Posted on 06/21/2019 6:16:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
"The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is what they are." -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In April 1944, two Slovakian Jews named Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz and provided two of the first eyewitness accounts of the horrors of the European concentration camps. Both men had been rounded up with a group of their countrymen and sent to the Birkenau section of the camp in the spring of 1941, where they were immediately put to work as slave labor.
This was before the German regime had properly streamlined and industrialized efforts to destroy European Jewry. In the early days of the camp, any man incapable of labor was immediately executed. Those who survived were sent to do the grueling work of construction.
The men began their work at sunrise, and except for a half-hour break at noon, when the prisoners were fed cabbage and turnip soup, they worked until 6 p.m. For dinner, the men were given an ounce of moldy bread made from "ersatz flour and sawdust." Lice and fleas tortured their emaciated bodies as they slept on wooden boards. "Rats were so bold they gnawed at the toes and fingers of sleepers and stole the crumbs they had left in their pockets," wrote Robert Conot in his book "Justice at Nuremberg."
A third of the prisoners died every week. If a worker was hurt, he was allotted three days of recovery time. If they failed to heal, those working in the infirmary -- where Dr. Josef Mengele had already begun his nefarious work on women and children -- would inject a fatal dose of phenol directly into their hearts.
Of the 2,722 Slovakian Jews who had been rounded up with Wetzler and Vrba, only 159 survived to the summer of 1942. Those who died had been dumped, with another approximately 105,000 bodies, into shallow trenches around Birkenau. "As they decomposed" Conot noted, "the earth rose like a yeasty mixture of dough and bubbled up nauseating gases, which spread for miles."
I think of that last sentence whenever some modern-day know-nothing begins comparing the United States to a proto-Nazi state. Maybe it's because their analogies are embarrassingly ignorant and intellectually lazy, or maybe it's because people like Ocasio-Cortez, perhaps unknowingly, diminish the suffering of millions of dead. Or maybe it's because my own grandfather was taken as slave labor in Austria.
Then again, maybe it's because the comparison itself is a despicable smear of the American people. It's true that we're not prepared for the crush of refugees on the southern border. While there is a border, however, we ask migrants who show up to follow existing laws, ones that are subject to the democratic process and the court system.
Sometimes we reacted ham-fistedly, even temporarily breaking up families who are transporting children without any oversight. Some migrants have been abused, and some have died in our care. There is no excuse for it. Neither is sanctioned by the state.
If you believe any of this is morally equivalent to carting away millions of people to crematoriums for execution because their faith, your moral compass is irreparably broken.
This doesn't mean that people of good faith can never be critical of U.S. policy or contrast any policy with those of Nazi Germany. "Concentration camps" have a long history that predates the Holocaust, after all. But the contemporary usage is clear, notwithstanding Ocasio-Cortez's unconvincing attempts to walk back her initial statements. She, in fact, stresses: "I don't use those words lightly. I don't use those words to just throw bombs."
This dumb Nazi equivalence certainly isn't new. We see a spike whenever a Republican is elected -- be it Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan or George Bush. Of course, with Donald Trump, they are in full bloom. We see it all across social media -- not only from random accounts but from celebrities, well-known pundits and major newspapers peddling fourth grade-level historical analysis. What they're doing is cheapening their own arguments, on top of all else.
Ocasio-Cortez, whose historical obliviousness leads her to believe we're living in an economic and racial dystopia, says she is speaking to those who "are concerned enough with humanity to say that 'Never Again' means something and ... that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the 'home of the free.'" It's indeed strange to hear a leftist who champions anti-Israel causes and anti-Semitic politicians using this phrase, as the Jewish state is the most successful and enduring manifestation of "Never Again." The appearance of "Never Again" also undermines her later contention that she wasn't talking about the Nazi camps.
We're forced to take Ocasio-Cortez seriously because she is both a charismatic elected official with many impressionable fans and a person bestowed with a huge media platform. Only last weekend, she appeared on "Meet the Press" praising socialism -- the other scourge of the 20th century. Yet, when we need our media to ask Ocasio-Cortez to explain her profoundly childish and destructive statements, they are nowhere to be found.
She need to take off her shirt and go make me a sandwich.
True that.
The “concentration camp” accusation is hyperbole — extremism — masquerading as policy. THAT is the Democrat platform nowadays: sophomoric exaggeration, puerile name-calling, and emotional overload that long ago displaced reason.
Worse. She is arrogant and haughty.
Pictures say a thousand words. The look on her face, all of 29-30, says I “know it all” and am better than any of you.
I wonder if the FINAL Solution she dreams of includes mass extermination camps for conservatives?
"The Problem With Ocasio-Cortezs Shameful Ignorance of History
She represents her constituents well.
It isn't as simple as just calling her and her compatriots "dumb" - they are doing it on purpose.
I think three hings have roasted Biden. He can't get crowds to show up, he keeps saying stupid things, he has a long record in the Senate of pandering to people or groups that were once important but are now considered as bad as nazis, and (a really big one) was a couple of weeks ago when, after he weathered the storm of being too touchy with women and young girls, he called a 10 year old good looking and put his hands all over her AGAIN.
That combo of stupidity, lack of juice, baggage, and inability to control his peverted side in public made the power bosses say "Nope, this guy will get mauled by Trump".
