General Discussion

Because people are dying and being hauled away and I don't see much in response other than the idea that chipping away at a mountain with a toothpick is going to solve this.

And, it may well work... in about a hundred years. Sadly, we don't have a hundred years. I know that Alex Pretti does not. Neither does Rene Good. Neither do the many people who are now standing on foreign soil with nothing and no way to begin to find their way home. Neither do the masses of people being treated as little more than chattel in detention, being tortured and dehumanized, while we stand on street corners for a few hours and yell at passing cars.

That makes me angry. Very much so. I know if I were treated in this manner, and I found out that those who I thought were on my side were standing on a corner waving some paper signs as opposed to forcing those idiots to release me, I would probably feel pretty let down. And, betrayed. And angry.

How do those people feel, I wonder? Do you think they are cheering this crap on, or are they feeling deflated and betrayed because 'ain't no one coming to save them'? (I know that for some of them, that reality must hit really hard, as this is the second, or third country that has treated them in this manner.) I know I cannot fault them if they do feel that way.

Because I know how I would feel.