Carl Davidson – 6/14/18

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Shameless; Carl Davidson (KD); Facebook; June 14, 2018.

One Picture, 10,000 Words; Carl Davidson (KD); Facebook; June 12, 2018.

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“SHAMELESS. Forcibly taking kids from their parents, herding them into ‘detention centers’ dumping them in foster care programs already riddled with problems. Moving them around in freight trains. This is how it happens, folks. Not with big Nuremberg rallies (although Trump may come up a reasonable facsimile), but with small steps, each one with ‘reasonable’ explanations. No! Speak up now. Get your pastor or priest to speak up. Get your political and community groups to denounce this crap. Drop the stupid ‘Wall’ crap, and pass decent, humane immigration and refugee reform. Do it now, because it’s only going to get worse. Otherwise, start passing out ‘IM A GOOD GERMAN’ BUTTONS for your shirts and jackets.”

KD’s rant links to “Inside the Former Walmart That Is Now a Shelter for Almost 1,500 Migrant Children.”

[RWC] To start, it never ceases to amaze me how easily images of Hitler - and Nazis in general - slip off the tongue, keyboard, or pen to describe political opponents. Regardless of ideology, it seems like someone is always claiming someone else is a Hitler or a Nazi. To do so exposes a person’s ignorance and/or is an admission he can’t successfully debate an issue. The objective is to demonize an opponent so a debate never happens. Invoking Hitler/Nazis in this way trivializes the horrors he and his allies/supporters unleashed.

Why aren’t the parents the “bad guys?” They know what can happen to their children yet they put their kids in harm’s way anyway.

Commenter Hope Marston wrote, “Agree! However, the freight car story was not confirmed by Snopes .. and I haven’t yet found a credible posting about freight train movement of kids.” Snopes published its review on June 11th, three days before KD posted this piece. If KD didn’t know the “freight train” story was bogus, he should have. As of my review’s posting date, it’s been over a week since Marston’s comment without a KD response.

Here’s a link to an HHS page “About Unaccompanied Alien Children’s Services.”

How does KD define “decent, humane immigration and refugee reform?” What is not “decent, humane immigration and refugee” treatment about our existing immigration law?

Why isn’t Mexico to blame? Unless an alleged refugee family is fleeing something in Mexico, why doesn’t the family stay in Mexico? Isn’t Mexico aiding and abetting illegal immigration to the U.S. by serving as a pipeline for illegal aliens? Why isn’t Mexico to blame when it allows Central American parents to dump their kids on top of freight trains headed to the U.S.?

Here’s an excerpt from an example of KD hypocrisy: “There’s a good list of weak arguments to guard against. I like the Ad Hominem group the best, but go through them all and learn about manipulation: ‘Ad hominem – attacking the arguer instead of the argument.’” KD was gracious and gave us an example at the end of this post. If you disagree with KD, “start passing out ‘IM A GOOD GERMAN’ BUTTONS for your shirts and jackets.” That takes chutzpah considering KD is a Fidel Castro (FC) fanboy, refers to Mao Tse-tung (aka Mao Zedong) as a “wise man,” and “backed Pol Pot’s ‘Democratic Kampuchea’ for a time.” In his FC eulogy, KD wrote, “History Has Absolved Him” but didn’t say for what FC needed absolution and what he did to earn the absolution.

KD published the following post on 6/12/18 @ 5:40pm. Without comment, KD hid – but didn’t delete – the following post in his timeline sometime before 11:30am on 6/13/18.

“ONE PICTURE, 10,000 WORDS. Separating kids from their parents at the border and locking both up. Kids whisked off to ‘wherever’ to be found months later if at all. And these are refugees fleeing political violence, not Mexicans seeking work.”

[RWC] Surprise! KD’s “ONE PICTURE, 10,000 WORDS” is not what KD wants his followers to believe. KD’s followers are supposed to assume the photo shows a crying, illegal-alien kid torn from his parents’ arms and held in a cage at a detention center. It does not. When I started this review, I noted no one in the comment thread seemed to notice the kids appeared to be clean and well-dressed. This struck me as curious given we’re constantly told about the hardship of those who reach our Mexico border.

According to Snopes, “the photograph was taken on 10 June 2018, but it did not show a child confined by immigration authorities to a cage. Rather, it was snapped during a protest staged in front of Dallas City Hall to call attention to the Trump administration’s practice of separating families and confining undocumented children. Different photographs of the event document that the same child was standing a mocked-up ‘cage’ open at the top, and several commenters noted that the boy was crying not because he was confined, but because he saw his mother outside the pen and could not immediately figure out how to get to her.”

Though not mentioned by KD, Jon Favreau, a former Obama speechwriter, posted another bogus photo, this one from June 2014. According to Politifact, “Favreau, who has one million followers on Twitter, tweeted on May 27 [2018]: ‘Look at these pictures. This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible.’

“Favreau included a link to a [2014] Arizona Republic story showing a photo of two detainees lying on mats on the ground in a holding cell with the headline ‘First Glimpse of Immigrant Children at holding facility.’ While Favreau has since deleted the tweet, Twitchy and Fox News showed screen grabs.

“The photo was taken by Ross D. Franklin of the Associated Press in June 2014 at a Customs and Border Protection Agency center in Nogales, Arizona. The photo was used in an Arizona Republic article which described the migrants as ‘children in cages.’ The newspaper verified the timing of the photo in a tweet.”

A couple of days later, Favreau tweeted, “I tweeted a story that multiple journalists were posting. My mistake for not checking the date first. A few minutes later, when I realized my error, I deleted the tweet and immediately tweeted the correct info and date of the picture.” The date of the story was one line below the title.

The cover of the July 2, 2018, issue of Time magazine shows a crying little girl looking up at President Trump with the words “Welcome to America.” We were supposed to believe the “screaming” little girl was ripped from her mother’s arms and “carried away” by evil “U.S. Border Patrol agents” (probably wearing Nazi-era German uniforms) and left alone and scared. Surprise again! When you see the full photo from which Time grabbed the little girl’s image used on its cover, you see she was looking up and standing right next to her mother. In a correction, Time wrote, “The original version of this story misstated what happened to the girl in the photo after she was taken from the scene. The girl was not carried away screaming by U.S. Border Patrol agents; her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together.”

Day in and day out, leftists tell us what a hellhole the U.S. is. If they believe this and really care for those who want to come here, shouldn’t lefties discourage all immigrants – whether legal or not - from coming?

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