America must show a zero-tolerance policy

Maybe it was best our country withdrew from the UN Human rights council when it did, as it has become blatantly apparent we no longer hold any claim to the moral high ground, as if we ever did. 

The light from our shining city on the hill is starting to grow dim.

This country has a dark history of native genocide, black slavery and as recently as two generations ago the internment of law abiding Japanese American citizens out of fear. 

In the meantime zero-tolerance policies have placed a disproportionately large number of people of color in for profit prisons for minor nonviolent drug offences.

But rather than learn from our history and lead us away from these past racial atrocities, Trump, his minions and their republican enablers have chosen to take us back to the dark side yet again.

While the world watches in disgust, the land of the free and home of free-market capitalism is separating children from their immigrant or asylum-seeking parents and placing them in for profit, ex-big-box store detainment camps. 

It’s a zero-tolerance policy because today’s diaper-clad two-year-old brown Honduran could be tomorrow’s MS-13 member.

It seems the Beacon of freedom our country once represented is actually the searchlight on the camp guard tower.

This coming November, America must show a real zero-tolerance policy at the voting booth and rip power from the hands of Trump and his republican enablers just like they rip children from the hands of refugee mothers. We must do it decisively, before the light from our once shining city on the hill becomes nothing more than the perimeter lights of an internment camp.