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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:30 AM Jun 2018

DOJ Not Acting Like Nazi Germany, Says Sessions

Source: The Daily Beast



Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rejected suggestions that the Justice Department’s family-separation policy is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, saying the Nazis “were trying to keep Jews from leaving.” Sessions spoke to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday night and defended his agency amid widespread criticism of separations at the Mexican border. Sessions said comparisons of American camps to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi camps weren’t fair because the Justice Department was trying to stop people from crossing the border, not trying to keep them in the U.S.. “It’s a real exaggeration, of course. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country,” Sessions said. “We need to think it through, be rational and thoughtful about it. We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it, but people who want economic migration for their personal financial benefit, and what they think is their families’ benefit, is not a basis for a claim of asylum.”




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DOJ Not Acting Like Nazi Germany, Says Sessions (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
It is not acting like Nazi, it is doing it quit well!!!! Chickensoup Jun 2018 #1
Exactly, there's n acting to it at all. lark Jun 2018 #20
Hey, he's not tattooing the migrants or their kids...so... mitch96 Jun 2018 #32
I cannot even. Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #2
Yeah! The Nazis gassed them to keep them from fleeing for the lives. That will teach them. olegramps Jun 2018 #27
I felt like that from the day he was elected Chickensoup Jun 2018 #33
Really? Racerdog1 Jun 2018 #3
Obviously the Nazi label is hitting home vlyons Jun 2018 #4
When you have to argue that you're not Nazi Germany, you've already lost the argument The Blue Flower Jun 2018 #5
Ain't that the truth bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #10
How does Godwin's law work in this case? IronLionZion Jun 2018 #11
Another DUer has posted Godwin's tweet that this is the time to call out Nazis for what they are The Blue Flower Jun 2018 #16
That's not how history actually went knightmaar Jun 2018 #6
Who in their right mind would allow Jeff Sessions to evaluate his own policies? pazzyanne Jun 2018 #7
"the Nazis 'were trying to keep Jews from leaving'." BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #8
denial isn't just a river in Egypt. Javaman Jun 2018 #9
You know they're in a bad place, when they have to try to explain... Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #12
When the only "difference" you can point out is actually not a difference, you're screwed. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #15
No kidding. Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #30
The hypocrisy is stunning! SergeStorms Jun 2018 #13
INGRAHAM: "[Lawmakers are comparing this policy to] Nazi Germany, concentration camps, what's going turbinetree Jun 2018 #14
"We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it." Another lie. Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #17
Beto O'Rouke said the refugees are barred from entry Marthe48 Jun 2018 #23
Oh...I was wondering about that. Thx. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #36
So I guess that settles it! 7962 Jun 2018 #18
He doth protest too much. DemoTex Jun 2018 #19
the Nazis "were trying to keep Jews from leaving." forgotmylogin Jun 2018 #21
Yes you are you P.O.S. Marthe48 Jun 2018 #22
Sessions propaganda... Nazis were trying to keep Jews from living. keithbvadu2 Jun 2018 #24
Jeffie, Jeffie, Jeffie - you didn't study your history too well did you? ET Awful Jun 2018 #25
The goals are the same. Purification of the race. Make America White Again. olegramps Jun 2018 #29
Incredible Hav Jun 2018 #26
Fuck you too Laura "Initial Nazi Sympathizer" Ingraham Moostache Jun 2018 #28
If they get away doing this shit to Central Americans Blue_Tires Jun 2018 #31
Of course they will durablend Jun 2018 #35
in my 'bubble' of living ameriKKKan reality heaven05 Jun 2018 #34

lark

(23,097 posts)
20. Exactly, there's n acting to it at all.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:25 AM
Jun 2018

It's being Nazi like in the disdain and hatred for "the other". They don't evenn have plans for rejoining the family and lots of the children are lost in the system. WTF do they plan to do with them? it's so creepy and scary when they say they rejoin them, but it's a pure lie since they didn't even track them to begin with. Parents are sent back in 1-2 weeks, there are children that have been detained for months Nielsen just lied and lied.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
2. I cannot even.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:35 AM
Jun 2018

This shit gets more bizarre and twisted every day.

