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The picture of the people on the causeway you have posted are actually of evacuated prison inmates.
Notice how they are all'concentrated' into a part of the overpass.
This group got to go to their own special shelter, at gunpoint.
Perhaps it was this group that Congress talked to!
I suggest you go to Auschwitz, first, and then Birkenau (only a couple miles apart) and take note of the inevitable progression from the early Concentration Camps and the later Death Camps.
There's no time to waste on the nuances of how prisoners are treated. There is a fine line between abject neglect and torture (yes, I include waterboarding here!) The point is we should not allow any of this to happen at all.
this is what I wrote to a blog similar to yours:
actually, as a long-time professor and researcher in Holocaust Studies and Russian/East-European Studies I can tell you that Leah Hodges' definition of 'Concentration Camp' is much more accurate than Miller's. Miller is refering to 'Death Camps'. The majority of victims in German and Soviet WWII camps suffered on Concentration and Work Camps. The plan of the Mass Death Camps (Miller's gas chambers) came only in the last couple years of the war. What I know of the Causeway situation (the documentary, the Foundation founders, volunteering with Common Ground) is strikingly similar to the treatment of the oppressed in WWII.
We don't want to hear this as 'freedom-loving' Americans, but we are losing our freedom as gradually, surely and blindly as the 'freedom-loving' post-Weimar Germans did.
African-Americans are being victimized in order to provide a scapegoat and more bait for targets of hate in this country. As you stated in your blog, the National Guard were scared of them from 'Cops'. Remember, many of the National Guard were troops on loan from Iraq, already experiencing trauma and propaganda, and Americans were inundated with media lies about the looting and violence in NOLA (Blanco's call for Nat. Guard this last June was another cover up of "violence"--just to keep the masses caught up in fear so they wouldn't demand their citizenship and human rights, much less the housing they had been promised). These are all top-down tactics of systematization to distract the people from the real incompetency and exploits of this administration and their Disaster Capitalism/ Military Industrial Complex racist cronies.
Treating a dog better than a black baby is reason to "compare tragedies". People need to hear this-- it is the shocking truths that will help EVERYBODY.
Oh-- and it could happen in Connecticut. It certainly happened in Oregon. Check out the story of Vanport. Not much has changed here.
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