State-Sponsored Child Trafficking at the Border

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

AP Investigation: Deported Parents May Lose Kids to Adoption:
https://apnews.com/97b06cede0c149c492bf25a48cb6c26f?fbclid=IwAR06itiGdWCRBlgJZgA_F84HqmJApsoZsNyb1-1avLBxxeTE4Kf_sUyx7X4

(Garanche Burke and Martha Mendoza) As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: “They want to steal my daughter!”

It had been 10 weeks since Ramos had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa. Ten weeks since she was arrested crossing the border into Texas and U.S. immigration authorities seized her daughter and told her she would never see the girl again.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: More state-sponsored child trafficking, taking place in plain view, under color of law…

When Fighting Monsters…

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork, being shared by an acquaintance, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“I’ve been separated from my parents!”
“Because of Trump’s Nazi border policy, right?”
“No, they got caught with a plastic straw!”

My Commentary: Well, that’s awkward…

Hostile US Immigration Policy Functions as De Facto Child Trafficking Operation

I originally posted the following video and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Migrant Children Secretly Transported in NYC:

My Commentary: “Children may also be trafficked for the purpose of adoption.”

Trafficking of Children:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_of_children

Don’t sugar-coat the Truth. Call it what it is…

Virtue-Signaling Isn’t About Moral Consistency

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Laura and George Bush with Michelle and Barack Obama

Ralph Nader Asks Former First Ladies: Why No “Heartfelt Concern for Tens of Thousands of Children Killed or Seriously Maimed” by Their Husbands’ Wars?:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/22/ralph-nader-asks-former-first-ladies-why-no-heartfelt-concern-tens-thousands

(Andrea Germanos) Noted consumer advocate and author Ralph Nader on Friday offered a sharp retort to Laura Bush and Michelle Obama in response to the former first ladies levied criticism at the Trump administration’s cruel immigration policy that separated immigrant children from their families.

“Would be nice if Laura Bush and Michelle Obama had expressed similar heartfelt concern for the tens of thousands of children killed or seriously maimed by the wars of their husbands in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere,” he tweeted.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Because virtue signaling isn’t about moral consistency, or justice… It’s about public displays of manufactured outrage.

Virtue-Signaling Concern for Effects of American Foreign Policy on Children

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “The Art of Not Being Governed,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“I’d never separate you from your parents”

My Commentary: If you suddenly claim to care about innocent children, but have never spoken out against the American government’s bipartisan policy of drone-bombing innocent children, for fifteen years, straight, and counting… you’re a coward and a hypocrite. Please reevaluate your so-called morality. Thanks.