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Bullshitter's border wall

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

The National Butterfly Center wildlife preserve will be effectively ruined by the bullshitter's border wall. So will the property of many other landowners.

Eminent domain is acceptable as a practice as long as the government properly compensates the people whose land is taken. For the government to seek excuses not to compensate them makes the practice inexcusable.

Israeli colonists in West Bank

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

A Palestinian teenager in the West Bank attacked Israeli colonists with a knife, killing one. Israelis shot him dead, as is their usual practice. Then they punished his relatives, also usual practice, but they didn't feel that was enough. So the next punishment will be to build another illegal colony, taking more land from the Palestinians.

Israel had, and has, no right to settle its citizens in the land it conquered in 1967.

Antisemitism

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

Several insightful comments about drawing the line for the boundary of antisemitism.

Separated refugee families

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

Skepticism After US Government Says It's "On Track" to Reunite 2,551 [refugee families].

The government does not keep parents and lawyers informed when it moves these prisoners around. That is standard practice with prisoners of the US government, and it is never excusable.

The US may keep some refugee children away from their parents for years.

In some cases this will be "for their protection." The sadism agencies are using all possible creativity to make excuses to "protect" children by causing them suffering. They might even allow the children as permanent immigrants to keep them away from their families.

Or, even worse, they might allow those children to stay until age 18, growing up knowing only the US, and then deport them to a country they hardly remember.

National Defense Authorization Act

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

The National Defense Authorization Act explicitly says it doesn't authorize war with Iran.