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File under “Annals of Frigid Indifference” or perhaps, Hannah Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” – Bloomberg reports today that, when asked for a reaction to Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy of separating thousands of children from their asylum-seeking Central American parents, North County 39th-district Republican Congressional candidate Young Kim responded:
“I don’t want to see a crying child, but what’s the real story behind it?”
Yeah, go ahead and fill in the blanks. Young Kim, 1941: “I don’t want to have to see a bunch of Jews exterminated, but what’s the real story here?” Young Kim, 1859: “I hate to see so many Negroes enslaved, but come on, there has to be some story behind this.”
This is the talk of a woman who doesn’t give a damn, hadn’t put a minute of thought into this ongoing outrage until Bloomberg asked her – and even now can’t be bothered to come up with some alternative explanation to make everyone feel better, but just suggests there might be one.
Even the Trump administration admits they have taken over 3000 children from their (perfectly legally) asylum-seeking parents, and mostly lost track of who their parents are. They admit that this was done in an effort to discourage immigration and asylum-seeking, and when Trump was asked yesterday how he’s going to re-unite the families, his reaction is “Just don’t come to this country illegally.” Who’s more evil, the bald-faced perpetrator of these crimes against humanity, or the indifferent, ambitious politician who suggests that there may be more to this that we’re just not hearing?
This Kim non-statement comes during a week where the news on this just keeps getting more and more horrific – re-united toddlers no longer recognizing their parents, one-year-olds having to take the stand at immigration hearings, the government completely ignorant of who and where half the kids’ parents are. But “What’s the real story here?” asks Kim, who wants your vote for Congress.
She’s running against a Democrat called Gil Cisneros, who tells the same reporter, “We let this madman be elected president of the United States. … There’s nothing humane about him. He’s taken children from their parents. I’m going to stand up to him.”
Gil took his family to the Tornillo border detention facility in Texas last month, and has been speaking out forcefully on the issue ever since – “going full frontal” on Trump, as professor Michael Latner puts it. His wife told Bloomberg that “she later heard their twin four-year-old boys chanting ‘A family, united, cannot be divided’ in their back seat.” And this IS a local issue as well, with many of these stolen children reportedly being housed in Fullerton’s Crittenton Children’s Center.
When the ballots come out this Fall, the Orange Juice Blog hopes and prays that our North County readers will vote for the human being, not the Stepford Wife personification of the banality of evil. And THAT’S the story.
Vern out.
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“This is the talk of a woman who doesn’t really give a damn”
Worse, a woman who expects to profit by choosing not to give a damn…hardly the first woman to adopt a ‘I really don’t care do u?’ slogan on this issue.
“I don’t want to see a crying child …”
Yep. That’s why they hide them behind bars.
“… but what’s the real story behind it?”
Thanks for asking! We wiped out civil society in Honduras in the 1980s, using Tegucigalpa (“the Goose”) as the air base for our proxy war against Nicaragua. It devolved into a lawless society and remains so now. We, alone among nations, also propped up their illegal coup in 2009. Citizens threatened by bad government and social breakdown there are trying to get asylum, buy none of the Central American countries are both stable and willing to provide it, nor is Mexico. So they’ve come here through Mexico to seek asylum, as is their lawful right — and which makes sense under both the Monroe Doctrine asserting Central America as part of our sphere of influence and our continued domination of their political system. And we’re treating those asylum seekers like criminals and torturing them (by taking away their kids) to ward off others.
yes yes yes
Our interference is the problem and has been for years.
South America Central America and Mexico of course!
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq and even Russia – yes we impacted Russian elections when ever we could now tit for tat? We backed Yeltsin and gave Billions in loans prior to the election in Russia and Putin said the election was rigged – sound familiar?
Nicaragua and Honduras are in turmoil with riots in the streets daily. I have a friend with large investments in Nicaragua and he sent me pictures of the burning buildings and bodies in the streets, his investments at this time are worth 0. He is here now safe and sound.
After the fall of the Berlin wall the US policy was to help turn Russia into a replica of American Democracy. Our system of corrupt corporate PACs, and interference in elections around the world seems to be what Russia learned and learned well.
“… but what’s the real story behind it?”
I’d say that when Ronald Reagan gave these same people in these same conditions amnesty, he was viewed as patriotic and heroic, but when Donald Trump denies them similar respect, he is also viewed as patriotic and heroic. The underlying law, esp. on refugees, hasn’t changed all that much. What changed was the Republicans – who once believed in certain sacred values, but turned 180 against those principles.
Young Kim’s ‘nuanced’ approach is a begrudging admission that the only way she can win is by looking good enough for the ‘good Republicans’ who are left in the OC, while still currying favor with thugs.
Don’t think of a few good Republicans – I hear it all day long as I work with the public and am very careful with my politics, but many love Trump. Leaders, businessmen and women, people I like and are good customers show their support for Trump. A T shirt dealer 20 feet away from my booth sells many shirts that appeal to the Right, i look down and many times there is a line out the booth…
The real story behind it: “the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive immigration policy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/11/california-mall-license-plate-surveillance-ice-immigration
Well, the spy planes that circle OC listen to all conversations too.
Please read Crittenton’s “Response to the Humanitarian Crisis” at https://crittentonsocal.org/crittentons-youth-shelter-program-response-to-the-humanitarian-crisis/ – the whole thing. They need your support and help, and they deserve it.