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Japan’s Fourth Nuclear Peril
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima Daiichi, and Trump.
Government-sanctioned child abuse on our southern border has, rightfully, captured our attention. Well, I can’t know about yours but I’m so close to the southern border that I keep rethinking whether I am too old for direct action — using a walker, requiring a pharmacy to keep me alive — -and while I know one more jailing in civil disobedience would certainly get me killed, that’s not what puts me off. It’s that this government has proven time and time again that it can’t be moved by death. And that would particularly be the case if the casualty were just one more Indian.
Then I remember that photo of Dorothy Day, circa 90 years old, with a seat on the end of her walking stick, facing down a line of officers in riot gear. And I feel like a wimp and have to go another round with my conscience.
Government-sanctioned child abuse. I never thought I would type those words about the United States government, and that shock kept my attention diverted from President Donald J. Trump’s trip to Japan. I had thought that in his last trip to Europe he stepped in every cow pie that could possibly be stepped in and left the career diplomats cleaning their shoes and those of their host countries. I was wrong.
