Terrible things are happening outside...

[Swede]

[aggiesal]

1. This phrase is locked into place.on my Twitter feed without the Anne Frank acknowledgement ...

I'm trying to bait people into responding negative to it.

[erronis]

2. Thank you. Many of us may currently be able to look out our windows and see the same thing happening.

And soon most of us will live with that same fear.

Powerful.

[aggiesal]

3. I already live in that fear ...

Being Latino, I now carry my Passport card with my driver's license, everywhere I go.

[mercuryblues]

5. Yup. We're at the "Papers please phase.

[aggiesal]

10. Papeles por favor n/t

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[COL Mustard]

6. I hate to say it but....

You are smart to do that. I hope you never get hassled.

[aggiesal]

9. I live in Chula Vista about 7 miles from the Mexican border and about 7 miles from the Pacific Ocean ...

ICE was hanging around Sharp Hospital-Chula Vista early this past week.
The hospital is about 1 mile from my house.
This is getting too close for comfort.

[electric_blue68]

36. I'm so sorry drumphf has allowed rampent mistreatment, mis-arrests of the Latino community...

and others also get caught in it.

Stay safe!

I'm an Anglo living in a Hispanic neighborhood (NYC) I hope I don't ever see ICE in my nabe.

[aggiesal]

38. ICEtopol was at the Sharp Hospital about a mile from my house. ...

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A little too close for comfort.

[electric_blue68]

42. I read that in your previous post. No kidding!

It makes unfortunate sense for you to feel scared!
I hope you, or any you care about will not be confronted! 😔 🤞

[aggiesal]

43. I'm sorry, that was the Department of Redundancy Department. Enjoy your day. n/t

[electric_blue68]

45. Hey, No Problemo! 🙂

[bdamomma]

44. Stay safe

Ask for ID's and if they have a warrant. :

[Dave Bowman]

23. Please stay safe.

[Clouds Passing]

41. Stay safe aggiesgal 🙏🏼

[Figarosmom]

4. Yeah, i was thinking about that.

[hlthe2b]

7. Among the several whose words haunt me right now...

RIP, Anne Frank. May attempts to repeat your suffering en masse once again be STOPPED... Somehow...

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[DFW]

11. I have to wonder to what extent her name even rings a bell to the last two generations of young Americans

Here in my section of my town north of Düsseldorf, no one is allowed to forget. After the war ended, the townspeople forced the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) workers left to march to an unmarked, but well-known area on the edge of town, and forced them to exhume their victims, and cart them back into the center of town where they were give a proper burial.

Their headquarters was later transformed into an elementary school, which both of my daughters attended. All students learned about the girl after whom the school was named:

[BurnDoubt]

22. Please NEVER FORGET!

[Iris]

27. My nephew read Diary of Anne Frank in 5th grade.

She lives on.

[DFW]

33. That is good to hear, thanks.

Any first-hand chronicle of a victim of that era is a piece of history that is a rare gift that needs to be passed down.

[Iris]

35. I agree and was really glad when I learned he read it.

I read it at that age as well.

[DFW]

37. I was almost 50 before I started learning Dutch

Some day when (if!!) I ever slow down, I should get a copy in the original and try to read that.

[hay rick]

12. People are keeping diaries...

I reported a story that included a Guatemalan restaurant owner keeping a diary here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220091050.
This was at the beginning of March. Soon after, Miller made his 3,000/day directive and they began pulling over landscaping trucks in our area. The current budget reconciliation bill seeks to more than double the number of direct ERO (Expedited Removal Operations) employees and fund huge increases in the construction, operation, and maintenance of, uh, concentration camps.

[SergeStorms]

16. How many republicans......

are heavily invested in those companies you mentioned? My guess would be "most of them."

They don't care who hurts as long as they're making money from it.

[hay rick]

26. My former State Senator, Joe Negron, for one.

Negron rose to the presidency of the Florida State Senate, serving two years in that position then resigning two years before the end of his Senate term. He took a position as general counsel for the GEO Group private prison company, starting at $400,000.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Stephen Miller, for one. No surprise.

Who trump has put in in charge of the roundup. He and many other Republicans have lots of shares in the companies running the program, Core Civic being one.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

39. He is such an odious little monster.

[Wounded Bear]

13. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme...

trump following Authoritarian Handbook on how to terrorize the people and suppress dissent.

Dark times coming.

[Dave Bowman]

24. He's the worst domestic terrorist in the history of the USA.

[Cha]

14. Ohh yes it's happening again 😢😡

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Hitler’s Nazi playbook

Mahalo Swede🕯️🕊️💙🌈🇺🇸🌊🇨🇦💛💙

[markie]

15. if we aren't terrified

we aren't paying attention

[badhair77]

17. Haunting and terrifying parallels.

[calimary]

18. Everything old is new again.

Sadly enough.

I’m gonna use that as the next “Quote of the Week” unless something else grabs my eye. And if not next week, it’ll undoubtedly be soon. Too good, and too painful to let go of.

[BurnDoubt]

19. The "good old days" are back again.

The Greatification is well under way.
At this rate, we may see summary executions on the town square in time for Christmas.
And... don't forget to say: "Merry Christmas" if you know what's good for you.

[UTUSN]

20. K&R. and we're not supposed to reference this.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. It's not impossble that Anne Frank could still be alive today.

She would have just turned 96. Her father lived to age 91.

I often think about how different some things might be, had she lived. She'd have become a writer, well she already was a writer, and we would all be talking about her books.

[Skittles]

25. yes

Mel Brooks just turned 99.....

[DFW]

34. My mother in law turns 98 this year

She grew up about 155 miles east of where Anne Frank lived, today less than a three hour drive. Of course, at the time, she had the “right papers,” so other than having to jump into ditches during strafing runs by allied warplanes on the way to school, she endured no constant danger.

[SheltieLover]

28. Kick

[Littlered]

29. I know, right.

I know people that are fighting life threatening diseases. Their only hope is basically, a miracle. Their families are likely to end up destitute over medical bills and lost wages.. I’m sorry, I just don’t have any sympathy to give right now. If you are reading this and you do. I am happy for you. I sometimes wish I was so isolated.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. Kick.

[Jack Valentino]

31. Any masked felon who smashes the windows of your car while you are in it, to get at you,

is BEGGING to be shot in a clear case of self-defense--- and I can't see a jury in any normal state convicting them of any crime whatsoever.

[Martin68]

40. Never has this perspective been more relevant to our own country. shared on FB.

[uponit7771]

46. Hit hard