Insanity of the Gun Violence Conversation in US (and of allowing McConnell with his bloody hands to have a voice)

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

 

 

I am not addressing this as a letter to Mitch McConnell for several reasons. His history makes it perfectly clear that he has NO INTEREST in losing all of the NRA money his party gets, no interest in protecting individual citizens in his country, no interest in telling the truth, no interest in pretending that he might possess a conscience or desire to do the right thing, no interest in hearing from constituents with intelligence or consciences, no interest in being part of the solution. I am, however, sharing this blog post from my personal blog here because HE owns the problem and people from around the world Google his position on things like gun violence and end up here - and I want them to see this.

 

Thoughts and prayers, commonsense gun laws, bipartisanship – same things, same words, all cliché to the point that they mean NOTHING. We have plenty of evidence telling us that none of this is going to make the differences we need.

"Thoughts and prayers" is gaslighting from the right and complicity from the left and neither thoughts nor prayers fix anything. Logic and honesty matter. The median in the country's commonsense appears to be somewhere around a double-digit IQ with no critical thinking skills and irrational fear of 'others' so it should not be our goal. And Mitch McConnell and his cult of domestic terrorists have made it clear that their goal is to NEVER reach bipartisanship on anything that the majority in this country support.

We are NOT having the national discussion we need to be having and we look like fools to the world.

When we talk about mental health being the problem while demonstrating that we are collectively insanely denying the obvious:

·         we are coddling the people who want to do us the most harm

·         we are entertaining liars who protect killers and the people who profit from death

we lose all credibility.

Let’s have sane, reflective, rationally based on decades of evidence and experience, meaning conversation on what we must do, whether or not both sides agree. And then fight to protect the citizens of the United States of America from domestic terrorists, angry neighbors, abusive partners, attention seekers, and people who want to commit suicide-by-cop. 

 

Les Subrick Letter to Moscow Mitch

Attn: Mitch McConnell, We, the American people who are not white nationalists will hold you accountable for not holding Russia accountable for election interference and we, the American people will also hold you accountable for destroying Kentucky from the inside out! We will have you investigated in regards to your money interests and why a Russian oligarch is interested of having their corporation reside in Kentucky! Your behavior is beyond outrageous! IT IS CRIMINAL! You are only for money and greed Mitch McConnell and we the majority of Americans can see right through you! You are warned!

Les Subrick

Moscow Mitch McTreason

Yay! Someone got clever. I said I wasn't going to use #MoscowMitch because I preferred to stick with what I had been using #traitormitch and like to be a leader, not a follower. So, now, #MoscowMitchMcTreason is trending. Perfect enough to make me a follower this time.

And I am not the least bit ashamed to admit that I took great pleasure in watching his seams weaken as he gave his pathetically transparent guilt-ridden, projecting about McCarthyism whine on the floor yesterday. My goal for years has been to reach his conscience or fear of prosecution for the crimes he has committed against this country and if #MoscowMitchMcTreason is the ticket, I’ll buy.

I thank you, creator of #MoscowMitchMcTreason 

McConnell/Trump Concentration Camp Details

Senator McConnell: 

A version of this is being circulated in which someone foolishly tried to transfer the blood from your hands onto Speaker Pelosi's hands. Anyone who has paid the least bit of attention, and who knows anything about what a dispicable traitor you are knows that Nancy Pelosi is carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders because you won't do your job. And you won't do your job because you paved the way, provided the agenda, loaded the courts, abetted your puppet, Trump, and because you are owned by China and Russia, have painted yourself into a corner with the blood dripping from your hands. 

YOU own this. 

