[DRB]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/02/12/child.soldiers/index.html

Warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines -- nothing more than what one child advocate calls "cannon fodder."

Some children are kidnapped from their schools or their beds, some are recruited after seeing their parents slaughtered, some may even choose to join the militias as their best hope for survival in war-torn countries from Colombia, and across Africa and the Middle East, to south Asia.

here is no escape for what the United Nations and human rights groups estimate are 250,000 child soldiers today. These children, some as young as 8, become fighters, sex slaves, spies and even human shields.

Since last summer, groups in Burundi, Ivory Coast, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Somalia have been referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Mother Earth will be made whole in 10 years when global warming kills all of us off.

 

[$tinkle]

there is no escape for what the United Nations and human rights groups estimate are 250,000 child soldiers today. These children, some as young as 8, become fighters, sex slaves, spies and even human shields.

let's see...
world pop @ 6,525,170,264 ('06 estimate)

dude, that's in the noise. it would take a confidence interval greater than 99% for this to be considered, which no one worth their salt uses. (95% is the accepted norm).

move along...

 

[Secret Squirrel]

let's see...
world pop @ 6,525,170,264 ('06 estimate)

dude, that's in the noise. it would take a confidence interval greater than 99% for this to be considered, which no one worth their salt uses. (95% is the accepted norm).

move along...

So we shall wait for it to hit 2 mil. Then the world can care.

 

[$tinkle]

So we shall wait for it to hit 2 mil. Then the world can care.

i appreciate your near-comparison to the holocaust, and for that reason i'm only half-joking; the other half asks "when should we care, & why?". if we are to care [yes, we should], then let's get it on & put the world on notice. no more measured tones. no more diplomacy. we're a bit crowded, wouldn't you say?

 

[Secret Squirrel]

i appreciate your near-comparison to the holocaust, and for that reason i'm only half-joking; the other half asks "when should we care, & why?". if we are to care [yes, we should], then let's get it on & put the world on notice. no more measured tones. no more diplomacy. we're a bit crowded, wouldn't you say?

I was only half-joking to your half-joke. I'm of the ilk that thinks the world is too far gone (reference to global warming included...I just don't think that we should lie to ourselves about things...). We should get it on and go "save" the children...but with our current admin and world view, what does that mean? We're trying to "save" a country, look how well that's going. *Shrug* It's easy to sit back and play armchair quarterback, but nothing really gets accomplished that way...Short of joining the SEALS and getting my ass shot off, there's not much I can do except complain to elected officials that don't give a rats ass. If the world doesn't care, then one person whining isn't going to get sh*t done, no matter what Hollywood has to say about it.

 

[Westy]

So we shall wait for it to hit 2 mil. Then the world can care.

Nah, wait until they become white.

 

[DRB]

Nah, wait until they become white.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17115499/

A gang of girls attacked a woman at a discount store, hitting and kicking her and tearing off her clothes, said police, who arrested a 10-year-old girl accused of being involved.

Though the odds of this 10 year old seeing the horrors that the kids above have seen are pretty long.

 

[Westy]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17115499/


Though the odds of this 10 year old seeing the horrors that the kids above have seen are pretty long.

What a pussy, I could totally take on 3 ten year olds.

 

[N8 v2.0]

What a pussy, I could totally take on 3 ten year olds.

pedophile

 

[Kihaji]

Sure am glad that outstanding organization known as the UN saw fit to bring Sudan onto the Human rights council.

 

[$tinkle]

Nah, wait until they become white.

make them say prayers to st. cracker? would make communion a bit confusing for some.