Nov 26, 2018

Trump's Agents in Full Fascist Mode

A girl from Honduras, part of the migrant caravan
in Tijuana, Mexico, cries after US agents in California
deployed tear gas across the San Ysidro border,
(Reuters, via BBC).
Update: If you are a thinking human being, you owe it to yourself to read Richard Falk's analysis on Israel's ongoing human rights obscenity, from which Trump appears to take pointers on American fascism. Military and police units of the loyal state-friend of Trump shoot children, and Israel and assorted dopes emit the argument that criticizing violators of human rights implicates the critic.

Writes Falk:

In 2014 Noam Chomsky explained the false logic of such an allegation with typical moral and intellectual clarity: "Actually, the locus classicus, the best formulation of this, was by an ambassador to the United Nations, Abba Eban, […] He advised the American Jewish community that they had two tasks to perform. One task was to show that criticism of the policy, what he called anti-Zionism — that means actually criticisms of the policy of the state of Israel — were anti-Semitism. That’s the first task. Second task, if the criticism was made by Jews, their task was to show that it’s neurotic self-hatred, needs psychiatric treatment. Then he gave two examples of the latter category. One was I.F. Stone. The other was me. So, we have to be treated for our psychiatric disorders, and non-Jews have to be condemned for anti-Semitism, if they’re critical of the state of Israel. That’s understandable why Israeli propaganda would take this position. I don’t particularly blame Abba Eban for doing what ambassadors are sometimes supposed to do. But we ought to understand that there is no sensible charge. No sensible charge. There’s nothing to respond to. It’s not a form of anti-Semitism. It’s simply criticism of the criminal actions of a state, period."

Look for a similar line from the Trump administration soon: Those objecting to imprisonment, gassing and disappearing of children are the real culprits, perhaps to be dealt with by the state through means other than rhetoric.
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What human garbage Trump is.

The white supremacist administration is gassing children across the US-Mexican border, following its program of state-kidnapping and disappearing of children implemented last Spring.

Trump administration announced earlier this year imprisonment and forced separation of children from parents are deterrents intended to discourage asylum seekers fleeing carnage in central America.

It is clear that brutality against brown children is an objective in itself apart from other stated aims.

The deployment of the military on the US-Mexican border is also another objective apart from any stated mission.

Parallels exist in rightwing Israel where Israeli border troops shoot off the legs of Palestinian teenagers in its shoot-to-maim policy, (The Independent, Washington Post).

Meanwhile, rightwing violence is on the rise in the domestic United States, (Washington Post).

Witness America:

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