DON'T LOOK AWAY. Please read this twitter thread from lawyer/activist Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, who collected the info from a friend/colleague who is volunteering at a CBP facility on our southern border:
Elizabeth C. McLaughlin‏ @ECMcLaughlin Jun 13
IF YOU CARE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP IS DOING AT THE BORDER, you need to read and share this thread. I have just gotten off the phone with a friend who is a legal volunteer in Border Patrol facilities. Don't look away. 1/
My friend has done two tours now volunteering as a legal advocate inside CBP facilities. She passed along information about what is happening there that indicates that the Trump Administration is violating every basic human right, and is moving toward military "solutions." 2/
So that folks understand the process: CBP has outposts on the border. Refugees seeking asylum travel hundreds of miles on foot, including with infants and small children, and turn themselves in at these outposts *on foot.* Here's what happens next. Don't look away. 3/
CBP then transfers these human beings to a facility called "the Dog Pound." (Here, my friend started crying.) The "Dog Pound" is comprised of cages, outside and on dirt, with no protection from the elements. Don't look away. 4/
There are dozens of teen moms there. There is no baby food. While there, my friend saw a CBP agent take a baby from her teenage mother, strip the baby of its clothes, hand the baby back to the mother, and send them outside to the "Dog Pound" to sleep in the dirt. 5/
The "Dog Pound" has no running water, no covers, no tarp, no care, no safety from the elements. It is freezing at night, and deathly hot during the day. Everyone is sick. My friend said she saw a baby on this trip that was so sick "I thought it would be dead by morning." 6/
Toddlers in the "Dog Pound" who had been eating solid food are given only infant formula. Moms are trying to start breast feeding again so their children don't starve. These moms are dehydrated, sick, & have walked miles through desert with no water. CBP gives them nothing. 7/
It gets worse. Don't look away. From the "Dog Pound," these human beings are moved to an area called "The Freezer." The Freezer is kept at 55 degrees. Some of the refugees who are moved there are still wet from their journey, and are put in The Freezer wet. 8/
CBP is keeping human beings in "The Freezer" for weeks at a time. WEEKS. Including critically ill people, disabled people, sick children, teenage mothers with babies. The floor of The Freezer is made of dirt or very rough concrete. There are no beds. Keep reading. 9/
From "The Freezer," refugees are supposed to be moved to ICE facilities that are designed for residential care. They have beds, food, bathrooms. However, (keep reading) THOSE FACILITIES ARE EMPTY. ICE IS SHUTTING THEM DOWN. Don't look away. 10/
What our government is doing instead is moving refugees to MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. The announcement about Fort Sill, which was used as a Japanese internment camp, is only the start. So why would our government be doing this? 11/
Here's why These concentration camps (let's call them what they are) will be under the control of the Department of Homeland Security, but within the Department of Defense. 12/.
Unlike ICE facilities, which allow site inspectors inside, there will be no inspection of military-run camps. The military will be able to deny access to anyone it chooses. No media. No oversight. 13/
Lawyers will not be allowed in. Human rights monitors will not be allowed in. The camps will also be protected airspace, meaning that no drones can fly over them to take pictures of what's going on inside. 14/
The Trump administration will be able to conduct itself in whatever way it wants to without anyone knowing what's going on inside. Think about what that means. Think about why they would want that. This is happening RIGHT NOW. 15/
ICE facilities with beds and food are EMPTY, because the Trump administration is moving refugees into military-run concentration camps where they can do ANYTHING THEY CHOOSE without oversight, media scrutiny or advocate access. 16/
This administration is already committing atrocities at CBP facilities. Border Patrol agents at the facility where my friend was working refer to these human beings as "bodies." Not people. "Bodies." They are denying medicine, toilets, beds, food, shelter and clothes. 17/
My friend said that "Flores is on very tenuous ground." We're days away from being met with "we're not going to let you in, no matter what." 18/
What is coming is crimes against humanity. America is already perpetrating mass human rights violations, and this administration is setting it up so they can do far worse, in secret, under military supervision. 19/
