Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
Stephan: We are in very deep trouble in my opinion. There is so much scandal and corruption going on in the Trump Reich that much of what really matters is getting lost, or mis-appreciated. Donald Trump has taken over the military and turned it into a personal force. And he is using it for explicitly racist purposes which even the men and women who serve to carry out his policies are beginning to recognize, as this report spells out. They are appalled at what they are being asked to do. These are concentration camps.
And what alarms me, and I think should alarm you is that over a third of the country is very comfortable with what is happening. It is the same thing that happened in Germany, when the National Socialists came to power through a vote. Angry, fearful racists, took control when complacent Germans did not come together to oppose them. The Trump Reich now controls the Supreme Court, both houses of congress, the presidency, and the federal agencies.
The fate of America will turn on the November elections.
Illustration credit: The Daily Beast
Active-duty and retired U.S. military officers and enlisted personnel are expressing a sense of moral emergency over the Defense Department setting up detention camps for undocumented immigrants on military bases.
“It smacks of totalitarianism,” said Steve Kleinman, a retired Air Force colonel and military intelligence officer.
Raf Noboa, an Iraq War veteran and former Army sergeant, said he was astounded by the “enormous moral offense” the camps represent and which the military will be ordered to support.
“America’s military once liberated people from concentration camps,” Noboa told The Daily Beast. “It beggars the mind and our morality that it might be used to secure them.”
“I knew something bad was going to happen. I have always taken [President Trump]’s rhetoric at face value and right now, I’m not banking on the president having good will towards people of my nationality,” said an active-duty military officer of Mexican descent currently stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, one of the sites under consideration for the detention camps.
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