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In the 18 months since some overzealous elements of the Religion of Peace
killed some 200 people in Bali, the devastation has extended beyond the blast
area. Australians once felt quite at home in Bali - the ability to get off your
Qantas jet, and buy an Australian newspaper and get rolling drunk in a bar
watching Australian sport surrounded by yobbos with accents not unlike your own
was a real blast. But suddenly Australians stopped coming. Having 88 fellow
Australians massacred kind of does that. Local business is no longer
booming. So the locals have been looking around for another way to make a few
bucks. A quick hunt around other Asian tourist destinations revealed one pretty
quickly - child sex. While it would be unfair to say that local operators have
gone into this en-mass, clearly some have seen the opportunity. Indonesia is
arguably the most corrupt country in the
world, Bali has unused infrastructure and many desperate operators and
Australia is close enough for a dirty weekend - the perfect combination. Indonesia has managed
to cover this up with its usual indignant denials and outright lies until now,
but the arrest of former Australian diplomat William Stuart Brown on pedophile
charges in Bali kind of brought things to a head. The after-blast vacuum is
being filled by child-sex operators. Chalk up another great achievement for the
Religion of Peace. Diplomacy As a sideline, this also begs the question of why so many diplomats and
judges are pedophiles. Stories about preferential treatment within the
departments of Foreign Affairs and Justice and special hand-ups to 'people like
us' are a bit far fetched for those of us who don't like subscribing to conspiracy
theories (that's people like us, dear reader). It seems far more likely
that there is something about the job that attracts these people. Diplomacy is the art of persuasion, and seduction is surely a popular
application of those skills. But sex with children is unlikely to involve much
diplomacy, so that doesn't ring true. The common element is, of course, power. Judges and diplomats have
more power than anyone else in society (unlike elected politicians they don't
have constituents scrutinizing their every move). Further, while the supposedly
selfish businessman is motivated by greed and the desire for more money, the supposedly selfless
judge or diplomat is motivated by desire for power over other people - a far
more frightening prospect. Rape, we are often told, is about power - pedophilia doubly so. What
kind of person wants to take advantage of someone totally unable to defend
themselves? Who are the true predators in society? The jury is back. We know the answer.
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