Military forces are already been shifted to CBP. My friend saw *coast guard agents* (read that again) working for CBP at this facility. If we do nothing, there will be blood on our hands.Elizabeth C. McLaughlin‏ @ECMcLaughlin Jun 13IF YOU CARE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP IS DOING AT THE BORDER, you need to read and share this thread. I have just gotten off the phone with a friend who is a legal volunteer in Border Patrol facilities. Don't look away. 1/My friend has done two tours now volunteering as a legal advocate inside CBP facilities. She passed along information about what is happening there that indicates that the Trump Administration is violating every basic human right, and is moving toward military "solutions." 2/So that folks understand the process: CBP has outposts on the border. Refugees seeking asylum travel hundreds of miles on foot, including with infants and small children, and turn themselves in at these outposts *on foot.* Here's what happens next. Don't look away. 3/CBP then transfers these human beings to a facility called "the Dog Pound." (Here, my friend started crying.) The "Dog Pound" is comprised of cages, outside and on dirt, with no protection from the elements. Don't look away. 4/There are dozens of teen moms there. There is no baby food. While there, my friend saw a CBP agent take a baby from her teenage mother, strip the baby of its clothes, hand the baby back to the mother, and send them outside to the "Dog Pound" to sleep in the dirt. 5/The "Dog Pound" has no running water, no covers, no tarp, no care, no safety from the elements. It is freezing at night, and deathly hot during the day. Everyone is sick. My friend said she saw a baby on this trip that was so sick "I thought it would be dead by morning." 6/Toddlers in the "Dog Pound" who had been eating solid food are given only infant formula. Moms are trying to start breast feeding again so their children don't starve. These moms are dehydrated, sick, & have walked miles through desert with no water. CBP gives them nothing. 7/It gets worse. Don't look away. From the "Dog Pound," these human beings are moved to an area called "The Freezer." The Freezer is kept at 55 degrees. Some of the refugees who are moved there are still wet from their journey, and are put in The Freezer wet. 8/CBP is keeping human beings in "The Freezer" for weeks at a time. WEEKS. Including critically ill people, disabled people, sick children, teenage mothers with babies. The floor of The Freezer is made of dirt or very rough concrete. There are no beds. Keep reading. 9/From "The Freezer," refugees are supposed to be moved to ICE facilities that are designed for residential care. They have beds, food, bathrooms. However, (keep reading) THOSE FACILITIES ARE EMPTY. ICE IS SHUTTING THEM DOWN. Don't look away. 10/What our government is doing instead is moving refugees to MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. The announcement about Fort Sill, which was used as a Japanese internment camp, is only the start. So why would our government be doing this? 11/Here's why These concentration camps (let's call them what they are) will be under the control of the Department of Homeland Security, but within the Department of Defense. 12/.Unlike ICE facilities, which allow site inspectors inside, there will be no inspection of military-run camps. The military will be able to deny access to anyone it chooses. No media. No oversight. 13/Lawyers will not be allowed in. Human rights monitors will not be allowed in. The camps will also be protected airspace, meaning that no drones can fly over them to take pictures of what's going on inside. 14/The Trump administration will be able to conduct itself in whatever way it wants to without anyone knowing what's going on inside. Think about what that means. Think about why they would want that. This is happening RIGHT NOW. 15/ICE facilities with beds and food are EMPTY, because the Trump administration is moving refugees into military-run concentration camps where they can do ANYTHING THEY CHOOSE without oversight, media scrutiny or advocate access. 16/This administration is already committing atrocities at CBP facilities. Border Patrol agents at the facility where my friend was working refer to these human beings as "bodies." Not people. "Bodies." They are denying medicine, toilets, beds, food, shelter and clothes. 17/My friend said that "Flores is on very tenuous ground." We're days away from being met with "we're not going to let you in, no matter what." 18/What is coming is crimes against humanity. America is already perpetrating mass human rights violations, and this administration is setting it up so they can do far worse, in secret, under military supervision. 19/Military forces are already been shifted to CBP. My friend saw *coast guard agents* (read that again) working for CBP at this facility. If we do nothing, there will be blood on our hands.

And you need to fix it. 

Sandy