[quote=FlyerInHi]BG and CArenter, does anything you say justify the shameful demonstrations against refugees, children and adults?[/quote]
The difference between you and me is that you prefer to focus on the symptoms, whereas I prefer to focus on the causes of these problems.
None of the behaviors and beliefs that you are focused on exist in a vacuum. Our elected officials and the corporate/financial interests who control them (and Hillary’s hands are covered in blood) have caused the conditions for these refugees to exist in the first place.
I was opposed to the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc., and have protested and spoken out against them from the earliest days. How about you?
These refugees shouldn’t exist, and Hillary Clinton is an extension of the policies that caused these atrocities in the fist place. Are you voting for her this election? I’m not (no, I’m not voting for Trump, either).
We need to stay the hell out of other people’s countries and we need to stop thinking that we have a right to their resources (yes, I believe that the people who were born and raised in a region, and who have ancestral ties to a region, have rights that people from other countries don’t have). We do not own the oil under their land, and we do not own the right to mine minerals or other natural resources from land (or water) belonging to others who already live there. We also don’t have the right to exploit their people for their labor just because they are desperate.
We owe these refugees safe zones in their own countries, and we have the obligation to pay whatever it takes to have a sufficient enough military presence to protect them within these zones. They have the right to live in their own countries; that’s what they prefer, and that’s what we owe them, no matter the expense. The people who got us into these wars (and the idiotic voters who voted for the corporate-controlled puppets who caused these wars) need to pay for what they have done.
It’s easy to cost-shift the burden to those who are most vulnerable and least able to bear these costs — being displaced from their occupations or neighborhoods, being pushed down the political/social totem pole, etc. Again, it’s easy to bathe in self-righteousness when you’re not the one paying the price. It’s time for those who make these decisions, and who most benefit from them, to make the greatest sacrifices.
