These internment camps are a slippery slope regarding military presence in the country. The Governors will not send their National Guard.
If this happens the military better decide ahead of time what happens to those that make it outside the perimeter. Are they going to shoot unarmed people?
The reason the USA has Capture and Release is because it was the only reasonable answer to border crossers.
Shoot from the hip is not the answer. These policies and procedures were based out of legal studies.
Good luck.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Capture and No Release
I am pleased children are with parents, but, detaining the border crossers will result in fear. One has consider where and why these people left their homelands. They left because of fear and violence.
These people and their children have suffered when in their homeland and the hundreds if not thousands of miles they traveled to reach the US southern border. My concern is the communities that will grow and how they will organize and with what goals.
The detention facilities will be controlled by soldiers with guns to maintain the boundaries of the camp. That is what they left behind. There are going to be international observers demanding to inspect the facilities and speak to the people. This is not going to over well with allies.
A thousand to ten thousand people are small towns and cities. Towns and cities have police to keep order. There is going to have to be medical facilities. Then food distribution and cooking facilities and fire prevention and fire brigades.
I understand how the Tea Party has taken up the cause of people who have lost relatives and friends at the hand of border crossers, but, internment camps?
This isn’t going to stop the migration. If they are safe and provided for with timelines that could take years there are going to be plenty who will see that as a possibility to leave the violence behind.
I realize Capture and Release seems odd, but, it works well enough. I have a very bad feeling about all of this. There are going to be more people than soldiers. Well, I guess they have to behave in order to achieve sanctuary. Maybe that will create a culture of calm. Will the military be speaking their language?
I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. There is a lot to worry about.
These people and their children have suffered when in their homeland and the hundreds if not thousands of miles they traveled to reach the US southern border. My concern is the communities that will grow and how they will organize and with what goals.
The detention facilities will be controlled by soldiers with guns to maintain the boundaries of the camp. That is what they left behind. There are going to be international observers demanding to inspect the facilities and speak to the people. This is not going to over well with allies.
A thousand to ten thousand people are small towns and cities. Towns and cities have police to keep order. There is going to have to be medical facilities. Then food distribution and cooking facilities and fire prevention and fire brigades.
I understand how the Tea Party has taken up the cause of people who have lost relatives and friends at the hand of border crossers, but, internment camps?
This isn’t going to stop the migration. If they are safe and provided for with timelines that could take years there are going to be plenty who will see that as a possibility to leave the violence behind.
I realize Capture and Release seems odd, but, it works well enough. I have a very bad feeling about all of this. There are going to be more people than soldiers. Well, I guess they have to behave in order to achieve sanctuary. Maybe that will create a culture of calm. Will the military be speaking their language?
I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. There is a lot to worry about.
Dr. Mona uses words rarely stated, "The people, and the problems, and the populations that we choose not to see."
Dr. Mona attends book release event at the Flint Public Library (click here)
She says the title not only reflects what we can't see as far as lead in the water and symptoms of lead poisoning, but the way society often overlooks people and problems they don't want to see.
Appropriately she spoke at the Flint Public Library. But, she also made an appearance with Rachel Maddow who broke the story some time ago.
Dr. Mona's book can be found at most book stores or online at sites like Barnes and Noble, eBay or Amazon.
"What the Eyes Don't See: (click here) A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City"
By Mona Hanna-Attisha
Dr. Mona's book can be found at most book stores or online at sites like Barnes and Noble, eBay or Amazon.
"What the Eyes Don't See: (click here) A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City"
By Mona Hanna-Attisha
Prime Minister Netanyahu has gotten what he wants, violations by Assad of international standards he once agreed to.
February 6, 2018
Jerusalem (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (click here) paid a rare visit to the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, peering across the nearby border into Syria and warning Israel’s enemies not to “test” its resolve.
Netanyahu has been cautioning against any attempt by Iran to deepen its military foothold in Syria or construct missile factories in neighboring Lebanon.
