Just a video game...it can not hurt
Loved Ones…as you shop at Costco…or browse at Nordstrom’s….as you pick up some groceries at Alpha Beta….as you walk past that teenage child with their mum…give some thought to Ishamel Beah who at 13 years of age was used as your typical hypnotized warrior.

Ishamel …a child…is healing from the effects of years of indoctrination and the prolonged experience of true horror….

Ishamel was a child soldier in Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s …

Ishamel had been kept high on marijuana and "brown brown", a crude cocktail of cocaine and gunpowder …Ishamel was one of the millions used as a “contract mercenary”…a child solider…

On one occasion his handlers directed Ishamel to attack a village which appeared to be empty… but he soon realized he was being ambushed.
The small arms fighting lasted 24 hours. At one point, Ishamel was trying to snatch some ammo from a shelter when the gunfire started up again and he was blasted in the leg. Two bullets shattered his shin and a third became stuck in it.

He was dragged to a former Government base several hours' walk away, where an Army surgeon gave him some cocaine and then removed the bullet with a rudimentary blade.
Ishamel fainted from the pain…

Then things got really evil…A lieutenant brought in a group of young rebel militia… he said that they were responsible for the shooting of Ishamel.

"I was not sure if one of the captives was the shooter, but any captive would do at the time," Ishamel says ….

"They were all lined up, six of them, with their hands tied. I shot them in the shins and watched them suffer for an entire day before finally deciding to shoot them in the head so that they would stop crying.

"Before I shot each man, I looked at him and saw how his eyes gave up hope and steadied before I pulled the trigger. I found their somber eyes irritating."

When he first stopped being a child soldier, he couldn't remember anything about his former life.

It took almost five months before his slaughtered parents and brothers first reappeared - in his dreams.

Many child soldiers never recuperate or return to any sane sense of purpose in their shattered lives….Loved ones many of our young american soldiers return home also emotionally destroyed…

Loved Ones…It was in fact….Sierra Leone's diamond mines that helped sponsor the rebellion and created the mayhem that uprooted Ishamel from his village….separated him from his family and put him on the run for almost a year…. before he discovered that his parents had been killed and he turned to the Government military for aid.

His government took his fear…took his anger and used it…made him a solider…a story replayed over and over in many countries around the globe…even here at home…
His Government….did not want to help him…. It wanted to employ him… to use him...to enlist him…for their own reasons of greed for control…greed for money…greed reasons.

Ishamel was quickly given simple military training… encouraged to take powerful drugs and subjected to a steady diet of violent Hollywood films from Rambo to Commando….Loved Ones does this sound familiar?

The first time he was in combat …confused…he was unable to fire his AK-47… after seeing two of his fellow child soldiers obliterated before his eyes… he started firing.

Loved ones…today there are an estimated 300,000 children under the age of 18 serving in Government forces or armed rebel groups. Some of them are as young as 8 years old.
Loved Ones…. child soldiers are or have been involved in 33 on-going or recent armed conflicts in almost every region of the world…

Loved Ones our children are exceptionally helpless to military recruitment because of their emotional and physical immaturity.

Loved Ones…our american offspring are easily manipulated and can be drawn into violence that they are too young to resist or understand…Fox news glorifies soldiers…American broadcast TV advertising repeatedly tells kids that guns and killing make america the home of “the brave, the strong and the free”..

Loved Ones next time you see that young teen playing his little video game…shooting up the bad guys while his mum is buying that quart of milk…say a prayer for that child…send a petition to our Mother and Father God for all americas children to learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain…

At this time I petition for the White Light of the Holy Spirit to enclose and protect all young boys from the influence of communications designed to hypnotize them to go kill…for their country….for reasons of greed….as we all are children of our Divine Parents…I petition and ask that in the name of Our Lord Jesus the Christ.
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 9:55 AM