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13 de Marzo, 2007
The Happy, Cuddly, Prison Show
Categorized under Chinga la Chota | Tags: Hutto, Mexicans, migra, RNC
HUTTO PRISON recycles devious yet tired tactics. Smile with the goodface. Put a satin tie around the crooked neck. Dress up for the Press, hiding away that which cannot withstand judgment. A crucial component to the Bush Doctrine, incidentally. And one that inherently admits both guilt and awareness of same.
Despite mounting criticism and calls for its closure, immigration officials tonight continue to defend conditions at their family detention center near Austin. But according to former detainees and others, the government made big changes just prior to allowing the public to see the inside.
It had completely escaped my mind until I read this that the crooked cops holding us at Pier 57 pulled the same junk. Just when we were being led out of the illegal detention center, they started bringing in carpets to show the Press how careful they had not been. Despite the fact that we had sat up all night to avoid touching the toxic floors, some of us even eventually succumbing to exhaustion and lying down and sleeping on those oily floors. To finally be led out in cuffs in lines, to the buses, to court. To see the fresh, pretty carpets being laid out over the gross floors. And why then? To put on a show that what had gone on was reasonable and acceptable and done with considerations for human beings and their experience.
I guess some moves are well-practiced by these types. But I will tell you, it was a pretty bitter feeling, being led out of there, replaced by the very means that would have made our incarceration a bit more humane. I can imagine a bit how those Hutto kids felt, watching the videotape of the Hutto Set after their skies had been inarguably replaced by concrete. After their lives with their famies in America had been inarguably replaced with loneliness and armed guards. To know that their imprisonment and conditions had not only been wrong, but that their captors knew that as well.
Michelle Brane of the Commission for Refugee Women and Children, toured Hutto two months ago. She also watched our video tape and saw several stark changes. Among the most noteworthy, teddy bears and dolls displayed on the cell beds and placed about the small rooms.'No dolls, we didn't see a single doll or stuffed animal the whole time we were in there,' said Brane. She also noted newly painted walls, bright, cheery wall decorations and something else that surprised her, 'There were no toy boxes, not that we saw anyway.'
Young Mohammad’s eyes pop open wide when he watches the video of toys in a room. 'That's not true,' said Mohammad, 'They don’t let you keep toys in the room.' [...]
[T]hose we talked to say they rarely saw a doctor or a dentist. Immigration attorney Sonia Ansari represents the Somalian Hosen and her son.
Said Ansari, “this is a detention facility that houses women and children. There's no pediatrician on staff, there's no gynecologist or other doctor for women."—Detention center was renovated for media trip, WFAA-TV
Hey. They're only Mexicans. After all, Mexicans are an enemy in the Long War on the indigenous of this land, right?
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Comentarios (11)
Rafael dijo:
It's not a sin if nobody sees the sin. Its not a lie if nobody knows you lied. The lesson here is that as long as you can cover it up, its ok.
NO CAMERAS BEYOND THIS POINT. TORTURE IN PROGRESS. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Deoridhe dijo:
That's just... sick. Dispicable.
The one problem with higher public standards is the nasty shit that people do in order to fake meeting those standards.
Palabras por Deoridhe spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Deoridhe dijo:
Completely off topic, but did you change the font for our names on the [x] dijo line? It is a GORGEOUS font, and I'm wondering if I was just oblivious before or it it's new.
Palabras por Deoridhe spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 01:09 PM
Man Eegee dijo:
[head asplosion....yet again]
Palabras por Man Eegee spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 02:37 PM
Man Eegee dijo:
[head asplosion...again]
Palabras por Man Eegee spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 02:39 PM
Rosie dijo:
Shades of Terezin. Why don't they just go all the way and adapt 'Brundibar". They could call it 'Bushdibar'.
Palabras por Rosie spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 03:55 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
damn manny you iz a hydra.
and Deoridhe, yes! i've done a bit of restyling. thanks for noticing. :)
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 05:51 PM
Man Eegee dijo:
echo. o. o. o. o. ;)
Palabras por Man Eegee spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 06:36 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
you do bring a certain energy, what with all the asplosions and echos. i gotta say, it really jazzes up the room's soundscape.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 06:58 PM
Zaecus dijo:
It's not the only facility, either, and these hellholes aren't getting hardly eny coverage here where they're built.
If the world eaters really believed that the people in this state would support such a 'strong stand on illegal immigration' (to use their own sanitized language), I'd have heard about this from the Houston news and not The Washington Post. Ritmo, from The Mex Files
They know that there are people in this state, if not all of them, who are getting sick and flaming pissed off at the shit that's being done using us as a 'support base' and using the 'cowboy' image as paraded around by an inarticulate madman.
At least one family at Ritmo wasn't coming to the USA they were on a plane for Canada when they were grounded, at Puerto Rico I believe, pulled off the plane, and suddenly became political prisoners because they didn't have appropriate paperwork for a country they never intended to be in. They were political refugees from Iran, escaping imprisonment and torture by returning to Canada where the son had been born.
Sick that they can do it. Infuriating that they can get away with it for any length of time.
Palabras por Zaecus spat forth on el 13 de Marzo, 2007 at 10:35 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
agreed, Z.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 25 de Marzo, 2007 at 06:30 AM