By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--November 1, 2018
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“And eat and sleep and store their clothes? (WHAM, Oct. 23, 2018) “And how is it that after a week on the road they are clean and their hair and clothes are well kept?
“How is any of this possible? “And why do these people, supposedly fleeing intolerable conditions in their homeland, carry little flags from their homeland and break into its national anthem when the TV cameras show up? “And speaking of which, for oppressed people, they all seem to be pretty well fed, well groomed and well dressed. Their hair is neat and newly cut, their clothes are clean and in good repair, and they are built like people who have had ample nutrition all their lives, being well developed and, many of them, overweight. "And none of them look dirty or unkempt, like they had been sleeping on the ground for the last week. “There’s just nothing in any of this that makes sense. “Supposedly, these several thousand people spontaneously decided to leave Honduras, walking north in a group, hoping to trek the length of gang-plagued Mexico and present themselves as refugees and prospective Democrats at the American border. “Which, again, makes no sense whatsoever. “And leaves a lot of big questions unanswered, and ignored by the press. Such as, who organized this? Who is paying for it? How have they covered 500 miles in a week? “Seriously. Any number of American “reporters” have walked beside a sympathetic walker and talked about how this particular woman and her children had trekked half a thousand miles over the last week or so.
“That’s 71 miles a day. “The best soldiers through history have been able to march 25 miles a day. "How have 7,000 people been fed and watered? And how have they gone to the bathroom? …”Provisioning such an army of people – the equivalent of 10 combat battalions in most of the world’s militaries – is a large task. Transporting and distributing the food and water necessary to keep those people moving is a massive chore which the press says nothing about. “The entire enterprise, as a spontaneous ad hoc event, is implausible. “As an orchestrated international attempt to influence an American election, it starts to make sense. "And ought to alarm us. "Unless it’s only Russians we don’t want screwing with our democracy. “Unfortunately, none of this has made the evening news. It’s almost as if the press, in whatever scheme is afoot, gladly accepts its role as propagandists to the American people. “Every story is sympathetic, as if an attempt to enlist viewers and readers in this caravan and the politics it symbolizes.
“And so the story is not about an orchestrated attempt to manipulate electoral opinion and violate the borders and laws of the United States, it is about compassion and Trump and xenophobia and racism. It is the October surprise, it is the Blue Wave. "And it is all nonsense.”The Caravan ‘News’ being drummed into the publics’ heads is that “The Caravan is coming!” “The Caravan is coming!” We would all do well to know that “The Caravan is not coming because it is already here. Its chief organizers most likely arrived on American soil weeks ago and are merely waiting for the rank and file to make way for utter anarchy. All we can do is hope and pray that the troops President Trump is sending to the border already know that.
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