I tend to think I can no longer be appalled by the depths of depravity to which some people will sink. And then some sick so-and-so goes and does something so despicable, it proves me wrong yet again.

Here's the latest example - it angered me so much I had to post it:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...189789,00.html

An excerpt showing the treatment of the boys kidnapped to sold as slaves:

Quote Originally Posted by Sunday Times
“I drank from a glass of water and one of the kidnappers pushed me so hard I fell on the glass and it broke in my hands,” he said. His slender fingers still bear the scars. No more glass for him, he was told: he was fit to drink only from a tin cup.

The boys were ordered not to talk, pray or play. Five of them were playing a Pakistani equivalent of scissors, paper, stone one day when the guards burst in and beat them savagely on their backs and heads.
What makes this report of barbarism so disturbing is that it is not the work of some lone mentally deficient sicko. It's done by organised, well-resourced men who - besides their venal greed and cruelty - have some pretensions at political and religious beliefs. And it goes on the in Wild West of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border areas, where decent government does not seem to reach.

I have no "solutions", but just want to vent a powerless howl of rage and disbelief.