Posted on 08/26/2017 3:02:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio amounts to an endorsement of the idea of concentration camps, says a journalist who has reported on the global history of the deadly facilities.
Arpaio referred to his own county jail as a “concentration camp.” For over two decades, he operated “Tent City,” where detainees were kept in brutal conditions, including temperatures soaring well above 100 degrees Farenheit. They were also forced to work on chain gangs and to wear pink undergarments as a form of humiliation. Arpaio was convicted in July of criminal contempt for ignoring a court order prohibiting the detention of people based on mere suspicions about their legal status.
In an email to HuffPost Saturday, Andrea Pitzer, the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, defined a concentration camp as a “mass civilian detention outside the standard legal process, usually on the basis of race, ethnicity, or political activity.” While Pitzer said Tent City was a prison technically constructed to hold those convicted by law, it bore familiar elements to a concentration camp, including “brutal dehuminization.”
“Once Arpaio began neighborhood sweeps and traffic stops deliberately targeting Latinos, and then detaining them without charges, his whole enterprise tilted further toward being a concentration camp for that set of detainees,” she wrote. “And even for those who had been convicted of crimes, it was a harrowing, often deadly experience.”
Pitzer said Trump pardoning Arpaio legitimized the 85-year-old former sheriff’s operation.....
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Heard that to, not that Icare.
The convicted Criminals had time to concentrate on the punishment for their Crimes so they wouldn’t repeat the same behavior.
They were put there for the crimes they committed, not for being who they are like the Jews were in Germany or the Japanese Citizens FDR locked up here.
Heard that to, not that Icare.
Let’s try that one again.
HEARD THAT TOO, NOT THAT I CARE.
One other little fact:
“They were also forced to work on chain gangs...”
The “chain” gangs were voluntary and a privilege detail.
As I recall, the female prisoners petitioned to have a female “chain” gang started.
And the sheriff was quoted as saying “if it is good enough for our fighting men it is good enough for our prisoners”. In my words, I am pretty sure the quote can be found.
Well, then, let’s take all the prisoners to Afghanistan and give them spears and have them do a Movement To Contact,
I don’t think any Soldiers will mind.
“Ooohhhh....look at that one. He’s trying to find cover behind that bush. I guess they didn’t teach them the difference between cover and concealment at prison school.”
Some idiot on Fox News now saying he “broke the law... you can’t just go around killing people because they’re here illegally”. Sheesh.
They were living better than American soldiers in Iraq were at the time.
Thought Marxists loved concentration camps in Russia, China and Cuba, what gives?
“If President Trump were 5% the fascist they claim he is, articles like this on would be verboten and Andrea & Sam would be in jail. “
Or in Joe’s ‘concentration camp’.
“.. you can’t just go around killing people because they’re here illegally”
But Illegals can go around killing people here.
huh.
America First, Illegals Last.
They tried to prove all of that and more when Arpaio was Sheriff, over many years they tried. If they could have proved it, he would have been gone many years ago...
More job creation !
More job creation !
Lawyers first. Journalists second.
The lady that referred first with the term was asking if the Sheriff could use them to pool the illegals and keep them from coming back....and killing us!
Sounds perfectly legit to me.
The reason he started gathering up illegals is because no one else would. The federal government absolutely refused to do their job.
He would not have needed a pardon if he had not stood up and fought for us against open borders/illegal immigration.
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