Groups of U.S. kids rescued from sexual slavery

During the weekend of Oct. 23, 2009, 50 American children were rescued from sexual slavery thanks to the FBI in partnership with the Innocence Lost National Initiative.  The rescues occurred in 36 U.S. cities and netted the arrest of 60 pimps and 631 other adults.

With these arrests, child sexual exploitation and human trafficking are openly shown to be a big problem in the nation that is supposed to be the world leader in human rights.  According to Ernie Allen of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, “There are now 34 task forces around the country… going after this problem.  What we’re trying to do is wake up the country to what’s happening to our children and save lives.”

In May 2009, Shared Hope International released The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children.  In this study, it was discovered that there are seven areas of concern when it comes to minors being exploited through child sex slavery, child sex trafficking, child prostitution, commercial sexual exploitation of children, and the rape of children in the U.S.  These seven concerns are as follows:

1. Misidentification: The inability of law enforcement, the courts, government social agencies, and community organizations to identify minors properly hampers the authorities from correctly determining a child’s problem as sexual exploitation as opposed to the problems they have that are obvious like drugs, prostitution, or being runaways.
2. Criminalization of the victim through misidentification: Since the minors cannot be properly identified, they are often assumed to be juvenile delinquents or adult prostitutes by the authorities since their pimps supply them with false IDs and teach them to lie if they are ever questioned or arrested.
3. Criminalization as a response to no options for placement: Minors who are trafficked fail to get the social services and education they need because there is a lack of places to keep them safe, so the authorities see no other choice than charging them with a crime and locking them up to ensure their safety.  This, in turn, hinders them from receiving services for being crime victims in some communities since they have a record.
4. Inappropriate or inaccessible services for domestic minor sex trafficking trauma: Minors who are trafficked are traumatized not only by the adults who have sexually exploited them but also by the law enforcement system that threatens them with being locked up or denied services they need if they refuse to give details of the crime to the authorities.
5. Burden on the victim to build the case against their exploiter: Instead of developing other investigative techniques to build a case against traffickers, law enforcement relies heavily on the child victim to build their case.  This often proves to be too much of an emotional and psychological burden on the victimized child who may find it extremely difficult to open up to someone they don’t know about the terrible things they have experienced.
6. Lack of protective, therapeutic shelters for the trafficked victims:  There are only a handful of shelters throughout the U.S. that house such victims, so the vast majority of sexually exploited children have nowhere to flee to for help.
7. Insufficient priority on combating demand: Not enough is being done to stamp out the demand that drives the sexual exploitation of children.  Most of those who are caught trying to have sex with children are caught in stings that use decoys.  This means a vast majority of these criminals who use other methods of acquiring sex with children are not caught.

Let’s hope and pray these concerns will be addressed sufficiently in the future and that we as a nation will uphold the importance of human rights, especially for our children.  God forgive us for dropping the ball on this important issue.

Sources:

CitizenLink

Shared Hope International

Wrongful death suit filed against Joyce Meyer Ministries

A wrongful death suit has been filed  against Joyce Meyer Ministries on behalf of the family of slain mother Sheri Coleman and her two young sons who were also killed, claiming that the organization did not do enough to prevent their deaths which were allegedly done at the hands of Christopher Coleman, Sheri Coleman’s husband.  Death threats were made against Christopher Coleman and his family to JMM starting in 2008 when he was employed by JMM.  The lawsuit claims that if the ministry would have done a thorough investigation and followed their own electronic communication policy, they would have discovered, as law enforcement authorities did, that the email threats originated from Christopher Coleman’s workplace computer.

According to papers filed in court, JMM has an electronic communication policy clearly stating that distributing inappropriate messages is prohibited and that the organization will exercise the right to monitor the electronic communications of all of its employees.  Attorneys for Sheri Coleman’s family claim that if JMM had all the tools at its disposal to uncover Christopher Coleman’s plot and could have alerted the authorities to prevent the death of Sheri Coleman and her sons.  The attorneys also claim that JMM knew about Christopher Coleman’s affair, which is believed to be his motive for allegedly killing his family.

