Miriam, the professor is right and that is why I said we were taking the clock
back to 1929. As far as that immigration raid I heard one person who was a
commetator on one of the morning news programs Nina listens to that around 1/3
of that 600 were under the age of 18.
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [blind-democracy] today's insanity
So I've been hearing all day about the hundreds of people rounded up by ICE,
all over the country, but with a large number, I think 600, in California. I
heard it on the Pacifica News podcast this morning and on the Democracy Now
podcast and, perhaps on the Intercepted podcast. And I read about it. All
these people, working people, family members, undocumented, one of them a
beneficiary of Obama's policy protecting children of undocumented parents who
are living here. Then I went down to get the mail and the mailman was telling
two other people that he'd heard that 5,000 criminal immigrants with guns had
been rounded up in California. He was in an adjoining room when he was telling
this fable. When he returned to the mailboxes, I couldn't keep quiet. I just
calmly said that I'd been reading about this all day and I think it was just
600 people with no documents and no guns who'd been rounded up in California.
Of course, he didn't even bother answering because why should he believe an old
blind woman who probably didn't know what day it is? This is how Tsrump got
elected and how Fascists will take over in the next few months. One of the
articles from Truthdig that I couldn't post was about a history professor who
says we just have a few months to resist, or our democracy will be gone. He
cites similarities to the 1930's.
Miriam