I feel like I'm in a very bad episode of the Twilight Zone. A script that Rod Serling read two pages of and threw in the trash.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
27. Yeah! The Nazis gassed them to keep them from fleeing for the lives. That will teach them.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:38 AM
Jun 2018

Tom Thump, the little tyrant Attorney General, is as bat shit crazy as his boss. He is just another in a long line of Southern racists. It is not hard to imagine what lies in store if they succeed in their pursued dream of the establishment of a Supreme Authoritarian Presidency. This has been their cherished dream for the last fifty years. They attempted this coup during the Bush administration with their Executive Unified theory until they got entangled in their lies that took us to war in Iraq. The epilogue in the history books may very well read "While they slept their children's heritage was stolen."

bucolic_frolic

(43,141 posts)
10. Ain't that the truth
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:51 AM
Jun 2018

and using a conservative venue to float the question so you can attempt to swat it down!

Big time losers!

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
11. How does Godwin's law work in this case?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:55 AM
Jun 2018

Since it's mostly the alt-white who invoke Godwin's law to discredit anyone calling them out on their Nazi behavior.

The Blue Flower

(5,442 posts)
16. Another DUer has posted Godwin's tweet that this is the time to call out Nazis for what they are
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:15 AM
Jun 2018

I'll try to find it.

knightmaar

(748 posts)
6. That's not how history actually went
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:47 AM
Jun 2018

Anyone can google "expelling Jews from Germany" and get a tonne of information on the subject.

pazzyanne

(6,549 posts)
7. Who in their right mind would allow Jeff Sessions to evaluate his own policies?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:49 AM
Jun 2018

He knows very well what he and the administration are doing, we are just not suppose to recognize that. They are so stupid that they apparently think all Americans are even more stupid than they are. A message to Jeff Sessions: We see you! We see what you are doing! We know who you are! YOU ARE GOING DOWN, CREEP!!!

BumRushDaShow

(128,896 posts)
8. "the Nazis 'were trying to keep Jews from leaving'."
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:49 AM
Jun 2018

....so that they could gas them and burn them up. It was called a "pogrom".

Keeping people in "tents" in El Paso, TX in the abject heat of summer, is approaching the creation of Beauregard Sessions Death Camps.

Javaman

(62,521 posts)
9. denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:50 AM
Jun 2018

what a truly terrifying state of affairs when the AG of the United States has to make a statement like that.

we are that far down the rabbit hole.

if the current situation were occurring even 20 years ago and an AG made that same statement, he would have been thrown out of office.

but alas...here we are. Fucked.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
12. You know they're in a bad place, when they have to try to explain...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:57 AM
Jun 2018

You know they're in a bad place, when they have to try to explain the difference between them and their actions, and the Nazis.

Also, the Nazis didn't round up the Jews to keep them from leaving. They rounded them up to separate them from the "real" population of Germany, the "superior" people. They were fine with Jews leaving, but at one point, in order to get rid of them, in their eyes, they had to round up those that hadn't left.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
15. When the only "difference" you can point out is actually not a difference, you're screwed.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:14 AM
Jun 2018

These bastards will burn at the stake.

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
13. The hypocrisy is stunning!
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:58 AM
Jun 2018

"We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it, but people who want economic migration for their personal financial benefit, and what they think is their families’ benefit, is not a basis for a claim of asylum.”

And what, Mr. Sessions, was the reason YOUR ancestors came to this country? Sightseeing?

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
14. INGRAHAM: "[Lawmakers are comparing this policy to] Nazi Germany, concentration camps, what's going
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:13 AM
Jun 2018

on]"


Your an idiot Ingraham...................and to be paid money to ask that stupid question shows exactly whats going on here, you and your elf that lied in front of Congress are fucking Nazi's.

Then you have this fucking response, that makes no fucking sense................from this lying POS AG fucking asshole.....

SESSIONS: "It's a real exaggeration. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country but this is a serious matter."

His ending of his comment says everything about how fucking demented and pathological of hate he is and you are .

Do either of you fuckers realize that the one of the first things that your boy hero did, Hitler, was that he went after the economics of the Jewish population and anything else that was not of a Germanic heritage, this fucking comment shows that you are just like a Nazi:

" In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country,” Sessions said. “We need to think it through, be rational and thoughtful about it. We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it, but people who want economic migration for their personal financial benefit, and what they think is their families’ benefit, is not a basis for a claim of asylum."


They (Jews) and anyone else that could, were trying to get out of the countries in Europe, because, first they were under attack economically, because they were being blamed for taking away jobs and causing the population to be in a depression, are you that fucking stupid .