Attorneys for JMM deny the allegations, stating that Coleman’s extramarital affair was unknown to them.  They further state that when they received the death threats, they reported them to local authorities in Missouri and have cooperated fully with the authorities’ investigation into the crimes.  Additionally, JMM’s attorneys say it is not reasonable to assume that an employer should be held responsible for crimes that an employee commits while away from work.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

Source: Charismamag.com

The sin and shame of incest in society

The sin of incest has been in the headlines a lot recently because of several high profile cases and arrests.  Topping those headlines has been the Josef Fritzl case in Austria, a case which stunned the world because of the severity of the abuse suffered by Fritzl’s daughter.  There is also the case of the brutality of a 64-yr.-old man in Rome who sexually abused his daughter for 25 years and taught his son to sexually abuse his sister and his own four daughters.  Then there was the news report this week about Stacey Lannert in Missouri who was freed from prison after she served 18 years for killing her father because it is believed her father sexually assaulted her repeatedly.  And as if that isn’t enough, the government of Romania is considering the legalization of incest between consenting adult relatives.

Its definition and defilements

What exactly is incest?  According to God as he stated to Moses and the children of Israel, it is sexual relations with someone who is near kin to the individual (Leviticus 18:6).  God then proceeds to give specifics about the types of relationships he considers incestuous.  Incest, by God’s definition, is having sex with a parent or stepparent or parent-in-law (Leviticus 18:8, 20:11, 14; Deuteronomy 27:20, 23; 1 Corinthians 5:1), with one’s sibling or step sibling or sibling-in-law (Leviticus 18:9, 11, 16, 20:17, 21; Deuteronomy 27:22), with one’s child or stepchild or child-in-law (Leviticus 18:15, 17, 20:12), with a grandchild or step-grandchild  (Leviticus 18:10, 17), with a grandparent or step-grandparent (Leviticus 18:10, 17), with a blood uncle or aunt or uncle/aunt by marriage (Leviticus 18:13-14, 20:19-20), and therefore, by default, with a niece or nephew by blood or by marriage.

It is partially because of these sexual defilements that God punished the heathen nations who were against Israel, for he states, “Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.” [Leviticus 18:24]

I suspect that incidents of incest are higher than we imagine because of the shame that the victims of it feel and since there is such shame about it, especially since many are victimized during childhood, it rarely gets reported.  I feel sorry for the children involved but I feel no pity for consenting adults who willingly enter such ungodly relationships.

Because God knows and wants what’s best for us, he gave these commandments against incest with severe punishments for violation of the commandments.  Those who are child victims of incest have been shown to have severe psychological problems, according to Kathryn Brohl and Kathryn Hagans who authored the 1991 book “Pockets of Craziness: Examining Suspected Incest.”  Victims have been known to have addictive behaviors to drugs, alcohol, and sex; they often have anxiety attacks; they suffer from depression that can lead to suicidal tendencies because they blame themselves; they exhibit dissociation behavior because of denial that can lead to memory lapses or lengthy periods of zoning out; they can also suffer flashbacks, compulsive behavior (like eating disorders, constantly cleaning, or cutting), mood swings, hallucinations, and abnormal phobias.

God intended sex to fulfill two purposes–1) for procreation between a husband and wife, and 2) as a way for the husband and wife to become one physically, emotionally, and spiritually as they provide pleasure for each other.  Using a child in one’s family to fulfill one’s ungodly lust is against God’s will and is evil.  God structured the family so that the weaker individuals in the family could be protected by those who are stronger.  Incest against a child violates this trust and fosters confusion and defiles the family structure.  Since God is not the author of confusion and is the God of purity, we can conclude incest is of the devil and is the result of man’s sinful nature.  I’m thankful that we live in a country where those who are victims of this behavior can get help.  This link to the Office of Victims of Crime under the U.S. Dept. of Justice lists organizations that can help you if you have been victimized by a family member.

As for incestuous relationships between two consenting adults who are close relatives, Richard Conniff published an article in Discover magazine in 2003 noting that:

“The great hazard of inbreeding is that it can result in the unmasking of deleterious recessives, to use the clinical language of geneticists. Each of us carries an unknown number of genes—an individual typically has between five and seven—capable of killing our children or grandchildren. These so-called lethal recessives are associated with diseases like cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell anemia.
Most lethal genes never get expressed unless we inherit the recessive form of the gene from both our mother and father. But when both parents come from the same gene pool, their children are more likely to inherit two recessives.”

