Just curious to know what the reaction would be if someone bombed virtually every #hospital, #school & most civilian #housing in Israel & then openly planned to implement #concentrationcamps & #ethniccleansing.

Today in Labor History May 12, 1940: Edgar Lion, a 20-year-old Austrian Jewish student at the University of Edinburgh, was arrested by British police and shipped off to the Isle of Man with thousands of other Jewish detainees. The British government locked them all up in hotels surrounded by barbed wire. He was later deported to Canada, where he was interned with 2,300 other Jewish refugees in camps alongside German Nazis and forced to perform brutal physical labor for virtually no pay. “There were real Nazis interned with us! They were Nazis who happened to be caught by the war in Great Britain. They were bragging, and they kept telling us, ‘wait till Hitler wins the war, we’ll cut all your throats!’”

As appalling as the Trump administration is, with its arrests, deportations, and use of brutal concentration camps for innocent immigrants, as well as many legal residents and citizens, it is a misrepresentation of history to suggest that this sort of behavior is similar only to that of the Nazis, and is somehow extraordinary for modern democracies like the U.S., Britain and Canada. Concentration Camps, with forced labor, brutal living conditions, and sometimes torture and violence against inmates were operated by numerous so-called democratic Western nations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and even today. Australia used them during both World Wars, and currently runs some for refugees on Nauru and Manus Islands. During both World Wars, Canada imprisoned 8,579 male "aliens of enemy nationality" in concentration camps with forced labor, including thousands of Jews. They also interned Japanese residents. Denmark, Sweden and Finland also had concentration camps. French concentration camps, along with the torture and starvation inflicted on their inmates, and the casualties from its war of conquest in Algeria, resulted in up to 1 million deaths. And then there were thousands of Jews who were imprisoned in concentration camps under the Vichy government, most ultimately deported to Germany, where they were executed. Even Germany’s legacy of concentration camps predates Hitler, with deadly camps utilized during the Herero and Namaqua genocide they committed in Africa (1904-1908). In addition to their internment of Jews during World War II, Britain also ran offshore and land-based gulags in Ireland in the 1920s, which housed over 500 men, under brutal conditions, without charge or trial. They also ran concentration camps on the Isle of Man during both world wars.

The U.S., in particular, has a long, sordid history of using concentration camps that precede the ones they used during World War II to imprison Japanese-Americans. The first document U.S. concentration camps used for a specific ethnic group occurred in 1838, when President Van Buren imprisoned Cherokee in camps at Ross's Landing (Chattanooga, Tennessee), Fort Payne, Alabama, and Fort Cass (Charleston, Tennessee). Many died in these camps from disease and hunger. In 1862, Minnesota executed 38 Dakota warriors in the largest single-day mass execution in U.S. history. President Lincoln pardoned another 361, but placed them in a concentration camp. And in the following winter, another 1600 Dakota men, women and children were forced into other concentration camps. Up to 300 died from disease in these camps. Thousands of other indigenous people were forced into U.S. concentration camps throughout the 1800s and early 1900s. The U.S. also operated brutal concentration camps for prisoners and civilians during its war on the Philippines in 1901. During the 1950s-1960s, the U.S. maintained concentration camps for political dissidents, primarily communists, but officially never used them. More recently, there are the examples of Abu Ghraib, in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Under Reagan, there were plans to imprison thousands of Central American Solidarity activists in concentration camps. And today, Trump continues to talk about sending “homegrowns” to offshore gulags in El Salvador, Guantanamo Bay, and Africa.

The Trump administration is trying to suspend habeas corpus. If we let them get away with this, they will be able to "disappear" not only immigrants, but lawful citizens, without legal proceedings. They won't even have to justify themselves. The moment this happens, we are living in a dictatorship.

If the government doesn't have to follow the law, neither do the citizens. Fight this, people. Fight it every way you can. In the courts, in the streets, in your neighborhoods, with your votes, with your words, with your deeds. We are at the hail Mary point. Pull out all the stops.

Stand together, or all is lost.

#HabeasCorpus
#Gestapo
#Fascism
#Dictator
#ConcentrationCamps

#StandTogether
#FuckYouFascists

Important to read:

"Several years ago, The New Yorker profiled these Libyan concentration camps. “Death in Libya, it’s normal: no one will look for you, and no one will find you,” it quoted a migrant telling Amnesty International. Under Libyan law, migrants have no rights whatsoever, including the right to counsel. According to the article, thousands of “migrants are disappearing into ‘unofficial” facilities run by traffickers and militias, where aid groups have no access.”

