Posted on 05/30/2012 3:57:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
BBC Radio Four led on the Syrian massacre this morning describing it in graphic terms as the ‘deliberate mass killing of children’ who ’were murdered one by one’.
The story was also one of the top three on the BBC website earlier today along with the account of six children dying in a house fire in the north of England.
These would have been the top two reports had it not been for Mitt Romney gaining the Republican nomination for the US presidential elections yesterday.
There are few things more gut-wrenching than the death of children but these two stories have grabbed the media spotlight mainly because of the particular circumstances involved.
It now appears that most of the 49 killed in the village of Taldou were summarily executed, with UN observers claiming that many of them had been killed by close-range gunfire or knife attacks.
And there are now questions being asked about whether the fire that resulted in the deaths of six siblings in Derby may have been started deliberately.
Every child’s death is a tragedy but there are few things more reprehensible than the killing of children by adults. Children are rightly seen as amongst the most vulnerable and defenceless members of society and deserving of special protection.
It is therefore not surprising that Western governments are acting quickly at the highest level to expel Syrian diplomats and impose sanctions and the police are giving high priority to investigating the Derby fire for which the children’s own parents are now suspects.
Whether or it turns out that the Syrian government was directly involved in the latest atrocities, or whether or not the parents are charged with starting the fire, it is nonetheless deeply ingrained in the human psyche that public authorities have a duty to protect the vulnerable and that the strongest advocates for children should be their own parents.
It is for this reason that I find the relatively low prominence given to the 2011 abortion statistics also published yesterday profoundly bizarre.
The BBC report highlights the fact that 34% of the 189,931 women having an abortion last year in England and Wales had had one before and most newspapers note the fact that repeat abortions now make up 36% of the total, over a third.
BBC Radio Four led on the Syrian massacre this morning describing it in graphic terms as the ‘deliberate mass killing of children’ who ’were murdered one by one’.
The story was also one of the top three on the BBC website earlier today along with the account of six children dying in a house fire in the north of England.
These would have been the top two reports had it not been for Mitt Romney gaining the Republican nomination for the US presidential elections yesterday.
There are few things more gut-wrenching than the death of children but these two stories have grabbed the media spotlight mainly because of the particular circumstances involved.
It now appears that most of the 49 killed in the village of Taldou were summarily executed, with UN observers claiming that many of them had been killed by close-range gunfire or knife attacks.
And there are now questions being asked about whether the fire that resulted in the deaths of six siblings in Derby may have been started deliberately.
Every child’s death is a tragedy but there are few things more reprehensible than the killing of children by adults. Children are rightly seen as amongst the most vulnerable and defenceless members of society and deserving of special protection.
It is therefore not surprising that Western governments are acting quickly at the highest level to expel Syrian diplomats and impose sanctions and the police are giving high priority to investigating the Derby fire for which the children’s own parents are now suspects.
Whether or it turns out that the Syrian government was directly involved in the latest atrocities, or whether or not the parents are charged with starting the fire, it is nonetheless deeply ingrained in the human psyche that public authorities have a duty to protect the vulnerable and that the strongest advocates for children should be their own parents.
It is for this reason that I find the relatively low prominence given to the 2011 abortion statistics also published yesterday profoundly bizarre.
The BBC report highlights the fact that 34% of the 189,931 women having an abortion last year in England and Wales had had one before and most newspapers note the fact that repeat abortions now make up 36% of the total, over a third.
This means that over 40% of the deaths in the world are aborted babies, in the United States abortion kills more people than cancer, heart disease and strokes COMBINED.
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Yeah, I was going to say.
I thought this headline was to a piece about abortion.
One milllion Americans per year, for instance.
It seems that human heartlessness never goes away, rather old forms of it simply make room for new. This is how Satan is keeping himself entertained right now. It does not create the large scale mess that wars do.
It does not create the large scale mess that wars do. — But Satan sees the flux of suffering souls and he’s tickled pink, or whatever color that devils are tickled.
“There are few things more gut-wrenching than the death of children but these two stories have grabbed the media spotlight mainly because of the particular circumstances involved.”
I don’t buy that for a minute... We murder over a million of our unborn a year. How gut-wrenching can it be?
Is there anything more worthless or dangerous than a f ing UN observer. How the hell do you observe children being slaughtered at close range & do nothing. How does one live with ones self after doing nothing?
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