USA- the enemy of the humanity!

The United States government is ripping terrified children from the arms of their parents. Fascist Donald Trump has actually torn babies from the breasts of their mothers. They are putting some of these children in cells so cold they are nicknamed “the icebox.” They are putting others in massive camps. I can imagine the trauma and the terror of the child, the anguish and pain of the parent. And of course, the Trump regime justifies this with references to the Bible. United States commits crimes against humanity slamming into place a Christian fascist theocracy. This is part of a whole fascist offensive against immigrants. This regime has demonised and slandered them, terrorised and arrested them, brutalised and deported them. And this offensive in turn is the linchpin and battering ram of this whole fascist offensive. 

         But the attack on children is nothing new for America. Nor is it only happening on the border. The wealth of America was founded on the kidnapping of millions of people from Africa, many of them children and infants, and the lifelong enslavement of these children. As America grew richer, the selling of enslaved Black children away from their parents became a major feature, a typical scene, of the “American way of life.” Today, no one can imagine the horror and the heartbreak for those forced into such scenes, decade after decade, stamped on the psyches of human beings for generations. There’s more. After America stole nearly every last piece of land from the Native people, after America had slaughtered or killed through disease the vast majority of those who lived here before the European invasion, the U.S. government sent many of the children of the survivors to “boarding schools. These boarding schools, actually prisons or concentration camps would be better words, stripped the children of their names, their language, and their very sense of self. Today the U.S. system of mass incarceration imprisons tens of thousands of children each year, some locked up with adults. Nor is this attack something the U.S. only does at home. In the Vietnam War, they were not heroes but baby killers. In war after war, from Korea to Iraq, they have been part of a machine that killed the children of those they attacked, whether as “collateral damage” or with sick intention. In Yemen, at least 5,000 children have been murdered by U.S.-supplied planes and bombs, flown by America’s Saudi Arabian proxies, but re-fuelled in the air by the U.S. Air Force. More than eight million people in Yemen, the vast majority of who are children, are now at risk of starvation due to this U.S.-supported war. And this very weekend the Saudis and their allies are undertaking an offensive that will put many at even greater risk, an offensive that the U.S. refuses to condemn and in fact supports behind the scenes. 

         A poet once compared America to the biblical god Moloch, who demanded the sacrifice of children. But this system is no mythical god from a lost age, it is the all too real system of capitalism-imperialism, and it consumes children all over this planet, every single day. Juan Sanchez is the CEO of Southwest Key, a private contractor the Trump administration is paying 458 million dollars to operate immigrant child detention centres. The contractor is detaining separated children at dozen facilities across Texas, including an old Walmart store and decrepit warehouse. This is the real face of United States of America. This regime of terror and repression must be overthrown to save our children.