American "family values" now include breaking up families and traumatizing children who are asking for our help to escape death and enslavement.
The Attorney General of the United States has quoted the Christian Saint Paul to justify taking children away from their mothers, making child abuse and traumatization our official National Policy.
The American Experiment had promise; although we started out compromising with slave holders to form "...a more perfect Union, and establish Justice...", we fought a civil war and are continuing to fight for Civil Rights against that spirit that would deny "liberty and justice for all".
Even though genocide was our National policy in regard to Native Americans, we have toned this down somewhat; people are more aware, at least.
Even though Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive order 9066 establishing concentration camps for Japanese-Americans, Reagan's Civil Rights Act of 1988 delivered an apology and reparations to survivors, not quite 50 years later.
Regrettably, the moral high ground the United States enjoyed as the defender of freedom and enemy of evil after World War II is now just a memory.
America has not healed from the catastrophe that was the Vietnam war; a war fought in a country 10,000 miles away against a people trying to establish independence from French Colonialism. The American people accepted lies from three American Presidents about the war's moral justification and its "winability". By the time the "light at the end of the tunnel" was reached, America had lost 50,000 dead, 153,000 wounded (who needed hospitalization) and its soul.
On June 18, 1971, President Nixon declared that drug abuse was "public enemy number one". The "War on Drugs" began, not coincidentally, five days after the NY Times published the Pentagon Papers, exposing government lies about the Vietnam War.
America's "War on Drugs" resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead across the continent, by war, murder, and overdose. The "War on Drugs" expanded and militarized the nation's police forces, made America the world's leading nation in incarceration, and turned into a war on brown people; The "War on Drugs" made selling drugs to American consumers a highly profitable business, thereby financing rich and powerful gangs who now control and wreak havoc in Mexico and Central American countries.
America has been coping with the refugees of the War on Drugs for some time.
Our current remedy is to try to intimidate Central Americans seeking relief and asylum by taking their children away from them, in an attempt to convince them to stay in their own countries to die, and to allow their children to be exploited and sexually enslaved by drug gangs.
Perhaps the 50,000 Americans, including many of our Dutchess County friends and neighbors, who are killed by drug overdoses yearly, are part of our nation's karmic reward.
We can all join Colin Kaepernick in taking a knee, until such time as America finds its moral compass. To use Lincoln's words: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive....do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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The Attorney General of the United States has quoted the Christian Saint Paul to justify taking children away from their mothers, making child abuse and traumatization our official National Policy.
The American Experiment had promise; although we started out compromising with slave holders to form "...a more perfect Union, and establish Justice...", we fought a civil war and are continuing to fight for Civil Rights against that spirit that would deny "liberty and justice for all".
Even though genocide was our National policy in regard to Native Americans, we have toned this down somewhat; people are more aware, at least.
Even though Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive order 9066 establishing concentration camps for Japanese-Americans, Reagan's Civil Rights Act of 1988 delivered an apology and reparations to survivors, not quite 50 years later.
Regrettably, the moral high ground the United States enjoyed as the defender of freedom and enemy of evil after World War II is now just a memory.
America has not healed from the catastrophe that was the Vietnam war; a war fought in a country 10,000 miles away against a people trying to establish independence from French Colonialism. The American people accepted lies from three American Presidents about the war's moral justification and its "winability". By the time the "light at the end of the tunnel" was reached, America had lost 50,000 dead, 153,000 wounded (who needed hospitalization) and its soul.
On June 18, 1971, President Nixon declared that drug abuse was "public enemy number one". The "War on Drugs" began, not coincidentally, five days after the NY Times published the Pentagon Papers, exposing government lies about the Vietnam War.
America's "War on Drugs" resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead across the continent, by war, murder, and overdose. The "War on Drugs" expanded and militarized the nation's police forces, made America the world's leading nation in incarceration, and turned into a war on brown people; The "War on Drugs" made selling drugs to American consumers a highly profitable business, thereby financing rich and powerful gangs who now control and wreak havoc in Mexico and Central American countries.
America has been coping with the refugees of the War on Drugs for some time.
Our current remedy is to try to intimidate Central Americans seeking relief and asylum by taking their children away from them, in an attempt to convince them to stay in their own countries to die, and to allow their children to be exploited and sexually enslaved by drug gangs.
Perhaps the 50,000 Americans, including many of our Dutchess County friends and neighbors, who are killed by drug overdoses yearly, are part of our nation's karmic reward.
We can all join Colin Kaepernick in taking a knee, until such time as America finds its moral compass. To use Lincoln's words: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive....do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.