From our political correspondent, Dorothy Dawe:
There's been some argument lately over what to call the cages of children at the border. Trump and the GOP insist that living conditions are tolerable, and they have referred to the cages as "Tender Age Shelters" -- and they've compared the conditions to a summer camp for a children.
Others have referred to the prison-like facilities as "Concentration Camps," and they've been criticized for it by the GOP and the "Christians" who support them -- and I'm baffled as to why.
"Concentration" means "a close gathering of people or things" -- like a concentration of geese on the front lawn; or a concentration of racists at a Trump rally; or a concentration of children in the cages (and therefore a Concentration Camp).
Below: Melania Trump tweeted about the addition of "Be Best" Ambassadors to her hollow campaign about bettering the lives of children everywhere. She included a photograph of a "Be Best" banner she hung at the Central El Paso Concentration Summer Camp for Children.
There's been some argument lately over what to call the cages of children at the border. Trump and the GOP insist that living conditions are tolerable, and they have referred to the cages as "Tender Age Shelters" -- and they've compared the conditions to a summer camp for a children.
Others have referred to the prison-like facilities as "Concentration Camps," and they've been criticized for it by the GOP and the "Christians" who support them -- and I'm baffled as to why.
"Concentration" means "a close gathering of people or things" -- like a concentration of geese on the front lawn; or a concentration of racists at a Trump rally; or a concentration of children in the cages (and therefore a Concentration Camp).
Below: Melania Trump tweeted about the addition of "Be Best" Ambassadors to her hollow campaign about bettering the lives of children everywhere. She included a photograph of a "Be Best" banner she hung at the Central El Paso Concentration Summer Camp for Children.
The entire idea of separating children from their parents, caging them, and amassing them in concentration camps is repugnant, and we -- and all of mankind -- must bring the Trumps and the GOP under scrutiny for we are duty bound to act! The entire sordid affair calls to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "They're left to perish with forethought" (below on the left). His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "The right to perish might be thought" (below on the right).
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: They’re left to perish with forethought An undisputed fact – Attempt it, and the Universe Is duty-bound to act With Concentration Camps for kids Where some are left to die So nature and mankind must pause To pay them scrutiny. | By Emily Dickinson: The right to perish might be thought An undisputed right -- Attempt it, and the Universe Upon the opposite Will concentrate its officers -- You cannot even die But nature and mankind must pause To pay you scrutiny. |
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