wheels on the bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, Round and round
The wheels on the bus go round and round
All 'round the town! The people on the bus go up and down
Up and down, Up and down
The people on the bus go up and down
All 'round the town (‘Wheels on the Bus’-Raffi)

Way back in my days I had the responsibility of being the Day Camp Director. The program was a popular summer activity, and the city of Houston in which I worked at the JCC, is quite a large city, with too many square miles for me to count. And added to the daily pick up and drop off of hundreds of young kids, often times we planned overnights or days where the campers would camp out and remain away for three or four nights. We rented seven school buses back in the day, and each and every day of the week, the kids would arrive, the head counselors, knowing exactly how many were on the bus, at the end of the day, the campers would return home, the lead counselors would get off the bus and with clipboard in hand (Yes old school Camping 101, a clipboard in hand was the key to power), and announce that ALL campers returned home safely. Occasionally we the lead counselors were also dropped off on the last stop and the bus driver would handle the official handing over of the clipboard. It might have been Bus Number 6 or 7, the years have passed too quickly for me to remember which exact bus, but one driver, at times, would stop off and purchase his favorite food source, a huge block of cheese, and in doing so, be very late on the return. This caused great consternation, worry angst, and at times fear. MY responsibility as Day Camp Director included that I concern myself with the welfare, and safety of ALL of MY campers. Needless to say, the days any buses arrived late, or the days, due to weather (Houston in the summer had some really nasty thunderstorms, and flooding, caused me lots of ant-acids, Excedrin and true deep ulcer nastiness…simply because each camper was unique, each family trusted me, and MY job was to make certain I knew the whereabouts of not only MY campers, but MY staff, and while camp was in session the ownership I took of MY busses and MY bus drivers. It was never of question of meh, who cares, or so what, shit happens, and sometimes someone gets lost. It WAS a question of being capable, professional and of course CARING!

On Friday, officials from the Trump administration said it would require too much effort to reunite the thousands of families it separated before implementing its “zero-tolerance” policy in April, according to a declaration filed as part of an ongoing lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the declaration submitted Friday, HHS officials said they don’t know the exact number of children who were taken from their parents before “zero tolerance” and that finding them would be too much of a “burden” since there was no formal tracking system in place. 

 “The Trump administration’s response is a shocking concession that it can’t easily find thousands of children it ripped from parents and doesn’t even think it’s worth the time to locate each of them,” said Lee Gelernt, the lead lawyer in the ACLU’s ongoing lawsuit against ICE, in a statement. “The administration also doesn’t dispute that separations are ongoing in significant numbers.”(Huffington Post)

The same Evangelicals, you know the ones praising Trump as so Christ like-or Christ chosen…the same Evangelicals who wear their MAGA hats at Pro-Life mob like gatherings, the same Evangelicals who torment the workers and patients at Planned Parenthood…the same Evangelicals who claim the LIFE of the fetus starts at inception…NONE of them, not a one of any loud popular pay to pray reputation has muttered word one about the fact that the TRUMP CRIME FAMILY and his TRUMP CRIME CABINET could give a shit to forcefully removing kids from their parents, locking them in cages, orphaning some forever and now, even as TRUMP could give a shit on reuniting the families…because once this hate-filled project started Trump never gave a fuck on how it would end. Silence equals death Evangelicals, and worst of all your silence is bound in so much hypocrisy, silence equals a lack of real Christianity!