Death Sentence

In my capacity as a children's Rights advocate I do not seek to talk about children. I strive to speak in their behalf and in their place because they are excluded and not given a real voice in discussions about matters that will impact them more than anyone. I speak as if I was one of them. I defend their innocence and value and their Rights.

Young people of all ages from pre-school to thirty-something are concerned about the scary future that our news media sources forecast for them. They tell me so. Why do they tell me? Because I'm willing to listen. Because I care as a parent and person.

The simple fact is that our media savvy kids are being told that they have received a death sentence and that there can be no reprieve. Television, the Internet, magazines, books, experts in every science and discipline, everyone and everything tell them the same thing. That they are doomed!

To change that death sentence and give them a reprieve would require a colossal effort that the grownups of the world are not willing to make or support. We would have to become environmentally responsible and non-warring. Yet there is hope because the majority of humanity wants exactly that.

“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”

- J. K. Galbraith, Canadian/American economist

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The Sorrow of Children

There are corporate pirates [some corporations] who do not care about the lives of our children. They do not have life, nor children, nor anything to protect or defend or get passionate about. Corporate entities are useful but not friendly in many cases. Their single motive has been profit - until the recent introduction of so-called green investments and business practices...which have proven very profitable by the way.

So kids are being written off as luggage that will perish in volatile weather conditions, amidst wars over who will control water and oil and space and other resources. Young people attempt to express their individual and collective concern and anxiety and governments refuse to listen or care. So I speak in their behalf.

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Another Narrative

I have another narrative about The Future. It involves resolve on the part of humanity to make the required changes and to help our children find and build Hope. Join me in this Great Undertaking to save the planet and our children from disaster.

This is why I speak out. I see things from their perspective. They have persuaded me that we grownups are wrong and they are right to be alarmed. My compassion has been ignited for them. Compassion overrules selfishness and egotism in the human heart.

The children of Canada and the children of the world need our compassion now and they need it in intelligent abundance so we can work together with them to save ourselves from the disaster that lays over the horizon. I speak their sense of alarm to governments and people alike...”speaking truth to power in search of Justice.”

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Persistent Compassion

Are you comfortable with the Death Sentence that collective humanity has passed upon our children and all children? If not then help me help them to help us help the world. We all need each other and there is an easy way to make appropriate accommodation for them in our nation and in our world.

Without children we would wither and die of meaningless self indulgence. They teach us to give selflessly...often to them. Lol They help us to laugh and work hard with a sense of purpose. They teach us to love.

Compassion for children has moved throngs in response to the plight of the orphans of the recent Haiti Earthquake. It's heartwarming. Now let us turn this passionate generosity into a plan for all children everywhere.

They are in chains and in pain. They are in in brothels and factories and armies and in fields harvesting chocolate and tin and copper in many places from Africa to Thailand to Ecuador.

They are the sex slave boys of Afghanistan who are regularly abused by gangs of men. They are the millions of boys and young men in all of our North American prisons and penitentiaries and prison camps and jails who are raped daily. They are the little girls trapped in cages in the brothels of Southeast Asia.

They are alone and helpless and in despair. They would help us to love and be happier and more fulfilled if we welcome them into our hearts and adopt them...even from afar.

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Help Them

Think about them. Discuss them with others. Act in their behalf. Pray for them. Meditate upon their plight and solutions to it.

Consider their potential if we rescue them. Above all, if possible, love them in your own powerful way. They will change your lives if you permit them and you will be enriched.

Help me make The Canadian Dream of Justice for all a reality in our generation. End child slavery and give Canadian children Equal Rights to help make that happen. Support Bill S-209 if Parliament ever resumes.

Our peaceful and just and respectful and prosperous Canadian Culture can help to shape the world into a place where children can be safe. We must start at home and then share our peace with the world.

Peace Pays!

“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
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