This truth is also verified by Debra Lieberman of the University of Hawaii in an article at MSNBC.  She states:

“‘Close genetic relatives run the risk of having offspring that have a reduced chance of surviving ..’

While Lieberman cautioned it’s never plain when it comes to genetics, she offered a simplified example to illustrate the risks associated with incest.

‘Let’s say you get a bad gene, which scientists call deleterious, from your mom. But your dad’s copy of the same gene functions normally. The good version acts like a backup, effectively preventing disease the bad gene might have caused. ‘

But having a kid with your sibling, she explained, drastically increases the chances of getting two copies of the deleterious gene as compared to reproducing with someone outside of your family.

‘Each of you would have a copy of that bad gene, so there’s a good chance your kid won’t have a normal copy to work with,’ she said. Multiply that by any other deleterious genes sprinkled among an estimated 50,000 active genes in humans, she explained, and there are bound to be some life-shortening problems.”

Although Lieberman is an evolutionary psychologist who attributes this repulsion against incest to natural selection, I attribute it to God’s making it clear to us through what he has written in the Bible and through his placing some of his likes and dislikes in us when he created us.  If we rely on natural selection as an explanation, this overlooks the fact that well-known and advanced societies of old like the Egyptians, Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans practiced incest as if it were normal because they seared their consciences against God.

Why did God flip-flop on incest?

Many critics of the Bible point out that in the beginning God was okay with incest but later outlawed it when Moses came along.  It seems like this is what God did, but a closer look at scripture with an understanding of genetics reveals something different.  The website God Said, Man Said highlights the genetic fact that if the parents have a healthy gene pool, their offspring will also have a healthy gene pool.  Adam and Eve had such a gene pool and that being the case, their offspring could easily intermarry for many generations before the gene pool would become compromised and degraded.  Since Adam and Eve had to populate the Earth through the intermarriage of their offspring, God did not have a problem with incest in the Earth’s early years because genes were much more pure then than they were by the time Moses’ generation arrived.  As the generations passed and mankind and their genes became more corrupted due to environmental and other influences, God had had enough of the evil that incest brought about and instituted laws to protect mankind from himself.

The article at God Said, Man Said goes on to quote Drs. Henry Morris and Martin Clark from their book “The Bible Has the Answer” (2001) as follows:

“In later generations, brother-sister marriages would come to be recognized as genetically dangerous and would be prohibited as incest.’ Not only the Bible but also most other legal codes refuse to sanction marriages of close relatives. The scientific reason for this restriction is that children of such marriages are more likely to be deformed or sickly or moronic than those of other marriages. The genetic basis for this probability is that inherited mutant genes, producing such unwholesome characteristics, are more likely to find expression in the children if they are carried by both parents.

However, there were no mutant genes in the genetic systems of Adam and Eve, as these had come directly from the creative hand of God Himself. Thus no genetic harm could have resulted had Cain or some other son of Adam married his sister. In fact, it would undoubtedly have taken many generations before enough genetic mutations (which are random, and therefore harmful, changes in the highly ordered structure of the germ cell, brought about by penetration of the cell by shortwave-length radiation or some other destructive agent) could have accumulated in the human race to make such marriages of close relatives genetically harmful.

The Bible is thus always consistent, not only with its own statements, but also with all known facts of science.”

Bible critics often attack God as being contradictory when he brings about such necessary changes.  As God says, “For I am the LORD, I do not change,” [Malachi 3:6].  God’s character and nature do not change, but as explained at www.answersingenesis.org God has emotions and reserves the right to respond as he deems necessary to man’s actions since he created mankind.  Since he is righteous and just and loves the truth but hates evil, he responds favorably to situations and people who are in his will and unfavorably to situations and people that go against his will.