Lebanon’s top three leaders accused Israel on Tuesday of threatening the stability of the border region between them amid rising tension over territorial and maritime boundaries....
He has been given the gift of war by Assad that Netanyahu wanted. The Prime Minister is hoping the USA is not far behind. He should measure his response to Assad, he might start a war he can't finish.
June 22, 2018
Beirut (Reuters) - Syrian government helicopters (click here) dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U.S. demands that President Bashar al-Assad halt the assault.
Assad has sworn to recapture the area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the army began ramping up an assault there this week, threatening a “de-escalation” zone agreed by the United States and Russia last year.
The United States on Thursday reiterated its demand that the zone be respected, warning Assad and his Russian allies of “serious repercussions” of violations. It accused Damascus of initiating air strikes, artillery and rocket attacks.
A big offensive risks a wider escalation that could draw the United States deeper into the war. The southwest is of strategic concern to U.S.-allied Israel, which has this year stepped up attacks on Iran-backed militia allied to Assad....
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) are not terrorists.
...Abu Bakr al-Hassan, spokesman for the rebel group Jaish al-Thawra, which fights under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), said the munitions had been dropped on three towns and villages, and that war planes had hit another.
“I believe (the bombardment) is testing two things: the steadfastness of the FSA fighters and the degree of U.S. commitment to the de-escalation agreement in the south,” he told Reuters.
Syrian state television said on Friday that army units had targeted “lairs and movements of terrorists” in the area....
Jerusalem (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (click here) paid a rare visit to the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, peering across the nearby border into Syria and warning Israel’s enemies not to “test” its resolve.
Netanyahu has been cautioning against any attempt by Iran to deepen its military foothold in Syria or construct missile factories in neighboring Lebanon.
Lebanon’s top three leaders accused Israel on Tuesday of threatening the stability of the border region between them amid rising tension over territorial and maritime boundaries....
He has been given the gift of war by Assad that Netanyahu wanted. The Prime Minister is hoping the USA is not far behind. He should measure his response to Assad, he might start a war he can't finish.
June 22, 2018
Beirut (Reuters) - Syrian government helicopters (click here) dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U.S. demands that President Bashar al-Assad halt the assault.
Assad has sworn to recapture the area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the army began ramping up an assault there this week, threatening a “de-escalation” zone agreed by the United States and Russia last year.
The United States on Thursday reiterated its demand that the zone be respected, warning Assad and his Russian allies of “serious repercussions” of violations. It accused Damascus of initiating air strikes, artillery and rocket attacks.
A big offensive risks a wider escalation that could draw the United States deeper into the war. The southwest is of strategic concern to U.S.-allied Israel, which has this year stepped up attacks on Iran-backed militia allied to Assad....
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) are not terrorists.
...Abu Bakr al-Hassan, spokesman for the rebel group Jaish al-Thawra, which fights under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), said the munitions had been dropped on three towns and villages, and that war planes had hit another.
“I believe (the bombardment) is testing two things: the steadfastness of the FSA fighters and the degree of U.S. commitment to the de-escalation agreement in the south,” he told Reuters.
Syrian state television said on Friday that army units had targeted “lairs and movements of terrorists” in the area....
Because it is a human rights violation and genocide, the state national guards have been pulled out and now the sheriff has gotten wind of the crime.
June 21, 2018
By Vanessa Romo
A Texas sheriff (click here) has barred his deputies from taking on additional work as off-duty security at a recently built tent encampment intended to house migrant children separated from their parents at the border.
El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles said he feared the assignment to oversee minors forcibly separated from their parents would fuel the current controversy over the practice and undermine trust between law enforcement and the people they serve.
"The Sheriff's Office will not be working at these facilities, as we don't support the current administration's position of separating children simply to discourage illegal immigration," he told Texas Monthly.
"Clearly, the outcry from the community would affect our ability to maintain the confidence and respect between the community we serve," Wiles told the El Paso Times. "It would impact our community policing efforts that we worked so many years to build."...
