Outrageous. Just outrageous!

A situation that happened some seven years ago - which caused the death of 15 school girls - came pretty darn close to repeating itself again this past Wednesday. Six students were taken to a hospital and 21 suffered minor injuries "while attempting fleeing in panic from a fire at a girls' school. The situation also developed into angry confrontations when the school guard refused to let the pupils exit the building... into the school courtyard where the guard, according to witnesses of the event, wielded a stick to prevent them from leaving the premises." No. He did what?!! There is a fire and a guard is preventing school girls from exiting? Is the guard going to be fired? And, just out of curiosity, why do all of the girls' schools need a guard anyway? That speaks volumes, in my opinion, about the intentions of others that the girls need to be protected [from what?], and if that is not the case, then is it that someone believes that the girls are not capable of conducing themselves in an acceptable manner? Regardless. Fortunately there were no deaths and the situation was not nearly as tragic as that which took place on Monday, March 11, 2002.

I guess the girls are not capable of conducting themselves in an acceptable manner. They cannot be responsible enough to even have their camera phones at school and they have been confiscated. [Can you confiscate the phones from the girls at the check-out line at the Commissary, too, please?] The "inspection tours came after the administration had received a number of complaints from the guardians of schoolgirls and women teachers regarding violations taking place in schools including the taking of pictures by some female students and teachers." Some of the phones were destroyed and the "women and schoolgirls" have had to "sign a pledge not to violate the regulations." Well, okay, then. Now we know. [How about the boys' schools? Is it okay for them to have their camera phones?]

Youth need to be protected from deviant thoughts. A mantra that is repeated over and over and over. And, again, I point out that if this is something that is so prevalent - these deviant thoughts - where are they originating from [you know, besides from Western influence]. There is, apparently, a need to reiterate "for the whole of society to take responsibility in protecting youth from deviant thought and drug trafficking..." Do they go hand-in-hand? Deviant thoughts and drugs? [Supply and demand economics. If there was no demand, there would be no supply, right? Well, insofar as the "drug trafficking" goes. Where are the drugs coming from? They are not coming in from Western countries. They are coming in from countries right next door to The Sandbox. I have my own opinion on all of that - the money from the drugs and what it finances - but that too is a whole other topic.] Exactly how to you protect someone from deviant thoughts?

A sorcerer has been arrested; no nationality mentioned. An alcohol dealer is being held - is it important to note that the man is an Ethiopian? An Asian man has been arrested for stealing sheep and selling them. And a few - seven, actually - disposable Asian workers have been injured. That is all that is happening in The Sandbox, today.