Nope, it was because they (Germany) had to pay of a war debt called World War I and they lost, then second, they (Nazi when they came to power) then wanted to just exterminate them and then blame homosexuals, gypsies, Jews, and anyone else that got in there way, and then the way you said the above fucking comment there you lying POS sounds like a Nazi propaganda remarks being led by a Joseph Goebbels propagandists with blonde fucking hair, to fucking normalize what is now happening at the US border, with reverse fucking psychology.

This airing should have your fucking operational organization disbanded from broadcasting -----------------forever ------------------and to have your fascist enabling corporation license to operate removed.........................this is not free speech anymore, never has been and never was..........................your both fucking terrorist and so is your organization

And then to add that these families are looking for personnel benefit.......................did you ask Melania if she and her family came here for personal benefit.......asshole.................when one came through on the what's called the Einstein Visa...............






Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
17. "We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it." Another lie.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:18 AM
Jun 2018

They don't want "to allow asylum for people who qualify for it." Especially not from "those sh*thole countries." WHAT A LIE.

Marthe48

(16,945 posts)
23. Beto O'Rouke said the refugees are barred from entry
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:43 AM
Jun 2018

at the legal access points, so they can't ask for asylum. So they try to enter elsewhere, to get to the access points, which is illegal. And they get arrested and the kidnappers get their kids.

He said, Catch 22.

forgotmylogin

(7,527 posts)
21. the Nazis "were trying to keep Jews from leaving."
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:33 AM
Jun 2018

Though, isn't that the net effect when children are separated then not reunited with the parents who are then deported?

They are filling the country with immigrant children...if they are lucky enough to be released to local relatives or kept in foster care.

ET Awful

(24,753 posts)
25. Jeffie, Jeffie, Jeffie - you didn't study your history too well did you?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:07 AM
Jun 2018

Some of the first camps in Germany were . . . GASP . . . resettlement and deportation camps. In fact, that was their goal was to remove all those "undesirables" (or to put in words you and your ilk will understand, "undermenschen" ) from the German sphere of influence (their term) by any means necessary (as anyone who has studied the Wannsee Conference can attest).

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
29. The goals are the same. Purification of the race. Make America White Again.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:46 AM
Jun 2018

It is that simple and effective. It will solve all your problems that are the result of being invaded by these lawless scum. The same crap that has been affective from the beginning of time.

Hav

(5,969 posts)
26. Incredible
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:12 AM
Jun 2018

I think you lost it when your only defense of being compared to Nazis is that they tried to keep them from leaving while we try to keep them from entering. It's bizarre because it's not a defense of actual acts or how you treat people is different to how Nazis treated people.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
31. If they get away doing this shit to Central Americans
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:56 AM
Jun 2018

Soon they'll expand the "policy" to other 'troublesome' groups...

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
34. in my 'bubble' of living ameriKKKan reality
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 01:34 PM
Jun 2018

Sessions represents those who voted for the 'new Hitler, same as the old Hitler' who are now besieged by people of conscience and compassion.

This racist, fascist minority sub-group of the ruling class, so far, of the Caucasian race in america who created and continues to try to enforce this racist criterion for assumed/presumed american citizenship is designed to do precisely what it is currently doing to POC in america and the world the last 250-500 years, till now. And that is prosecuting heinous warfare on soldiers and civilian alike, both citizen here and created 'enemy'. Totally heartless while conducting and contributing to pain and misery on other dominant races and cultures and religions, predominantly POC.

Brown people!!!!, ohhhh hell!!!! We are being invaded by brown people!!!!!

I recently revisited a number that at the height of ameriKKKan slavery there were 4MILLION slaves. IF ameriKKKa never had slavery in it's not so distant past, then brown people would never have presented the racial dilemma that white racist now has in being challenged on the racial superiority BS spouted by wypipo.

And have no doubt, racist ideology is being challenged aggressively by POC and LIBERALS AND/OR PROGRESSIVE groups. I think that the consequences of brutally enforced ameriKKKan slavery on Africans, now americans, are the "chickens coming home to roost" that continues to pose a huge dilemma for the ameriKKKan ruling class people, then and now. They felt at that time that Africans could be controlled while in bondage.
The American Civil War scotched that assumption. Here we are in trumpland still divided and hating.....each other

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