American Tradition?
Relocation of native populations.
Reservations.
Relocation in times of war.
Internment.
Relocation of detainees.
Presidential orders bordering on inhumanity.
Concentration camps.
There is nothing time honored about any of this.
Internment of undesirables, from Native Americans to Japanese Americans, was wrong, but that doesn’t mean the tradition doesn’t continue in the United States, as seen in the continued incarceration of detainees, particularly children at the US southern border, under conditions that are unacceptable and, more importantly, inhumane.
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Indisputable and a national shame. When will the line be drawn in the sand?
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Hopefully when that man is gone.
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And hopefully, he will be gone soon.
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Well said Ken.
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Thank you, Sue.
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Most nations have done their fair share of locking up whole groups of ‘enemies’. We’re all still putting migrants in camps, refusing to let the rescue ships that have picked them out of the Mediterranean dock. No one is innocent. Doesn’t make it any better though.
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You’re right. It does not. It’s obscene.
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You don’t have to scratch very deep and most people don’t want immigrants camping in their neighbourhood.
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An excellent witness, Ken!
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Thanks, Frank. 🙂
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Yes, it is scary that in the USA, with all its pursuit of civil liberty, there are these internment camps This idea of internment or concentration camps, was started by the British authorities in South Africa. In order to stop the Boer commanders, and end the Anglo_Boer war(1898-1902) the British rounded up all people living on farms, and interned them in concentration camps, before destroying and burning the farms in order to try and starve the Boers (means farmer in Dutch and Afrikaans) Thousands of Boers, and African people died in these camps. Best wishes and blessings, Charles.
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Thank you for that background history, Charles. The conditions definitely are criminal.
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Pleasure, another thought is, what would the USA be with out immigrants (legal, illegal or forced), they have produced a whole lot of what is good about the States.
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Yes! Exactly!
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Pitty that the bully who Trumps on all, can’t see this. Best wishes and blessings, Charles.
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So hard to understand. And yet it continues and continues…(K)
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Making it even harder to comprehend. Thank you, Kerfe.
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Yes, you are so right, Ken. It is horrible and obscene.
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Thanks, Merril. It makes me wonder how our government has any right to single out actions of extremist groups when it has its own actions to account for – and that is a very sad state, indeed.
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Well said truth
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Thanks, Jazz. These days, learning from history seems to be weak point.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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“Land of the free.”
Run that past me again …
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Free to tell you what to do, unfortunately.
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Confound their ill intents!
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