own children.  How dare we allow people paid by us to isolate a virtually caged child in a kennel and treated with no compassion…and all this because a parent was trying to bring their child to a land of opportunity…if this doesn’t shred whatever final faith I had in The United States ‘propaganda’ I’d been fed in school and citizenship teacher then I couldn’t imagine what it would be…and I’m afraid to envision it.

But, this is not the first time America has tried ethnic cleansing through brutal means from Chinese Railway Laborers, to imprisoning all Japanese people who had jobs and homes and families and lost everything just because of their original nationality.  All waves of migrations, whether through slavery, colonial wars, and overflow from European countries in times of famines, wars, or political discrimination were abused upon arrival  and spent a few generations as second class citizens.

            To survive as a nation we cannot afford a scapegoated ethnicity, especially one that has long standing connections to this continent than any of the Caucasian invasions since Plymouth.   These people carry far more genes from the arrival of humans in North America than any one of us.

            All this to come back to the hypocrisy of a Political Party and Religious Old Testament Values Evangelical Cult pretending they believe in family values, and justify this cruelty by saying the Bible says you have to respect the law…illegal crossing over that line…and you’re done for.   Well, guess what, Jesus was crucified because he wouldn’t obey Roman Law.   And Christianity was born because he arose to spread humane values.

             I’m not even a parent at 75, but my eyes constrict and tears want to flow, I I feel powerless to intervene, and I would be dead if I walked up to the officer and tore the child away back to her mother where she belonged, which is what any decent good Christian Good Samaritan would feel compelled to do…

            America set the Nuremberg Trials AFTER WWII to punish generals who followed orders and obeyed the law that LED TO inhumane ethnic discrimination and thus should have ‘stood up’.  Excuse me?  Where is the Nuremberg Trial of today to judge what should be their sentence for crimes against family values, compassion, and doing unto others as we would have them do to us.  I guess that will only be left to St. Peter to decide.