Someone has eloquently written of man being the largest beast of the fauna: a brute that not only preys on other creatures, but also preys on his own on a massive scale. The images coming out of the United States bears grim testimony to that and nothing could ever be more shocking than children being kept in metal cages held together by chain links. Everyone has been to a zoo or has seen pictures of one and animals of the wild certainly enjoy more freedom in captivity than we are seeing children of immigrants enjoy in Texas and US borders. It is typical of Trump to blame every failure or disaster of his on enemies or Democrats, with references he can neither back with facts or his limited intelligence. So the notorious forced family separations are backed by a law with provenance in Democrats: a piece of statute he has failed miserably to mention. But apportioning blame here can be too easy. The buck stops on his table but we can beam brighter searchlights by turning the rays on his Attorney-General, Jeff Sessions, a dry-faced henchman who derive little thrills doing dirty jobs for his principal now and then and Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, a woman whose rugged face takes on a bit of menace when she puts on sunshades. The picture she is presenting to terrified children screaming for their mama might chill Medusa now. These two individuals are the principal architects of the horror playing loudly in warehouses, defunct supermarkets and plastic tent cities springing up in the hot deserts of Texas but of equal worry with their taste for terror is the denial and mendacity with which they seek to justify the evil in searing display. Sessions was quick to quote Roman 13 to justify his actions but Himmler and Goebbels could have quoted the same to support the insanity they were herding Jews into concentration camps to maintain order in Nazi Germany. There was no way Apostle Paul, who penned the missive to the Romans, could have been writing about an order in which screaming children are violently torn from their parents and thrown into steel cages. Indeed fanatics will not exist if some folks do not have some pious blood surging violently in their veins. It is instructive to note, however, that Sessions' fellow Methodists have roundly denounced his referrals. If anything, the situation at hand rather dovetails with King Herod's heinous order for the extermination of all male Jewish infants in Israel on learning of the birth of Jesus Christ, a king that would supplant him one day.
When his half-arsed scripture references are not serving him, both Sessions and Nielsen take refuge (no mischievous pun intended) in equally half-arsed, strident denials and semantics. The children detention centers were not Nazi concentration camps but Sessions did not say what they were exactly. Perhaps swanky New York apartments. Perhaps he did not read or heard the Boston Globe reports that children being seized from their parents were being taken away under the pretext they were going to be bathed, a line borrowed perfectly from the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camps. Nielsen was to later called the notorious zero-tolerance immigration policy an 'initiative' and not a 'policy'. After she had initially denied flatly reports that children of illegal immigrants were being forcibly separated from their families. This queen of semantics would later define the metal chain-link enclosures with concrete floors in which children were being held as 'shelters' and not 'cages' or 'dog kernels'.
Whatever they are, they are not alluring images.
Trump
Sessions
Nielsen
When his half-arsed scripture references are not serving him, both Sessions and Nielsen take refuge (no mischievous pun intended) in equally half-arsed, strident denials and semantics. The children detention centers were not Nazi concentration camps but Sessions did not say what they were exactly. Perhaps swanky New York apartments. Perhaps he did not read or heard the Boston Globe reports that children being seized from their parents were being taken away under the pretext they were going to be bathed, a line borrowed perfectly from the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camps. Nielsen was to later called the notorious zero-tolerance immigration policy an 'initiative' and not a 'policy'. After she had initially denied flatly reports that children of illegal immigrants were being forcibly separated from their families. This queen of semantics would later define the metal chain-link enclosures with concrete floors in which children were being held as 'shelters' and not 'cages' or 'dog kernels'.
Whatever they are, they are not alluring images.
Trump
Sessions
Nielsen
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