Protecting Our Children

The children of our nation are under siege! In the span of a decade across this nation, we watched one elected official after another seduce the youth with whom they were charged. In the span of a year across this nation, we chronicled the pandemic of child sexual predators. In the span of a week across this nation, we watched in horror as five schools were either invaded by gunmen or threatened with the same. Upon the recent report of one more predator, how is it that our watchdogs (albeit self-proclaimed), rant on single-mindedly about political ramifications?

It's unreasonable that each attack against our children spawns a political debate.The threats to children today are untenable--beyond sexual predators. They are threatened by neglect, divestment of family, epidemic health maladies, abduction and murder.

We work hard for the security of our families. But security is just one of our priorities. It certainly helps to live a long life, but we want more for our offspring. We want for them health, prosperity, joy, and productivity. These are less likely to actualize if we are forced to raise them in a cocoon.

In a better day and time, people will properly discern the fool and the scoundrel from the noble man. It won't be like it is now. Today, men stand up to deceive a nation with the crumbs of mischief still on their face. And those who chase after them dole out shallow justice and confer seats in public office. Former congressman Mark Foley is only a recently publicized example of how life and dignity are being confiscated from U.S. children en masse.

To be sleepy or politically correct in the face of blatant attacks on the welfare of our families is to undermine every good hour that we labor. And to consider that any such attack has partisan origins is deception. Noble men of noble deeds will come forth if we refuse to settle for fools and scoundrels.