Genocide, wars, and gangs, and those who flee

It wasn't just in Nazi genocide:


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part of the scandal was that both sides included nominal Christians, and unlike previous massacres, those hiding in churches were killed.

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and when the Abus/ISIS types took over a city in the southern Philippines last year, a lot of Muslims hid their Christian neighbors when the invaders started killing the Christians who weren't able to get out in time.

UKIndependent article.

NYTimes article.

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in Yemen, the Saudi bombings killed many people, but the many massacres by the Houthi militia get less publicity (because the left can't blame the west like they can for the Saudi bombings, and of course, because the press can't get in there to report what is actually going on).

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civilian deaths in Syria as a side effect of being bombed, from artillery fire, from disease, or being starved out by blockades are too many to list. But Wikipedia (duh) has a list of actual massacres.

I say "duh" because although some of those listed are actual massacres of the innocent, sometimes when an army goes in to liberate an area, they round up all the suspicious men and kill them, figuring they probably are soldiers hiding out among civilians, and they don't have the time or logistics to capture them as POWs.

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I wrote about the Karen and Rohingye in previous posts.

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and the genocide that no body wants to know about: the many dead from disease and hunger related problems among the refugees from the various wars in Central Africa: the Congo, Nigeria, Sudan, and of course Somalia.

Sigh. The dirty little secret is that nobody wants to get in the middle of that fight, or accept some of the five million uneducated refugees from that area of the world. ;-(

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in contrast, for the US, the problem behind the flow of Mexican and Central American refugees is the love of drugs by too many in the USA (where are the bishops and pastors on this? Anyone? Anyone?)

This results in narco terror.

Once locals get tired of it, they can elect a government that gets rid of the murderers (a couple million Colombians demonstrated against FARC, and this was the point the war against their terrorist narco gangs actually turned around).

and one could say that the deplorables voting for Trumpie boy was a similar populist outcry.

Too bad a lot of very nice hard working people are being caught in the crossfire of politicians who play memes and games against each other than discussing the real problem that worry ordinary folks.

I add Central America to all of this, because despite drug violence, Mexico's economy is getting better and a lot of folks are going home...So a lot of those crossing the US border in recent years illegally are from other countries.

FYI: President Obama deported 2.4 million people during his time in office, a fact that is usually ignored by the MSM and by Trumpie boy's supporters.

the murders in Mexico and Central America are bad, but not quite the same thing as war level violence.

Of course, these countries could decide to get rid of their gangs, but given the bad press against Duterte who is actually trying to clean up the criminal elements "dirty Harry" style, you can see why maybe the politicians might chose the silver over the bullet, as the saying goes.

But you are just as dead if you are killed by a murderous drug gang or by a robber hopped up on meth as you are if you are killed in a war: and in his last months, President Obama made it easier for them to do so.

so why deport those fleeing violence? Because some of the violence comes with them.

Dirty little secret: one reason Trumpie boy might win the war to stop the flow of illegal immigrants is because middle America is being infiltrated with drugs and gang violence, and they are saying stop them.

The bad news: If things don't clear up, the next step is Dirty Harry or worse.

Sigh.

So shut down the government and shout memes? Well it worked for Clinton's propaganda machine in the 1990's, but this time we have an alternative media for different points of view, and of course most  folks are saying a pox on both your houses.