Letters to the Editor
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Laugh Riot
This is happening all over the world all the time.
It's funny here because...why, exactly?
Is it because all those real young girls being forced into real rape and marriage against their will are...not real?
Saw something on PBS last night that tracked the Afghani female politician so many poor and desperate people turned to as a judge and advocate. One was a 13-year-old girl who was threatened with forced marriage to a 70-year-old. She wound up sobbing, "If you can't help me I have nothing, only God."
Her family wound up having to flee to Iran.
She and her millions of sisters are still slaves.
A friend of mine is working on a sex-slavery case in a quiet valley only a few hours from Washington DC. Yesterday she spent an hour with a nine-year-old girl...