Political Power and The Virus of Fear

Rarely has any story been so distorted for political reasons, so shamefully and shamelessly, since the run up to the invasions of Iraq.

Who is feeding this 'army of military age males'?   Who seeks to undermine the safety of the greatest power on earth?   I was reading some online rubbish from a hysterical blogger who says we should seek out the enablers and take care of them, if you know what that means.

And of course this is from a site that widely tolerates unreasoned hate in its comments section.

Yes, let us not only not help the afflicted.  Let us seek out any good Samaritans, and kill them.

"On Sunday, the caravan paused to rest after a week of walking in oppressive heat through the state of Chiapas and reaching the town of San Pedro Tapanatepec in Oaxaca state.

Throughout the day migrants lined up for plates of tortillas, beans and meat stew that parishioners of the town’s main church, Parroquia San Pedro Apostol, dished out. Women who identified themselves as volunteers from the office of the local municipal president distributed bottles of water from the back of a pickup truck as it inched through the streets, drawing crowds of parched migrants."

These fools.  How dare they advance this military peril against us?   How can they provide food and water to these poor, suffering families and their broods of future rapists and murders, in the disguise of simple children?   Libtard Christian idiots.  Socialists.  Them.  They are all them. and we are their victims.

Because of the law of posse comitatus the 5,200 US Army troops being deployed to the border can only act in support roles for the border police and domestic law enforcement.  Unless of course we declare war on the caravan.  Maybe they have howitzers stashed in their backpacks.   Or we could just suspend the law against military rule in the US in this crisis.

So it is likely just a headline grabbing gesture.

Because it is in the Constitution, Trump cannot merely choose to 'issue an executive order' denying citizenship to anyone born in the US that he does not approve.  It would take the process of law to do this. 

Unless of course the President were to grant himself extraordinary powers, unopposed by the two other branches of government, so that he could deal with this terrible threat.

Where will this go?   How will it end?

“I want to address for a moment some of our political leaders who were here. Ladies and gentlemen, it has to start with you as our leaders. Stop the words of hate. If it comes from you, Americans will listen. You don’t have to follow the prone to evil path. We can also be prone to good. If you decide to take that path, it starts with speech. Words of hate are unwelcome in Pittsburgh.”

Rabbi Jeff Meyers, Tree of Life Synagogue

The stoking of fear and hate ends in the blood of innocents, always.  Over time it spares no one.

Have we learned nothing?  Have we sunk so low that we no longer fear the reproach of civilized people, or the judgement even of God?

We seem to have no shame, no sense of history, no compunction about lying and wallowing in lies, and relatively little enough decency left in our public life.  And after all, it is the midterm elections you know. 

It is all about power and money.   People are just tools, objects, and collateral damage.

When you unleash the madness, the unspeakable, you do not control it—   it controls you.