When God created man, he intended for man to have continual fellowship with him and to be welcomed in the Garden of Eden.  Then man changed and embraced sin, so since man broke God’s righteous contract, God changed his end of the agreement and kicked Adam and Eve out of Eden as punishment for their sin.  Then mankind spread throughout the Earth to become more and more sinful, so since man chose evil, God had to change his response to mankind by destroying all but eight people with a worldwide flood.  Then Noah and his family re-populated the Earth and mankind was doing okay until a later generation established a one-world government that sought to exalt itself to god status by building a tower to heaven.  So God changed his policy of allowing mankind to speak in one language by causing various tribes to speak in languages other tribes couldn’t understand and scattering man to different continents, and so on and so on…  These changes that God, as the supreme Creator and Ruler of the universe, brings about show us that change is not contradictory as God-hating critics would have us believe.

Therefore, since God has established incest as being wrong and harmful, it is in the best interest of any society to be against it and fight against it when it arises.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

Recession is bringing out the worst in some people

The U.S. still may be considered a Christian nation because the majority of the people in our country call ourselves Christians, but this recession has been a test of what we really consider important.  As Jesus told us in the scriptures, no man can serve two masters.  He will either hate one and love the other or cling to one and despise the other.  Therefore, we cannot serve God and mammon (material things).  Unfortunately, many among us are serving mammon and it’s being reflected in higher occurrences of sinful behavior.  Here are just a few examples recently mentioned in the news:

• Today’s evening news on ABC reported that many higher ups in the financial industry have been going to rehab because they have been drinking too much.  We can probably conclude that since these people have been known to do drugs recreationally, especially cocaine, they have probably been using more also.
• Bank robberies have spiked up starting last year.
• The Associated Press reported today that more pregnant women in dire financial straits are getting abortions.
• Domestic violence incidents have been increasing since last year.
• Incidents of child abuse and neglect are up.
• Suicides and attempted suicides have gone up.

These are the results when people haven’t heard the gospel or harden their hearts against the gospel.  Fortunately, there is some good news.  The number of people attending church or who value the importance of religious values (especially Christianity) in their daily lives has held steady.

In the midst of the darkness surrounding us, there is still hope that God will continue to carry out his will in the United States.  I believe we still have more than enough believers here who are living out God’s word, praying regularly, and who love the Lord so that a difference can be made even with the children of the devil working overtime.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

Is America going to pot?

Since California legalized the use of medical marijuana in 1996, 12 other states have followed in its footsteps.  Some lawmakers in the state of Illinois are now hoping to be added to that number.  Although it passed a law in the 1970s legalizing medical marijuana, the law was ignored and never enforced, but that may soon change, if some members of the Illinois House get their way.  An Illinois House committee recently voted to bring the issue before the whole Illinois House for a vote.

I’m sure the advocates for the legalization of marijuana are wringing their hands in glee, hoping for another victory.  Those who back the idea of legalization often use the Netherlands as their prime example of how things should be in the United States.  What they often forget to mention is that the sell and use of cannabis in the Netherlands which is sold in the coffee shops there is technically illegal, the law is just not enforced.  They also conveniently don’t mention that in recent years, problems have arisen in the Netherlands with the sell and use of cannabis that have caused the government to rethink their policies and a large number of the cannabis coffee shops have been closed down while the government decides how to make changes they deem necessary.

There have been problems with drug tourism when potheads coming in from other countries get high and harass some of the local citizens.  These drug tourists have also been attempting to smuggle their stash of drugs out of the Netherlands into countries where it is illegal.  So much for the utopia that pot smokers want us to believe the Netherlands are.

Germany, where smoking cannabis is popular, has seen an increase in problems caused by marijuana.  With the Netherlands bordering on Germany, it is easy for potheads (who are mostly younger) to cross the border into the Netherlands to get high.  Experts who monitor drug use in Germany say cannabis users are starting at increasingly younger ages.  It was estimated in 2006 that  approximately 400,000 Germans were psychologically addicted to the drug or are heavy users.   A greater number of young people who use marijuana are experiencing heart palpitations, sudden sweating, and anxiety/panic attacks.  There have also been a larger number of marijuana smokers visiting drug clinics complaining of being burned out or severely depressed.

