Us Government contractor DynCorp providing preteen boys for sex in Afghanistan revealed by Wikileaks

They'll never be punished. The US government has child molestors and pedophiles working in sensitive positions even as we speak. In the military, there's always an investigation concerning someone with enough rank to be noticed getting charged with some form of pedophilia or child molestation and it's usually swept under the rug. Dyncorp has had it's hooks in the government for ages. Nothing will be done.

Sadly this type of obscene and evil behavior seems pervasive among those who have great power.

June 29, 1989, The headline from the Washington Times read as follows:

Homosexual Prostitution Inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush.

http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm

This evil is nearly as old as man. It has corrupted govt and law enforcement all over the world. How wonderful it would be if the medium of internet was the instrument that finally brought these sons of Satan down.

This is evil, pure unadulterated evil.

AlKhidr.....refering to your comment below

You are so correct. Interesting that the charge they level at Assange is of a sexual nature. He is not a threat to nat'l security, he is a threat to evil people committing evil deeds.

Kevin, I am very sorry about what happened to you.

We sit in our western comfort zones and ignore the fact that in many parts of the world people are starving, children as young a four and five`are working long hours every day for a little food, children sleep on the streets, ignored and unloved. We put these children out of our minds and hearts except to rage about sexual abuse - now and then - and then we forget them.

Aside from the fact that I do not live in the west with your "comfort zones" (how comfortable is this, I wonder: between 1.2 to 2.8 million American kids runaway from home according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; 720,000 youth were treated in US emergency rooms for injuries caused by violence in 2005 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 21% of American children live below the Federal poverty level, nearly 50% of all US children live at the low income level according to the National Center for Child Poverty), what I think outrages people here is that their tax money went to a US hired contractor that engaged in pimping out children.

No one is shocked that children both in the US and outside it are mistreated. What is shocking is that the self-appointed sheriff of the world and general proclaimer of human rights would be willing to fork out the hard-earned dollars of its own citizens to engage in this nefarious activity. Moreover, we would not know of this abuse if not for wikileaks, while the US government seeks to shut it down and prosecute its organizers as a threat to democratic principles--the very principles the wikileaks has exposed as being compromised by the US government for Machiavellian purposes.

I have agreed that DynCorp should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I also agree that Wikileaks has done a great service to American democracy. I do find it surprising that so many Americans are surprised that this type of stuff goes on with the active or inactive support of our government.

There are sometimes valid reasons why other countries are not exactly in love with us. You will note that Wikileaks shows a diplomacy based not on spreading freedom and democracy but on greed. We are not alone in this. Look at the countries not attending the Nobel Prize ceremonies today because they do not want to endanger economic ties with China. Mention money, and principles go out the window.

Personally I would love to learn that the leaks were done on purpose to get Americans once more involved in the real policies that are guiding our foreign policy. I doubt it. America is a great country. We fail only when we abandon our principles for political expediency. We did the same during the Cold War when all any dictator had to do was cry "Commies" and the US would stomp out the opposition - no matter how legitimate the opposition was. Now one has only to yell, "Islamic radicals!"

Oscar Wilde once wrote, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." I am afraid we have stopped even looking at the stars. We face many challenges we can meet as a united, well informed people. Now we seem to be neither.

My concern is that Dynacorp will not be prosecuted and will continue as Xe (formally Blackwater) continues to do mercenary work even after its share of scandals.

Samenslow,

I agree with your comments on China. Even if wikileaks managed a coup of information on the sleazy side of China's power structure, the bulk of the Chinese would never read it as they are effectively cut off from any criticism.

I am not merely responding to the allegations presented here. I am REACTING to yet another anecdote of evil in what is an endless stream of anecdotes, not to mention my personal experiences with the haughty rich.

I would stand in the street alone and and even without this latest potential and shake with anger at the mistreatments and rotten to the core attitudes at the hands of the wealthy. I would cry at the condition of the downtrodden while bejeweled matrons stepped on their bodies. I would rail and shake my fists while children starved and politicians endeavored to kill school breakfasts.

No, this is not a singular anger, nor is it one that has only been charged by recent events. This is an anger borne of centuries of malfeasance, arrogance, snobbish disdain and utter disregard for lives, rights or environment. This is an "us" defending ourselves "against them" mentality.

What do you believe precipitates uprisings? What do you suppose starts revolutions? What is it that fuels the fires in the bellies of the masses on seemingly regular intervals in history? WHY do large populations that are normally peaceful and focused on personal survival suddenly coalesce and strike UP?

Simply put, it is an aggregation of abuse. It is a building of "ENOUGH!" Such a thing is in process today and those who see it without denial or rose colored glasses are angered by it. God help all concerned when it sets the emotional strings of the population of the world to high pitch.

Whether WikiLeaks is correct or not is largely moot. They are not causal here . They are a symptom. The emotional strings are already starting to howl. This does not have to be a response of reason. The wealthy corporate elite are unwisely hammering emotions. Witness yesterday's streets of London and the treatment of their beloved royalty. Watch the faces in the street carefully, listen to the humming pitch of crowds and read The Prince.

The message is clear.

First, you insist Wikileaks is credible.

Excellent spin. Excellent insertion of twisted logic, false assumptions, seeing what you're looking for even though it's not there. Excellent diversion and projection. I gather that you're a pro teamer.

