Posted on 09/13/2006 7:01:07 PM PDT by Clemenza
Rulers of the United Arab Emirates were accused in a lawsuit of enslaving tens of thousands of boys over three decades and forcing them to work as jockeys in the popular sport of camel racing.
The lawsuit was filed last week by unnamed parents of boys suspected of being abducted, sold and enslaved. They claim more than 30,000 boys could have been victimized and seek class-action status.
The lawsuit alleges Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai, and Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum, the deputy ruler, were the most active perpetrators.
The lawsuit was filed in Miami because the members of the royal family maintain hundreds of horses at farms in Ocala. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Calls to the United Arab Emirates embassy in Washington, D.C., were not answered and it was not possible to leave a telephone message after hours. A telephone message left at a Kentucky farm owned by the crown prince was not returned.
John Andres Thornton, co-counsel for the children, said the crown prince was served with the lawsuit Monday while buying horses in Kentucky.
The lawsuit claims the boys were taken largely from Bangladesh and Pakistan, were held at desert camps in the UAE and other Persian Gulf nations, and forced to work. It claims some boys were sexually abused, given limited food and sleep and injected with hormones to prevent their growth.
Camel races are immensely popular in the Persian Gulf. The UAE banned the use of children as jockeys — long favored because of their light weight — in 1993, but young boys could still be seen riding in televised races for years afterward.
More news from the only society (muslim nations in general) where slavery and indentured servitude still exist!
What? Our wonderful port operators enslave children for sport and profit??? It must be a lie perpetrated by the Jews /sarc.
Mr. McGreevey! Mr. McGreevey! Your plane to the U.A.E. is boarding!
Mr. McGreevey! Mr. McGreevey! Your plane to the U.A.E. is boarding!
Help me out here, just where was this lawsuit filed? And what evidence have they filed? And why does this court (whatever it is) have jurisdiction?
Those darn camel-jockeys are really something!
FYI,
lj
So that's why Michael Jackson went there...
uhm... is this a euphemism for something entirely different, if you know what I mean?
Didn't Michael Jackson's family move out that way ?
Class action lawsuit--Camel Jockeys vs. Towelheads
P.S I have no idea why that post looks like it does. Test.
Apparently filed in Florida.
Haven't seen the brief, but the allegations are certainly true.
Why does the court have jurisdiction?
Don't know. Maybe there was an American kid. Maybe some US International Rights Treaty is being cited.
In any event, jurisdiction or not, the defendants are crowned sovereigns of massively wealthy oil states. As such, they are immune from prosecution in anybody's courtsunder traditional rules of international law, and they are immune from prosecution anywhere because of the "Golden Rule".
I hate the litigenous society. However, in this case, I hope these people totally impoverish the enslavers, divide their wealth amoung the enslaved children and their families, and reduce these perpetrators to poverty.
PRETTY BOYS - Afghani Wedding Singers Are the Sweetest Plum from the Immersion Reporting issue.
Just a taste of whats in store for Europe.
Perhaps it is all the line breaks that are coded in HTML.
Maybe so. But not told to do that by me. Little laptop with hinky dinky keyboard combined with fat fingers, I guess.
Ewwwww!
What a disgusting culture!!!!!
Finally! It makes sense! ROFLMAO
Some have been as young as 4 years old.
The lawsuit alleges the kidnapping, sale, enslavement, and sexual abuse of under-age boys from Bangaladesh and Pakistan as jockeys in camel races in the Persian Gulf.
The matter of jurisdiction is questionable since the alleged crimes did not occur on American soil and did not involve any American victims.
This sounds like an overly zealous attempt by some ambulance chasers. The suit should have been filed with the International Court.
In either case, it doesn't appear that the plaintiffs will receive satisfaction from either court. Unless, the defendant, who undoubtedly can afford it, offers to settle this case out of court.
The plaintiffs could push for forfeiture if a federal court takes the case and the prosecution tries to make the case that the Florida ranch was purchased with tainted funds from the camel races or sale of jockeys.
I wonder if Rush will defend this as a good example of Arabic capitalism at work.
He has been the Dubai cheerleader for months now.
I laugh when Rush speaks of how "modern" Dubai is, given that his observations are predominately of a materialistic nature (shopping malls, high-rise business district, highways, international travelers all over the place, definite presence of U.S. and European corporations, etc.) which has nothing to do with freedom in any sense other than freedom of "capital".
Rush makes the same philosophical error of the "globalists", which is a refusal to distinguish between the capital of a truly free (politically) public American corporation and the "capital" of Chinese government owned/controlled corporations or the "corporations" of Dubai which are no more than entities funded and controlled by the "capital investment" funds of the rulers of Dubai.
China's capital model today is the same as was Nazi Germany and the Saudi and Persian Gulf model is the same as the old European mercantilist model, where "business" and the "king" were inseparable, in any final definitive sense.
The United States was founded on a rejection of either of those models.
We cannot stop those models from operating within their own domestic spheres, or from economic intercourse with others. But, they should not be allowed to own any part of our domestic ecnomic sphere. Buy from them and sell to them (import/export) yes. But inside the U.S., there should be no operations of government owned or controlled corporations from any country.
Wow. You have really hit the nail on the head here.
You probably heard Rush a few months ago when he was enthusiastically raving about Dubai.
He went down in my book many, many notches that day.
Man, that site you pulled up is really horrifying! The comments section was a jolt of reality viewed through the homosexual lens. I like gnarly jokes now and then because most of them are not serious. This is serious and gnarly is perversion. Between the butt riders and Islam life is really in need of a big cleanup in all those aisles.
It takes a lot to gross me out, but that site sure did. Time to puke and get off of FR for a few hours.
Sorry, I hadn't read the "comments", just the article (in print when it came out several months ago).
Someone found some antisemitic (as in DeadJewWalking) antiamerican proterrorist comments posted to a Yahoo news item today (on Yahoo's site).
Such is the internet. Loud mouth jerks post comments. Some forums clear such comments, others leave them there.
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