dagblog - Comments for "These Children Are Lost and They've Entered Our Village"

Thx

rmrd0000 — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:01:55 +0000

In reply to this is delightful! I hereby

Thx

More on our culpability for

jollyroger — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:41:51 +0000

In reply to I don't remember when I first

More on our culpability for the indigenous crises themselves...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/a-refugee-crisis-not-an...

I don't remember when I first

Ramona — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:17:38 +0000

In reply to We have a history in the

I don't remember when I first heard about the U.S turning those Jewish refugees away, but I remember what a shock it was and how ashamed I felt that our country could do something so terrible. I remember it as being the first time I recognized that we weren't as wonderful as our press and our textbooks made us out to be.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the last.

Take the gloves off, is

NCD — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:28:33 +0000

In reply to Nice restraint, Ramona. And

Take the gloves off, is anything I said not true? Sorry if it sounded harsh.

These kids don't need excuses or rosy speculations of how their parents were responsibly looking out for their welfare, maybe some were, each family had their own reasons, each case is different, each is difficult.

Obama doesn't need right wingers blocking necessary funding for housing, medical care, legal counseling for the tens of thousands of them that they are here, and that looks like what he is getting so far.

Thank you, barefooted. See

Ramona — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:00:05 +0000

In reply to Nice restraint, Ramona. And

Thank you, barefooted. See you at the New Dag.

Nice restraint, Ramona. And

barefooted — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:56:13 +0000

In reply to Wow, NCD, that's harsh. The

Nice restraint, Ramona. And a really beautiful post.

Wow, NCD, that's harsh. The

Ramona — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:53:22 +0000

In reply to You guess wrong. Abused or

Wow, NCD, that's harsh. The line you responded to first was sarcasm, of course, and if you had taken the time to read the rest of it you would have seen that you and I agree on that.

I'll skip the last paragraph since I don't quite know how it fits with what I had to say in this piece.

We have a history in the

jollyroger — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:33:04 +0000

In reply to These Children Are Lost and They've Entered Our Village

We have a history in the country of failing to offer refuge to refugees. We purport to be ashamed.

There is, of course, additional irony in a comparison between our response to tens of thousands of refugee children and the daunting efforts even now being made by countries like Jordan and Turkey vis-a-vis millions of Syrian refugees of all ages.

Further irony: we are largely responsible for the conditions from which these children flee. Viz, our drug laws, our history of Central American oligopoly enablement, and, even our policy of deporting gang members (after they have learned their trade on our streets) in lieu of imprisonment here.

You guess wrong. Abused or

NCD — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:33:25 +0000

In reply to So I guess since they've been

You guess wrong.

Abused or neglected children are not helped by making long lists of excuses for those who failed them, parents, communities or governments included.

And I imagine those right wing Confederate flag wavers you have expressed such magnanimity towards are chomping at the bit to add the US to the register of those who have failed these kids.

this is delightful! I hereby

Richard Day — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:14:07 +0000

In reply to Some faith-based

this is delightful!

I hereby render unto rmrd the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of rmrd, from all of me!

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