2/5/20
By Charlene Frank
This is why we "Witness." I am truly not a conspiracy theorist by nature, but when something is placed on your lap and you refuse to see it, you have big problems.
Witnessing is "the subversive act of seeing." You see what our government and the accompanying corporations don't want anyone to see and you let the world know.
They didn't want children in prison camps to be seen so they put these prison camps in places that were so difficult to find that even with directions you'd get lost trying to get there. But the first person showed up to witness this and it grew. Because of the witnesses 2 of the prison camps closed: Tornillo and Homestead.
Now we witness at Matamoros, and at the airport. Why are there Witnesses at the tiny Brownsville airport? Because people, mostly people who look like teenagers in shackles are put onto planes, deported and dumped like garbage in a third country. The Witness group had heard that deportation flights were leaving Brownsville for quite some time, although the information wasn't open to the public. Debbie Nathan who organized a group in El Paso to monitor deportation flights encouraged the #WitnessAtTheBorder group to go to the Brownsville airport and Witness there.
On 1/22 the ACLU tipped off the Witness group that a SwiftAir flight was being loaded with deportees. Witnesses showed up. They weren't welcomed but it was not federal land and they couldn't force the witnesses to leave. Witnesses told people what they saw, and wrote about it. Now nobody could say that they didn't know, that nobody told them it was happening. Witnesses are from all over the country, including Alaska! We even have a witness from Rome, Italy! People are aware. Witnessing is POWERFUL.
Everyday after this at least 1 or 2 witnesses were at the airport and everyday the same thing happened. Now it looks like they may be trying to hide the deportation planes so they can't be witnessed. But they are not invisible. A 6:45 a.m. flight SWQ3585 left BRO for GUA, and if you are at the airport, it can't be missed . Brownsville is a tiny airport, a really tiny airport. The "hidden" plane to GUA. Guatemala City is being used like a NYC garbage barge. But these are human beings, not garbage! Real live human beings who simply want to live a safe life.
THIS IS WHY WITNESSING IS SO IMPORTANT!
Some days Witnessing can be boring, not usually, but it can be. However you are there, you are wearing your FREE THEM button so they know who you are and they know you are committing "the subversive act of seeing." It is POWERFUL!