By Dave Lindorff
As the first and hopefully only presidential term of Donald Trump nears its November 3 moment of truth, the accusations of fascist or even Nazi tendencies and actions by him and his administration have multiplied.
But this latest one I’m calling out is particularly horrific: The use of a powerful “for industrial use only” disinfectant called HDQ Neutral on captive immigrants at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a Trump administration-funded for-profit detention center outside of Los Angeles, CA.
According to a report in the Independent, a UK newspaper, the powerful toxic chemical made by Spartan Chemical Co. is being sprayed in the detention facility despite company advice that it only be used near people outdoors, not in confined spaces. Worse yet, there are allegations from detainees that the chemical is being sprayed directly on them, though the company’s label warns that exposure to the eyes can cause “permanent eye damage.”
The Nazi connection? As Charles Vidich, author of a powerful and timely new book due out later this year on the history of quarantines in the US, dating back to the earliest days of the Colonies in the 1600s down to the present (Germs at Bay, Praeger), due out later this year, notes, Zyklon B, the extermination gas of choice used by Hitler’s Third Reich in its extermination camps, was actually a powerful cyanide-based insecticide invented during the late 19th Century. It was for decades on into the early 20th century used to fumigate ships engaged in international trade to kill rats, mice, fleas and other vermin. The Nazis adopted a variant of the product to eliminate Jews, Gypsies, Communists, people with deformities or retardation and other “undesirables” during the war years.
Now we have the administration of Donald Trump, whose own family had a history of Nazi sympathies and who himself has referred to Nazi demonstrators in the US as “good people,” similarly using an insecticide/disinfectant that is highly toxic and life-threatening on detained immigrants awaiting deportation…
For the rest of this article by DAVE LINDORFF in ThisCantBeHappening!, the uncompromised, collectively run, six-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative news site, please go to: https://thiscantbehappening.net/gassing-immigrants-with-a-highly-toxic-industrial-disinfectant-in-detention/
This makes him no less of the late leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler! Both of them are racists and absolutely anti-poor!