Before Doctors Without Borders made the decision to pull out of caring for migrants in Libyan detention facilities due to violence, it reported that guards would beat patients who attempted to leave their cells in order to receive medical care. Guards would also spray automatic weapons into overly crowded cells, indiscriminately killing many of those inside."

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-is-now-sending-people

NYT Architecture : A Landmark Celebrates an Architect Many Have Forgotten https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/nyregion/landmark-paul-rudolph-architect.html #LandmarksPreservationCommission #SachsenhausenConcentrationCamp #HistoricBuildingsandSites #HolocaustandtheNaziEra #internal-storyline-no #ConcentrationCamps #Culture(Arts) #Architecture #Rudolph,Paul #NewYorkCity #Music

Today in Labor History April 30 1945: Eva Braun and Adolph Hitler committed suicide, in Berlin, after being married for less than 40 hours. Many Nazis were tried, convicted and executed. And literally thousands were secreted into the U.S., given false identities, and put to work as spies, intelligence officers, informants, and rocket scientists in the Cold War. Some of them had even been high-ranking Nazi Party officials, secret police chiefs, and heads of concentration camps. In fact, during the first few years after WWII ended, it was easier to get into the U.S. as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish concentration camp survivor. There were policy makers in Washington who said the Jews shouldn’t be let in because they’re “lazy” and “self-entitled.” For more on this sordid history, read “The Nazis Next Door How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men,” By Eric Lichtblau.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #WorldWarTwo #holocaust #fascism #coldwar #concentrationcamps #hitler #jewish #antisemitism #books #nonfiction #author #writer @bookstadon

The GOP budget includes ONE MILLION DEPORTATIONS PER YEAR. 100,000 DETENTION BEDS, TEN THOUSAND MORE ICE OFFICERS.

This is a budget for #concentrationCamps.

Also:

More fucking tax cuts for the rich.

$2T in spending cuts (aka services no longer provided to you).

$46.5B in new “Trump wall” construction.

I’m not sure Dems have the votes to stop this bill. But they can sure make a huge stink about it. Call your representatives.

#kakistocracy

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-cuts-bill-deportations-asylum-fee-68e358a73e01941af50984de8c85ea31

It's official: Trump now deporting "natives," that is children who are US citizens, to a new gulag in Honduras. One of them was being treated for cancer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/28/children-deported-us-citizens-trump-republicans/83274745007/

The Trump regime is abducting people and human trafficking them to #concentrationcamps in #ElSalvador & other places. Trump should be #impeached & removed from office, everyone abducted must be returned.

A ‘Hitchcock film’ you’ve (probably) never seen, ‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey’: https://archive.org/details/german-concentration-camps-factual-survey-restored-version

(Actually directed by Sidney Bernstein, with Hitchcock as an advisor.)
Warning: Contains extremely graphic (but important) historical footage.

For some context, I recommend first listening to this #BBC audio drama about the creation of the film: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0l4gs1y

#politics #concentrationcamps #ice #detention #cruelty #immigrations #deportation #trump #Texas #greed

[ Yep definitely a concentration camp with all the cruelty that implies. TENTS in the Texas heat of summer? Sadistic but hey money can be made. These co also do music concerts. Something to keep in mind.]

highly sought after as Trump to pour billions of dollars into building detention facilities Why the contract was posted and then canceled is unclear.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-cancels-contract-immigrant-detention-camp-fort-bliss

Pure Textbook Demagoguery here by Laura Ingraham

This week the #evil people in charge in the #US are talking about creating a registry for #autistic people. By next week they will be discussing sterilisation. In a month, they'll be suggesting we'd be better off euthanized. Some may say such a statement is hyperbolic, but they said that about #concentrationcamps. Eventually, they will come for you too. I'm glad I don't live in the US anymore. #autism #rfkjr #trump #project2025heritagefoundation

#Illinois Governor JB Pritzker proposes a #boycott of #ElSalvador for collaborating with #Trump in creating and operating illegal ‘#ConcentrationCamps.’ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-governor-moves-to-boycott-el-salvador-for-aiding-trump_n_68090080e4b096ecd6e83472

#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.

#USpol #TrumpCoup #Legal #LawFedi #Garcia #ElSalvador #MassDeportations #ConcentrationCamps
#Fascism

#BreakingNews
#Emergency Announcement

Must listen-to for any #USresident and anyone interested in #GeoPol!

"The #US is now a lawless...dictatorship...without the rule of law...#Congress must impeach the #Trump...#Administration!"

by

#PoliticsGirl

https://youtu.be/U1kPW5MGxQQ