Modern day cannabis has been cultivated to yield contents of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the ingredient that gives it its kick, up to 20-25% whereas marijuana plants back in the hippie days rarely had more than 10% THC content.  In Bremen, Germany, the Brain Research Institute has shown in its studies that cannabis use during puberty can lead to long-term damage like lack of motivation and disturbances in memory.  Research at the Central Institute of Mental Health, also in Germany, has revealed that smoking pot can cause schizophrenia.

And if there’s still any doubt about the harmful effects of using marijuana, the Oct. 1, 2008 issue of the journal Sleep revealed a clear link between insomnia and the use of cannabis or alcohol and harder drugs in teens and young adults.  This insomnia tied to cannabis use also showed an increase in depression and suicidal tendencies in these teens and young adults.

Some states, like California and Arizona, that have legalized medical marijuana have experienced an increase in criminal offenses involving the drug in recent years.  They have also witnessed their national parks being used by Mexican drug cartels as pot farms.  The legalization of medical marijuana is just a stepping stone to legalize all marijuana use, and ultimately, all illegal drugs.  It encourages a mentality among potheads that says, “If patients can use marijuana for their problems, I should be able to legally use it too.”  Thus legalization of medical marijuana drives the demand for the typical use of marijuana, to get stoned, which often leads to demand for harder drugs.  And it’s this heightened desire and demand in the U.S. that has furiously fueled the Mexican drug war.

In the end, arguments in favor of marijuana legalization such as its regulation would reduce sales or usage, or that it would dry up the underground market, or that drug arrests are racist, or that information against using pot is wrong, or that drug enforcement is too costly, are all unreliable arguments.  Legalization of pot will not end the black market it fuels any more than the laws and regulations upholding our movie, music, and fashion industries have ended the billions of dollars in pirating and knock-offs of those lucrative industries. Should we legalize slavery again because human trafficking has shown dramatic increases and also generates a lot of money on the black market?

The tendency to use the failure of Prohibition against alcohol isn’t much of an argument either.  Once Prohibition ended, we inherited a whole host of other problems like drunk driving injuries and deaths, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, underage drinking, and binge drinking.  Did legalization of prostitution really benefit Nevada as they claimed it would?  All it did was help crime rates increase in Las Vegas and helped increase human trafficking in the U.S.  Likewise, pot legalization will only do more harm.

The use of drugs to get high is simply, as I’ve said in a previous post, the sin of sorcery mentioned in the Bible.  They were used in ancient times by pagans who wanted to enter an altered state of consciousness to contact their devilish spirit guides or gods and are still used for the same reasons today.   It’s Satan’s subtle way of unleashing more of his evil angels to affect mankind’s decisions for his own evil purposes.  In my opinion, all this fuss about the benefits of legalizing pot isn’t worth the nickel bags that marijuana users were smoking when they thought it up.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

Sources: Crime in Arizona Reports, State of Arizona, Dept. of Public Safety

California Department of Justice, Criminal Justice Statistics Center

Dutch Coffee Shops Close as Authorities Weed out Drug Tourists, Deutsche Welle, 29.04.2007

Netherlands: Efficiency of Drugs Policy Under Scrutiny, Global Legal Monitor, Law Library, Library of Congress, March 2, 2008

Soft Drugs With Hard Consequences, Deutsche Welle, 14.05.2006

Adolescent Insomnia Linked To Depression And Substance Abuse During Adolescence And Young Adulthood, ScienceDaily, October 5, 2008

England’s church insurers get advice from bouncers

In the wake of an increasing amount of violent attacks on church members in church buildings, insurance companies in the UK who cover churches have been seeking advice from security companies that employ bouncers.  One such insurance company, Congregational, has consulted with a security firm to help them establish some reliable guidelines for churches to help them deal with confrontational persons who may visit the churches they cover.

As reported by Anne Thomas at Christian Today, a manager for the insurer is quoted as saying, “Whilst we don’t want to be alarmist, it is important to be aware that occasionally incidents can occur in places of worship, putting people – often volunteers – in a compromising position. With little or no guidance provided for church volunteers, we wanted to highlight this by drawing on the experience of another organisation more familiar with dealing with such scenarios.”

The security firm made several suggestions, such as avoiding as much as possible the use of force when responding to confrontation, determining the threat level of the situation based on the person’s emotional state, using non-threatening and calm body movements, maintaining eye contact, letting the person know you understand their situation, keeping others aware of your location in the building, and knowing when it’s best to walk away from the confrontation or call police.

