{"id":37831,"date":"2019-10-05T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37831"},"modified":"2019-10-05T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:43:56","slug":"everyday-erinyes-186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/05\/everyday-erinyes-186\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Erinyes #186"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experts in autocracies have pointed out that it is, unfortunately, easy to slip into normalizing the tyrant, hence it is important to hang on to outrage. These incidents which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them will, I hope, help with that. As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are Alecto<\/span><\/strong>, Megaera<\/strong><\/span>, and Tisiphone<\/span><\/strong>. These roughly translate as “unceasing,” “grudging,” and “vengeful destruction.”<\/p>\n

I hope it is finally clear to everyone that impeachment action as to Donald John Trump is indeed under way (although maybe not – I’m still getting petitions). The substance of the articles will likely be extortion or attempted extortion rather than treason or attempted treason, which is fine – extortion is simply bribery with menaces, and Bribery, like Treason, is specifically cited in the Constitution as a reason to impeach. But there are many reasons that this person is a cancer on our government, most of which are not impeachable, but which are in many ways even more horrendous than the impeachable offenses. I want to remind us of one today.<\/p>\n

Tevye is a member of the Daily Kos community (as am I, as well as Nameless and TC), as opposed to a member of the staff. Since he joined in 2014, he has written 89 articles (as Daily Kos calls them, diaries.) I have come to recognize the name, and to realize that if I read it, I will cry, and I will be a better person for it. So of course I always do. He has kindly given me permission to reprint this one, which deals with something that is as much Trump as the guards at Auschwitz and Dachau were Hitler, but for which I do not expect him to be held accountable, any more than Hitler was. If you are up to reading more, you can find all of his diaries at this link<\/a>. He references the one from July 26. I personally feel the one from March 16 also explains a lot. But here he is.<\/p>\n

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Whilst Leaving Water And Supplies In The Desert Beyond Our Border, I Found The Body Of A Refugee.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

*A trigger warning to my equally sensitive brethren.<\/em><\/span>
\nThere are three pictures, used with permission, at the end of the diary that are disturbing.<\/em><\/span>
\nOf those that recently died coming here in search of a better life.<\/em><\/span>
\nI believe them to be pertinent to both the story and to the very real realities of the current situation.*<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It was bound to happen.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been at this for months…every weekend or every other weekend.<\/p>\n

As relayed two months back in my diary of May 26 of the reasons why i\u2019m out here in this parched wasteland..<\/p>\n

…because of that Polish couple who died trying to protect my ancestors from the nazis almost eighty years ago\u2026<\/p>\n

…and because of the pictures and stories of the plight of those desperate brothers and sisters trudging with everything they own on their back, for a better life for themselves and their families.<\/p>\n

Why else would they walk through a desert with vulnerable children that they love dearly but for sheer desperation and determination?<\/p>\n

Well over 8,000 bodies (!) have been discovered in this area over the last twenty years, and i\u2019ve been going from one area to another so\u2026.it was bound to happen.<\/p>\n

It never, ever gets easier.<\/p>\n

Finding the bodies of once vibrant, thinking and breathing brothers and sisters with hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n

Everytime that I have, I think about his\/her family…anxiously awaiting the news that their loved ones are safe.<\/p>\n

I think about my ancestors, and how they were hunted.<\/p>\n

I think of my family\u2026.what if it was me?<\/p>\n

God, just how many have i found over the decades?<\/p>\n

As an international aid\/relief worker for so many years…I have found so many.<\/p>\n

From the aftermath of war, from violence, from natural disasters, from disease, from starvation.<\/p>\n

In this case… this man most probably died from lack of water.\"\"<\/p>\n

This man, whose hopes and dreams entailed coming here to America for a life of relative prosperity. For clean water and plentiful food…where death squads aren’t breaking down doors and doing what they will too whomever they please.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve concentrated my effort to leaving five gallons of water, 10-15 MRE’s…food, and two space blankets in each location on route throughout this ridiculously hot and dry area of the Sonoran Desert, beyond the Arizona border.<\/p>\n

And each one is accompanied by a message, in Spanish, in crayon, often accompanied with drawings, by the very young daughter of an ally and friend.<\/p>\n

Telling the reader that they are needed and wanted.<\/p>\n

That they are welcome.<\/p>\n

And each has a rudimentary map written in the field of their location and its proximity to the border.<\/p>\n

Almost 160 locations so far.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, because of my life experiences and because that Polish couple were executed by the Nazi’s for trying, ultimately unsuccessfully, to protect my ancestors from the flames of the Holocaust, is why I’m here so often, traveling from my Colorado or New Mexico homes, after a week of work.<\/p>\n

This last month, I have been accompanied by Father Alex*(not his real first name)…a Jesuit Priest who I first met in El Salvador in the mid- 1980\u2019s, when we were both relatively young men.<\/p>\n

Alex was put on a death list along with other priests, many of whom were murdered for trying to protect the meek and weak…he has permanent markings from two particular beatings, and a bullet hole were he had to feign death.<\/p>\n

He was a friend of murdered Archbishop \u00d3scar Romero, and with his six fellow Jesuits murdered by the Salvadorian Army’s U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion… and knew Jean Donovan, who\u2019s rape and murder brought attention to the world of the beast that was let loose there.<\/p>\n

Though gentle and with his heart on his sleeve\u2026.he\u2019s no shrinking violet.<\/p>\n

A man of deep conviction and love.<\/p>\n

We started off early in the morning, before the sun is at its most intense.<\/p>\n

We got word that caches that i had left have been definitively found by Border Patrol and destroyed\u2026..those rat bastards.<\/p>\n