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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Huffington Post will literally print anything.
Once again, the Left projects what they have done already onto Republicans/conservatives.
All this academic group think propaganda means nothing.
At the moment they attempt to seize power from the consent of the governed, they will be laid to waste with extreme prejudice.
Yes, and the NYT, WP and CNN would be permanently shuttered and the occupants of the WH press room would all disappear one day. Hmmm... Naw, too radical. That’s what the Left would do to conservatives.
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
I was in some Tent Cities in the Army.
It got over 100 degrees.
I wanna see a lawyer!
It was a prison...not a 5 Star Hotel.
I remember a couple of decades back when Prince George’s County Police were taken to court for profiling blacks in Prince George’s County. Prince George’s County was upwards of 90% black and the police force in Prince George’s County was also upwards of 90% black. Don’t quote me on the percentages but they were both very high in the Afro-American demographic.
I’ve been to Phoenix and I’ve seen the population demographics there and...
And I’ve also seen the Phoenix PD demographic... very similar set of circumstances.
Seems Sunshine can’t tell the difference between a PB&J sandwich and bread made of sawdust, between pink underwear and walking skeletons, between B&W TVs and a gas chamber.
The Left is turning this entire country into a crowded Death Camp.
More Hate News.
“Arpaio referred to his own county jail as a “concentration camp.” “
Hysterical college sluts writing for the Huffinglue post. Next
Tweeted:
“Unlike his recent predecessors, Trump didn’t get paid to issue this pardon. #MAGA #RuleOfLaw”
I never heard that.
Progressive heads exploding all around; doncha’ just love it?
I’m confused.
They are calling President Trump the new FDR now?
The level of stupidity in the US is weapons grade.
<>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.”<>
Oh, like Detroit, Philly, Baltimore, LA . . .
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