The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

They’re also denying her medical attention.

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    Stripping them of any ability to cause harm… hasn’t worked?!

    The fuck are you talking about?!? It’s the one thing nobody has ever focused on.

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      Not punishing them hasn’t worked. Two Democratic administrations have decided that the people unjustly wielding government for self-enrichment, bigotry, and war no longer being in power had solved the problem and we shouldn’t get distracted with the past. And now we’re once again in a war in the Middle East for political purposes and seeing corruption and bigotry flourish. With some of the exact same characters and a whole new cast freshly emboldened because they think nothing they do holds any risk. And they’re using the powers built up during those prior sprees that were never dismantled to enact their goals.

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        Punitive justice has been proven ineffective, over and over again. It’s irrelevant.

        Actual definitive action to prevent ability to cause further harm has worked.

        I don’t care how anybody feels about the solution, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with punching back.

        But, no, of course the only way to fight fire is with fire…