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| Capitol Police drag disabled protesters out of wheelchairs during Trumpcare protests. Forty-three people were arrested in connection with the protest. In some instances, police helped protesters back into their wheelchairs before forcibly removing them, but others weren't treated so generously Jacquelyn Martin/AP via The Independent (UK) June 22, 2017. |
This is what
the Fascists did
in the 1930s and 40s:
cleansed the race
of the genetically impure
the mentally ill
sexual deviants
gypsies
jews
the cripples
and the infirm
Now here
in Washington DC
Today in June of 2017
republicans release
details of crafted-in-secret
No Health Care bill
arrest the protestors
in the halls of Congress:
the disabled in wheelchairs
on oxygen
disability disadvantaged all
and either forcibly carry them out
or escort them from in front
of the Majority Leader of the Senate’s
office door outside
to where the box cars are waiting.
Alan Catlin is poetry editor of online journal misfitmagazine.net. His latest book of poetry is American Odyssey from Future Cycle Press.
