Today we celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday, yet millions are still enslaved as the UN and our feckless Allies look the other way. How does one reconcile this post by John Hudock at Common Sense and Wonder with the UN's rhetoric:
While the UN organizes commissions to excoriate the US and Britain for their involvement with slavery more than a century and a half ago, there is shockingly little said or done about its current practice. Joseph Farah examines the situation.Millions of women, children and men are enslaved around the world today, yet the United Nations is declaring 2004 the year to remember the abuses of the past.
Girls as young as five are trafficked into domestic work in West Africa. Families are forced to work as bonded slaves in South Asia. Women are used as chattel in Europe's sex industry.
Slavery is shockingly common in the world today: in homes, factories, farms and brothels. The most common form is bonded servitude, or holding people to work off debts with stratospheric interest rates. One widely held estimate puts the number of people in slavery at 27 million(my emphasis). The U.S. CIA estimates that up to 900,000 people are sold across international borders each year. The trade is illegal, and officially condemned, throughout the world. Yet it flourishes, earning perhaps $7 billion a year for its perpetrators.
This is just sad and prescient?
But McGovern's appearance also resurrects memories of one of the Democrats' worst defeats. In 1972, Richard Nixon defeated McGovern by winning every state except Massachusetts.
His Imperial Highness wonders what the Donks are smoking...I wonder what the hell Fox wordsmith Peter Brownfeld was thinking when he coined "pre-buttal". Arghhh.
Steven Den Beste anticipates the Dem rebuttal and ensuing media frenzy as he chronicles the Big Lie flowing from the 2003 SOTU.
They say, "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity", but we seem to have gone beyond any possible stupidity now.
Is anyone else wishing the election was over? I can't imagine ten months of this mind numbing claptrap. Smash asks The Iowa Caucuses: do they really matter? Do you care?
Dodd Harris presents a loverly election map and an apt photographic embellishment of Senator Kennedy's incoherant speech-cum-driving direction Kerry endorsement.
Ending this morning's linkage with a note that John Little's newest site National Security Blog is up and is the perfect counterpoint to Eye On The left. Gees does the man ever sleep? How does he do it? Talent? Brains? Caffine? Luck? Go. Read. Comment. Blogroll.