U.S. Holds Children as Prisoners of War

This is not a lighthearted happy-Friday or happy-long-weekend post. It's a good-God-in-heaven, my-country's-gone-insane post.

United Nations officials, members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, are questioning why the United States has "detained 2,500 children under 18 in U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, including 513 children currently imprisoned in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq alone." The U.S. itself provided documentation [link is to downloadable Word document].

We are imprisoning children—children! The excuse given by U.S. officials? It's hard to determine prisoners' ages.

What the hell have we become?! I am beyond disgusted and appalled. In the eyes of the American government, children have no rights at all.

You can read about plenty of other shocking human rights abuses by the United States on the new blog of the ACLU, things that the mainstream media sure won't tell us.



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