A recent development on the Haitian disaster, in the news right now, is that a "Christian group" from Idaho tried to illegally remove children from that country to the Dominican Republic, supposedly for humanitarian reasons.
The BBC reported that the "head of counter trafficking" at the International Office of Migration referred to it as "cowboy adoption." In my mind, that is quite different from "illegal abduction", which it actually is, by all the reports I have seen. No paperwork; no permission = illegal.
Nevertheless, the head of counter trafficking at the IOM, Richard Danziger, reported that although they had "good intentions" (I guess he would know, since he's both a mind-reader and a diviner of intention), they shouldn't be going about it in this way. Really? Well, I don't yet know much about the IOM, although I soon will, but I trust Christians about as far as I can toss an adult one.
With a number of books, articles and blogs available, to cause one pause in thinking about child-trafficking in general, this a very disturbing bit of news. More disturbing is the British news helping to minimize the offense, by offering the re-defining (or should I say re-framing) of the actions of these supposed humanitarians. Furthermore, at least one person at the IOM is either incredibly naive or maybe even complicit.
After reading books like The Franklin Scandal and Programmed To Kill, you might just become as disturbed as I, regarding the implications of all this. Just a swift Google search using the phrase 'pedophile ring' is enough to get a starter education in this dark side to those who feign compassion for the world's children.
I keep asking myself (since I know of no one else to ask) just how many heads of the Hydra can be lopped off to bring this beast down. Are there enough swords and swordsmen to accomplish the task? So far, the answer is "Only in your dreams, man."
Nick to Captain Kirk--get me off this fucking planet.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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