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uponit7771

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10. Yes, ones a crime (genocide) the other is not. The distraction is children in cages, we put them in

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #7)

Tue Sep 1, 2020, 03:24 PM

Sep 2020

... cages and jails all the time in the US as a policy, that's not against the law.

Taking children from their parents as a group of people and openly admitting such as a policy of deterrence during a rally is though.

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Children in cages [View all] EndlessWire Sep 2020 OP

Care? keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #1

We're not too far from the nazis in the accumulated cruelty... brush Sep 2020 #2

It was SICK to find out she put on that jacket because: Michelle Obama. Maru Kitteh Sep 2020 #8

Just be prepared to counter the reality - Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #3

Obama put children who came unaccompanied in cages. secondwind Sep 2020 #4

So it's just fine to keep children in cages, as long as Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #7

Yes, ones a crime (genocide) the other is not. The distraction is children in cages, we put them in uponit7771 Sep 2020 #10

I don't give a flying fig about the law. Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #12

I care about the genocide part, I think we all should no? ... and there's a difference of thousands uponit7771 Sep 2020 #14

I'm not really moved EndlessWire Sep 2020 #5

point, whoosh, head. Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #6

Obama/Biden didn't deliberately inflict the cage condition onto the children Trump/KKKlan did uponit7771 Sep 2020 #11

Those children just accidentally wandered into the cages Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #13

No, they accidentally wandered into a situation where the US didn't have anywhere to put thousands.. uponit7771 Sep 2020 #16

***YES*** Its TEXT BOOK genocide defined by UN Article 2 Part E !!!!! (link) uponit7771 Sep 2020 #9

Crimes against humanity bdamomma Sep 2020 #15

I thought that was done and over with. tavernier Sep 2020 #17