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Could work in an enviroment where children are being treated worse than we can legally treat our pets, see the torment, smell the stench, hear the crying of the innocent, without quitting and going to the press to decry this barbarism?
I hope those children's eyes, the sights, the sounds, and the smell haunt their nightmares for the rest of their lives.
GP6971
(31,133 posts)orangecrush
(19,512 posts)The kind of people who participated in mass exterminations in WW2.
It is a special breed of evil.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)the same people who would gas people...
or drive into people with a car.. or truck..
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)People who can equate other humans with vermin. They will not be haunted for the rest of their lives because they will continue to hold these views.
orangecrush
(19,512 posts)Those who assist in institutionalized abuse of children would be jailed.
People who have abused children in juvenile facilities in this manner already have been.
VOX
(22,976 posts)And their enablers, who may still know right from wrong, but simply shut down, and turn a blind eye/deaf ear to human suffering, not wishing to know the details, or to be bothered by all that.
Hotler
(11,412 posts)Remember that hate and selfishness are cornerstones of the GOP.
RockRaven
(14,958 posts)We have a winner! The answer was: Republicans.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)It's difficult-- if you're a decent person and know if you quit, they might hire someone brutal...
I don't know how anyone non-sociopathic could bear it.
Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg, and we are only getting to see that much due to honorable people speaking up.
My biggest fear is that theyll move the facilities to military bases, where access by lawyers and reporters will be severely limited. Thats when things are going to become truly horrific. We saw after Abu Ghraib just how messed up a subset of people can be, especially when given the power to treat people inhumanely.
I can only hope we can stop this horrific policy in time.
orangecrush
(19,512 posts)Enoki33
(1,587 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)The only difference is in the branding.
Skittles
(153,142 posts)THAT'S WHO
elleng
(130,861 posts)Border Patrol took kid's blankets, forced them to sleep on concrete floor, because they lost a comb.
EMERGENCY!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/23/1866706/-Border-Patrol-took-kid-s-blankets-forced-them-to-sleep-on-concrete-floor-because-they-lost-a-comb
CONTACT YOUR CONGRESS-MEMBERS AND SENATORS, AND SHARE.
URGENT!
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,274 posts)the people running these camps all wind up doing life without parole in GITMO.
And their correctional officers? They would be the current prisoners held in GITMO. They should have expert skills by now. And for icing on the cake all the war criminals from the W crew can be sent there, too. Thanks to them for setting the precedent that no charges need to be filed and no trials need to be held.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,568 posts)That's what got us in this mess in the first place.
shanny
(6,709 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)...for one if told told to do so.
Some Docs don't care as long as they get paid.
Same for those other Trumper/GOP, evil creeps who soil our nation while doing anything for a few bucks.
After all, greed is what the Trump/GOP is what teaching all Americas:
Greed is really Trump/GOP's position on everything.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)Traits of the Sociopath:
Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Read the rest...
https://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)They are truly vile and disgusting sub humans.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Those places are in red territory. TX, FL - red states that went for Trump.
They wouldn't be able to find people to work at those kinds of camps anywhere else. There would be non-stop leaks and whistle-blowing if they put one in a blue state.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)be affected. Even after we bring this nightmare to an end, it will take years for these people to work through their trauma. I learned this reading Viktor Frankl's brilliant work on logotherapy, which is based on the answer to the existential question he developed for himself while a prisoner in Auschwitz.
Frankl was a great man in that he had wisdom, understanding and compassion. He extended this compassion to both his fellow inmates and to the guards.
Now, this is not to say that Frankl wouldn't have wanted the guards to be held accountable for their acts, but at the same time be treated with compassion - with imprisonment our gift to them so they could work through some of the horrible karma in what remained of their lives.
Hmm...a little esoteric there. Sorry. But I am an existentialist.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,254 posts)with white people on higher rungs than others. Assholes.
malaise
(268,887 posts)from top to bottom
pecosbob
(7,534 posts)It's called the criminal justice system and the perpetrators are correctional officers. Everything you're (not) seeing done to these children and their families is done to hundreds of thousands of incarcerated Americans every day. People just refuse to look at our open sores.
One of the reasons I respect Rachel Maddow is that she was a prison-reform advocate long before she became a radio and TV personality.
Dostoyevsky - "you can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners".
McKim
(2,412 posts)Border Patrol is a favorite job for Iraq War Vets. They were trained by our government and dehumanized to prepare for war. This is the direct result of our foreign wars, they walk among us!
I hope some working in these prisons write books and get interviews on TV. Where is the press on this tragedy? We need publicity at these concentration camps!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)who "claim" to follow the teachings of Christ