"Tender age shelters" I guess calling something "sweet, candy-coated" rainbow names, changes what they really are. In the 40's we called them internment camps. Tent cities set in the desert, surrounded by barbwire and armed guards. Germans called them Stalags. In North Korea, they call them "re-education" camps. Regardless, they are simply Prisoner of War camps. We now have POW camps for babies! The Geneva Convention says we must treat Prisoners with compassion. So we offer food, doctors, and entertainment "under armed guard". Shelters don't "imprison" the people they shelter. They don't divide the families on age, sex, place of origin. Shelter try and move people to real homes and jobs to improve their current status. Reporters are allowed to see and talk to "families" in shelters. Those in real shelters can leave. Can use phones. Can communicate with family and friends. People in "tender age shelter" and other "shelters" aren't allowed to. They are denied legal help. They are denied communication with family and friends. They are up by a specific time. They eat at a specific time and what they are given. They shower when they are told to. Their days are planned, executed and completed without any input from them. They don't get contact with parents, family, lawyers or aid from legal counsel. They are prohibited from contact with anyone outside the shelter. They cant leave without armed guards being present.
Call it whatever you want, it's a POW camp, period. It is horrendous, evil and inhumane and immoral. It goes against why we are America. What we fought and died for. What we declared our independence from England for. It violates our right to call ourselves Christians. Christianity says this is against God and Jesus. That "it would be better to tie a millstone around your neck and drop it in the deepest part of the ocean" than to "harm one of these little ones". Otherwise, it would be better to kill yourself than harm a child. So, how many Evangelicals who agree with Trumps splitting families, have killed themselves? How can you "expect" to go to heaven, when you deliberately disobey solid scripture?
Creating a "law" that goes against morality, isn't the same as "obeying the laws of the land" suggested by Sessions. When you set morality aside to create a bill that has never existed before, you cant justify your bill by quoting scripture! If so, we could create a bill killing all left-handed people publically and say it must be followed because scripture says it is the law of the land.
Insurrection was against the law in the 1700's. Not paying taxes on tea was against the law. Creating an independent army was against the law. Yet America exists. Why? Because we "broke the laws of the land" that ruled us. We denounced it as evil, vile and immoral. We said enough is enough. We stood against "the laws of the land". We violated "scripture" Jeff Sessions. Using your thinking, we should give America back to England as they were our "just and fair" ruler, and we violated the law and disobeyed the crown.
Calling things by other names doesn't make them better or kinder. It doesn't change what they really are. You can call a banana and orange, but it's still a banana.
In the end, we will be judged on how we stand. In Germany, it was the Nurenberg Trials. The soldiers claimed "they were just doing their jobs", but it didn't clear them of responsibility for what they did to people "for their jobs". Many were sentenced to death for "following orders". We said it was not a valid excuse. ICE, border patrol, National guards could be held accountable as "just doing their job" isn't a valid excuse to the rest of the world. Sadly, we led the coalition who found these excuses non-valid.
So to summarize; it's against international law(we helped write and enforce), it against the Bible. It's against our ethics as a country. It's against our very morality as citizens. It's against our values as a people. We have criticized others for doing the exact same things. Doing this is Un-American and inhuman. It goes against what we have learned as American Values.
Giving them pretty names and 2-year-old pictures and forcing the press away, isn't America or American. Why are we hiding it from the world?
Probably for the same reason Hitler did during the Olympic game in Germany. It would be deemed wrong and evil. He wanted it kept quiet and hid from the site. The world would be appalled at them and the conditions, so hide them from the public. People say don't compare them to Nazi Germany. Trump isn't Hitler. When we repeat what we deemed wrong and fought a war against, then we must show the similarities or history will be repeated, as it is now. Concentration camps for babies? Even Hitler was smart enough to know how the world would react to the picture of dead babies. How long before we start seeing them in America? Enough is enough. America must tell him to end it NOW, TODAY. Not next week or next month. Let your vote reflect your Patriotism in November. Tell Trump we aren't Nazi Germany. We don't hold or except his version of morality or America. That we are and must be the shining city on the hill. The land of freedom and a beacon shining a light in the darkness of the rest of the world. We won't be the darkness, but the light that others seek to reach.
That's my anger for today. Register and Vote these Trumpian Zombies out of office. I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said those who sacrifice freedom for security, deserve neither. That freedom sacrificed for security would enslave us to the Governments control.
I'm done, so let er rip. Stock up, because it is getting worse. Put a little gold away, just in case, you know. Register and vote in numbers never seen before, if not for yourselves, for our Children's futures. Write, call, get active and be heard. Tell your Congress this is unacceptable, no matter how they spin it. It isn't a wall issue. Or a security issue. Or an immigration issue. We don't accept kids as poker chips in a sad attempt to get funding for a wall. Be real Americans, not the phony nationalistic self-created white nationalist, Trump thinks we should be. Have a great Wednesday.