These guidelines sound helpful for most situations.  Given recent church attacks like the killings in Colorado Springs a year ago and the attack in Clifton, NJ last month, it’s clear that some people are hell-bent on destroying lives before they reach church property.  When you also take into account that there is a rising tide of anti-Christian hatred in the Western Hemisphere, would it be a good idea for congregations to hire armed security personnel or allow church members to carry guns to church alongside their Bibles?  It has been proven that violent attacks are less likely to happen in places where law-abiding citizens are known to be packing.  The attack in Colorado Springs could have rendered more victims if an armed guard at the church hadn’t stopped the gunman cold with her shot that took him down.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

Hidden agenda of teachers who sex male students

Almost every week it seems there is a new report of a case where a female teacher is having sex with a male student. Is it because these types of cases are increasing? Could it be that it has been going on for a while and the teachers are starting to be careless about hiding it? Is it because there is expanded coverage in the news of these situations?

I have a couple of theories of why we’re seeing more of this happening in our schools and ultimately I think there is a goal behind what’s going on. I haven’t researched any statistics on these theories, but based on what I’ve seen and heard about that goes on in society and in higher education circles, I’ve drawn some conclusions.  But I also understand that an overwhelming majority of education professors and teachers in school systems care a lot about kids and would never harm them. 

One thing is obvious. Our society has brought porn out into the mainstream and it’s seen as acceptable. As a matter of fact, we’ve gotten to the point of thinking that viewing pornography is normal, whether you’re a man or woman. We’re getting to the point where no sexual fantasy or desire is forbidden. Our society has bought into Alfred Kinsey’s views of what sex and sexuality should be.

Books like “How To Make Love Like A Porn Star” make it to the bestseller’s list and both kids and adults spend time downloading porn from the internet. Now, it’s the “in thing” to have women install stripper poles in their bedrooms by calling it “good exercise”. So we end up with a society where a large number of our people are walking around with perverted minds, thinking about who they’re going to pounce on next. Our young women now believe they have to act like the women in the music videos and porn flicks to get a guy to like them. But like I said before, that’s the obvious thing.

My second theory is that there are a few people on the fringes of society that have access to education majors as their professors in our colleges and universities who believe it’s okay for adults to have sex with children. Taking into account that the majority of young people entering college are not very good at critical reasoning and carefully thinking about what they believe and why they believe it or about the consequences of their actions, they are–for lack of better words– naive and gullible. So my suspicion is that these ultra-liberal professors, who are in the minority (but they want to be in the mainstream), introduce concepts to them that make them question and rebel against certain morals they grew up learning.

I suspect some education majors are being taught by some of their professors that sex and sexuality are normal for any age. According to them, parents are much too overprotective of their children and stand in the way of their children’s maturation process because they want to keep them dependent so they can retain control over them instead of letting them grow up. Then they may point out how great the Greek and Roman empires were and how it was normal for adults in their society to have sex with children. The professors then proceed to talk about how wealthy families would choose mentors or tutors for their children to teach them about everything, including sex, and how the lessons on sex would actually be the mentor having sex with the child. They also tell their students it was normal for the man of a household to have sex with children who were his servants.

The goal for teaching these warped values is to have the age of consent for sex to be continually lowered until it no longer exists. They believe that all individuals, whether child or adult, should be free to have sex with anyone, whether child or adult. Our age of consent laws are standing in their way. So they have chosen the route they think will be more easily accepted in our society and that is to send female teachers into our school systems who are willing to have sex with boys. Since boys are known in our society to be more sexually active and curious, these ultra-liberals figure they make easy targets and there will be some sympathy in the general population for the teachers.

Then if there are enough incidents of teachers sexing their male students, the authorities will eventually get to the point where it’s such an epidemic that there will no longer be an interest in enforcing or keeping age of consent laws. Then once these laws are done away with, pedophilia will be non-existent since it will be perfectly fine for adults to be with the children they lust after, whether they are gay or straight. Sex will be as free as they wanted it to be back in the 60’s.

