Concentration Camps? Trump Is Taking US To An Evil Place (David Cay Johnston)

[swag]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/concentration-camps-trump-is-taking-us-to-an-evil-place/


Every American, including native-born whites, should be alarmed about the advancing Trump administration plans to build mass detention facilities, which could fast be turned into concentration camps to hold opponents of Trump policies.

Abundant signs reveal Trump administration planning for mass roundups. News of these plans is out there but easily missed in the endless flurry of stories about Trump White House chaos. This story needs, but has not received, focused attention from our mainstream news media, from the minority party and especially from principled Republicans.

The Trump administration acknowledges planning on mass detention camps designed, initially, to hold 20,000 people.

Much more disturbing is a U.S. Navy memo obtained by Time magazine that outlines plans to build concentration camps to hold 94,000 people in California alone. When Time reporters sought comment the Navy’s top spokesman, Capt. Greg Hicks said, “It would be inappropriate to discuss internal deliberative planning documents.”

The official statements and the memo, whose contents the Navy did not deny, show that the Trump administration is preparing to round up as many people as it suspects because they are not Anglo or African American, but appear to be Latino or Middle Eastern.

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[bettyellen]

1. IBTL .... JK! RECKITY REC.

[donkeypoofed]

2. Camps with concentration?!?!

OMG!! These sites will have to be protested constantly!! Otherwise it's tacit agreement these are okay.

When Spanky is eventually forced to resign, so much more will come out about this and we'll palm find their exact plans are much more nefarious than first thought.


Spanky better not get 1 Latino vote - not 1!!!.

[malaise]

3. Get thee to the greatest page

Now

[CrispyQ]

4. Malcom Nance & David Cay Johnston are both feeling unease.

That's not good.

Here's another good article on what's going on.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375

snip...

Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.

It's worth the read.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Wellstone ruled]

6. All we need to know is this,

read the why where and how the Fed'd pulled off the Japanese interment Camps. And look how the Trump Administration is following the same outline.

The Oligarch's in America love the money to be made off the suffering of Brown skinned people.

[procon]

7. Republicans have approved torture, Abu Ghraib, black sites, Guantanamo,

and now concentration camps and baby jails. This is their morality and their idea of values. People vote for Republicans because they like this kind of stuff. I don't understand that and I don't want to make nice with them anymore than I'd want to know a venomous rattlesnake.

[RandomAccess]

8. We need to take his warning very, very sereiously

Crossposting from the other thread on the article --


And we need to do everything we can to stop these roundups at the border NOW --

not just because of the humanitarian imperative, the cruel and fascistic separation of families, the lawbreaking aspect of not allowing legitimate asylum seekers to even enter the legal entry points for that,

but because allowing it to continue AT ALL normalizes it, and paves the way for exactly what David Cay Johnston is suggesting.

FURTHER, to the extent it's normalized -- and/or Trump can distract us and the news media enough -- we won't even know it's going on.

I knew immediately when we first learned about this that we had reached a tipping point -- a place we desperately needed to avoid going forward from. And the more Trump is able to stuff the courts, the stronger the danger.

Mark my words, and PLEASE do all you can to stop these roundups.

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[dlk]

9. If They Build Mass Detention Facilities, They Will Fill Them. The Question is With Whom?

This is the dark side of the GOP/Trump money grab. They will also need taxpayers to fund the operation of these detention centers; there are billions and billions of dollars to be made.

[roamer65]

10. ...and the TRUE resistance will be born.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. This makes me so angry.

I wonder if my ancestors would have been considered pure enough to gain admittance to the country under the current regime. My maternal grandparents, who came from Luxembourg in the 1890s, for example. My grandfather was educated (had studied at the Sorbonne, but didn't graduate) and grandmother who was too busy being pregnant and who never really learned English.

Then there's my Irish great-great-grandmother, a widow who arrived with her 8 children to work at a mill in Portland, Maine, before coming to the Midwest. She may not have even been literate, but Ireland in the years following An Gorta Mor, did not offer a future. But she was lucky to already have family in America.

It stretches credulity to believe that this is happening here, and I keep hoping to wake up from this nightmare.

[workinclasszero]

12. See you in Trump's gulag

First they came for the Mexican babies.....

[DavidCayJohnston]

13. Thanks for the post, but...

My essay was for DCREPORT.org and was then republished by Joe Conason's National Memo.

https://www.dcreport.org/2018/07/13/trump-is-taking-america-to-an-evil-place/

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