Crimes against humanity are being committed; they are already being condemned by international human rights agencies (including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, prompting Nikki Haley to withdraw from that body). Those who, as @NIGHT-GAUNT4 rightly notes, ignore the lessons of Nuremberg, run the risk of eventually being condemned for crimes against humanity.
“Just following orders” did not work in Nuremberg, and will not work to save the Trump child traffickers.
They’re now saying they have a problem because some of the parents have already been deported… Doesn’t that make them guilty of criminal child abduction?
Some will not admit that their ideology/philosophy is failing even when there is ample evidence of the failure for the world to see. American capitalism is currently finding that supply-side economics is just as incapable of being is savior as demand-side economics. China’s economy is much more robust and has used government owned business rather than privately owned for their growth. As inequity in China is decreasing and a middle class is growing the opposite is happening in the US and rather than correct the problem immigrants are becoming the scapegoats and free-market trade without tariffs — the foundation of supply-side ideology — is being blamed.
Criminal child abuse? Ask any loving Mom or Dad or Grandparent what their gut reaction to ripping families apart and caging children is and you’ll have your answer.
Tяump and his Republicans have been at it for 16 months now, and the bad lines have been drawn for all to see. There really is no need to debate or argue about what kind of people they are, or what they are doing to America.
We the People vastly outnumber them and their core supporters. Some of us even vote. Give it a try.
https://vote.gov
p.s.: Stopping Tяump doesn’t require us to agree on much of anything – other than electing reasonably moral public servants to restore our democracy. Vote now, argue later.
Personally, I’d like to see the people (of any party) who put ideology above family and country on the other side of the border. American citizen should be earned by a strong commitment to American values not mere birthright and irrational, divisive ideologies.
They know not what they do. Like it or not, we are a nation of immigrants. Whipping bigots into an anti-immigrant frenzy with this manufactured crisis can only work once.
Future attempts to demonize hard working new Americans will be tarred with the same white supremacist brush for all time. There is no immigration ‘crisis’ save for the one Tяump invented.
You don’t have to be a humanitarian, fruit grower, landscape company, or hotel magnate to see that we really do need new citizens if the American dream is to survive.
I worked 22 years for a company that made poor central decisions from the Ivory Tower, and then sold them down through levels of management with “just following directives.” It was near the end of my tenure that I learned the phrase “Nuremberg Defense.” And what a poor defense it is.
Gov. Inslee: Trump does not intend to reunite families Inslee says officials told his office that children might be placed in foster homes instead of being reunited with their parents.
Its gotten old. Its gotten tired. But I’m glad the MSM is still pumping this story.
The more people see it, the more of them who decide to research the issue.
And the more the MSM runs this foolishness, the more it fades into the background. Most folks have looked at the situation, made up their minds and are now starting to tune it out.
Trump campaign has now adopted the slogan ‘The Purge’ from a horror film. So appropriate. We heard yesterday of a 14 month old child, separated from his parents, not bathed for 85 days, covered with lice. Are we great again yet?
Today in Trump’s Prison Camps for Children: White House Ignores Their Cries
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey • Jun 19, 2018 at 11:45 am
Instead of being swayed by the cries of separated children and photos of their plight, the Trump administration is digging in their heels, and continue to blame anyone (read: especially Democrats) except the one person who created the policy and can stop it instantly: Donald Trump.
While Trump and Sessions definitely put this policy to work, the chief architect of the plan is White House hardliner Stephen Miller who is a virulent white nationalist and keeps a low profile while whispering his racist views in the president’s ear.
Only 27 percent of Americans support Trump’s child imprisonment policy (even Bill O’Reilly is against it). So guess who’s into this particularly cruel form of child abuse? REPUBLICANS by 55 percent.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
Didn’t work at the Nuremberg trials after the World War.
DD Wiz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Crimes against humanity are being committed; they are already being condemned by international human rights agencies (including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, prompting Nikki Haley to withdraw from that body). Those who, as @NIGHT-GAUNT4 rightly notes, ignore the lessons of Nuremberg, run the risk of eventually being condemned for crimes against humanity.
“Just following orders” did not work in Nuremberg, and will not work to save the Trump child traffickers.
Daeder almost 6 years ago
Heard it before. Horrible and depressing to hear it again in my own country!
kluless19 almost 6 years ago
They’re now saying they have a problem because some of the parents have already been deported… Doesn’t that make them guilty of criminal child abduction?
