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Today’s slavery (Human trafficking is the second fastest-growing illegal industry in the US)
Boston.com ^ | 1/29/11 | Renée Loth

Posted on 01/28/2011 10:51:39 PM PST by Libloather

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1 posted on 01/28/2011 10:51:42 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The party of slavery had total control, of course slavery started making a comeback.


2 posted on 01/28/2011 10:57:01 PM PST by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
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To: Libloather
Sanctuary cities, turn a blind eye to law breaking and they are surprised when it escalates.
3 posted on 01/28/2011 10:57:24 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Libloather
The nannies can't excite people about their victimless “crimes” anymore. So, they use loaded phrases like “Human Trafficking” to upset the little old ladies with checkbooks. Same scam as “Global Warming / Climate Change” depending on the season.
4 posted on 01/28/2011 11:07:06 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: Libloather
Who sells the slaves?

/johnny

5 posted on 01/28/2011 11:12:56 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Libloather

Yeah, no reason to secure the borders, eh?


6 posted on 01/28/2011 11:16:39 PM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Libloather

Slavery is going on right here in the country and the U.S. Government is turning a blind eye to it. Make sure you tell your grandkids about “Reparations II”. It’s coming and they’ll be paying for it.


7 posted on 01/28/2011 11:24:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where were all these calls for "civility" when Bush was president?)
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To: Libloather

I’ve seen the miniseries “Human Trafficking” - the horror of sexual slavery and the reduction of a human being to just a thing can’t be conveyed in words alone. Its as evil as the old slavery and just as profitable to those who make money off the suffering of others.


8 posted on 01/28/2011 11:34:24 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Libloather

And who brought this BS here blighting our name?

Oh, thats right! It’s all those enlightened countries that bitch and whine!

Jeez! you’d think we invented slavery rather than lead the world in abolishing it.


9 posted on 01/28/2011 11:39:02 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: Libloather

Wow, I thought I was a slave because I had to milk cows.


10 posted on 01/28/2011 11:47:06 PM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: Libloather

Slavery has NEVER stopped in muslim countries...

http://www.middleeastinfo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14257

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/slavery/mauritania.html


11 posted on 01/29/2011 12:10:31 AM PST by bronxville
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To: Libloather

If slavery were legal, the government could tax it and . . .

Never mind.


12 posted on 01/29/2011 12:18:47 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Oh yes, tax it and keep it “safer.” After all, people are going to do it anyway. /s


13 posted on 01/29/2011 12:29:08 AM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Libloather

How about “535 Charged with enslaving 150 million ....by 150 million”....


14 posted on 01/29/2011 12:43:56 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Dear Forgotten:

Dig into this topic a little further. Most prostitutes are forced into it at ages ranging from 12 to 14. These stats come from the Bush Administration's FBI.

There is nothing "victimless" about abducting, gang raping, beating, drugging, transporting out of state, and then prostituting children. They break their bodies, break their spirits, and then use them for money.

Not a big problem? Try over 500,000 have had their lives destroyed by this twisted cottage industry, many of whom are Americans.

Read up on trafficking; check the criminal stats from credible sources. You will be horrified.

15 posted on 01/29/2011 12:48:08 AM PST by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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This has been getting a lot of news in Seattle lately. No convictions, or rescues or anything, just in the news from some research some group has done, and I guess Seattle has a large problem with young girls taken and turned into prostitutes.

Some local woman is fighting back and is helping the girls. She was taken back when she was 12 or 13. She was lonely, by herself at the suburban mall, and a guy a bit older than her asked if she wanted to go get a bite to eat somewhere else.

It was pretty horrific what happened to her. After many years, she became a madame and started running her own young girls! Now she’s clean. She made it sound all too easy, and said they are going after a certain profile of young girls.


16 posted on 01/29/2011 1:02:19 AM PST by 21twelve ( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
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To: mylife

America did NOT lead the world in abolishing slavery...


17 posted on 01/29/2011 1:48:32 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: goldstategop
Its as evil as the old slavery

Not really. What made legal chattel slavery so evil was that it was a legally protected institution of society, making the entire society a co-conspirator in the evil.

Today's slavery is not legal and is destroyed wherever found. It's the difference between state-sponsored mass killing and retail murder. Individual crimes have always existed, and will always exist, but the society and government don't have to be participants.

I agree there's not a great deal of difference in its impact on the actual victims. Although not being dragged back by the cops if you escape is not an insignificant difference.

18 posted on 01/29/2011 3:17:11 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

True. But we did lead the world in the effort we put into doing so.


19 posted on 01/29/2011 3:18:45 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: TheWriterTX

True. Not many prostitutes are actual volunteers.


20 posted on 01/29/2011 3:19:43 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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