Keep those babies and children and families in your prayers. My heart is broken... again.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.- Thomas Jefferson

(I know, I know, it's time for me to take a news break before my head, and my heart, literally explode.)

Please, may any forces of good there may be, be with these children and their parents, who are now at the mercy of our soulless "leaders." And may something, someone, STOP these monsters.  

ONward!

No, it's inhuman!!!  Enough of the faux Christian bleating.  Protest because the practice is generally sickening, not because it crosses some perceived religious directive.  Protest because it's just fucking wrong!!!  

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

Scary, scary babies.  WTF?!!!!

If you want things to get better, be prepared to deal with change.

I have been trying for several days now to get some sort of understanding about the so-called "war mentality."  I am desperately seeking anything at all that will shed some light on it for me.  How can there be those who say, "kill them all!  if they are in Iraq they are at the very least guilty of being Iraqi.  Kill them all!"  I have been throughly sickened by the excuse makers for our little band of Marines who "got even" by executing 10 women and children up close and personal.  So war or the participation in it excuses everything?  Our country didn't seem to think so when it was the Nazi's we were determined to pay for their crimes.  It is different, apparently, when we do it. And this is only one incident in dozens if not hundreds.  There is so much of a vile, inhumane, cruel, vicious, hateful action going on and has been going on that I am not so sure we are capable of letting it in to our collective hearts.  NOT MY COUNTRY!  If we actually did these things, then there must have been a really good reason. . .blah, blah, blah. . .

I understand peoples need for denial.  I understand how painful it is to even think about these things let alone actually look at them.  The pain is so great it is very difficult to take it in.

It breaks my heart daily, some days it is hourly.  What does it take to get the vast majority of people to wake the F**k up?  We need a relentless TV saturation, apparently, that gives information out endlessly before anyone will pay attention.

Thanks for the information, Nag.  Talk radio has been asking daily where these people are and what are their circumstances.  I haven't heard anyone yet say they know where they are, so your info is very timely.  (I guess enough people aren't listening to Air America Radio or Nova-M Radio, or whatever any may have access to locally).

It is hard to imagine we can take much more.  Certainly those who are the victims of these horrible actions can't take any more.  Me, sitting in my safe, warm and cozy house in outback Idaho can't take any more either.

I guess we learned nothing positive from the Holocaust.  Yeah, I guess 60 years is too long to hold a memory.

I am disgusted and brokenhearted.  

Shirl

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This is yet another disgusting, horrific crime committed against humanity by the neocons and their greedy cronies. Few of our so-called leaders have spoken out against it. TPMMuckraker has some items on the raids, the aftermath, as well as two who have denounced the raids, Sen Tom Harkin and Gov Tom Vilsack.

Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa wrote Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff on Tuesday to say he is appalled by the process used to detain and deport workers in raids earlier this month at six Swift & Co. packing plants, including one in Marshalltown.
Harkin, a Democrat, said a telephone hot line for information for family members set up by the government has gone unanswered at times. It "provided no information of any use" at other times, Harkin said in the letter.

It has been "almost impossible" for lawyers and members of the clergy to gain access to workers who were detained, and workers were taken to other states without being granted access to lawyers, Harkin said.

Although assurances were made that parents with small children would be released to make arrangements for their children's care, "there continues to be reports of numerous single mothers remaining in custody," Harkin said.

Iowa governor Tom Vilsack also fired off an angry letter to Chertoff, criticising the agency's "information blackout" following the raids and for putting his state's National Guard at risk.

Please excuse me while I go put tin foil on my grocery list. I seem to be reaching it a lot more often the last few weeks.

   

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." Dorothy Thompson, Journalist