The American legal and regulator systems, Mr. Keenan insists, leave our kids virtually defenseless. The only rights they have under the Constitution are those which Supreme Court justices acknowledged when Mr. Keenan took a foster care case to them in the 1980s. He successfully argued that at least children in the State s care should have the rights we extend to felons in prison. Terrell case against the State of Georgia. It s not just kids in foster care, vulnerable as they are, he assures us.
Gun locks are optional in a country where every two hours, a gun kills a child.
Migrant children are virtually exempt from fair labor and safety laws. And the list goes on. Mr. Keenan cites two reasons. Children are powerless and special interest lobbies powerful. There s nothing wrong with the Constitution, according to Mr. Keenan.