So that’s my theory in a nutshell.  Why do I suspect these things?  I had a professor of sociology in the early 90’s who was ultra-liberal and taught about his desire to have age of consent laws repealed, using Greece and Rome as his models.  In his opinion, pedophiles were not criminals but normal people and it was society at large, that established age of consent laws, who were violating the pedophiles’ rights. Since morals in our society are getting worse instead of better, if he taught that type of garbage back then, I suspect things are worse now in universities.  However, like I said before, I believe these types of professors and teachers are in the minority and I hope to God they stay that way.

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

Criminal enterprises from Mexico love illegal immigration

Human trafficking continues to be a popular black market industry in Mexico.  According to the Social Development and Assistance Study and Research Center, 21 of Mexico’s 32 states are points of origin and destination in the trafficking of women and children who are usually poor.  Organized criminal enterprises have approximately 100,000 women and children caught up in their network of selling humans for labor and sexual exploitation with an estimated 16,000 of them being children.

Drugs, weapons, and human trafficking are the top three sources of profitability for organized crime in Mexico.  Since the majority of government authorities are corrupt, there is little to no recourse to put a stop to it.  Oddly enough, places frequented by U.S. citizens or where U.S. corporations are located have the highest occurrences of the trafficking.  For instance, after NAFTA was passed in 1993, several U.S. companies moved right across the border to Juarez for cheap Mexican labor.  Once they established their factories, incidences of the murder and kidnapping of women shot up drastically in the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua, which is a few miles away. 

Humans are trafficked to Mexico from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and South America, according to the U.S. State Dept.  Many of them end up in the United States via illegal immigration networks to be sold for cheap labor or to the underground sex industry here by smugglers called “coyotes.”  The coyotes rape and threaten the women to keep them in line.  Since these men know where the women are from and where their families live, the women are afraid to cooperate with authorities to protect their families from harm.

With the prevalence of drugs, illegal weapons, human trafficking and gangs spilling into our country from Mexico, is it any surprise Americans were overwhelmingly against the latest immigration bill? 

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners…For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers [kidnappers]…and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; (1 Timothy 1:8-10)

Sources: Prensa Latina and Prof. Martin Patt, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts

–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–

Child sex offenders on the increase

• An 8-year-old boy sexually assaults a 6-year-old in Buffalo, NY after watching a R-rated movie with a prison rape in it.  Before the 8-year-old attacks the younger boy, he tells him, “Please, I’ll be your best friend” if he would let him have sex with him.
• In Omaha, NE two 13-year-old boys sexually assault two 5-year-old girls and a 3-year-old boy and videotape the rapes.

These are two cases in a report from the Associated Press on the rise in cases of child-on-child sexual assaults across America.  Due to the bombardment of young minds with sexual images through various media and growing numbers of kids being sexually abused, kids are becoming more sexually aggressive and violent, according to the AP.  While sex crimes committed by adults have dropped over 56% from 1993-2004,  the number of sex crimes committed by children under 18 has gone up 40% from 1985 to 2004.  Usually with such statistics the number of incidents is probably higher than the stats reflect because many incidents go unreported.

The number of treatment programs for these offenders has also increased dramatically across the nation to try to keep up with the number of cases.  The news report by Kim Curtis is headlined “Sex offenders younger, more violent”, as reported in the Tennessean.

As it states in Galatians, you reap what you sow.  As America continues its moral decline by calling good things evil and evil things good, is it any wonder that children are becoming more and more affected by the sinfulness of the adult population?  My first question in the first incident mentioned above is why would an 8-yr-old be allowed to watch an R-rated movie?  It seems to me that too many adults are so preoccupied with the pursuit of their own selfish pleasures that they have become indifferent to the needs of their children.  An increasing number of parents let their children run their households, they are afraid to discipline them, they leave them to raise themselves, or they drop them off at their grandparents’ the majority of the time so they can go out and have their fun.  Parents who are raising their kids correctly have to work even harder to make sure their children are protected from the devil’s agents, whether those agents are kids or adults.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes [early, speedily].  (Proverbs 13:24)

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. (Proverbs 23:13)

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. (Proverbs 19:18)

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.  (Proverbs 29:17)