Immigrants gassed with a highly toxic industrial disinfectant
By Dave Lindorff: As we approach the moment of truth of Donald Trump's first - and hopefully only - presidential term (election date, November 3), accusations of fascist and even Nazi tendencies multiply against him and his Administration.
But this last one that I want to comment on is particularly horrible: the use of a powerful “industrial-only” disinfectant called HDQ Neutral against immigrants detained at ICE Adelanto, a for-profit detention center outside Los Angeles funded by the Trump administration.
According to a report by the British newspaper Independent, this powerful toxic product derived from ammonia has been used to spray people detained in these facilities despite the fact that the manufacturing company warns that it can only be used near people outdoors, never in closed spaces . The case is even more serious, because according to statements by those affected, the product was sprayed directly on the detainees, although the label warns that "it can cause permanent damage to the eyes" and its inhalation can cause lung damage, difficulty breathing. and asthma.
What is your connection to the Nazis? As Charles Vidich (author of an eloquent and timely forthcoming book on the history of quarantines in the United States, spanning from the early days of the colonies in the 17th century to the present, Germs at Bay) points out, the Zyklom B, Hitler's preferred killer gas in death camps, was actually a powerful cyanide-based insecticide invented in the late 19th century. This insecticide was used for decades, well into the 20th century, to spray ships used for international trade to kill rats, mice, fleas, and other pests. The Nazis used a variant of the product to eliminate Jews, Gypsies, Communists, people with deformities and retards, and other "undesirables" during the war years.
Now we have the Trump Administration, an individual whose family has a history of Nazi sympathies and who has called Nazi protesters in the United States "good people", using a highly toxic and potentially fatal insecticide / disinfectant to spray detained immigrants who they await deportation.
As reported to Reuters by an organization called the Coalition for the Closure of Adelanto and another NGO called Earthjustice, immigrants locked up in the Adelanto detention center have been being sprayed "every 15 or 30 minutes", sometimes directly on the body, with a Chemical product that according to the company can only be used outdoors or in well-ventilated areas. Reports of post-spray conditions mention rashes, nosebleeds, nausea, headaches, and breathing difficulties among other symptoms.
I should point out that when I first learned of the ruthless ways in which their owners treated African slaves in the colonies and later in America, I was impressed, despite my youth, that these white owners were more cruel to them than to their own beasts of burden. When I was older, I understood that the mistreatment of slaves - the whipping, the bad diet, the excessive work - was a control mechanism, a process of dehumanization of both the master and the slave that was not necessary when dealing with horses or horses. cattle. I realize that the same analysis applies to the way the detention center and its staff cruelly abuse detained immigrants.
Fortunately, HDQ Neutral is not as toxic as the Zyklon B gas used by Nazi death squads in German death camps, but these events are still a monstrous chemical attack on "undesirable" Americans, which only difference from Nazi tactics against their human victims in degree). The inhumanity of those responsible for administering this toxin against their captive victims is not very different from that which was punished, often with death sentences, in the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.
Our only hope is that when this Trumpian nightmare in the United States is over, Donald Trump and his criminal henchmen from the Department of Homeland Security will also be dragged before a court to face charges of crimes against humanity for their mistreatment of immigrants, including young children, as well as for his other monstrous crimes.
David Lindorff is a founding member of the web ThisCantBeHappening !, a digital collective publication, and has participated in the book Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics
By Dave Lindorff: As we approach the moment of truth of Donald Trump's first - and hopefully only - presidential term (election date, November 3), accusations of fascist and even Nazi tendencies multiply against him and his Administration.
But this last one that I want to comment on is particularly horrible: the use of a powerful “industrial-only” disinfectant called HDQ Neutral against immigrants detained at ICE Adelanto, a for-profit detention center outside Los Angeles funded by the Trump administration.
According to a report by the British newspaper Independent, this powerful toxic product derived from ammonia has been used to spray people detained in these facilities despite the fact that the manufacturing company warns that it can only be used near people outdoors, never in closed spaces . The case is even more serious, because according to statements by those affected, the product was sprayed directly on the detainees, although the label warns that "it can cause permanent damage to the eyes" and its inhalation can cause lung damage, difficulty breathing. and asthma.
What is your connection to the Nazis? As Charles Vidich (author of an eloquent and timely forthcoming book on the history of quarantines in the United States, spanning from the early days of the colonies in the 17th century to the present, Germs at Bay) points out, the Zyklom B, Hitler's preferred killer gas in death camps, was actually a powerful cyanide-based insecticide invented in the late 19th century. This insecticide was used for decades, well into the 20th century, to spray ships used for international trade to kill rats, mice, fleas, and other pests. The Nazis used a variant of the product to eliminate Jews, Gypsies, Communists, people with deformities and retards, and other "undesirables" during the war years.
Now we have the Trump Administration, an individual whose family has a history of Nazi sympathies and who has called Nazi protesters in the United States "good people", using a highly toxic and potentially fatal insecticide / disinfectant to spray detained immigrants who they await deportation.
As reported to Reuters by an organization called the Coalition for the Closure of Adelanto and another NGO called Earthjustice, immigrants locked up in the Adelanto detention center have been being sprayed "every 15 or 30 minutes", sometimes directly on the body, with a Chemical product that according to the company can only be used outdoors or in well-ventilated areas. Reports of post-spray conditions mention rashes, nosebleeds, nausea, headaches, and breathing difficulties among other symptoms.
I should point out that when I first learned of the ruthless ways in which their owners treated African slaves in the colonies and later in America, I was impressed, despite my youth, that these white owners were more cruel to them than to their own beasts of burden. When I was older, I understood that the mistreatment of slaves - the whipping, the bad diet, the excessive work - was a control mechanism, a process of dehumanization of both the master and the slave that was not necessary when dealing with horses or horses. cattle. I realize that the same analysis applies to the way the detention center and its staff cruelly abuse detained immigrants.
Fortunately, HDQ Neutral is not as toxic as the Zyklon B gas used by Nazi death squads in German death camps, but these events are still a monstrous chemical attack on "undesirable" Americans, which only difference from Nazi tactics against their human victims in degree). The inhumanity of those responsible for administering this toxin against their captive victims is not very different from that which was punished, often with death sentences, in the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.
Our only hope is that when this Trumpian nightmare in the United States is over, Donald Trump and his criminal henchmen from the Department of Homeland Security will also be dragged before a court to face charges of crimes against humanity for their mistreatment of immigrants, including young children, as well as for his other monstrous crimes.
David Lindorff is a founding member of the web ThisCantBeHappening !, a digital collective publication, and has participated in the book Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics
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