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(65,409 posts)spanone
(135,846 posts)This is the country we've become under trump. Where laws apply to everyone but the 'king'.
Make America A Shithole Nation
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)I guess jeebus only loves the white and white and white children of the world
c-rational
(2,594 posts)completely and enthusiastically evil as wen they act out of religious conviction."
OMGWTF
(3,960 posts)calimary
(81,326 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I have read the Gospels and came to realize Jesus' entire message was of unrelenting acknowledgment that you must accept ever person as your own. The story of the Good Samaritan is of special interest.
The Jews regarded the Samaritans to be outcast. Yet Jesus portrayed the Good Samaritan as far more humane and kind than the Jews who regarded themselves more pious yet refused to aid this person who had been stripped naked, beaten and robbed. The outcast Samaritan was the only one to stop and help this unfortunate person.
The Republicans' hypocrisy is nothing new and I must add certainly not limited to them. I regard the Republicans who claim to be His followers treatment of people desperately seeking an escape from ghastly situations to be in the same category as the pious Jews Jesus condemned. To be a Christian is very demanding and requires far more than I could ever claim to be totally capable of. Although I am not a Christian, I have the greatest admiration for the teaching of Jesus. What puzzles me, however, is the pious people can claim to be his followers yet appear to have very little regard for their own salvation. He warned that those who administer to those in want are administering to him and those who don't will be condemned for all eternity. That would scare the hell out of me if I claimed to be one of his followers.
calimary
(81,326 posts)The one about the least of these - whatever you did to the least of these (the poor, the hungry, the sick, the outcast, the homeless), you did to Me.
And theyll never sing songs of praise about the story of a Jesus and the rich young man, who, when he asked how he could join Jesuss movement, was told to go and sell all he had, give the money to the poor, and come and follow.
Theyre quite selective in their own following of Jesus.
patphil
(6,185 posts)"What so ever you do to the least of my children, that you also do unto me."
There is no love in the hearts of the people who would do what they have been doing. And, preventing doctors from visiting the imprisoned, and the sick is a clear indication that these hard-hearted jailers are not in the least bit Catholic, or Christian.
They follow a much darker lord.
Patrick Phillips
colorado_ufo
(5,736 posts)"Woe to him who harms one of these little ones. It would be better for him that a huge mill stone would be tied around his neck and he would be thrown into the sea. For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
He also had a few choice words for hypocrites.
Kid Berwyn
(14,914 posts)"At the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we reported in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"
by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
The Village Voice, October 27, 1992
Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton
Excerpt....
SON OF THE CIA
It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agencys Vietnam task force. Jovial and unassuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a token of things to come.
Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Universitys roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our generation into a decade of rage. Barr, a conservative student spokesman, preached toughness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineering faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, deputy attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.
Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agencys legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was formative for Barr, turning him into an implacable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.
The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republican, he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutches even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for and got Bushs backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan inquiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the administration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.
Source...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
Who puts profits ahead of children? Gangsters and their henchmen.
MBS
(9,688 posts)calimary
(81,326 posts)The past truly is prologue.
Never forget.
klook
(12,158 posts)Armed with a night-school law diploma... Only the best people!
Timmygoat
(779 posts)Was to have an attorney general who would do his dirty work, protect him from the law etc. He certainly got what he wanted.
dlk
(11,570 posts)As we are witnessing every single day with this twisted and pathological administration, Barr included.
Cyrano
(15,043 posts)Once Trump is out of office, he must be tried for his crimes.
Most of them perhaps involve conspiring with Russia to steal an election, obstruction of justice, money laundering, sexual harassment and maybe even rape, violating the emoluments clause, and who knows what else.
But the one crime we can all see with our own eyes is his crimes against humanity. Separating children from their parents or caregivers at the border, and putting them in cages with virtually no care of any kind. Now we find that doctors have been prevented from checking on these children.
Donald Trump will go down alongside the great monsters of history. But before we get to that history, he needs to be held answerable for some of the most despicable crimes imaginable.
He must be charged with crimes against humanity. And a trial must be held which is televised worldwide. His minions won't like this, but fuck them. They made him possible and their support aided and abetted him.
This inhumane, criminal cannot be allowed to just go on about his life as though nothing has happened. If found guilty, he must face the same consequences that any other human being found guilty of crimes against humanity would face.
An example must be established that no future president will ever be allowed to do whatever he/she wants to do and get away with it. And if Trump is not prosecuted, the message to some would-be future tyrant is that they're free to do whatever they want to do and never be held answerable. That cannot be allowed to happen.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)who have carried out his crimes or fed into them must be held accountable. That includes Bill Barr, Steven Miller, and Trumps children.
If people cant see the future consequences of allowing crimes in the highest places then they cant be helped. Those of us who get it must bring as much pressure to bear as we can. At least for now we still outnumber them. They follow a Narcissist, a proven liar, and a thief, swindler, and con man who is only using them to further his personal goals. He doesnt benefit them any more than he benefits us. He is a complete loner in that sense who will pretend to be part of a team only as long as it plays into his benefit.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)You can bet on it. This is the end of Barr, if this is true.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)I doubt he will ever be held accountable.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)Barr will only hit the road if he does something 45 doesn't like, then he'll "resign".
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SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Different Drummer
(7,622 posts)DD
Marcuse
(7,489 posts)"The most horrifying part of this story is that the Justice Department fought to prevent these doctors from having access to the children, even making a last-ditch argument to delay the doctor visits for further briefs and arguments," Schaub said in a tweet, before branding the DoJ "twisted monsters."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-condemned-migrant-children-detention-centers-walter-shaub-1446767|
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Not letting doctors examine children... transparency?
malaise
(269,067 posts)I'll take Fascists for $2,000 Alex