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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/world/africa/01madagascar.html?th&emc=thThe above link, which I also posted as a bulletin, is to an article by the NY Times about child molestation and rape in Africa, a problem that is severely underreported and results in the destruction of the lives of thousands of children every year.
Quite frankly, I am nearly in tears and only hold back due to being at work. This is an atrocity. In fact, that word doesn't do justice to what is occurring. One girl is permanently incapable of excretion due to the utter destruction of her colon. Atrocity does not begin to describe what has been done and continues to be done.
I have often been asked why I get angry and vent my frustration with the world, my government and those who don't bother knowing more than what exists in their self-centered world. Here is an example. Reading this, I recall every person that has declared politics and foreign policy something they don't care about and shudder at the utter moral lack that stating such indicates. Politics IS this issue and so many others beside. Politics IS the way by which such issues are addressed because it is precisely the political machine that orchestrates knowledge of such horrendous acts and funnels money in the attempt to stop them from continuing.
I realize that we all do not have money to spend or even often much time in our lives to write or participate in activism. But the mere discussion with friends and family will spread the word that we are not only citizens of this country but fellow inhabitants of this world.
The continued apathy that so many Americans feel, the isolationism that so many adhere to both personally and nationally, directly affects the welfare of others in this world and the result is something we all should be disgusted with and do something, anything, about
