{"id":9076,"date":"2018-06-17T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T12:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2018-06-17T08:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T12:27:27","slug":"kinderkonzentrationslagern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9076","title":{"rendered":"Kinderkonzentrationslagern"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to watch Fox News a little this morning.<\/p>\n

The topic was the separation of children from their parents at the US border.<\/p>\n

Here is what I learned: The problem is not new. And it is all about optics<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0they tell me. That is to say, Barack Obama faced the same problem, his team even discussed the “zero tolerance” policy, but rejected it because it would have looked bad<\/strong><\/em>. In contrast, Donald J. Trump does not care about optics. He is willing to take the heat to do the right thing and enforce the law. He is a person who is seeking solutions instead of hiding from problems.<\/p>\n

In short, when he institutes a policy to separate children from their parents, he is a hero who protects America’s core values better than his meek predecessor.<\/p>\n

Mind you, I think Fox is wrong about optics. The optics were pretty bad during the Obama years, too. Here is a delightful picture of unaccompanied children sleeping on the floor of a border protection facility back in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Incidentally, the term I used as the title of this blog entry is wholly appropriate. The camps where these children are housed represent a textbook definition of concentration camps for children.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to watch Fox News a little this morning. The topic was the separation of children from their parents at the US border. Here is what I learned: The problem is not new. And it is all about optics\u00a0they tell me. That is to say, Barack Obama faced the same problem, his team even […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9078,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions\/9078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}