The Forum > General Discussion > Children Locked In Cages
Children Locked In Cages
- Pages:
-
- 1
- 2
- 3
- ...
- 12
- 13
- 14
- Page 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- ...
- 32
- 33
- 34
-
- All
The National Forum | Donate | Your Account | On Line Opinion | Forum | Blogs | Polling | About |
Syndicate RSS/XML |
|
About Us :: Search :: Discuss :: Feedback :: Legals :: Privacy |
I understand you're a compassionate man, and I respect you for that. Others seem to think I'm all for keeping kids in cages. I'm clearly not. However, despite their age and mentality, some are more than capable of occasioning harm to others, given the right situation.
A bloke I know well, formerly an AFP member, was sent to Afghanistan with the AFP. They were deployed as Peacekeepers, together with training the local Police in procedural, and anti-corruption strategies. His detachment lasted 3 months. On his return, he took LWP for a period of 6 or 9 months. On this occasion, he volunteered to work over there, with the International Civil Aid Group.
On the day in question, just outside Kabul, the National Capital, while walking alone among, small groups of villager's, as was a common practice. Unarmed and clearly attired in his Civil Aid - Red Crescent Uniform; he was delighted to have small groups of these young children welcoming him. That is until this youngster of around 9 years of age, managed to get within 6 feet of him, whereupon he detonated a suicide bomb, utterly eviscerating the boy completely. My mate survived, and after over 20 + surgical procedures, undertaken in Germany and later on, Australia. He's now confined to a wheelchair for life. Although this event happened over 6 years ago now, he still has another 4 or 5 surgeries yet to go.
Belly for the most part, and in most cultures, children even adolescents, adhere to their parents demands, it's something they do automatically. It's not the child, it's the heinous parents who inculcate these murderous instructions into the minds of these kids! In Vietnam, you'd 'never' allow a kid to approach you, those who try are warned, should they continue, they're shot.
These kids previously confined in US Cages, are likely harmless. However, one should never discount the potential of a child - either from a Law-Enforcement perspective, or a military interpretation. You do so at your own peril?