Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: November 02, 2019 03:32PM
How thin must a coin be before it is impossible to give it a second side?
I agree that the perp is not someone with whom I would want to play golf. I'd be very annoyed at whatever chatter emerged from him about the good he is doing.
And the thing is, he IS doing some "good", as defined by this or that human being, namely the ones who get a new baby to adopt at less than prevailing market price.
And there may be, over the course of the perp's career, a couple of young Marshallese women who feel that things turned out okay for them. After all, at some level, personal opinions do have validity.
I've been trying to gain what I term "an overview perspective" of all of this. Have I succeeded? Heck if I know...
I do agree that there are some serious charges that should be leveled against the mormon attorney perp, having to do with fraud. Federal charges might apply, but I haven't seen that done yet, and I'm not certain an avenue exists to exact a pound of flesh from the perp with regard to bringing the young women to the United States from the Republic of Marshall Islands.
From my perspective, this Marshall Islands baby-selling exists ONLY because of the actions of the United States from 1946 until 1958, when they used one of the atolls, Bikini Atoll, for atomic and thermonuclear testing. This included a hydrogen bomb test that yielded twice the destructive power as expected, resulting in at least one inhabited atoll getting a liberal dusting of nuclear fallout, resulting in radiation burns and sickness. A total of 67 airburst nuclear explosions occurred
The United States was assessed a 2 billion dollar fine by an organization called The Nuclear Claims Tribunal. The US has simply ignored the fine.
All this is a background for explaining why citizens of the US-sponsored Republic of Marshall Islands have free, completely unrestricted access to the United States. They show up at customs & immigration control and get the same treatment any American citizen does when returning to the country.
Which didn't take baby-snatchers (good a name as any, right?) from figuring out what an easy source of uninformed, unmarried teen & young adult pregnant females! Just like the young ladies in all the wards in which we grew to maturity! Dumb and often desperate.
I don't recall right now the exact year, but recently 'do-gooders' in both countries recognized that young Marshallese women were getting taken advantage of with regard to 'selling' their not-particularly-welcome babies. I honestly think that it was the 'baby-selling' that was the problem, but the inequities involved. which was what made it possible for this business to flourish: they were selling the same product as all the other mainland sellers, but at a big discount. So of course 'buyers' have been so supportive of the perp. He did a wonderful thing for them, 'on the cheap'!
Anyway, the two governments agreed that Marshallese women ought not to be allowed to fly to the US in the last month of their pregnancy, and be allowed entry if their purpose was to sell the baby they were carrying. I don't know if a penalty was mentioned and if the appropriate penal code statutes were created or amended. And I don't know if 'aiding & abetting' was made a crime.
Not that it mattered. The young ladies were taught, when asked the question, to look aghast! "What, sell my baby! How dare you!!" And what could the customs & immigration guy or gal do? They had to let them pass!
The perp, in this case, got too greedy.
The practice is certainly still proceeding. Numerous attorneys are involved; it's too lucrative a practice!
Again, I find this all fascinating.