Fears Rise of Child Trafficking

"JAKARTA, Indonesia â?? Fearing child-trafficking gangs will exploit the chaos of the tsunami disaster, Indonesia has placed restrictions on youngsters leaving the country, ordered police commanders to be on the lookout for trafficking and posted special guards in refugee camps."

"UNICEF  and other child welfare groups warn that the gangs â?? who are well-established in Indonesia â?? may well be whisking orphaned children into trafficking networks, selling them into forced labor or even sexual slavery in wealthier neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Singapore."

You know, the depravity of some people on this earth is just breathtaking.  It's things like this that makes me believe that the hard-core left are either truly evil or total retards.  I mean, what else could possibly explain their continued utopian belief in the perfectibility of man?

Fears Rise of Child Trafficking

"JAKARTA, Indonesia — Fearing child-trafficking gangs will exploit the chaos of the tsunami disaster, Indonesia has placed restrictions on youngsters leaving the country, ordered police commanders to be on the lookout for trafficking and posted special guards in refugee camps."

"UNICEF and other child welfare groups warn that the gangs — who are well-established in Indonesia — may well be whisking orphaned children into trafficking networks, selling them into forced labor or even sexual slavery in wealthier neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Singapore."

You know, the depravity of some people on this earth is just breathtaking. It's things like this that makes me believe that the hard-core left are either truly evil or total retards. I mean, what else could possibly explain their continued utopian belief in the perfectibility of man?

A Little Perspective

The House of Saud

The House of Saud donates to the tsunami victims' fund:


"On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia pledged a $10 million aid package to the victims of the disaster. Under the program, $5 million worth of supplies including food, tents and medicines will be airlifted and distributed through the Saudi Red Crescent to the four countries during the course of this week. Officials from the Ministries of Finance, Health, Information and the Saudi Red Crescent will accompany the cargo to the four destinations."

The House of Saud goes on its annual vacation:

"King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al Saud flew to Malaga airport yesterday in his private 747 jet accompanied by three aircraft, one of them kitted out as a hospital."

"He is attended by hundreds of courtiers, relatives and hangers-on, all dependent on his favour for their political power and ostentatious wealth."

"He was gently lowered from the 747 in a lift, settled in a wheelchair and fussed over by some of his 350 attendants, who manoeuvred him into his armour-plated Mercedes with hydraulic seats and tinted windows, which had been transported on one of the planes."

"A caravan of 50 black Mercedes cars, several buses, lorries laden with equipment and a mobile intensive care unit made its way through cleared streets to his Mar Mar palace, a gleaming replica of the United States White House, which nestles in wooded hills along Marbella's golden mile."

"The procession was accompanied by Spanish police vehicles, a helicopter and forces of the King's personal guard, many of whom had arrived several days earlier to check the efficiency of the palace's security measures."

"The 234ft royal yacht, the Al Diriyah, is docked at Marbella's glitzy Puerto Banus marina."

"When King Fahd last summered in Marbella in 1999, he and his vast retinue spent apx. $126 million. Hoteliers, restaurateurs, jewellers and florists are waiting expectantly after estimates that the royal party will this time spend up to $8.5 million a day. A local florist is to supply $2,100 of fresh flowers to the palace daily during the royal visit."

" Five hundred mobile phones have been ordered, the palace will receive 50 specially ordered cakes a day and a direct line of credit has been set up with the nearest branch of a leading department store, which is to remain open round the clock to satisfy instantly every royal whim."

"The rest of the King's support network, expected to swell to 3,000 with those flying from Geneva and Ryadh in coming days, will be housed in luxury mansions near by, plus hundreds of rooms and suites in hotels in Marbella, Estepona and Fuengirola. A plane will fly in weekly from Ryadh bringing the King water from Mecca, dates, lamb, rice and spices."

And The Beat Goes On

Dancers gather on stage in a nightclub area Monday, Jan. 3, 2004, at a popular tourist area in Patong Beach, Thailand. Thailand continues to collect dead and clean debris along the beaches near the popular resort area of Phuket. More than 4,500 are listed as killed by the tsunami that struck Thailand more than a week ago. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Good to see business getting back to normal in Tsunamiland. ;-)

(Yes, my evil twin, Evil Bohemian, strikes again.)

Mercy?

A suspected insurgent asks residents for mercy after they caught him planting explosives under civilian vehicles, at a busy area in Baghdad, January 3, 2005. Insurgents killed 17 Iraqi police and National Guards on Monday in another bloody spree of ambushes, bombings and suicide attacks aimed at wrecking Iraq's January 30 national election. REUTERS/Str (Emphasis mine)

First off, when you actually catch someone planting explosives underneath civilian vehicles, I think you can do without the "suspected" label.

Secondly, I wonder how many explosive packages this man has successfully planted in the past?

And finally, in the manner of Confucius, may this man receive the same mercy that he has shown the people who would have been the victims of the explosion that would have occurred if he had been more adept at covertly planting car bombs!