Saturday, December 15, 2018

I cried this morning--Seven-year-old girl who died at border did not receive medical care for 90 minutes




Yes, I could not stop my tears; This story above took my heart and squeezed every inch of life it had within it.  This nation, my nation that was supposed to stand
for goodness, justice and the American way put to death a seven year old innocent when all she needed was probably some Gatorade the kind they give to football players
when they are thirsty but could not find any of for a 7 year old Hispanic girl who walked with her father across 2000 miles of dessert since life in their own country meant certain death.  This small little Guatemalan girl who died needed one thing:  some water with electrolytes something easy to get at a corner store.

What, in God's name have we become?  Border guards with glee dump out water the humane among us have left for the parched crossing the dessert to save their life.  The guards were happy and laughing like the Nazi's who cut old Jews' beards off for a joke.  How is this possible in a land that lost so many fighting fascist tyranny?  The Trump milieu in which we live is Nazi like.  I do not think this analysis too extreme.  Democrats won but Republicans are doing all they can to create legislation that ruins the poor, ruins their healthcare and ruins everything President Obama did that could help those of us who somehow, through an accident of birth, lost this American life's lottery that relegates them homelessness, soup kitchens and by the edict of one single Texas hard hearted judge leaves them with no healthcare to boot.  It other words many will share the fate of that 7 year old little girl who died on a bus from dehydration because no one cared enough to give her water. I do not recognize this nation anymore and the Democratic House we just elected cannot come fast enough, I fear, to save us.

Donald Trump and his cronies including his family need to pay a  heavy price.  As he celebrates the holidays in splendor more 7 year old children will die.  Trump needs to be impeached, convicted then prosecuted when out of office.  He and his henchmen have committed crimes against humanity and should pay the price for the most unethically egregious  conduct and the highest of crimes an American administration has ever committed.  Start with the murder of that seven year old sweet girl who thought she was walking to freedom's light but died instead at freedom's door.  

I cried this morning for that seven year old girl, I cried for the immigrant children locked up separated from their parents some forever and I cried for the country I thought I knew but cannot recognize any more.  I  am still crying and cannot stop.

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