What is innocence?

by i mac d Wed Dec 29, 2004 19:27

when "invoking" the "innocents" to the matter of pre-birth, and not to the period of time after birth through childhood to adolescence.
We must debate more in all our societies how to protect our youngest, as thier elders become yet more saturated with so many conflicting routes of experience and self-awareness.
That is why we must remember the orphans left behind by the dictatorship of Romania, because they have grown up now. As in the international community which is "Ireland" and the "Irish" we are only recently coming to terms with the abuses of the Magadelene Homes and unchecked presence of abusers most notably in the church but also in state institutions. Equally the sexual exploitation of children in the media and new technologies. This is as much a matter of our civilised ethics as our collective security.
That is why yet again we must offer all assistance as "twenty first century mammy Teresas" to the children of SE Asia and most notably Thailand who have been the victims of the most cruel and corrupting exploitation which has generally not been palatable enough a subject to draw to the attention of the general public in either Europe or North America. But now it is being talked about, because a natural disaster has drawn attention to the human disaster which brought so many of the western tourists to that area during the Christmas vacations.
We need to develop strategies to help those of that region with hepatitis and HIV/AIDS and move to properly protect the rights of the child from birth to adolescence to enjoy their innocence.

We hold these rights to be self evident.
We hold these needs to be self evident.