Motivemagus almost 6 years ago
@Dagnabbit: so you approve of separating children from parents and imprisoning them, you’re just defending ICE?
superposition almost 6 years ago
Some will not admit that their ideology/philosophy is failing even when there is ample evidence of the failure for the world to see. American capitalism is currently finding that supply-side economics is just as incapable of being is savior as demand-side economics. China’s economy is much more robust and has used government owned business rather than privately owned for their growth. As inequity in China is decreasing and a middle class is growing the opposite is happening in the US and rather than correct the problem immigrants are becoming the scapegoats and free-market trade without tariffs — the foundation of supply-side ideology — is being blamed.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 6 years ago
let’s see…I.C.E.: Immigration and Customs ENFORCEMENT. Hummm…anyone wanna take a whack at explaining to dag exactly what ENFORCEMENT means???
DaBoogadie almost 6 years ago
Dagnabbit, if not ICE, then who has the children? What agency?
jessie d. Premium Member almost 6 years ago
American “exceptionalism” aka caging children while Donnie does a rendezvous with the Russian weasel
Guy Fawkes almost 6 years ago
Criminal child abuse? Ask any loving Mom or Dad or Grandparent what their gut reaction to ripping families apart and caging children is and you’ll have your answer.
Tяump and his Republicans have been at it for 16 months now, and the bad lines have been drawn for all to see. There really is no need to debate or argue about what kind of people they are, or what they are doing to America.
We the People vastly outnumber them and their core supporters. Some of us even vote. Give it a try.
https://vote.gov
p.s.: Stopping Tяump doesn’t require us to agree on much of anything – other than electing reasonably moral public servants to restore our democracy. Vote now, argue later.
Kip W almost 6 years ago
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did to one of the least of these will be reflected in your year-end bonus.”
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 6 years ago
now, club them into submission
Ally2005 almost 6 years ago
Total ineptness and absence of empathy and human decency gives you Trump administration policy.
superposition almost 6 years ago
Personally, I’d like to see the people (of any party) who put ideology above family and country on the other side of the border. American citizen should be earned by a strong commitment to American values not mere birthright and irrational, divisive ideologies.
Guy Fawkes almost 6 years ago
They know not what they do. Like it or not, we are a nation of immigrants. Whipping bigots into an anti-immigrant frenzy with this manufactured crisis can only work once.
Future attempts to demonize hard working new Americans will be tarred with the same white supremacist brush for all time. There is no immigration ‘crisis’ save for the one Tяump invented.
You don’t have to be a humanitarian, fruit grower, landscape company, or hotel magnate to see that we really do need new citizens if the American dream is to survive.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx#Table%20of%20states%20w/ovr
Rabies65 almost 6 years ago
I worked 22 years for a company that made poor central decisions from the Ivory Tower, and then sold them down through levels of management with “just following directives.” It was near the end of my tenure that I learned the phrase “Nuremberg Defense.” And what a poor defense it is.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
The Republicans are complicit in Trump’s crimes.
Vote them out so that they can be prosecuted.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
At the sweltering soccer field ICE moved the mothers…so official wouldn’t hear their screams.
A defense contractor is running a clandestine illegal detention center for children in Phoenix.
Experts now rank the United States among the world’s ‘declining democracies’.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
This is what the gov of my state says;
Gov. Inslee: Trump does not intend to reunite families Inslee says officials told his office that children might be placed in foster homes instead of being reunited with their parents.
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gov-inslee-trump-does-not-intend-to-reunite-families-1271895107686
montessoriteacher almost 6 years ago
MAGA = MAKE ARYANS GULLIBLE AGAIN
montessoriteacher almost 6 years ago
Combover Caligula Trump is on his way to embarrass us again in a trip overseas. It appears they are definitely on to him in England.
Andylit Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Its gotten old. Its gotten tired. But I’m glad the MSM is still pumping this story.
The more people see it, the more of them who decide to research the issue.
And the more the MSM runs this foolishness, the more it fades into the background. Most folks have looked at the situation, made up their minds and are now starting to tune it out.
montessoriteacher almost 6 years ago
Trump campaign has now adopted the slogan ‘The Purge’ from a horror film. So appropriate. We heard yesterday of a 14 month old child, separated from his parents, not bathed for 85 days, covered with lice. Are we great again yet?
pamela welch Premium Member almost 6 years ago
The Hague is waiting for these beings that pass for human.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
Today in Trump’s Prison Camps for Children: White House Ignores Their Cries
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey • Jun 19, 2018 at 11:45 am
Instead of being swayed by the cries of separated children and photos of their plight, the Trump administration is digging in their heels, and continue to blame anyone (read: especially Democrats) except the one person who created the policy and can stop it instantly: Donald Trump.
While Trump and Sessions definitely put this policy to work, the chief architect of the plan is White House hardliner Stephen Miller who is a virulent white nationalist and keeps a low profile while whispering his racist views in the president’s ear.
Only 27 percent of Americans support Trump’s child imprisonment policy (even Bill O’Reilly is against it). So guess who’s into this particularly cruel form of child abuse? REPUBLICANS by 55 percent.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/19/27867816/today-in-trumps-prison-camps-for-children-white-house-ignores-their-cries