Letters to the Editor
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Tear it down
We (myself included) sit here "outraged" while this continues in our own back yard.
If this were a just world, we'd take bulldozers and tear the fucking place to the ground.
Leave nothing but a pile of rocks.
Until we're willing to say no, and mean it, nothing will change.
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Pastor Niemoller's Poem
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the sick, the so-called incurables, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't mentally ill.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
This is what is happening here.
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I, Tipster -- www.myspace.com/FREE_THE_CHILDREN
Hello,
I am Bohica.
Thank you Salon, Broadsheet, and Carol Lloyd for your willingness to speak out on this issue.
Please come to the new as of Sunday myspace for FREE THE CHILDREN (www.myspace.com/FREE_THE_CHILDREN), the very loose knit all volunteer "negative" profit grassroots group who has coalesced around Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr in the past seven months and is working to expose this issue to public scrutiny and close Hutto.
FTC is using myspace as an aggregation site for news and information about Hutto as well as a means to issue action alerts to those who are unwilling to see the United States encourage, aid and allow CCA and individual politicians to profit/gain from the stolen childhoods of refugee children -- many of whom are US Citizens.
What ever happened to Habeas Corpus?
Please read the page.
Please write/call your representative.
That Secretary Chertoff would even consider barring UN Human Rights Inspector, Jorge Bustamante, from seeing the conditions these children experience at Hutto is profoundly disturbing, but then not much about T. Don Hutto isn't.
Please help spread the word.
It continuously amazes me how few people know about this evil in the heart of Texas!
Please make a difference.
These are TODDLERS, NOT TERRORISTS!
NO CHILD SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND BARS!
KEEP KIDS IN SCHOOL, NOT IN CELLS
I served my country in the US Navy having received a commission from Annapolis. I feel we have fouled our anchor and besmirched our honor. This goes too far. We must correct our moral compass as a nation and chart a new course that does not violate the Constitution, but instead adheres to all of its articles and the Bill of Rights that I swore to honor and uphold.
Please help these children.
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Free the children
I drive through Taylor every day and used to pass a billboard on the side of the road advertising jobs for the T. Don Hutto Correctional Facility. The face of the "happy employee" looked a little like Malcom McDowell from "A Clockwork Orange." Then, for a little while, the exact same billboard advertisement was there, except that the word "Correctional" had been changed to "Residential." At the time, I did not know what this meant because the facility looked exactly the same as it always had -- concertina wire around the tops of fences, abandoned outdoor rec areas, floodlights, etc. Then, I found out what it meant. Shortly thereafter the Austin media began covering the facility, and the concertina wire came down and an empty swingset appeared in the abandoned rec area closest the road. Now that the national media is paying some attention (and the UN -- won't the issue get *more* international attention if they refuse to let anyone take a look around inside??? If refusing a tour is less politically damaging than granting one, then what the heck are they hiding in there???), perhaps these little cosmetic changes will not be enough. Thank you very much for covering this important issue.
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Great Idea!!
Can we send ALL children there?!
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This is an American tragedy...
The people who are committing this crime should be indicted, prosecuted and have to serve in one of those cells in Hutto. Problem is that there are not enough cells in Hutto to accommodate the number of elected and hired government officials that are part of this crime against humanity. But we'll make room for them in Raymondville, Texas.
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Let's STOP this NOW!
This is really upsetting and unbelievable! What is the US turning into?
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Our country has gone to hell
This story really touched me. We need leadership again in the United States. This is a stain on our country. Dispicable.
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Close Hutto!
From the ACLU website:
In addition, access to adequate medical, dental, and mental health treatment is severely limited and, as a result, many children suffer from chronic ailments that worsen as they are left undiagnosed and untreated.
This is absolutely inexcusable. Unless people take action to close this facility, we will see a lot more like it in the next few years. We know the way that the U.S. government mistreats it's detainees the world over - don't think for a minute that this place is any exception.
-Eric
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where's the outrage
that criminals sneak into our country and - wghen caught, just ignore the law and refuse to show up for hearings? Where's the outrage that criminals who've senaked acorss our border don't give a cup of piss about their children - dragging them into a situation THEY KNOW ammounts to trouble?
If they were standing in the middle of a busy highway with their children, you'd scream bloody murder.
but they're only strealing SS numbers and breaking immigration law...
ni harm in that!
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Dear anonymous....
Please research this issue before posting a comment rife with false information.
The women and children incarcerated at Hutto are not charged with any crime and are not criminals.
They are making claims of asylum.
They are political refugees.
They are not "illegal."
One attorney who has represented over 100 of the Hutto prisoners, has had all but seven granted asylum.
Good references with facts to back them can be found at the blog located at www.myspace.com/FREE_THE_CHILDREN