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Concentration Camps Expert Says Trump Just Endorsed The Idea Of Them In U.S. (He went there)
The Huffington Post ^ | August 26, 2017 | Sam Levine

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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KEYWORDS: arpaio; boogedyboogedy; demsincamps; dramaqueens; first100days; ilsa; lawenforcement; looneyleft; pinktriangle; punishment; tentcity; trump
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To: donna

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.


21 posted on 08/26/2017 3:30:24 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Heard that to, not that Icare.

Let’s try that one again.

HEARD THAT TOO, NOT THAT I CARE.


22 posted on 08/26/2017 3:31:32 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Sacajaweau

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.


23 posted on 08/26/2017 3:33:31 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: Only kidding.)
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To: blueunicorn6

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.


24 posted on 08/26/2017 3:36:11 PM PDT by Dust in the Wind (U S Troops Rock)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
On the other hand, Huffpo and the Leftists prefer Soviet Gulags. After all, that is where the Communists sent people to be reeducated or worse.
25 posted on 08/26/2017 3:38:22 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Dust in the Wind

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.”


26 posted on 08/26/2017 3:41:13 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


27 posted on 08/26/2017 3:43:08 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Kickass Conservative
No, I'm saying Sheriff Arpaio never called Tent City a “concentration camp”. Is there a source for that?

They were living better than American soldiers in Iraq were at the time.

28 posted on 08/26/2017 3:44:18 PM PDT by donna (Do Republicans respect the will of the people?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thought Marxists loved concentration camps in Russia, China and Cuba, what gives?


29 posted on 08/26/2017 3:44:41 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“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’.


30 posted on 08/26/2017 3:45:01 PM PDT by JPJones (There is no Law but Constitutional Law, and America is Its Agent)
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To: Cementjungle

“.. 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.


31 posted on 08/26/2017 3:46:19 PM PDT by JPJones (There is no Law but Constitutional Law, and America is Its Agent)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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...


32 posted on 08/26/2017 3:51:20 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Vision
[The level of stupidity in U.S. liberals is weapons grade.]

A bit more precise.
33 posted on 08/26/2017 3:51:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: TigersEye
I'm getting a lot of use out of this post lately... Liberalism is a Mental Disorder

Bingo!!!

You must have read the "Michael Savage" book "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder".

I do not know why but I just love these words since they are so true.

34 posted on 08/26/2017 3:53:53 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More job creation !


35 posted on 08/26/2017 3:54:31 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More job creation !


36 posted on 08/26/2017 3:55:31 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: donna
He was joking in response to a question. Here is the clip.
37 posted on 08/26/2017 3:56:07 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lawyers first. Journalists second.


38 posted on 08/26/2017 3:57:26 PM PDT by Delta 21 (AntiFa and BLM should be on the United States list of Terrorist Organizations)
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To: Michael.SF.

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.


39 posted on 08/26/2017 4:03:58 PM PDT by Delta 21 (AntiFa and BLM should be on the United States list of Terrorist Organizations)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


40 posted on 08/26/2017 4:04:15 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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