POLITICAL "CHICKEN LITTLE"

We're all familiar with the story of "Chicken Little", the little chick who got boinked on the head and ran about screaming to the world that the sky was falling.

In an amazing case of art imitating life, operationawareness.com has uncovered an epidemic of "chicken little syndrome" amongst our elected government officials, which has been spreading uncontrollably throughout the media.

The consequences as well as the casualties are devastating. Chicken Little Syndrome (CLS), has caused widespread panic throughout the country, strinking fear and paranoia throughout every community. Parents are afraid to let their children play outside. With American's growing evermore distrustful of one another. What's worse children are being murdered, beaten and neglected daily at astonishing rates. One every four minutes.

The first reported case of CLS began with a handful of true and terrifying tragedies. A handful of high profile cases involving the abductions and murders of children which sparked a media frenzy. Politicians were put under pressure to "do" something to prevent such tragedies from happening again. John Walsh, founder of the NCMEC (National Centers for Missing & Exploited Children) testified, under oath, before congress, that "The streets of America are littered with the mutilated, decapitated bodies of children. Thousands of children are abducted every year in this country".

While the former is defintely a stretch, the latter is not. Thousands of children ARE abducted each year. Thousands more go missing. in 1999, the number was at 262,000. 262,000 kids gone!

What Mr. Walsh, the politicians and the media don't tell you is this; of those numbers 203,900 were abducted by a PARENT, usually for non-custodial interference. 98% were returned. That same year, 58,200 children were forcibly removed, usually in connection with another crime, or were runaways and 99% were returned.

But the cases that people like Mr. Walsh, Ernie Allen, Marc Klass, politicians, and the "no-spin" media moguls are always screaming about was just 115. These are the true, most serious "stranger abductions" that we hear about on the news. Of those 115 children, 60% were returned safely, 40%, or 42 were held for ransom or killed. Of those 42, the federal statistics don't reveal how many were killed, but they do reveal that out of those 42 cases only TWO were committed by registered sex offenders.

Two registered sex offenders out of 320 million people in this country, responsible for the deaths of two missing children out of 262,000. Mr. Walsh, the NCMEC and many of their board members are generously rewarded for their testimony. Receiving Federal funds in excess of $30 million a year. ADVO inc. sends out hundreds of thousands of "Have You Seen Me" fliers in our mailboxes each week. Coincidentally, the owner of ADVO Inc. is also on the NCMEC's board. Many of the other members own a variety of security and technology companies which directly benefit from these federal funds. a real "Win, Win" situation for many of them. Although I concede that the NCMEC does have some righteous citizens working for them and do actually assist a great deal in recovering missing children, I cannot condone the methods of the organizations overseers to obtain notariety, funding, and furtherance of their personally owned companies.

The laws they have lobbied to create were based upon lies and exploited figures, and that's an outrage. If only two registered sex offenders killed children in 1999, then why do we need 600,000 plus American citizens on the sex offender registry? And, WHY are we misled into believing all 600,000 of them are waiting to abduct, rape and murder our kids? Why are the majority, 95% of new sex offenses committed by people who ARE NOT registered sex offenders or strangers?

The laws that they have passed because they tell us "the sky is falling" should be our first clue. They created a "registry" of citzens using fear as their tactic, much like the Nazi's did with the Jews. I assure you the Germans felt justified in what they were doing then too. 

Granted, the individuals on the registry have been convicted of a criminal charge but that by no means is anywhere near equivalent to the crimes that were committed for which the laws were named, ie, Megan's Law, Jessica Lunsford Act, etc.... making these laws a form of "collective punishment".

In the meantime far more children die and/or are injured at the hands of their own parents and caregivers.  In 2002, the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reported an estimated 1,400 child fatalities cause by an injury resulting from abuse or neglect. What's even more sickening is that of those 1,400, 76% were age 3 or younger.

Where are the child savers? Why aren't these people screaming to protect these children? What's more, these statistics are and have been on the rise.

The current administration and these lobbyist organizations are seemingly unconcerned with these children. 1,400 DEAD children, that is, per year.

Instead, his administration and our elected officials are focusing on the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act and the P.R.O.T.E.C.T. act which are touted as having saved thousands of missing and exploited children (supposedly from predators) whose greatest enemy and perpetrator are their very own parents! But that  isn't whose being targeted. (Perhaps I should insert "yet" here)

Instead, we are publicly humiliating 600,000 Americans. Keeping them jobless, homeless, isolated, and ostracized. Rights of man, not merely constitutional rights being stripped from them years or even decades after they committed their crime. Many of them have families, and even children of their own. Each of them carrying the burdeon for that handful of horrible crimes which have left politicians screaming that "The sky is falling".... all the way up to the Supreme Courts doorstep.

Amanda Rogers

Senior Staff Writer

Operationawareness.com