{"id":29787,"date":"2019-08-28T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=370640"},"modified":"2019-08-28T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:00:07","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-trump-should-be-imprisoned-for-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-trump-should-be-imprisoned-for-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Trump should be imprisoned for crimes against humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, Trump is not a racist. Thanks for your letter to the editor, Luise Bruno (\u201c<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-setting-the-record-straight-on-trump\/\">Setting the record straight on Trump<\/a>,\u201d published Aug. 20 in the Summit Daily News.)&nbsp; However, he is still a vile and disgusting human being who should be impeached ASAP and imprisoned for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Wall Street enablers have received fat financial favors, and the extractive industries have seen environmental regulations rolled-back while a red carpet is rolled out to them giving access to formerly protected federal lands. What has \u201cthe chosen one\u201d offered you for your soul, Ms. Bruno? Do your words \u201cinflux of people across our southern border\u201d hint at some underlying anxiety? How can any reasonable person with a conscience defend Trump, the man or his horrific immigration policies?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrimes against humanity\u201d are the exact words that Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, used to describe the family separations and large-scale detention of immigrant children \u2014 soon to become a long-term (indefinite) detention because Trump plans to eliminate the 20-day limit established by the 1997 Flores settlement agreement. \u201cThis is more than cruel. It\u2019s beyond logic and humanity,\u201d Amnesty International said. Furthermore, Customs and Border Protection said it will not vaccinate migrant families before the flu season despite a recent letter by doctors urging lawmakers to investigate health conditions at the border jails where at least three children have died from the flu.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions inside the migrant jails \u201camount to torture\u201d according to a class action lawsuit filed by plaintiffs that include the Southern Poverty Law Center. I commend Sen. Jeff Merkley (D, Oregon) for becoming an advocate for the jailed and voiceless migrants. He has written a book, \u201cAmerica Is Better Than This.\u201d The title to which I scoff, \u201cobviously not!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-trump-should-be-imprisoned-for-crimes-against-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, Trump is not a racist. Thanks for your letter to the editor, Luise Bruno (\u201cSetting the record straight on Trump,\u201d published Aug. 20 in the Summit Daily News.)&nbsp; However, he is still a vile and disgusting human being who should be impeached ASAP and imprisoned for crimes against humanity. Trump\u2019s Wall Street enablers have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 12:22:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}