Ending crimes against humanity REQUIRES THE INDIVIDUAL to make a conscience decision to enforce morality. I feel bad for many of the Border Patrol officers that have no choice to carry out the crime. They would have to leave their jobs and/or simply go back to patrolling the border and reinstituting "Catch and Release."
The Border Patrol has had no formal training in recognizing human rights abuse of USA authority, how to handle such instances and who to turn to mitigate the wrongful authority.
THIS REASON ALONE is why government employees; local, state or federal are represented by organized labor. The union leaders should have received all this information and passed it on to their members and staged a "job action" which would return the US southern border to ordinary authority in conducting their work. The union should have told their members they needed to report for work and carry out their jobs as they always have, but, refuse to conduct any separation of children from their parents.
My understanding, besides the children already in facilities, the US Border Patrol has returned to ordinary duties. Right now, the children need supervision and care until they are matched to their parents with DNA support.
By Vanessa Romo
A Texas sheriff (click here) has barred his deputies from taking on additional work as off-duty security at a recently built tent encampment intended to house migrant children separated from their parents at the border.
El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles said he feared the assignment to oversee minors forcibly separated from their parents would fuel the current controversy over the practice and undermine trust between law enforcement and the people they serve.
"The Sheriff's Office will not be working at these facilities, as we don't support the current administration's position of separating children simply to discourage illegal immigration," he told Texas Monthly.
"Clearly, the outcry from the community would affect our ability to maintain the confidence and respect between the community we serve," Wiles told the El Paso Times. "It would impact our community policing efforts that we worked so many years to build."...
Ending crimes against humanity REQUIRES THE INDIVIDUAL to make a conscience decision to enforce morality. I feel bad for many of the Border Patrol officers that have no choice to carry out the crime. They would have to leave their jobs and/or simply go back to patrolling the border and reinstituting "Catch and Release."
The Border Patrol has had no formal training in recognizing human rights abuse of USA authority, how to handle such instances and who to turn to mitigate the wrongful authority.
THIS REASON ALONE is why government employees; local, state or federal are represented by organized labor. The union leaders should have received all this information and passed it on to their members and staged a "job action" which would return the US southern border to ordinary authority in conducting their work. The union should have told their members they needed to report for work and carry out their jobs as they always have, but, refuse to conduct any separation of children from their parents.
My understanding, besides the children already in facilities, the US Border Patrol has returned to ordinary duties. Right now, the children need supervision and care until they are matched to their parents with DNA support.
The moral authority of the USA IS IT'S ROOTS.
In this video Robert Reich takes us back to the beginnings of the USA, George Washington. He states..."He had already become a moral rallying post...." The USA has a unique beginning in the world. Perhaps even more unique than other British colonies.
We founded ourselves out of colonies that had already accumulated wealth and power. The economy was not an issue for the American colonists and the higher esteemed values of freedom became the focus of people that felt as though they had outgrown the King. Colonists rallied around taxes as a cry for freedom. They knew economic success and wanted to keep the taxes that went to the King for themselves to improve their quality of lives within the colonies.
The USA is unique, BUT, if anyone wants to trash the idea of the USA being a moral leader, they need to be reminded of our heritage to exactly those standards. Greed is not moral. The one percent and the 0.1 percent are not moral. The one percent and the 0.1 percent, in actuality, is the return of the King.
Late President George Washington did not discriminate and never held religious bias.
Washington (click here) gives us little in his writings to indicate his personal religious beliefs. As noted by Franklin Steiner in "The Religious Beliefs Of Our Presidents" (1936), Washington commented on sermons only twice. In his writings, he never referred to "Jesus Christ." He attended church rarely, and did not take communion - though Martha did, requiring the family carriage to return back to the church to get her later.
When trying to arrange for workmen in 1784 at Mount Vernon, Washington made clear that he would accept "Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists." Washington wrote Lafayette in 1787, "Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception."...
