Posted on 07/01/2007 12:14:26 PM PDT by wagglebee
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Are the Southern states at fault of this again? Will they every learn? /sarc.
Southerners will be bashed until the country comes to an end. It seems to be in our genes to use the South as a whipping boy.
I noticed there was no mention of slavery still existing in places like New Jersey until the 13th amendment abolished it. Must have just been an oversight.......certainly not ignorance of the subject.
“between 14,500 and 17,500 women, children and men are forcibly trafficked into the United States each year”
I have a hard time believing these numbers.
“And yet the liberaltarians still insist that prostitution is a “victimless” crime.”
Can you name one other service that it’s legal to give away for free, but illegal to charge for?
Rest easy. In 200 years the whole USA will be talked about with contempt in terms of the topic of this article and illegal alien slavery. The South will have company.
What a stupid statement.
You cheapen and weaken your own position against libertarian beliefs by making idiotic, ridiculously obvious straw men arguments like this.
No libertarian supports sex slavery.
If you don't know the difference between forced sex slavery and voluntary prostitution, you have no business commenting on political philosophies.
only the illegal status of prostitution businesses permits the abuses such as “fees” set by the pimp.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
“only the illegal status of prostitution businesses permits the abuses such as “fees” set by the pimp.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
I agree 100%. I support it’s legalization.
With legal prostitution, the pimps will be out of business and the street walkers will dissapear - it will be above board.
my congressmans staff laughed at me when I called this modernday slavery.
demanding they return these illegal aliens to their home country. this will bring this country to its’ knees...
we may not survive this.
“They call prostituted women “sex workers,” so that they can delude themselves into thinking that these women choose prostitution freely, ignoring the staggering 89 percent of prostituted women in the world who want to escape. To call a prostituted woman a “sex worker” is akin to our ancestors calling their slaves “servants”: it may make them feel better, but it does not change the truth. “
This intentionally obscures and even conflates the 2 different status.
One is voluntary sex workers.
The other are slaves.
Not the same thing.
In 200 years the reparations will bankrupt us!
I’m only being a little sarcastic, LOL.
All these asshats act li9ke slavery was born in America. Slavery has been around since men first formed communities. It still exists around the world and I feel sorry for the women and children caught up in it. Sex is like drugs as long as there is a market for it someone will supply it regardless of the suffering and degradation of those they sell into slavery.
I think people trafficing in human beings are worse than drug pushers and should recieve the death penañlty for dealing in it.
That’s the same thinking that let us kill 50 million babies because one woman said she was raped.
The only real voluntary sex workers in the country are in Hollywood - and even then you can’t tell me that Britney Spears would do what she does without drugs.
And the men in this country wonder why they are in disrepute. They let their own daughters become “sex workers”. Tsk.
reparations are not right.
the generations down are being paid for something they never suffered.
I want reparations. My family helped pay for the revolutionary war and were never reimbursed. Now our elected officials are opting to hand (my country I invested in) away I want to be reimbursed.
In 1830, of the 3,568 Northern blacks who remained slaves, more than two-thirds were in New Jersey. The institution was rapidly declining in the 1830s, but not until 1846 was slavery permanently abolished. At the start of the Civil War, New Jersey citizens owned 18 “apprentices for life” (the federal census listed them as “slaves”) — legal slaves by any name.
The important part was that the north was on the way to ending slavery. The Southern hot heads wanted to expand it, to continue it, and to continue to make money at it.
Interesting to compare the 18 slaves in New Jersey to the more than 50% of South Carolina that was enslaved. Majority rule in South Carolina didn’t happen until it was forced upon the south by the Federal Army.
I want reparations because women couldn’t vote until 1917!
And she has since admitted that she was coerced into a lie.
oh yeah I want that too.
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