Human Organ Trafficking

I must admit, last week was full of sad and heart-wrenching news. First there was the tsunami on the Samoan Islands and then a major earthquake in Indonesia killing hundreds of people. These were natural disasters and humans have very little control over it.

Then there were many murder and mayhem stories around the world. Closer to home there is a story of a father in New Brunswick who killed his newborn son, the 19 years old mother was a party to it. As soon as the baby was born the father felt for the baby's heartbeat and stuck a sharp knife through the heart and buried the body in the woods nearby. What a brutal world we live in.

Then I watched a documentary on CNN this Saturday about human organ trafficking in Israel. I first heard about it when Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum was arrested in New Jersey for human organ trafficking but I did not know how bad it is. The CNN story said that it is common in Israel, where there are rich Israelis who need organs and Palestinians who are poor and can be lured into giving up there organs, such as a kidney, for a few thousand dollars and sometimes for food and shelter for a limited period. The actual operation of transplanting takes place in Russia, China and Turkey after the organs are obtained. Who says we humans are evolved? In many instances we are worse than animals.

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Crime and Terrorism

This fellow Guy Heinze Jr. killed 8 members of his own family according to police. If this fellow were a minority or a Muslim it would have made much bigger news. Why are we so biased? A study a decade or so ago revealed that juvenile delinquency and crime in general was lowest in places like China, India and Pakistan because of the influence of parents not police – through social control as opposed to legal police control. Although things are changing fast in places like Pakistan thanks to the American invasion of Afghanistan which has destabilized Pakistan. Yet the crime rate is still much lower. So which are better societies?

Here are names of people this Heinze guy has killed:

The dead included the suspect's father, Guy Heinze Sr., 45; his uncle, Rusty Toler Sr., 44; and his aunt, Brenda Gail Falagan, 49. Also slain were Toler Sr.'s four children — Chrissy Toler, 22; Russell D. Toler Jr., 20; Michael Toler, 19; and Michelle Toler, 15.

Chrissy Toler's boyfriend, Joseph L. West, 30, was also killed. Byron is her son.

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Police: Grandma threatened to bomb school

Now this Grandma threatened to bomb the school. Easy before you jump to conclusions. She is not from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Iran, she is a home grown terrorist - a white American. I believe we are very troubled societies in the West and we need to learn a lot from these other societies, rather than invading them in the name of democracy and then turning them into living hells only to afterward claim that we have given them freedom. We are being very dangerous hypocrites.

SAN ANTONIO - Officials accuse a 51-year-old San Antonio grandmother of phoning a bomb threat to an elementary school that wouldn't let her visit her grandchildren.

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Keith Olbermann: Bush has confessed to crime

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The Bush-Cheney administration violated the US Constition and human rights, in particular through torture. They also violated the Geneva Convention and other international laws in this regard.

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