this is very much out of character for this blog but i couldn't pass this up...when we blog about a state actor committing a human rights violation it is directed at a policy or departmental) decision that results in such a violation...it is not about personal or politically partisan attacks...
but governmental policy comes from somewhere and that is usually from individuals inhabiting seats of power and wielding that power in such a way as to deny a person or group(s) of people the opportunity to live their life with dignity...
insofar as the current administration of the united states is responsible for policy decisions that result in human rights violation they are often a product of the person sitting in the highest seat of power...
all that is to say that this quote of ronald reagan's from his recently published diaries was found in some quarters to be illuminating:
"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're (sic)-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."
...sometimes even the president of the united states has to stand naked...
peace out <3
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