SUSANA MARTINEZ HAS DEFINED HERSELF MORALLY IN SUPPORTING SEPARATION OF CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS

Once in a while a choice you make will define you at once, indelibly, as a person, as a citizen, and as a moral being.  Susana Martinez has done this.  She has allied herself with the forces of evil in America today, supporting the crimes against humanity--national government policies--that have been going on for weeks.  In doing so she has betrayed her ethnic roots, her background as a law enforcement advocate, and her own humanity.  

If you want to hear a concrete example of the crimes Governor Martinez has supported, click here.  You have probably already heard it.  

It is a human cry of a six-year old cry for her mother, who was hoping to seek asylum for herself and her daughter at the U.S.-Mexico border, perhaps inspired by the words on our Statue of Liberty:  Give me your tired, your poor, your hungry masses yearning to breathe free.  Instead of breathing free, the daughter, as a matter of official US policy, was separated from her mother by officials of the U.S. government.  She had memorized the telephone number of her aunt, hoping somehow a phone call would put things right.  Thousands of people have become victims of these crimes.  There are, of course, policies in place, as there were in Nazi Germany, to prevent such crimes by public officials from being recorded.  People know when they are committing crimes against humanity, and they naturally try to hide their faces, ashamed of the actions they are committing in loyalty to authority rather than to human decency.

Once in awhile, again, the choices we are forced to make will define us, indelibly, as persons, as citizens, and as moral beings.  What Susana Martinez did in voicing support for these atrocities defined her, once and for all, at a key moment in American history.  And history will not forget this.  The woman who used to like to read stories to small school children has morphed into a woman who agrees officers should snatch children from parents who have come fleeing from oppression, seeking safety.  Please remember:  what YOU do in response to these atrocities will define YOU as well.