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Re: I can no longer justify being a part of Trump Complacent State. So Im resigning.

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
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It needs something like that to have an effect. Good idea, clo.

Along the way, I have learnt to love some sort of idea of America, of decent people ruling themselves through truth, common sense and kindness. Wish we could go there rather than living this awful nightmare.




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I can no longer justify being a part of Trump’s ‘Complacent State.’ So I’m resigning.
By: clo
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Thu, 08 Aug 19 7:19 PM
Msg. 31208 of 54959

I hope he will start a trend.

I can no longer justify being a part of Trump’s ‘Complacent State.’ So I’m resigning.

By Chuck Park August 8 at 9:11 AM
Chuck Park’s resignation from the Foreign Service is effective Thursday.

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I’m ashamed of how long it took me to make this decision. My excuse might be disappointing, if familiar to many of my colleagues: I let career perks silence my conscience. I let free housing, the countdown to a pension and the prestige of representing a powerful nation overseas distract me from ideals that once seemed so clear to me. I can’t do that anymore.

My son, born in El Paso on the American side of that same Rio Grande where the bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter were discovered, in the same city where 22 people were just killed by a gunman whose purported “manifesto” echoed the inflammatory language of our president, turned 7 this month. I can no longer justify to him, or to myself, my complicity in the actions of this administration. That’s why I choose to resign.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-can-no-longer-justify-being-a-part-of-trumps-complacent-state-so-im-resigning/2019/08/08/fed849e4-af14-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1


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