Trump's New Policy

Parents seeking sanctuary in the United States are now having their children took away from them.  Approximately 700 so far. 

Had this policy been in place 2,000 years ago, then the Egyptians would have kidnapped Jesus and placed him in a detention facility - indefinitely.

Mary and Joseph would have been sent back - eventually.  With Jesus?  Well, in the modern American way of doing things, some bureaucrat would say, "Since there were no proper papers or way of saying which kid was who's..."

Wow.

Good thing Jesus was born back in the soft and sweet days of Kings killing kids and brutal Pharoah-gods and Roman soldiers! 

Good thing Jesus wasn't born near our nation.  A nation incompetent to keep a billion tons of heroin out, but plenty up for wresting babies from mother's arms.

It never occurs to conservatives, or our Border Gestapo, that terrorists don't have to sneak in disguised as parents.  That all they need to do to get in here is to hide in a shipment of drugs.

But who would we be to question this procedure, if it had gone down that way for Jesus?  I mean, I know that He was in danger and His parents were just trying to save Him...

...but as conservatives say, "What part of 'illegal' did Mary and Joseph not understand?"

Because slavish adherence to the law is more important than saving your kid's life - right?

Good Germans

I suppose it would be easy enough to pan on the cops here.  And they are definitely worth panning on.  Or I could pan on the Starbucks employee who called the cops. 

But I'm calling out the filmers.  Those who are no doubt patting themselves on the back right now for "promoting awareness" and doing their part for the "Revolution" by quietly watching a gaggle of cops lead away in chains two black men.

Any of them act like they'd have hid Anne Frank in their attic - but their own phone footage damns them.  They'd have filmed Anne Frank being led away by the Gestapo.

That's all they'd have done.  Of course, that raises the question, "Dean, what would you have done?"

Hmm.  Well, I guess I suck, too. 

Thinking about it, I realize that I'd have done little more than the filmers.  Maybe a few token protests, but then I'd have subsided under fear of arrest.

Or such.

Because I do fear arrest.  "Or such".  And no doubt those there do, too.  We all know, even those who know and love some cops, that to draw their attention always has some element of danger to it.  Far more than it used to.

Far more than it needs to.

Far more than it should.

And if the cops are already wound up, like we each know they are when they're on to some black guy?  Even more danger, even to us white folks.  And especially to us non-Porsche driving white folk. 

Is this the country of our youth?  Our granddad's youth?

Is this the country we want?  Where we know now why the Germans didn't complain back in the forties?

Where we're now the Good Germans?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gegA9GsJ26A