Wrong is wrong.

The government does good things and the government does bad things.  I don’t care which party implements the policy regardless if it is good or if it is bad.  

If my candidate does something wrong I am going to hold them accountable by voting against them. If something happened in the past and it was wrong than it should be fixed now regardless of which party implemented the policy.  Wrong is wrong. 

I don’t care who or when a policy was implemented it’s irrelevant.  We need to stop the hypocrisy and decide what kind of country we want to be and where we stand. Separating children from their parents is wrong now, was wrong in 1996 and wrong in 1943. 

MY MOMMY IS HERE - Rabbi Lance J. Sussman

MY MOMMY IS HERE

Many days, at the end of day
I stand by the preschool fence where the 2 and 3 year olds play.
They are busy with sand and trucks and one another.
And then one says, “My mommy is here”
And they stop playing and their arms go up
And they jump into Mommy’s loving arms
And she kisses her children
And the world is one.

Forget the toys and the kick balls
And the fun and the buzz of the playground,
Mommy is here and I am going home.
And for that moment
that’s all there is in heaven and on earth.

When I go home, I watch the news on the TV
I hear what I cannot accept.
I see what I cannot believe.
My country is taking children out of the hands of their moms and dads
Removing nursing infants from their mother’s soft embrace
And putting them in cages
But they say resorts
Of course, it doesn’t matter
None of those kids can say “my mommy is here”
Only strangers and procedures and
Government issued cots
For kids on ICE near our border.

Don’t we remember the auctions where slaves once were sold,
Where families were ripped apart?
Don’t we remember the transports which separated
Jewish kids from their moms and dads
Along the tracks across Europe from Amsterdam to Zagreb.

How simple, how natural the words children say
When their mommy is here.
Is it possible my country cannot hear them?
Is it possible for me to sleep when I do hear them
And close my eyes?

Lance J. Sussman 6.15.18

MY MOMMY IS HERE - Rabbi Lance J. Sussman

MY MOMMY IS HERE

Many days, at the end of day
I stand by the preschool fence where the 2 and 3 year olds play.
They are busy with sand and trucks and one another.
And then one says, “My mommy is here”
And they stop playing and their arms go up
And they jump into Mommy’s loving arms
And she kisses her children
And the world is one.

Forget the toys and the kick balls
And the fun and the buzz of the playground,
Mommy is here and I am going home.
And for that moment
that’s all there is in heaven and on earth.

When I go home, I watch the news on the TV
I hear what I cannot accept.
I see what I cannot believe.
My country is taking children out of the hands of their moms and dads
Removing nursing infants from their mother’s soft embrace
And putting them in cages
But they say resorts
Of course, it doesn’t matter
None of those kids can say “my mommy is here”
Only strangers and procedures and
Government issued cots
For kids on ICE near our border.

Don’t we remember the auctions where slaves once were sold,
Where families were ripped apart?
Don’t we remember the transports which separated
Jewish kids from their moms and dads
Along the tracks across Europe from Amsterdam to Zagreb.

How simple, how natural the words children say
When their mommy is here.
Is it possible my country cannot hear them?
Is it possible for me to sleep when I do hear them
And close my eyes?

Lance J. Sussman 6.15.18