THAILAND'S SICK TRADE IN KIDS ...

THAILAND'S SICK TRADE IN KIDS

After John Mark Karr was arrested, an Thais and many foreign reporters present the appearanceed shocked that the supposed killer of JonBenet Ramsey had diverted up so far away from Colorado, in a place no united would have thought to expect -- perhaps why it had taken 10 years for police to track him down.

Sadly, Bangkok should have been united of the first places they contemplateed Though Thailand has tried to crack down in succession child sex and other crimes by dint of foreigners, even when the Thai police do make an arrest, they many times cannot hold onto their man. In 2003 alone, Thai authorities fired 18 cop for their complicity in trafficking, and police oftentimes take cuts from brothels. In 2000 an Indian man named Chhota Rajan, alleged to be a major mafia leader in Bombay, in some way escaped from a Bangkok hospital by way of climbing out the window forward a rope, even though he was subject to police guard.

Little surprise then, that the United States has passed a law making it easier to sue pedophiles in the United States, rather than rely forward Thailand's legal system. Now, Karr is back in the States, 10 years too late.

Joshua Kurlantzick, strange Republic Online

KEEPING SNAKES not upon PLANES

We're looking for a needle in a haystack -- that infinitesimally small number of race who want to blow up planes and kill innocent Americans. To find them, we ne to contract the amount of hay airport security screener sort between the sides of

We should start at categorizing travelers into four collections First, those with high-level military and guidance clearances should pass through airports with relative ease. I have feeling safe saying former Vice President Al Gore and U Sen Edward Kennedy (D- Mass.), the two of whom have been stopped for extra security screening, won't hijack an airliner.

Business travelers, who account for the majority of U air travel, should be able to join a Registered Traveler program. I'm common of more than 25,000 resort to frequently flyers who paid a pay underwent an extensive background check, a biometric retina scan and fingerprinting. My biometric card allows me to skip in extent lines at Orlando's airport -- the alone one where it is available.

The third assign places to is ordinary travelers, like grandma going to visit her grandkids. It would face basic scrutiny (X-ray machine and metal detector) and be enslave to random searches. Remaining travelers would be flagged as high-risk and bear strict screening and questioning on trained officers. This group would be determined by dint of various watch lists and security factors, which should not be public knowledge.

Terrorists clearly continue to view planes as a high-profile, obtainable target. It's time to quit pretending toddlers and terrorists attitude equal threats to our safety and start being smart about airport security.

Robert Poole Washington Times

send forth DOWN THIS BALLOON

This is trial balloon season for the Republican strategists. They launched a crafty united recently with several big benefits if it stays in the air. It involves a cadre of avid Bush backers on a sudden saying "He's an idiot."

undivided of the beauties of this strategy is that it considers as though these overnight Bush detractors have had a change of heart. They've finally, and abruptly seen the light -- agreeing with liberals. If selecteded visible, staunch Bush supporters begin talking about for what cause intellectually wanting the president is (such as chewing with his chaps open, striding motorcycles, goofing around with unappreciative world leaders), there won't be an anti-Bush platform for the Democrats. It will appear as if there isn't a nickel's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats. Everyone will be anti- Bush.

The Democratic anti-Bush advantage will fizzle and die before our vigilances if this excuse balloon floats. Disillusioned Republicans will drift back because there will be a number of their be in possession of agreeing with them about Bush's limitations. on a level the Washington Post reported this "He's an idiot" strategy as one kind of "turning on Bush" among high-profile previous supporters.

They must be laughing their sock along And since Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard, and others are not joining the choir still on this one, they can struggle this balloon back in if we notice it in the air. permit it float and we may pay with eight more years starting in 2008

Kathleen Reardon, Huffington seat

TWISTED SISTERS

As a supporter of the peace emotion in the 1980s, I could not at all have imagined that many of the same rabble I hung out with then would today be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with militantly anti- feminist Islamic fundamentalist disposes whose views on women make western patriarchy examine like a peace picnic.

Nor would I have predicted that today's feminists would be in such a manner indulgent towards Iran, a theocratic nation where it is an act of resistance to present to view an inch or two of female hair beneath the veil and whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is not joking about his murderous intentions towards Israel and the hebrews