Two nations and one big contrast
I rarely make comment on political matters in other nations but feel compelled to comment on the contrast between recent events in Thailand and the United States of America.
In the small, relatively poor country of Thailand, their national government spared no expense and excluded no offers of help in saving 12 boys and their coach from an almost certain drowning deep within a cave in the northern district of that country.
The success of this country’s efforts in bringing these boys back to their families and communities was something that all nations now can celebrate. Experienced cave-rescuers have described this outcome as nothing short of miraculous. The name of the boys’ team was the Wild Boars.
Meanwhile, in the much larger and much more affluent United States, their national government was intentionally separating as many as 3,000 children from their parents. At the time of these separations, the U.S. government took no effort and spent little energy to ensure that every one of these families would eventually be reunited. Simple things, like matching the names of these children and their parents, were not done at the time of the forced transfer away from one another.
Due to moronic oversight, poor planning and absolute incompetence, those who ordered and those who were expected to carry out this policy at first clearly demonstrated unwillingness and inability to rectify this atrocity even after being ordered to do so by courts of their country. DNA samples were never taken until it was obvious to all observers that the idea of instituting this separation policy was both a national shame and human disaster in progress. Comparative lists of the destinations of parent and child were not maintained.
This punitive policy was directed solely toward the poor of other nations who arrived seeking that freedom to breathe which all Americans hold high as their natural and national right. New Hampshire residents are not the only people on earth who espouse the high ideal of “Live free or die.”
The irony of all of this is that he who proposed this cruel policy is not as he sees himself ¬– “A stable genius”¬ - but, much like the Thai boys’ mascot, he is just another Wild Boor. Ray Morrison River Ryan