Bin Laden's Kidney

A story in the news about a man in Pakistan, deeply in debt, faces a choice: sell his child or his kidney. Pakistan our staunch ally in the search for Bin Laden...remember him? Yes, the one President Bush promised to capture and bring to sudden justice, later a star of Republican Presidential Campaign ads, the one supposed to help us forget how the GOP brought the world's leading economy to its knees,

[no, not China ...US the conquerors of Iraq; the home of Saddam who was really behind the Trade Centers; oh...I will have to declare a Red Alert to bring this all back to your memory, or make an amputee war veteran take off his artificial leg before being allowed to get on an airplane...Take that you terrorists!!!] where was I...oh yes, Pakistan...

such extreme oppression there, it is nearly as bad as in the USA where credit card companies can drain the life from an unpaid debtor, and Corporate rights are so much more important than human rights, just ask any member of the solid five voting majority of our Supreme Court...oh that word "Supreme" meant so much more when Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall , and Justice Douglass...or Felix Frankfurter... this group reminds me more of Justice Taney...or the 1896 group that decided Blacks were not people but property, now in Pakistan, people sell their children because the rights of a creditor are more important than the individuals.  That couldn't happen here. We know that corporations don't give their lives in combat, they just take the profits from war and elect people who think war is the way to solve problems.  In Pakistan that government, we gave them lots of our tax dollars, and military stuff too...well I hope they are better at finding Bin Laden than at taking care of their children, or... maybe we should be looking for his kidney.