A Canadian was detained for two weeks. Mahmoud Khalil is still being held. They've both spoken out for those who don't have access to the same microphone.
Books have been written and PhD theses published trying to explain how the Nazis co-opted people to do their evil bidding for them. Now, we are watching the process unfold in real time. I read a line in a mystery novel 40 years ago that has stuck with me ever since. "The scope of humanity is terrifyingly wide". Authoritarianism is a very seductive concept to a large portion of the human population and has been the norm throughout all of written history and, no doubt, long before. Our democracies are a blip in history and we must face the fact that keeping the freedoms we have will be a constant never-ending fight. We have let our guard down and we are paying the price.
I think it looks like American prison companies have crimes against humanity built into the business planning while ICE is staffed by drones set to "crimes against humanity".
These people are monsters. I am so relieved she is back and safe. Bless her, for after everything she went through, to have the perspective to advocate for others and even see her circumstances as privileged compared to others. She deserved so much better, and so do all those still left behind in these medieval centres.
I'm trying to not travel to the states but I have a lot of coworkers that work down there. . just don't know what can happen when you cross the American border
Books have been written and PhD theses published trying to explain how the Nazis co-opted people to do their evil bidding for them. Now, we are watching the process unfold in real time. I read a line in a mystery novel 40 years ago that has stuck with me ever since. "The scope of humanity is terrifyingly wide". Authoritarianism is a very seductive concept to a large portion of the human population and has been the norm throughout all of written history and, no doubt, long before. Our democracies are a blip in history and we must face the fact that keeping the freedoms we have will be a constant never-ending fight. We have let our guard down and we are paying the price.
I think it looks like American prison companies have crimes against humanity built into the business planning while ICE is staffed by drones set to "crimes against humanity".
These people are monsters. I am so relieved she is back and safe. Bless her, for after everything she went through, to have the perspective to advocate for others and even see her circumstances as privileged compared to others. She deserved so much better, and so do all those still left behind in these medieval centres.
Thank you Rachel for reporting on the horror that is happening to women in the US.
I'm trying to not travel to the states but I have a lot of coworkers that work down there. . just don't know what can happen when you cross the American border
Be careful all who think this is okay, maybe even fun, you too could be ICE'd.
Latent fascism was what Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the citizens of the USA about. Eh voila! Here it is!