You can call this “political talent”. But we know it’s just a beating heart. In Florida, Warren took a question from a woman who has been sitting vigil at the immigrant child prison in Homestead for 135 days. Will you come with us? she asked. Warren said: I’m going tomorrow — and described the abuse she’d seen.
At tonight’s town hall in Miami, an audience member asked me to go to the Homestead detention center—where the Trump administration is holding immigrant children separated from their families—and shine a light on what’s happening. I’ll be there tomorrow—and I hope you’ll join me. pic.twitter.com/tf2aaOakbF
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 26, 2019
To be absolutely clear: I want the people responsible for this horrific, vicious act of mass child abuse prosecuted and made to do hard time.
Every human being is sick at the cruelty of Trump’s forceful separation of babies from their mother’s arms and their subsequent abuse. Imprisoned terrorists and hardened criminals are treated better.
Elizabeth Warren is a fearless moral leader with the heart and outrage that every mother instinctively feels at the sight of such mindless suffering.
Most of the Dem candidates have been asked to visit the Homestead Detention Camp. Others have gone as well. I don’t doubt Warren’s sincerity, but nothing really special here.
I wonder what happens to Elizabeth Warren’s agenda when she courageously acts like this and is subsequently ignored by our “Democratic” leadership.
The evidence of terrible abuse and cruelty at the Homestead Detention Center is compelling and widely publicized. So was the evidence of abuse, kidnapping, torture, and even murder ordered from the Oval Office and carried out by American forces in Iraq and GITMO. GITMO still holds “detainees” who we cannot bring to trial because of their extensive torture by US authorities. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House in 2006 when a Democratic majority could have begun an investigation based on that compelling evidence. She instead buried it.
The badly-done attempted media spectacle of Democrats voicing outrage against a litany of abuses — while actually DOING absolutely nothing — is boring and tiresome.
It is time for Democrats to act.
Kudo’s for Ms. Warren — I fear she remains a voice crying in the wilderness.
Some people are asking ALL the Democratic candidates to show up at the detention/concentration camps. National and local vigils called for July 12, Like this one in Boston:
Boston Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Detention Camps
Friday, July 12
7 PM
Suffolk County House of Corrections, 20 Bradston Street, Boston
RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/2399385257006613/
On Friday July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps (www.lightsforliberty.org), will bring thousands of Americans to detention camps across the country, into the streets and into their own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees.
If you live in the Boston area, join us outside the ICE Detention Center (on the campus of the Suffolk County House of Corrections, 20 Bradston Street, Boston, though we’ll be going to the Detention Center’s separate entrance) – or even in front of your own home – to hold a candle and share a moment of silence.
This is a completely volunteer-led effort. Invite your friends, and bring your own candle. Together we will light up the world (and social media – #lights4liberty #dontlookaway #endusconcentrationcamps) to demand an end to these concentration camps.
RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/boston-lights-for-liberty
To volunteer, email BostonLightsForLiberty@gmail.com
Good to know, thanks.
According to Britania, the definition of Concentration Camp is: “Concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, .” These are definitely concentration camps, complete with terrible conditions, a racist component and mounting deaths. For me this is not about a particular candidate but the descent of my country into horror. AOC was the first to get this right, confront it, and get slammed, frankly. I feel so limited in what I can do, but silence is not an option.