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Jazz musician. Radio Free NAFO, an affiliate of Voice of Free America. Fanning the flames of discontent. When a system is unjust, dissent is a civic duty.

Aug 6, 11 tweets

1) What ICE did here is a horrifying version of “Sophie’s Choice”. And the White House blames the parents for ICE forcing them into a Sophie’s Choice. Now, to fully understand this, we need to talk about what happens to children of dissidents in Russia. Let’s begin⬇️

2) Here you see Sophie’s Choice:
Return to Russia with their child.
Or
Remain in US ICE custody but separated from their child.
Now what the US government will not tell you here is what happens if they chose to return to Russia with their child. Let’s continue⬇️

3) The parents are political dissidents. Upon return to Russia with their child, they will be arrested. And this will happen to their child. As you see, child separation will happen anyway. Therefore, ICE perpetrated a variant of Sophie’s Choice. Let’s continue⬇️

4) In fact, Russia specifically targets the children of dissidents. So again, once in Russia, the child would be separated anyway. The parents are not trying to protect themselves by choosing to remain in separated ICE custody. They’re protecting their child. Let’s continue⬇️

5) The parents know this will happen to their child if they all return to Russia. Russian orphanages are horrifying places of suffering, child abuse, and squalor. The US government knows that, too. Again, the parents are trying to protect their child. Let’s continue⬇️

6) Political dissent is tacitly illegal in Russia. Or has the US government already forgot about Navalny or American citizens arrested and held hostage on absurd charges of “espionage” or even “treason”? In fact, I have proof of that next⬇️

7) Trump has freed and then met one of them. And here the White House boasts of it. So as you see here, the US government is well aware of why parents would make that Sophie’s Choice forced upon them by ICE. And why was this woman arrested? Let’s see that next⬇️

8) She donated $52 to a charity for Ukraine. The Russian government called that “treason” and she was arrested, convicted, and jailed. Again, the US government knows this. And they know something else which I will show you next⬇️

9) The entire world, and therefore the US government, knows full well that Russia abducts children. Because the Russian government has abducted over 20,000 Ukrainian children. This has been happening since the war began. But what did the GOP do recently? Let’s see that next⬇️

10) A few months ago, Senate Republicans rejected a resolution to condemn the abduction of children by Russia. Think about that for a moment. Think about the GOP hypocrisy and lies about “protecting children”. Here I have proven they are liars. Let’s continue⬇️

11) ICE has created a modern Sophie’s Choice here. As much as they hate being called Nazis, ICE has duplicated the moral dilemma created by the Nazis in the movie Sophie’s Choice. This is the moral evil being knowingly perpetrated by ICE and justified by the White House.

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