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Jewish World Review / 2 Iyar, 5765
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When I was a young boy, my biggest concern was whether our Little League team was going to win its games on Saturday.
My friends and I would spend hours riding our bikes through the woods, playing wiffle ball behind my parents' home, and racing down to the Dairy Freeze at dusk.
But Monday's tragic news from a small Illinois town shows once again that the world I knew is dead.
Two young girls out for an afternoon bike ride in a public park were attacked in broad daylight and stabbed to death in a nearby wooded area.
The tragedy for the families of these beautiful young girls is unspeakable.
What it means for the rest of America's children is just depressing.
Parents should no longer feel free to let their children ride bikes with friends, unless they are accompanied by a police escort. And those carefree summer days of jumping on a bike early in the morning and riding around town until dinner are long gone.
These days, children are targets.
They are used for sexual gratification by diseased old men. They are the objects of violent fantasies that are only satisfied by blood. They are victims of a system that keeps letting them down.
No one knows all the facts of this Illinois case. But we do know it will happen somewhere else soon.
These days our children grow up in an exceedingly grim world where all strangers are evil and all grown ups are helpless to save them from the evil beasts lurking outside their door.
Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) hosts “Scarborough Country,” 10 p.m. ET, weeknights on MSNBC. He is the author of the recently published "Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day : The Real Deal on How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Other Washington Barbarians are Bankrupting America". (Click HERE to purchase. Sales help fund JWR.)Comment by clicking here.
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