Christopher Barrios Remembered

by Alicia Colon - March 30th, 2007 - New York Sun

It's been ages since I cried myself to sleep, but that's exactly how I spent Tuesday night, inexplicably sobbing into the early morning.

The crying was a release from the pent-up anguish I've felt about the death of a 6-year old boy I'd never met. The death of Christopher Michael Barrios was so hideous and sickening that it should have been the catalyst for societal outrage, yet his story has already faded from the headlines, and Christopher has become just another forgotten victim in a war against children. Shame on all of us.

Tuesday started off as a wonderful balmy day spent on the boardwalk of South Beach with my husband and granddaughter. The lunch at South Fin Grill was delicious, but as I looked out the window at the children running on the boardwalk, all I could think of was a silent warning to parents to watch their children. Don't let them out of your sight. Monsters are lurking everywhere.

Christopher was sexually assaulted by a convicted sex offender, George Edenfield, and his father, David Edenfield, while his mother, Peggy Edenfield, watched. Then they choked the boy to death. While this horrific incident occurred in Georgia, no child anywhere is safe in this sexually overcharged society.

This article was published on my birthday. It just seems appropriate to remember that I am getting another year older while a 6 year old child will never see another day.

Between abortion and child pornography the images and issues our courts defend vigorously are well known.

However they will not defend private property and until recently tried to argue that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" was a right being granted to government to arm its minions. No one can present evidence of a single government that ever failed to assume it had that right but liberals argue with a straight face that our founders were concerned government officials might not think they had the right to arm our militias in our defense. Therefore these liberals pretend that the prefatory clause is the operative clause in the second amendment sentence.

However these same liberal judges are determined that the first amendment was intended to assure that pornography cannot be opposed by any act of government. Freedom of speech is absolute, unless of course you are criticizing government officials. The courts have now determined that speech like that can be prohibited. John McCain and Russ Feingold are memorialized as the two Senators who found it offensive that some citizen might criticize government without proper approval of federal bureaucrats. So today you can advocate sexual perversion but you cannot advocate what you see as good government unless bureacrats share your views.

I think our founders would have been flabbergasted at the incompetence and stupidity of these court rulings.

I join Alcia Colon in crying for Christopher Barrios. One more child abandoned by our liberal courts and liberal legislators in their defense of abortion and pormography.