Trump’s policy of kidnapping, detaining and deporting foreign nationals primarily serves the interests of Israel and America’s own prison-industrial complex.
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Donald Trump’s policy of kidnapping, detaining and deporting foreign nationals primarily serves the interests of Israel and America’s own prison-industrial complex which, since the demise of Detroit’s car industry, is America’s biggest and most lucrative legal enterprise.
Let’s start with Israel and, specifically, with the kidnapping of Turkish citizen, PhD student and Fulbright scholar, Rumeysa Ozturk, who was snatched by half a dozen armed goons after she emerged from her digs at sunset. The overarching charge against Ozturk is that she is a Hamas supporter and the specific one is that she co-authored that innocuous op ed in The Tufts Gazette, a student paper at Tufts where she was completing her PhD and teaching a couple of low level courses on child development.
Let’s first of all note that American universities depend on exploiting PhD students like her to fulfill their teaching commitments and their chemistry labs could not function without the thousands of underpaid Chinese PhD students who run the labs and the other intensive jobs chemistry courses demand. Controversial though it may sound, being Chinese or Turkish is not in and of itself a crime and all peoples should be treated with respect, even in America, unless there are specific reasons to treat them otherwise.
In Ozturk’s case, there are not. Her only crime seems to be that she co-authored that innocuous article on the Gazan genocide and, for that, she is accused of being a Hamas supporter, a charge that cannot be leveled at me because I remember and will never forgive or forget their treachery in Syria and their ongoing allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood, which my previous articles show I thoroughly despise.
The relevance of that to cases like Ozturk’s is that, like most Turks or others of goodwill, the fact that she opposes the wholesale slaughter by the Israeli Wehrmacht of Gazan civilians does not make her a Muslim Brotherhood or Sultan Erdoğan stooge. It simply makes her human. To get a flavour of the obvious nuances here, cast your mind back to Mexico’s Cristero revolt and, specifically to arch Catholic Graham Green‘s The Power and the Glory, where atheists are as often as not the heroes who literally put their necks on the line to hide the fugitive priest, not because they are Catholics but because they are decent human beings with the moral compass the book’s antagonist lacks as much as do Trump’s enforcers.
Thus, although the Muslim Brotherhood are exploiting the Gazans, Ozturk and her tens of thousands of fellow students are decidedly on the side of righteousness when they oppose, however innocuously, that genocide. And, as regards the very many Born in the USA students who protested on her behalf, they must be praised as much as Betar and Canary Mission, the Zionist j’accuse hate groups that grass her and those like her should be roundly condemned for the snakes in the grass that they are.
Although the above two links give a flavour of the pungent stench those Zionist groups emit, because those who have followed the Zionist turkey shoot in Gaza will be familiar with the calls of American and British-based Jews to have female proponents of the Gazans’ right to life gang raped, there is no need for me to dwell on the moral short comings of Ozturk’s oppressors. They are despicable people, who have far too much power and influence in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Ozturk’s is not the only clear cut case of the persecution of foreign students and, though our Trotskyist friends comment here on the overall trends her case typifies, CBS reports that Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian citizen and doctoral student in mechanical engineering, whose case was first flagged here by the Crimson White, the student paper of the University of Alabama, where Doroudi was studying before he was kidnapped and refers us to the disturbing home page of ICE for further details. Although Doroudi’s only crime seems to have been a minor traffic violation, the obvious elephant in his drawing room is that he is Iranian and the United States, together with its Israeli partner in crime, is prepared to break any law or civilised norms to bring that country, their end destination on the road to Persia, to heel.
As well as his revamped Gleichschaltung — Hitler’s official subordination of intellectual and cultural life to Nazi ideology — not only is Trump bankrupting America’s leading universities into compliance with the war aims of Uncle Sam and Israel, but they are trying to boost the bottom line of their donors and sponsors in all other ways as well.
Witness the cases of Jeanette Vizguerra and Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, who are the latest righteous heroes to be swept up in Trump’s ongoing xenophobic crackdown. The Peoples Dispatch report that their crime, a hanging offence if Trump’s core cronies had their way, was to be union organisers for Latino fruit pickers, a crime so heinous that they ended up with a felon’s ball and chain for simply standing up for the rights of America’s transient agricultural workers, one of the noblest causes there has ever been since Steinbeck wrote his The Grapes of Wrath masterpiece in the late 1930s.
The Catholic Church, which is pinioned between the twin sirens of the Oval Office and the Grapes of Wrath, has found itself deeply entwined in all of this. Not only are Marco Rubio and some of other Trump’s most venomous goons from Latino Catholic backgrounds but the Catholic Herald reports that law abiding, Church going Venezuelans are being renditioned en masse to El Slavador and, because Trump’s puppet regime in San Salvador does not recognise Venezuela, no more is heard of or from them, once they are chain ganged there.
None of the foregoing is to deny that the United States has a major problem with domestic and foreign crime cartels, just as Ireland has major issues with Nigeria’s Black Axe gang, the Muslim Brotherhood murder gang and Mexico’s Sinaloa crime cartel. But, on the flip side of that, there are the Congolese expatriates marching in Ireland’s major cities on behalf of their compatriots back home, who are being slaughtered on a Biblical scale and who should and must be supported as much as any other humanitarians battling against the almost impossible odds Uncle Sam and his flunkeys pit against them.
When it comes to trampling on human rights, Trump is only continuing a long and ignoble tradition stretching far back into the bowels of America’s history, even well before July 28, 1932 when American national heroes like MacArthur and Patton ordered their troops to fire on their own Great War veterans. We have already mentioned The Grapes of Wrath and we could throw in Detroit’s auto bosses hiring mafia muscle to crack the skulls of trade union organisers. We could mention the union busting tactics of Walmart, McDonalds and other staples of the minimum wage American dream but we would drift too far off into the emasculating abstract. Far better, perhaps for people of my generation to listen to No Time for love if they come in the morning and to again breathe in its wonderful lyrics, which are based on Pastor Martin Niemöller‘s famous commentary on the Nazis’ own ICE project and whose chorus goes like this:
No time for love if they come in the morning,
No time to show tears or for fears in the morning,
No time for goodbye, no time to ask why,
And the sound of the siren’s the cry of the morning.
And, though many of those who once were with us have long ago sold their souls to Trump and his fellow devils, that makes not a whit of difference when we look at the overall moral arc, which demands we stand not only with long-dead murdered martyrs like Martin Luther King Junior and the Kent State martyrs, but with today’s anonymous American students, who still fly the flag of freedom, equality and true fraternity in the face of these latest despotic and Satanic manifestations of the ongoing American nightmare.
