It starts like this

[sabotabby]

Remember when you first saw this picture?



Were you shocked and horrified? Did you wonder how it could ever come to that? Did you, half a century later, wonder if the child in the photograph survived? Did you question what it would take for a man to pick up his gun and point it children, or wonder what went through his head?

I wonder about the case of Suzi Hazahza and her family, marched out of their home in their bedclothes at gunpoint. Did the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who aimed their guns at 17-year-old Ahmad and 11-year-old Mohammad ever see the famous photograph of the little boy in the Warsaw Ghetto? Did they think, for a moment: This is a line I shouldn't cross, pointing a gun at a child. My orders shouldn't matter, my politics shouldn't matter, the child's citizenship and skin colour shouldn't matter. This is wrong?

Or have we passed the point of thinking?

These fuckers certainly have.

(Hat tips: sadie_sabot, Feministe.)

Comments

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

Well, Amerikkka is doing what it does best. Label, harass, arrest, expunge, repeat. It's like rinse & lather.

[sabotabby]

I still except more people than just our lot to get upset. Call me an optimist.

[sabotabby]

Interesting analysis of the idea that the majority of Americans aren't actual genocidal loonies, but in the presence of a highly concentrated and politically savvy minority of genocidal loonies, don't entirely realize that they're not fringe.

I'm not sure that I agree, particularly when it comes to broader issues of racism and imperialism, but it's food for thought.