Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting immigrants are a sign that America may soon have what amounts to a system of concentration camps for extra-judicial imprisoning of immigrants. It’s part of the plan.
The only Democrat who seems to understand all this and who is willing to call it out is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has previously used the c-word to describe Trump’s camps, and yesterday in Congress, she explained how the Laken Riley Act will create what amounts to a system of concentration camps for extra-judicial imprisoning of immigrants.
In this bill, if a person is so much as accused of a crime if someone wants to point a finger and accuse someone of shoplifting, they will be rounded up and put into a private detention camp and signed and sent out for deportation without a day in court,” she said. “So when a private prison camp opens in your town and they say we didn’t know this was going to happen, know that they did, and they voted for it.”
None of this is accidental: it is the way such regimes operate, and we have very clear historical precedents. We need to get this through our heads.
All of those declarations and constitutions and values and human rights we thought were chiselled in stone were, in fact, written on tissue paper, and Trump is dropping them onto a bonfire.
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And at the heart of all authoritarianism is the creation of an enemy, the demonisation of some other, or others, onto whom the “good citizens” can project their fears and concerns. When Trump and Vance warn of immigrants eating cats and dogs, they are participating in this age-old ritual of demonisation, and as I’ve said, this is not just a media strategy.
Hitler certainly made no secret of his antisemitism, and as far back as 1921, an article in the Nazi daily newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, mentioned the idea of a future Nazi government using camps to deal with their enemies. But as Nicholas Wachsmann cautions, “The improvisation after the capture of power makes abundantly clear that there was no blueprint in Nazi files. When Hitler took charge of Germany in 1933, the Nazi concentration camp still had to be invented.”
An article by Tim Dunlop. Audio version is available on the page.
Of course, there was plenty of inspiration to invent concentration camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_colony
What happens when system problems conflict with your personal action/inaction/"lifestyle"?
Because if you're not prepared for change and instead are dreaming of a high-carbon lifestyle, you are probably going to vote for cryptofascists who promise more growth, the "American Dream" of car dependent suburbia as ~~cheap~~ affordable, cheap huge screens, cheap meat, cheap eggs, cheap cheese, cheap private commuting, cheap road infrastructure, cheap parking, cheap office space, cheap flights, cheap tourism, cheap low efficiency devices, and so on, while you get into conspiracies about 15 minute cities, plant-based diets (plus insect protein), and others.
The carbon footprint existed before that calculator tool was created as a practical measure in the scientific literature. You can usually find it as "GHG emissions per capita".
The same goes for the ecological footprint and its calculators. These weren't invented by fossil fuel corporations, they were used by them for PR.
The message from the Fossil PR isn't that you're guilty, it's that they own you because you are dependent on their product.
What I'm saying is that people need to be ready to end the addiction, to go through the withdrawal. That's a kind of bravery that isn't fostered by consumerism with its convenience obsession. Otherwise, people will just vote out anyone who tries to do something about the systemic problems, and vote in the liars who deny climate change and other systemic problems.