Then you say its credibility is irrrelevant

Contrary to your projection, and in spite of your spin, I don't hold Wiki to be gospel, nor do I count them as liars. I don't see them as an undeniable source nor do I view them as congenital liars. History will vindicate them or vilify them in its own due course. Thus far, they are only proven anecdotal...except for the reactions by governments, corporations and defensive individuals that were the subjects of the revelations. That is good and proper support for Wiki right there. As my mother would say, "Guilt is written right there on your forehead!".

Also, stupid people being duped by psychopaths start revolutions.

Your discreditation attempt with its accusations of mental unbalance and sociopathy are priceless. I would gather by this lame attempt that you are a lawyer, and a bloody poor one, or that you have taken my remarks personally and are striking back in your own version of emotional pique. In either event, seeing through the effort is not difficult.

Your statement is SO false as to be laughable. Masses don't move or change so easily. Underlying conditions must exist for even the most minor of spontaneous mass actions. Psycopaths like Hitler are historically able to channel these masses' emotions from time to time but they are NEVER the root cause for uprising. Oppression, suppression, manipulation, open lies, and generally perceived social injustice ARE.

I suppose that people like Patrick Henry, great orator that he was and inspirer that he was, was mentally unstable. The same may be argued about Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt or even Mao Tse Tung simply because each, in his own way was the inspiration for social revolution. Interesting, but no. Without the correct conditions charging the populations to act, each of these larger than life people would have fallen flat.

Sorry, your spaghetti colander approach to argument doesn't fly. Have fun trying again.

Not much of an historian either.

Nor is Wikileaks credible, for that matter.

Don't see how Hitler or Mao have anything to do with Wikileaks, but could you at least substantiate your above claim to the point that we can then dismiss all the released documents?

So all cable documents should be dismissed because of one claim where some of the information was not presented? Of the tens of thousand of documents released, do you have evidence that there is a systematic attempt to obfuscate or distort (beyond what diplomats do on a daily basis)? If this is so, then why isn't that claim being substantially made by any government except China's and North Korea's?

Let me put it this way. Robert Gates flew to Afghanistan two days ago and announced that the Wikileaks on Afghanistan have been an embarrassment. He could have said a gross distortion, a twisting of the truth, or something to that effect. He said it was an embarrassment. Only China, North Korea, and, oh, that's right, Sarah Palin, have made claims that what Wikileaks has released are out and out lies.

For the record, I'm skeptical of most things I see on the Internet or in print. But as for being trusted, I would like the story here investigated with more effort than the US government did for its claims of WMDs as a pretext for invading Iraq or the holding back of the information on the alleged torpedo boat attack that got us neck deep in Vietnam. If this story is false, it will come out in the wash--unlike the Iraq and Vietnam war. As I said earlier, the track record for the US government is worse than Wikileaks.

First I want to apologize to Acapulco Kevin for getting caught up in this "proof" nonsense when facts are readily available and for sidetracking on this seed. Next, I want to apologize to all of you are who are genuinely interested in the morality of the subject matter at hand. This waste of electrons was precipitated by satisfying arrogance and ignorance and I will end it here.

That said, I want to thank Answers.com and all of the contributors who understand, collate and present FULL versions history as history, not merely as soundbytes to support a narrow opinion:

Sarah's illness

In 1771 Patrick and his wife Sarah moved into their Scotchtown estate along with their children: Martha ("Patsy"), Anne, Elizabeth ("Betsy"), John, William, and Edmund ("Neddy"). Sarah "started to manifest disturbing behaviors which could not at that time be diagnosed or treated. ...her mental condition deteriorated rapidly, and when she became dangerous to herself and others, she was clothed in a 'Quaker shirt,' an early form of strait jacket."[7]
Following the general practice of the time, Patrick's friends and his physician, Dr. Thomas Hinde, advocated she be moved to the public hospital in Williamsburg. But after inspecting the facilities Patrick "saw that if he agreed, his wife would be locked into a windowless brick cell containing only a filthy mattress on the floor and a chamber pot. There she would be chained to the wall with a leg iron. Appalled by what he saw, he instead prepared a private, two-room apartment for her in the basement of Scotchtown. Each room had a window, providing light, air circulation, and a pleasant view of the grounds. The apartment also had a fireplace, which provided good heat in the winter, and a comfortable bed to sleep in."[7]
Patrick himself (or a slave when he was away on business) took care of Sarah and "watched over her, fed her, bathed her, and prevented her from harming herself."[7] Sarah died in the spring of 1775 "Because of her illness-then thought to have been caused by being 'possessed by the devil' - she was denied a religious funeral service or a Christian burial. Her grieving husband, 'bowed down and bleeding under the heaviest sorrows and personal distresses,' buried her thirty feet from the home they shared and planted a lilac tree next to her grave to remember her. The tree still stands there, a few steps from the door to her basement apartment."[7]

Notes

1^ a b c d Thad Tate, "Henry, Patrick", American National Biography Online, February 2000.

2^ Meade, Patrick Henry, 13–18.

3^ Meade, Patrick Henry, 1:21–24.

4^ Meade, Patrick Henry, 1:1335

5^ Beeman, Patrick Henry, 16–19; Middlekauff, Glorious Cause, 82–83; Meade, Patrick Henry, 1:125–34.

6^ T.H. Breen, "Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution," (1985), page 189

7^ a b c d Richard N. Côté (2005). Strength and honor: the life of Dolley Madison. Corinthian Books.