my six year old son has been sleeping on the floor of his
9 yr. old sister for the last week, because she
has a 160 lb. rottie who sleeps on the foot of her bed.
i have convinced my son that if he leaves his door open, then the rottie
can protect him too. he's gone back to sleeping in his own room.
i think we underestimate how much kids pick up on nervousness (insecurity?) of parents, or
the community at large...
BBC News reports: "Human trafficking has reached staggering proportions, affecting more than 700,000 people a year, a US State Department report says. US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the first annual report, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, at a press conference on Thursday. ... Most of the victims of trafficking are women and children, the report says. ... Mr Powell said a special task force would be set up in the United States 'to safeguard the vulnerable, to punish the traffickers, to care for their victims and to prevent future trafficking.' ... US Secretary of State Colin Powell called the practice an 'abomination against humanity' and said Washington would work to put an end to it. The report lists the root causes for trafficking as 'greed, moral turpitude, economics, political instability and transition and social factors'. Many countries are working to end the problem, the report says, but it lists 23 that are failing to do so. Among them ... are close American allies, including ... Israel, Saudi Arabia... . Israel, the report says, is a destination point mainly for women trafficked from former Soviet states, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and Asia. But the report notes that the Israeli Government has 'begun to take some steps' to combat the problem. The report says that in Saudi Arabia, some expatriate workers were 'forced into domestic servitude and sexual exploitation'. ... Under legislation passed by the US Congress last year, countries have until 2003 to show that they are serious about ending the practice, otherwise Washington may impose sanctions against them."A223 We do not know if the Saudi princes have an interrelationship with the Israelis in either the sex slavery or body parts businesses where both are heavily involved. We have reported a relationship in importing the illegal extasy drug into Saudi Arabia in order to further numb the unemployed youth under the Saud family control. We do not give much credence into the State Department effort of enforcing the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act. The State Department under the "special relationship" rubric has historically ignored human rights infractions committed by either the Saud family or the Israelis.