‘It’s time to wake up and do something’

Editor:

Ethnic cleansing. Definition: the systematic and forced removal of an ethnic, racial, or religious group from a specific area. It is often achieved through forced migration, deportation, violence (murder, rape), and property destruction. If you haven't been paying attention, this is happening in our country. It's time to wake up and do something. Human rights violations are happening daily in this country that claims to be the shining example of democracy. Some of this makes the news, but most of it doesn't. Unseen fathers, aunts, grandmothers, family members of all kinds are brutalized in secret, abducted, assaulted, raped, shackled like animals, dumped like trash in other countries, and certainly worse. This is all in addition to the horrific murders that we actually hear about. What ICE is doing is wrong. It must stop. Heed these words from writer John Pavlovitz: 

"This should be the final straw for us, America. 

• People who claim to be pro-life should be brought to tears. 
• Those espousing family values should be fully incensed. 
• Anyone with children of their own whom they love should be sick to their stomachs.
• Men and women of every faith should be unequivocally condemning this.
• People of conscience and morality should be unable to sleep.
• Good people ought to be fully heartbroken.
• This is a sharp line in the sand, and we all have to make our choice in this moment.
• There is no neutral middle ground here; no hedging or justifying or entertaining of both sides.
• There is no valid human opinion that makes this OK.
• You either permit the brutality or you don’t.
• You either assign equal value to people or you don’t.
• You either hear the cries of a child pleading for her family and realize we’ve lost the plot, or you declare this is the story you’re comfortable co-writing.
• You either make peace with the madness or you push back hard against it.

I don’t want to hear about your politics; this is about your heart."

What's it going to be Gunnison County? And what's it going to be amazing visitors?

Rev. Kelly Jo Clark