And possibly Hillary pulled some strings or let some dirt out. Because she's definitely running.
Marxists attempt to explain all of nature/reality by dialectical materialism, which is based on conflicts and movements of opposites, and their merging into one another, rather than by observation + reason. This method does not lead to valid truth, but to invalid conclusions such as marxist exploitation theory.
The worst part is she doesn’t know how stupid she is, she thinks she is brilliant.
The Latina digbat knows exactly the connotation connected to the name “concentration canp.” She intended it! She did not mean it in its most innocuous form; i.e. a place at which people are benignly concentrated.
Do not expect AOC to read this article. Too bad.
Yep. AOC’s ignorance of history makes her about average.
She is a nightmare for the Dems and they don’t actually realize it.
“She is a special kind of stupid.”
This says it all and it applies to all the Snowflakes as well.
The height of her competency....
Nice rack.
BACKSTORY: Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress are a group of Bernie Sanders ex-staffers who decided 2018 midterms should be all about Bernies policies, finding 400 Bernie carbon copies to dump into races. They held auditions. AOC was hired to run in NY.
NOTE
<><> Brand New Congress mastermind is Saikat Chakrabarti
<><> Justice Democrats is Cenk Uygur, a Turkish-born Muslim.
Making a pile of money musta been a huge incentive. Read on.
FAST FORWARD TO TODAY.......an FEC complaint was filed alleging AOCs COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, created multiple private companiesLLCsto siphon off campaign contributions from her various PACs for personal use......
BTW, AOC has a lot more in common with Bernie than socialism. Besides socialism (gag)....
AOCs COS used to be Bernies....wait for it.....Director of Organizing Technology.
AND THISSaikat Chakrabarti, is a proven tech expert.
(A) He co-founded a web design tool,
(B) He built up the product team at the payment processor Stripe.........
(C) He then came to the Sanders campaign after (cough) growing disillusioned with the tech world.
Saikat Chakrabarti was Bernies Director of Organizing Technology. Even old man Bernie knew enough to hire a tech expert.
So, I guess (smirk) Chakrabartis tech skills musta come in mighty handy when donations to Bernie were wire-transferred to the DNC and ended up in 2016 candidate Hillarys account.
Debbie W/S headed the DNC at the time and was ousted b/c of her bias for Hillary.
Course, none of us heard about any of this, but.....
<><> Chakrabarti-the-tech-whiz did find out about the DNC theft, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did speak to D/W/S about it, or to Debbies tech expert, Imran Awan, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did tell Bernie he was fleeced, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti WAS working for Bernie, wasnt he?
Now the stunning details about that FEC complaint:
The FEC complaint asserts that AOCs COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, early on established two PACs that raised big bucks for AOCs campaign:
<><> the Brand New Congress PAC, and,
<><> the Justice Democrats PAC.
After mucho money was raised from the progressive suckers, Chakrabarti systematically transferred $885,000+ in PAC contributions to his private companies with similar names:
<><> the Brand New Campaign LLC, and,
<><> the Brand New Congress LLC.
Saikat Chakrabartis private companies, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures.
NOTE WELL: its a much-used criminal act to enrich oneself, to open bank accounts using similarly named entities to siphon off money, to hide it from partners, associates, investors etc.
SIPHONINGS A CINCH Its easy to siphon off money for oneself by putting checks into the new accounts with similar names, depositing checks that were made out to the original entity. Even your bank advises that if a check-writer mis-spelled your name, to just endorse the check with the correct name.
AND PRESTO: a check made out to Brand New Congress PAC, is deposited in the Brand New Congress LLC account.
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ANALYSIS - Chakrabartis companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how AOCs donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions, according to the FEC complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.
Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as really weird and an indication theres something amiss. They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went meaning (A) the donations could have been pocketed, or, (B) used by the LLCs to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.-SNIP-SOURCED FROM FR.
JUST WONDERING .....does Chakrabarti have a reputation among Democraps for facilitating the conversion of campaign donations?
Maybe we should ask millionaire landowner Socialist Bernie (smirk)?
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AOC's such a frickin hypocrite-----never mentions how she manipulated policy in the US Congress to get her
boyfriend on the govt gravy train. Digging reveals suspicious payments to AOCs boyfriend began early.
FACTS ON FILE
<><> Absent a waiver from House Ethics, family members have to be volunteers to get official house.gov email addresses,
<><> AOC's boyfriend got a govt email address immediately
<><> AOC doesnt believe in having unpaid govt workers; according to her COS they have no office volunteers.
<><> So boyfriend Roberts is designated as staff but also isnt "officislly" on AOCs staff,
<><> yet Roberts showed up in the House directory as processing into AOC's personal office as a staffer.
That explains why AOC was so determined to pay "volunteers"---she and the b/f would richly benefit.
That's because she has been grandstanding nationally instead of working to help her constituents locally, which is what new representatives do. Her involvement in chasing away 25,000 jobs from Amazon hasn't helped her. "$4 billion is lost wages and $12 billion in lost economic activity for NY. Thanks for Nothing, AOC!" the billboard in NYC reads.
Party players want her to challenge Schumer in the primary. Heaven help us if this nitwit gets into the Senate. It only validates her stupidity and air-headedness.
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