This is an excerpt from The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

"It isn't really possible to talk about hate without talking about children as objects of hatred... Each year an estimated 20,000 Mexican children disappear, many for use as mules, to transport drugs inside their bodies, others taken for the harvest of their organs, to be transplanted into children in the United States. This is according to a study performed by the Institute for Law Research at the Autonomous National University of Mexico and presented at a conference on "International Traffic of Children." Worldwide, entire economies have been founded specifically on the sexual trade of children. One hundred to eight hundred thousand Thai girls and boys work as prostitutes (A brochure distributed in England advertising a Thai resort reads, "If you can suck it, use it, eat it, feel it, taste it, abuse it or see it, then it's available in this resort that truly never sleeps"). Nearly all of them are enslaved or indentured. A good portion have received death sentences from HIV. There are 1.5 to 2 million child prostitutes in India (those in Bombay, for example, are often held in cages; fifty cents buys half and hour of sex with a twelve-year-old). Five hundred thousand child prostitutes work in Brazil (a child of thirty five pounds is considered a prime size in many mining towns). There are 200,000 child prostitutes in or from Nepal (most of these girls are kidnapped, sold for between forty and a thousand dollars, "broken in" through a process of rapes and beatings, and then rented out up to thirty-five times per night for one to two dollars per man). Between 100,000 and 300,000 children work the sex trade in the United States (one study of U.S. survivors of prostitution found that 78 percent were victims of rape by pimps and buyers, an average of forty-nine times per year; 84 percent were the victims of aggravated assault; 49 percent had been kidnapped and transported across state lines; 53 percent had been mutilated). On average, a child prostitute services more than 2,000 men per year. At least a million new girls per year are forced in prostitution.
Kids are not, of course, injured only through sexual exploitation. A half-million children die every year of starvation or other direct results of so-called debt payment from Third World countries- from the colonies- to those countries which lend them money while holding their resources and infrastructures as collateral- colonialism in the twenty-first century- and eleven million children die annually from easily treatable disease. This latter has been called by the World Health Organization director-general "a silent genocide."
This is not counting the children who are simply beaten. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, in 1993, 614,000 American children were physically abused, 300,000 were sexually abused, 532,000 were emotionally abused, 507,000 were physically neglected, and 585,000 were emotionally neglected. 565,000 of these children were killed or seriously injured. That's just in the United States.
So here's the question: Do all these numbers- or, more precisely, the reality behind these numbers- imply that we hate children? Perhaps the answer would be more evident if we simply invert the question: "Do we value children?"
The answer, of course, is yes. One to two dollars per fuck, unless we happen to be in the Philippines, in which case it will cost us six dollars to have sex with a six-year-old.
So let me put the question another way: Was slavery in the United States based on hatred of the Africans, or was it based on economics? Is hate even the right word?
The problem we have in answering (or even asking) these questions comes from the fact that hatred, felt long enough and deeply enough, no longer feels like hatred. It feels like economics, or religion, or tradition, or simply the way things are. Rape is not (legally) a hate crime because our hatred of women is transparent. Child prostitution is not (legally) a hate crime for the same reason that beating a child is not a hate crime, because our hatred of children is transparent. The economic murder of children (or creating the economic conditions for their slavery as prostitutes) is not a hate crime because we've held this hatred long enough to enshrine it into our macroeconomic policies. If we did not hate children, we would not cause or even allow them to be destroyed by any of these means. And if we do not love even our children, what, precisely, can we truly say we love?"

So Cambodia is known well enough for their Child Sex Trafficking that they have even been referenced on the Discovery Channel. Adoptions of Cambodian Children have been suspended to America for questionable reasons. Here is some information to petition against the suspension if you or anyone you know is interested. The petition is based through www.cambodiaadoptionconnection.com and www.RathCare.org, both of which are known as responsible adoption agencies that remove Cambodian children from potentially unsafe situations and "screen" American Families before adopting them out- to make sure they are not going into an American home that may suffer the same future they were removed from.
See. www.cambodiaadoptionconnections.com/AdoptionsSuspended.htm and www.petitiononline.com/Cambodia or petition by email at jennifer@rudolph.net to Join RathCare and help educate people of Child Sex Trafficking contact rccmoderators@yahoogroups.com or rachelefox4@yahoo.com and to donate or petition by mail send to : Artifice, Inc, Petitiononline.com, P.O.Box 1588, Eugene, OR 97440

Also, anyone who is interested in learning more about how to open your eyes to the world around you, here is a list of recommended reading...
Derrick Jensen- The Culture of Make Believe and A Language Older Than Words
Daniel Quinn- Ishmael, My Ishmael, The Story of B, Providence, Beyond Civilization, The Holy, After Dachau, Work Work Work
Al Gore- Earth in Balance, An Inconvenient Truth
Rachel Carson- Silent Spring

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