The gods are smiling on Trump today. Another shooting in Texas and a Category 5 hurricane heading for Florida have pushed the child execution news out of the public eye just when it was about catch attention.
Numerically, the plan to execute children would not have had any impact on immigration one way or the other, but it was one of those things that tends to grab the public by its emotional ears and give it a good shake.
WBUR in Boston broke the story almost a week ago and although in some respects it was almost unbelievable it was quickly confirmed in Florida by the Miami Herald and has since been admitted to by the administration. Nobody else except maybe Rachel Maddow paid much attention. She got quite worked up about it and even begged her 'friends at FOX News" to mention it so that Trunp would become aware.
So far as I know her friends let her down.
The moment is passed. The news tht the government is preparing to execute immigrant children would never impress the right-wingers anyway for whom killing brown people is kin to sport, but it might have had some effect on general public opinion for whom immigration isn't really much of an issue.
Instead we get wall to wall weather and ordinary murder. The only thing really newsworthy about either of those stories is it Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas did not offer either thoughts or prayers for the people going down in Odessa. Presumably he has exhausted his stock of both.
It was impressive though how the Odessa killer managed to kill seven people by hitting them with a hammer while driving down the highway at 55 miles an hour.
Clearly, either you didn’t read the article, or don’t know the meaning of the word “execute”.
ReplyDeleteI’m going to embrace the power of “and”.
I dunno, seems like a judgment call as to whether "execute" is an accurate descriptor for "Get out of this country and die."
ReplyDeleteTo Skipper and his kind, killing animals don't qualify as execution.
ReplyDeleteRead the article, Clovis. Whole thing.
ReplyDeleteSame for you, M.
ReplyDeleteAfter which I expect you will correct your comment.
I read the damn article, right to the end:
Delete"I'll probably die because in my country, there's no treatment for CF [cystic fibrosis]," Sanchez said, when asked what would happen if he goes back to Honduras. "Doctors don't even know what's the disease. The only ones who can help me are here in the United States."
Like I said, "execute" may seem like a strong statement, but this is, unquestionably, ICE telling dark-skinned, visa-bearing foreigners and immigrants to go somewhere else and die, or at least die faster.
And Harry to correct his post. But we all no that will never happen, no matter how egregious the error.
ReplyDeleteI could have said murder but since the goverment is to be the agent, execute seemed more appropriate.
ReplyDelete'i think Skipper's reaction conforms my view of rightwingers: there is no atrocity they will not accept.
Harry,
ReplyDeleteThat's not true. They would be against atrocities if it was happening to their own tribe.
So, I take it neither one of you read the article.
ReplyDeleteHow does this change in policy execute terminally ill children?
Now the govt announced it will review the policy. Just when the sycophants were warming up their throats to defend one more inhumane and imoral act.
ReplyDeleteIt is almost like not even Trump had much respect for these bootlickers.
Clovis, explain why it is inhumane. After all, it is now obvious that the policy isn’t executing anybody. Perhaps there is some underlying reasoning for the change of which you are ignorant, and which the reporter couldn’t be fussed to discover.
ReplyDeleteBut ignorance has never stopped you before. Heck, it doesn’t even slow you down.
Not reviewing the entire policy, just one subset. The killings are still on track.
ReplyDeleteBollocks, Harry, you didn’t read your own source, and now you are sending the goal posts into outer space.
ReplyDelete“The killings are still on track.”
Prove it.
Which you can’t. Thereby showing just how vile you are.