Washington Post give Planned Parenthood president's claims "Four Pinocchios"

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52 minutes ago, homersapien said:

Trump is not trying to arrive at a solution.  He is using this politically to jack up his base - that's what "THE WALL" was all about.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administration-should-fight-graft-and-impunity-in-guatemala-its-doing-the-opposite/2019/07/14/26f8e8be-a418-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html?utm_term=.3ca2ca48f426

The Trump administration should fight graft and impunity in Guatemala. It’s doing the opposite.

IN THE recent crush of Central American asylum seekers pouring over the United States’ southern border, no country has been the source of more migrants than Guatemala, where poverty and misrule are aggravated by stunningly pervasive corruption. That would suggest the Trump administration, in its crusade to deter migration, would intensify efforts to fight graft and impunity there. In fact, it is doing the opposite.

For a decade before President Trump entered office, the United States provided critical diplomatic and financial backing to an extraordinarily effective anticorruption commission that prosecuted hundreds of Guatemalan lawmakers, officials and others involved in dozens of criminal schemes and networks. The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, supervised by the United Nations, had a key strategic ally in Thelma Aldana, an anticorruption crusader who, as the nation’s attorney general from 2014 to 2018, launched a devastating frontal assault against entrenched elites who had enriched themselves for decades without consequence; she sent some 250 to jail. Among those she accused were a former president, Otto Pérez Molina, who resigned in disgrace, and the current president, Jimmy Morales, who has denied wrongdoing.

The campaign to clean up Guatemala earned the commission and Ms. Aldana powerful enemies who feared not just prison time but an end to long-standing business as usual — kickbacks, payoffs and sweetheart deals for the well-connected. Those enemies were kept at bay with the help of friendly judges and diplomatic cover. Then Mr. Trump took office.

Over the objections of career diplomats, political appointees from the Trump administration sided with Guatemalan corporate and political figures who argued, preposterously, that the anticorruption commission was an affront to the nation’s sovereignty. (In fact, many of its investigators are Guatemalan and it enjoys broad popular support.) When Mr. Morales announced last summer that the commission would be abolished in a year, Washington barely objected.

That set the stage for a counterattack targeting Ms. Aldana, who was disqualified as a candidate in Guatemala’s presidential elections this spring when an array of charges — some flimsy, others spurious — were brought against her. Not coincidentally, she was the only leading candidate who had given full-throated backing to the anticorruption commission.

Now, the commission appears doomed, and with it the country’s hopes of rolling back rampant graft. Ms. Aldana, facing death threats at home, has fled to the United States, where she applied for asylum this month. And Mr. Morales, emboldened, is reportedly negotiating a “safe third country” pact that would force Salvadoran and Honduran migrants, who transit Guatemala on their way north, to seek asylum there instead of the United States — a move that would put them at risk given Guatemala’s poor human rights record.

In Guatemala, rumors are rife that Ms. Aldana might be arrested by U.S. immigration agents and deported back to her home country. That would be a grave mistake. Three years ago, when she was honored with the State Department’s annual International Women of Courage award, then-Secretary of State John F. Kerry lauded her as “fearless” in prosecuting corruption and pushing reforms. She, like efforts to establish the rule of law in Guatemala, needs and deserves the United States’ protection and support.

 

Another speculative article from the Washington Post.  What do you want to bet Ms. Aldana applied for asylum at a port of entry instead of crossing the border illegally?  With her visibility she will be granted asylum and the Washington Post is reporting rumors that she might be arrested by U. S. Immigration agents.

The resistance is strong in the Washington Post.

Work toward a solution Congress.

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6 hours ago, I_M4_AU said:

Another speculative article from the Washington Post.  What do you want to bet Ms. Aldana applied for asylum at a port of entry instead of crossing the border illegally?  With her visibility she will be granted asylum and the Washington Post is reporting rumors that she might be arrested by U. S. Immigration agents.

The resistance is strong in the Washington Post.

Work toward a solution Congress.

I don't think you understand what the word "speculative" means. For example, this is a statement of fact, not speculation:

Over the objections of career diplomats, political appointees from the Trump administration sided with Guatemalan corporate and political figures who argued, preposterously, that the anticorruption commission was an affront to the nation’s sovereignty. (In fact, many of its investigators are Guatemalan and it enjoys broad popular support.) When Mr. Morales announced last summer that the commission would be abolished in a year, Washington barely objected.

It's the basis of the entire piece:  Trump does not support the anti-corruption commission in Guatemala.  It's a perfect example of how he's not really trying to address the refugee problem. If you want to argue that's the proper position, then do so. But don't call that fact "speculation".

Furthermore, it wasn't the WaPo that suggested she might be deported.  They were relaying the fears of her supporters in Guatemala.  That's called reporting.  It's an essential role of a free press.

Your comment about the "resistance being strong at the WaPo" is ironic.  That's exactly what they are suppose to do - challenge the government's policies.  That's exactly why a free press is so important to our freedom.  It's the first thing to go when an authoritarian government takes over.

So side with Trump's policies if you want to, but don't just stick your head in the sand and act like it didn't happen, which is what you are doing be calling reporting of factual information as false "speculation". 

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On 7/10/2019 at 5:55 PM, aubiefifty said:

t. but you have a few preachers saying masturbation is murder

Do you have a source for this so I can read it, and let them know their theology is wrong? Jesus did say that lust is adulterous of the heart, and when someone is doing that they usually are lusting about another.

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Planned Parenthood fires president today:

https://relevantmagazine.com/current/planned-parenthood-removes-its-president-following-a-secret-meeting/

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Sometimes the headlines write themselves: