DO NOT NORMALIZE THE MASSIVE CRIMES BEING COMMITTED IN OUR NAMES

 Copied from a wise activist friend...

Do USers really understand the massive crimes being done in their names right now?

Trump just cavalierly threatened to destroy the desalination plants in Iran, which could cause a massive water crisis in the Middle East and would easily be one of this century's great crimes against humanity.

And it is mentioned as if it is simply a "policy option."

This is after we created a massive humanitarian crisis in Cuba, illegally captured a foreign leader and caused a crisis in Venezuela, have been killing countless civilians in Iran, with Israel by our side, starting another round of massive war crimes in Lebanon.

And of course, the Palestinian genocide underwritten by our money and bombs.

I keep using the word "massive" because I don't know how else to describe the enormity of these quotidian evils.

Have we even started to reckon to the pain, trauma and grief we are causing to people whose only "crime" was not being born here and living here?

I remember a poem that went: "Do you know who bleeds underneath your comfort?"

I keep going back to those words.

Do not normalize this.

Do not normalize this.

Do not normalize this.