Sunday, October 22, 2006

Mobile phones and child slavery

People bluster pompously about pedophilia in the UK, reasonably perhaps, but neglect the fact that by needlessly purchasing mobile phones and consoles they are supporting quite directly, slavery and death. Excellent report here.

As Labour MP Oona King put it to an Independent journalist in May 2006: "Kids in Congo are being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms."

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