Suffer The Little Children–A Tale Of 2 Atrocities

There are  few things that I am absolutely certain about, but one of them is that there is a special place in deepest hell for those who willfully cause harm to children, particularly when the perpetrators of these acts are those who are tasked with protecting the very lives they harm.  Which brings us to to the matter of perchlorate, a  known toxin that “poses a particular threat to pregnant women and breast-feeding children, whose long-term neurological development can be stunted by youthful hormone imbalances” and is found at unsafe levels in the water drunk by millions of Americans.  So you ban it, right?  Unfortunately not, if you are Bush’s EPA.  According to Wired,

“Among the Bush administration’s final environmental legacies will be a decision to exempt perchlorate, a known toxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of millions of Americans, from federal regulation.

“We know that breast milk is widely contaminated with perchlorate, and we know that young children are especially vulnerable. We have really good human data. So why are they putting a model front-and-center?” said Anila Jacobs at the nonprofit Environmental Working Group. “And they used a model that hasn’t yet gone through the peer-review process.”"

“(P)erchlorate (is) a chemical found mostly in jet rocket fuel and detected in 35 states and 153 water public water systems. It is known to lower thyroid hormone levels in women; it poses a particular threat to pregnant women and breast-feeding children, whose long-term neurological development can be stunted by youthful hormone imbalances. As many as 40 million Americans may now be exposed to unsafe levels of perchlorate, and the EPA’s own analysis puts the number at 16 million.”

The double irony of this is that perchlorate is used in rocket fuel used by the military, you remember, those folks who are supposed to be protecting us, not poisoning us.

But the sick minds who think this sort of thing is perfectly okay will be in good company when the day of reckoning comes because they will be joined by the folks at the United Nations who built a refugee camp in Kosovo “on the tailing stands of the biggest lead mine in Europe, and next to a toxic slagheap of 100 million tons”  As a result of that,

“77 people have died in these camps, mainly due to complications from lead poisoning. More than 50 women have also aborted because of the lead poisoning. One woman and her baby died at childbirth. During her pregnancy she was being treated for lead poisoning. After her death it was discovered by a well-known laboratory in Chicago that two of her surviving nine children has the highest lead levels in medical history.

According to medical experts from Germany and the United States who have visited the camps, every child conceived in these camps will be born with irreversible brain damage.”

Every child. Click here to read Paul Polansky’s poignant account of this atrocity here.

To label these acts as anything less than crimes against humanity is not possible.  The perpetrators of these evils should be arrested and tried for their crimes.