Posted on 05/23/2009 9:31:18 PM PDT by MrEdd
EVERYONE knew. When the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse issued its report this week, after nine years of investigation, the Irish collectively threw up their hands in horror, asking that question we have heard so often, from so many parts of the world, throughout the past century: How could it happen?
Surely the systematic cruelty visited upon hundreds of thousands of children incarcerated in state institutions in this country from 1914 to 2000, the period covered by the inquiry, but particularly from 1930 until 1990, would have been prevented if enough right-thinking people had been aware of what was going on? Well, no. Because everyone knew....
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Hey, I know that there are those young people that feel disenfrachized by the youth experience.
“Rise above”.
The refusal to suscumb to total dependance upon the best that the government has to offer is a testament to free will and true independance.
I did it, and God willing, I and ‘we’ are not alone.
Amen, brother.
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