Over the past few weeks, Republican officials have taken the terrifying sight of taking photos in front of immigrants detained at the Secott prison in El Salvador. Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem Trends have begun In late March, we will take photos and videos as part of the administration’s anti-immigration efforts.
Other Republicans followed in the footsteps of Cosplay In the weeks that followed, the secretary tried to show the immigrants “stricken.”
“I am now more determined to support President Trump’s efforts to secure our hometown,” said Rep. Riley Moore of West Virginia. I wrote about it later His recent trip.
Journalist Marisa Cabas It’s attracting attention That the infamous, violent trip to CECOT has become a Republican circle ritual to demonstrate their MAGA qualifications. But their trips do not underscore the deplorable situation at CECOT that the State Department does not remember under President Joe Biden. explained 2023 is “hard and life-threatening.”
Visit to the facility where Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s father is located in Maryland I’m being detained by mistakethe latest chapter in the right love affair with state-sanctioned abuse and torture.
President Donald Trump has often made an open statement of his love for abuse. In one ominous example of 2017, he I laughed like he said A crowd of New York police officers say they should abuse people when they arrest them.
He discussed the practice of protecting the head when the suspect’s head is loaded into a police car, saying, “You can take your hands off.”
Trump used many of his first term in office to support police brutality, particularly black people. He was surged by Black Lives Matters protests And I was encouraged Police officers attacking protesters.
But long before Trump entered politics, this idea was mainstream with Republicans.
One of the key methods used in response to terrorism under President George W. Bush It was tortureThe administration sought to sell it to the public as “enhancing interrogation.”
A 2008 ABC News Report revealed that senior Bush administration officials were explained about how people detained were abused. The ABC said “Some of the interrogation sessions were mostly choreographed. It depends on the number of times a CIA agent can use a particular tactic.”
The Bush administration faced global condemnation in 2004 after photographs and recorded torture It came out from Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.
Despite allegations that torture was used to find weapons of mass destruction and 9/11 mastermind Osaba bin Laden, the Bush administration did not find WMD in Iraq. Similarly, bin Laden was not found and was eventually killed until a few years later. Under President Barack Obama.
Of course, right-wing media has played a role for decades by supporting torture and abuse and defending the use of those technologies by Republican officials. Under the Bush administration, Fox News will do so I often praise it The use of torture as a tool to combat terrorism points to the fictional television series “24” as proof.
Now deceased conservative radio host Rush Limbo when evidence of torture of Abu Ghraib emerged. excuse Human rights say they abused them by comparing them to the university’s fraternity haze, and torture was done to “spray some steam” while “having a good time.”
But what is the motivation behind this blase attitude towards human rights? It’s not effective In the fight against crime and terrorism?
Conservatism is weak.
Issues like immigration, terrorism, and crime are complicated. There is no magic button to destroy fallout from these issues. These are systematic issues that need to be addressed from multiple angles and may include diplomacy, science, research, and reasons.
Rather, conservatism tells the public that, as long as they act “hard” they will disappear as long as the bad people act “hard” instead. Rights simply retreat torture and abuse if the subject in question has brown skin.
I love to use rights All hands approach As evidence of the weakness of the left and the disconnection from reality. However, none of these issues have been resolved, but true progress has been made without violating the principles of Core International and American.
It is weak to pose in front of those who rely on abuse and torture and pose in front of imprisoned people and impress closely with the herd. Stronger is to stand up against abuse and defend human rights.
But rights would like to choose the simple path. We all reap the whirlwinds of blowback.
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