Saw this... thought about some people i know....

**AetheLove** · 07-20-14, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

Not one place in the world is safe for a kid that´s all alone.

That's true, and a good point.

I do think that it's at least a little bit a matter of degrees, and clearly the parents of these kids thought so too.

As for kids that are all alone, I saw this a couple weeks ago:

Sand in the Gears » Blog Archive » Thy kingdom come

... and thought it added something useful. I don't know anything about the guy who wrote it, and I don't necessarily agree with everything in that short piece, but it's a well-written call for perspective, sympathy, and a simple Christian approach.

Warnings about unintended consequences (thanks, Dex) still apply.

Edit: Just saw this;

Originally Posted by gatita_andy

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/video...k_071814_cn_49

... Hilarious. Thanks for post.

Cheers,

AetheLove

**Xavsnipe** · 07-20-14, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Some people need to make up their mind. Are we going to play the global police roll or not.

I don´t think this issue has to do with "global policing". it´s simply kids crossing the border and what to do about them...

**CivilWars** · 07-20-14, 12:47 PM

The reward is currently worth the risk. The only way to reduce the reward is to make America worse, so we have to increase the risk. Send them back, and maybe eventually less try.

**Xavsnipe** · 07-20-14, 01:04 PM

Well that´s the thing. They´re facing at the least conscription into gangs and at the most, death, so unless you´re shooting them from the border...the risk will always be worth taking.

**iLLusioN** · 07-20-14, 01:09 PM

Just pass em through to Canada.

**deathgodusmc** · 07-20-14, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

I don´t think this issue has to do with "global policing". it´s simply kids crossing the border and what to do about them...

If we go somewhere else to do the same thing we're called global police if we're home we're global police. The location is pretty much irrelevant and its never just simply kids. There are adults in there as well. When it first started that was mentioned but as time went by that part was left out. When this story first hit the news they at least made mention of the mothers that were with them and not for nothing but females and kids are just as capable at committing horrendous acts as the fathers.

Send them home and fix the system. Circumventing it does not help anything.

**deathgodusmc** · 07-20-14, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

Well that´s the thing. They´re facing at the least conscription into gangs and at the most, death, so unless you´re shooting them from the border...the risk will always be worth taking.

So what. Last time i checked we have those same issues.

**Xavsnipe** · 07-20-14, 02:15 PM

Focus, dgod...we are talking about THIS particular case at the borders...No one is saying "only kids are crossing the borders now, the men and women stopped crossing the border, that is non existent now; only kids are there"

It is this particular case where a big influx of a bunch of kids being sent by their parents or relatives to cross the border for x or y reason.

And still, how does "global policing" apply to any of this? The term just doesn´t apply here. It´s a case of a country dealing with it´s own border...nothing more, nothing less.

**Xavsnipe** · 07-20-14, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

So what. Last time i checked we have those same issues.

Sure...I agree 100%!!!!! like I said poverty is poverty and misery is misery anywhere in the world. The curious thing is people always tend to think the grass is greener on the other side.

**deathgodusmc** · 07-20-14, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

Focus, dgod...we are talking about THIS particular case at the borders...No one is saying "only kids are crossing the borders now, the men and women stopped crossing the border, that is non existent now; only kids are there"

It is this particular case where a big influx of a bunch of kids being sent by their parents or relatives to cross the border for x or y reason.

And still, how does "global policing" apply to any of this? The term just doesn´t apply here. It´s a case of a country dealing with it´s own border...nothing more, nothing less.

Oh i am focused. I focus on the issue while your trying to make it about one specific instance in time. Both are focus but one does nothing to fix anything. Now if i were to close in on your particular focal point i could still mention that kids are plenty capable of doing harm and that gang members were already caught trying to take advantage of this particular instance. So send the little bastards home to their parents. We have plenty of issues without having countries dumping their problems on us instead of solving the problem.

As for how does global policing fit well its used every time we do anything not just wage war. Although i will admit people are less likely to throw it out there without bombs being dropped unless they are against whatever task is being completed. So yeah it applies.