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September 21, 2005
Child Warriors
I saw in a Neovox article that many countries are enlisting very young children as spies, messengers, suicide bombers and eventually -- if the child survives to age nine or ten -- full fledged soldiers in the revolution. I applaud the leaders' innovation. By recruiting the future zealots at such an early age, these clear thinking idealists have insured that wars will never end. Bravo! This is the license we need to fuel our already war-based economy and continue to act as the world's police forever. I thought it might be a good idea to target children for destruction so that this cycle might possibly be interrupted, but it occured to me that any government that was as anti-abortion as the present administration would certainly frown on post-natal abortion (but then what else is genocide if not that?) So who's with me? We petition the government to stop all these wars, police actions, peace keeping missions and assorted killing sprees no matter under what euphamism they occur against adults, then with all the resources we have on hand, we kill all the children in every developing nation so that we won't have to fight them when they grow up. It's nothing short of genius. I'm surprised that no one has employed this idea since Biblical times. I'll bet that we even have some scientists who will be able to research and develop WCD (Weapons of Childhood Destruction) What this innovative weapons' system would entail is hard to say, but one would hope that everything from poison lollipops to collapsing swing sets would be reviewed. Of course if standard riflery were employed only slight adjustments would be needed: "Aim lower and don't lead them so much. -- They're shorter and don't run so fast as adults." So we could get some forces into the actions right away. The important thing is to start soon so that we can begin the attack while these future warriors are still young enough to be classified as children. This is an opportunity that should not be missed. Additionally, we will save a good deal of money in foreign aid -- as time goes on that is, not right away of course, but we must look at this as an investment in a peaceful future.
Posted by Joseph Lampiasi at September 21, 2005 10:45 AM
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