At its very foundation, the USA has defined morality without leaning on religious beliefs or dogma. I find it very odd that "In God We Trust" appears on USA money and corporations are now considered citizens. I am confident George Washington would impeach every member of the Supreme Court with the "Citizen's United" decision.
Money has no moral authority. The way in which it is accumulated and spent definitely defines the moral authority that possesses it.
Jeffrey Williamson (retired Harvard economist) : In 1774, the top 1 percent of households got 9.3 percent of income. Compare that to America today, when the top 1 percent is bringing in about 20 percent of income. Nine percent, versus 20 percent. Wow.
It would appear the Tea Party political party (Donald Trump's political party) does not base it's dogma in the truth so much as what serves its own members best. There are no Working Poor that is a member of the Tea Party.
Clay Jenkinson, a historian and Jefferson impersonator. And he says the writer of the famous phrase -- "All men are created equal" -- thought a lot about income inequality. In a letter to a friend describng the 13 colonies, he wrote "The great mass of our population consists of laborers. The rich, being few and of moderate wealth..."
April 14, 2010 (2010 was the depth of the Republican tsunami after the Citizens' United decision of January 21, 2010. It was the first time million/billionaires saturated the media with ads to promote their personal/corporate interests)
By Kate Zernike and Megan Thee-Brenan
Tea Party (Koch Party) supporters (click here) are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45....
We founded ourselves out of colonies that had already accumulated wealth and power. The economy was not an issue for the American colonists and the higher esteemed values of freedom became the focus of people that felt as though they had outgrown the King. Colonists rallied around taxes as a cry for freedom. They knew economic success and wanted to keep the taxes that went to the King for themselves to improve their quality of lives within the colonies.
The USA is unique, BUT, if anyone wants to trash the idea of the USA being a moral leader, they need to be reminded of our heritage to exactly those standards. Greed is not moral. The one percent and the 0.1 percent are not moral. The one percent and the 0.1 percent, in actuality, is the return of the King.
Late President George Washington did not discriminate and never held religious bias.
Washington (click here) gives us little in his writings to indicate his personal religious beliefs. As noted by Franklin Steiner in "The Religious Beliefs Of Our Presidents" (1936), Washington commented on sermons only twice. In his writings, he never referred to "Jesus Christ." He attended church rarely, and did not take communion - though Martha did, requiring the family carriage to return back to the church to get her later.
When trying to arrange for workmen in 1784 at Mount Vernon, Washington made clear that he would accept "Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists." Washington wrote Lafayette in 1787, "Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception."...
At its very foundation, the USA has defined morality without leaning on religious beliefs or dogma. I find it very odd that "In God We Trust" appears on USA money and corporations are now considered citizens. I am confident George Washington would impeach every member of the Supreme Court with the "Citizen's United" decision.
Money has no moral authority. The way in which it is accumulated and spent definitely defines the moral authority that possesses it.
Jeffrey Williamson (retired Harvard economist) : In 1774, the top 1 percent of households got 9.3 percent of income. Compare that to America today, when the top 1 percent is bringing in about 20 percent of income. Nine percent, versus 20 percent. Wow.
It would appear the Tea Party political party (Donald Trump's political party) does not base it's dogma in the truth so much as what serves its own members best. There are no Working Poor that is a member of the Tea Party.
Clay Jenkinson, a historian and Jefferson impersonator. And he says the writer of the famous phrase -- "All men are created equal" -- thought a lot about income inequality. In a letter to a friend describng the 13 colonies, he wrote "The great mass of our population consists of laborers. The rich, being few and of moderate wealth..."
April 14, 2010 (2010 was the depth of the Republican tsunami after the Citizens' United decision of January 21, 2010. It was the first time million/billionaires saturated the media with ads to promote their personal/corporate interests)
By Kate Zernike and Megan Thee-Brenan
The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45....
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