Datechguy's Blog

During my 2 1/2 hour AM drive home from the GOP debate in Hanover NH I did some radio channel surfing and found an incredible story out of Uganda on the BBC world service that seemed right out of the Aztec playbook:

Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the purpose of child sacrifice.

The ritual, which some believe brings wealth and good health, was almost unheard of in the country until about three years ago, but it has re-emerged, seemingly alongside a boom in the country’s economy.

The mutilated bodies of children have been discovered at roadsides, the victims of an apparently growing belief in the power of human sacrifice.

The follow-up story gets worse:

One witch-doctor led us to his secret shrine and said he had clients who regularly captured children and brought their blood and body parts to be consumed by spirits.

Meanwhile,a former witch-doctor who now campaigns to end child sacrifice confessed for the first time to having murdered about 70 people, including his own son.

The radio broadcast (available here) was simply astounding. I wondered what kind of barbarians could slaughter children, even their own, in order to improve their personal financial situation?

…and then as I drove through the middle of a quaint New England Town at night, I looked to my left and saw, illuminated by a single bulb, a Planned Parenthood Clinic.

The Witch Doctor in an underdeveloped Uganda plays on the uneducated, promising them an easier and more prosperous future at the price of a couple of hundred dollars and a child’s life and people agree. I call that Barbarism.

Planned parenthood makes the same promise and demands the same price (with the cash subsidized by the government) to a developed and educated population…

…and millions consent, cheered by others. Perhaps you have a different word for it?

I don’t.