Whether a child in Africa, China, Mexico, Iraq, Iran, or America there are some demons I know from experience even Lunesta’s butterfly won’t drive away. The horrible things that happen to children are among those demons, the image of a little girl running and screaming in pain while burning from napalm in Vietnam, the images of two little girls left alone to die of thirst in a cold black dungeon in Belgium where monsters kept them imprisoned while making videos of one of the monsters repeatedly raping these little girls for distribution to other monsters are not demons of the mind easily exorcised.

When I first proposed the amendment for the protection of children from molesters eight years ago copies were sent to President Clinton, every governor, every U. S. Senator, a number of U. S. Representatives and lesser politicians, print and TV media personalities including Oprah and Montel; a copy was even sent to the Pope, since I believed in view of the Roman Church being so actively involved with pervert priests preying on children I owed him the courtesy of being informed of the amendment.

The resulting archive of responses over the years has been quite educational. Some who responded recognized the enormity of the historical aspect of the amendment together with the profound social implications and quite correctly expressed their concern about these. Those at the UN and the CDC also were informed of the amendment because of the far reaching implications that would impact on those organizations. And while UNICEF answered very diplomatically, the intent was clear enough: “We are afraid where this might lead.” Those at the CDC did not respond because of the minority implications, particularly the evidence of molestation leading to early puberty, something of which UNICEF and virtually every pediatrician is fully aware.

Since I have a web site dedicated to the amendment and the justification for it I won’t belabor the issues here. But one thing became increasingly clear to me; whether conservative or liberal most persons and organizations were actually fearful of the amendment ever becoming the Law of the Land. And this fear was shared among those one might expect would support such an amendment, even among some conservative church leaders and women’s and child advocacy organizations.

In the beginning, I wanted the death penalty for convicted molesters should the child die as a result of such monsters murdering children. But I changed my mind on this, coming to realize the death penalty is too capricious state-to-state, just as are the laws concerning the abuse of children. It isn’t I have changed my mind as per Ma Joad that some people simply need killing, but I realized what was needed in respect to capital punishment was a national standard to be applied, and just so with child molesters where the laws state-to-state are capricious to the point of maliciousness, of hating children! It only acerbates the situation to have so many blatantly perverted judges accommodating their fellow perverts and a politically correct media that makes “immigrants” of illegal aliens afraid to confront perversion for what it is in fact. A “pedophile” for example is in fact a pervert!

Ben Shapiro: According to Mel Gibson, his new movie, "Apocalypto," is a metaphor for the death of American civilization. "The precursors to a civilization that's going under are the same, time and time again," Gibson explained at a film festival in Texas. "What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"

While agreeing with Mel, I say what’s human sacrifice if not refusing to do all in our power to protect children from the monsters preying on them, often with the help of complicit legislators, judges, and media? And while Mel together with a number of others including me see America heading toward extinction, politicians sacrificing our young people to the wars politicians make for profit is no more an obscenity against America than the failure to protect children from the monsters preying on them! Who but those that choose to be blind to the facts would disagree our children are our future? And America has evolved into a nation that behaves as though it actually hates children!

When the demons began to torment me to the point of first proposing the amendment, I put a four by eight foot sign out front of my little cottage here in the country reading in stark black letters: IT SHOULDN’T HURT TO BE A CHILD! This became a theme of several child advocacy groups.

It was while considering the Vietnam Memorial Wall it occurred to me; why shouldn’t the murdered children have their own memorial wall also? Having two sheds on my property I started such a wall on one of them with the names of Melissa and Julie, those little Belgium girls, along with those of children like Polly Klaas and JonBenet Ramsey. In no time at all I had dozens of such names on what I call my “Memorial Wall of Shame” to America!

At first the local paper took notice, and pictures, of what I was doing. But in the course of time I simply became that peculiar fellow with the signs out front of his house. But several people commented privately to me that it kept them mindful of how children are mistreated and abused, and had kept some of these people from acting in anger against their own children, such anger often the cause of hurting children.

The first Christmas following my starting the Memorial Wall of Shame I was tempted to put up a Christmas tree with some colorful lights in front of it. But then I reconsidered. This would have been an obscenity to all a Christmas tree symbolized to children. These murdered children might have believed in Santa; they might have believed in God. But neither Santa nor God saved them. And what would this have been but a reminder of how God had failed to hear the screams of these children as they were being tortured and murdered? So much for prayer when adults do not fulfill their obligation to protect children, and I know some of these children like Melissa and Julie must have even prayed for death to deliver them from the monsters torturing them! But dying in a cold black dungeon from thirst could hardly be called a merciful death in answer to their prayers. And if the “mercy of God” is not to be found in delivering children from monsters where are we to look for such mercy, for answers to our prayers? We must look to ourselves as the responsible parties.

Yes, the amendment holds enormous implications historically, sociologically, and legally; I’ve thus far had an eight year education in this and the layers of the implications continue to unfold before me. But I’m as convinced now as in the beginning our children, America needs this amendment.