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by Matt Naham | 12:51 pm, June 22nd, 2018
An attempt to deliver necessities and comfort items to children in a detention center in McAllen, Texas appears to have gone awry for Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein. Ringelstein, who is challenging Sen. Angus King for his seat, was arrested and it was all caught on camera.
The politicians Twitter account and a lengthy video documented what went down at the facility. The Twitter version of events had four stages: #resist, attempted toy etc. delivery, #FreeZak and then an official campaign statement.
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U.S. Senate candidate Zak Ringelstein of Yarmouth, Maine was arrested this morning outside an internment camp in McAllen, Texas. Ringelstein, 31, was attempting to deliver water, food, blankets, book and toys to children imprisoned by the Trump administration, the campaign said. At this time, specific charges are not known. There has been no communication from Ringelstein since his arrest about 9:30 am EST.
The Facebook video on Ringelsteins campaign page, on the other hand, is more than an hour and half long.
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TheBlackAdder
(28,230 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)and driven to jail - ?
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I don't think he'd tweet about himself in the third person like Trump.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)How do they go home and face their own children. How do they stomach to look in the mirror. What do they think when they go to church on Sunday; signing hymns and praising the Lord who must be horrified. These are Christians? These are the Bible Belt God fearing people who are so fond of demonstrating their faith with quotes from the scriptures. It seems to me that they are willing child abusers without a shred of compassion or human decency. It seem to me that they sold their soul and hitched their fate to a one of the worst monsters to have ever obtained the presidency. If this is what populates heaven, Peter can give me a pass.
TheBlackAdder
(28,230 posts).
The play is quite fun to read.
It's about a pious man being welcomed into a house, only to swindle the home away from the family, using religion.
Pretty much, the more pious a person presents themselves to be, the more of a hypocrite they are.
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)for the child abuse done to them by trump .
bdamomma
(63,931 posts)definitely illegal going on behind those walls and to arrest a US Senate candidate.
Initech
(100,108 posts)And given this administration's contempt for the press, I'm sure we're only hearing bits and pieces of what's really going on. I feel scared of what's going to happen to the people he's wrongfully imprisoned.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Lock & guarded gates of Military bases, no one will ever know what is happening to these people.
All we'll have to rely on is what our dictator tells us via his State Media.
Don't count on families actually being kept together.
Its a lie.
Why is it a crime to offer children's necessities to a children's shelter? It's not.
Why the need to arrest? There wàs no need.
They are hiding what's going on inside. That's what this is about.
Why????!!
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)...just a court action did with Muslim ban? I've read that states are pursuing some type of action, yet trunp and his gang of child abusers are moving fast to relocate, disperse children across the country rendering it impossible to reunite children with parents.
sinkingfeeling
(51,482 posts)bdamomma
(63,931 posts)all over the country so the POS will know how hated he is.
Geez, I think my mind is mush, I am not structuring a complete sentence.
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)Only about 50 people showed up on June 1st but that was a week day. I have the feeling tomorrow's protest will be a lot bigger since this is in San Diego and we border Mexico.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)gets carted off for his efforts. Hey Maine, I hope youre watching your native son stepping up and making you proud!!!
-Thank you Zak RESPECT
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)Everything good and decent has been thrown out the window, and we live in a world now where it's socially acceptable to be a boorish jackass like Trump is. And the scary thing is that I think it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Ilsa
(61,707 posts)The books are supposed to exault IQ45, curse democrats, tell them that their parents abandoned them, and portray POC as being in subservient roles.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)democrank
(11,112 posts)C Moon
(12,222 posts)and spitting it out to their pea-brained viewers.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)ecstatic
(32,748 posts)This is getting pretty damn close. It'll be interesting to see how sitting congressmen/women are treated in the event that they insist on visiting the child prisoners.
Like porn, well know The Moment Everything Changed when we see it.
The arrest of a politician would be such a moment. As would a temporary suspension of civil rights, even/especially if it followed the inevitable next terrorist attack.