It's about testing the waters to see how far the American people will allow the government to go in re-shaping the country in the image of a totalitarian police state.
It's about how much evil "we the people" will tolerate before we find our conscience and our voice.
The question we should be asking is not whether a particular government's actions are legal but whether they are moral and just.
As Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out 55 years ago in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," "everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.' It was 'illegal' to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
In other words, there comes a time when law and order are in direct opposition to justice.
It's time to draw that line in the sand.
What we are experiencing right now are the first stages of a desensitization campaign aimed at lulling us into a false sense of security.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, there is worse to come.
The treatment being meted out to undocumented migrants and their children is only the beginning.
This is the start of the slippery slope.
Martin Niemà ¶ller understood this. A Lutheran minister and early Nazi supporter who was later imprisoned for opposing Hitler's regime, Niemoller warned:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.
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