Peter Pan

[mia]

I wonder how the South Florida GOP views the current exodus of children.

Simply put, the children come from drug gang infested, dangerous, and chaotic environments and mothers fearing for their children’s lives have sent their kids here in hopes that they can find refuge. I remember when our government/CIA started the rumor after Cuba’s revolution that Castro was going to take children from their parents and send them to Russia, so the Pedro Pan exodus of 14,000 Cuban children to Miami was created. From 1961 to 1964 these children were welcomed and given homes with friends and relatives and kind strangers all over the US.

That goodwill we had in the sixties has vanished and been replaced with hatred, vitriol and paranoia by the mean spirited and ignorant. Ignorance is defined as lacking knowledge or information. Do these people that are attacking busses filled with frightened children have an inkling of what they are doing? These children are fleeing a real threat to their lives, not a rumor. Have we completely lost our humanity and compassion? These are children, for God’s sake.

Would that that same passionate anger was directed at the causes of the refugee… Our own insatiable demand for illegal drugs in the US creates the environment of dangerous chaos in the countries these children come from and they are no longer safe to go to school or even play outside. Parents do what they must for their kids. That is a fact.

So, maybe we’re getting all pissed off at the wrong people. Little kids and their mommies are not the problem. Corporate dead-beats, Drug Cartels in cahoots with Too-Big-To-Fail money launderers and ignorance are what we should be focusing on. So turn off the fabulists selling the latest self-righteous anger on TV and radio and take a step back and look at the big picture. Ignorance is far from bliss.

http://thebluepaper.com/article/peter-pan/

[Bluenorthwest]

1. There is no demand for 'illegal drugs' there is demand for drugs, which are made illegal in order

to make profit for corrupt officials and criminal organizations. It is not the demand for drugs that creates problems, it is the laws against those drugs that make the chaos the author wishes to cure. While we could reform drug laws, we can not change humanity so that humans have no appetite for drugs. 'It's not the cartels and politicians, it's those damn insatiable club kids!!!!'

[mia]

2. "...it is the laws against those drugs that make the chaos...."

Well said!