Trump’s America and the Litany of his Crimes Against Humanity
Trump’s descriptions of immigrants as an ‘infestation’ or ‘invasion’ echo the racist descriptions of economic refugees into Europe in the foul 1970s novel by a French author that has served as Steve Bannon’s Bible for decades. Bannon has historically agitated for a host of anti-immigrant measures. “In his previous role as executive chairman of the right-wing news site Breitbart — which he called a ‘platform for the alt-right,’ the online movement of white nationalists — he made anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim news a focus.” (Paul Blumenthal, JM Rieger, ‘This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World,’ in The Huffington Post, 03/04/2017 05:00 pm ET.)
The 1973 French novel, “The Camp of the Saints,” is an obscure and revolting narrative by French author Jean Raspail, a grotesquely scatological and violently racist tale about a migrant invasion designed to destroy Western civilization. The main, terrifying villain of this intellectually and morally bereft piece of fiction is an East Indian immigrant Untouchable called ‘Turd eater,’ as Raspail’s fictional boogeyman character literally eats shit (which Dalits don’t, though they are forced to clean up everybody else’s in India’s ancient, racial-supremacist, Indo-Aryan caste system, where that still functions). It includes disgusting representations of the impoverished and desperate economic refugees as abject as Bannon’s own historical diatribes against Occupy Movement, #MeToo and Climate activists.
The ‘purity and pollution’ bigotry in this Right-Wing White Nationalist ideology is despicable and grotesque, and it is also the only possible ideological explanation for what Trump, Miller, the current administration and the Republicans are doing to the innocent children they are holding captive, physically and emotionally torturing, neglecting and abusing. ‘As reported by Raw Story June 27th: ‘The latest damning evidence comes from within Border Patrol facilities near McAllen and Clint, Texas, where a visiting physician and attorneys found kids living without any of the necessities for decent existence.
‘According to Dr. Dolly Lucio Sevier, the minors she examined in those facilities were subjected to “extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food.” They had been unable to bathe or even wash their hands for days, which could lead to outbreaks of illness. Several infants had come down with flu, which sent them to neonatal intensive care in a local hospital. All of these children have suffered trauma, said the doctor, which provoked her to compare their treatment to “torture.” The lonely voice of sanity on Fox News Channel, anchor Shepard Smith, was moved to point out that the United States is now subjecting migrant children and adults to conditions not permitted for prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. Which is another way to say that the government is perpetrating crimes against humanity.’
I lived in the U.S. for 25 years, between the ages of 9 and 34. I lived in Miami, San Francisco and New York for the most part. I’ve spent time in every state of the continental United States, and even with what I’ve seen in the deepest south, Texas, the Midwest, and the Appalachian hinterlands, during segregation, integration, Civil Rights, Pride activism, and anti-American intervention in Central and South America activism in NYC, I would NEVER have imagined America capable of this — as a nation, as a collective entity, as a People.
I am in deep grief and mourning every day with this cruel and unusual inhumanity to CHILDREN! I grieve for America’s soul. Trump and Miller should be charged with Crimes Against Humanity and imprisoned for life. The U.S. government must be forced by the U.N. to pay reparations to the children and their families. The Republican Party should be censured and internationally reviled for their complacency and complicity in the face of atrocities perpetrated against vulnerable people and children. Any and all officials who have gone along with this should be hauled upon the carpet, put in the dock, fined, and censured.
