Marco Rubio Slams Media For Openly Promoting Sex Slavery [Video]

Shark-Tank ^ | 10/5/12 | Javier Manjarres

[SoFloFreeper]

Miami- Senator Marco Rubio was given a tour of a secret “stash house” that is used by organized human trafficking rings and then addressed the media to call the public’s attention to the illegal multi-billion dollar a year human trafficking industry. Rubio pulled no punches when he called out the liberal Village Voice media outlet for its “egregious” exploitation of young women who are part of the growing human trafficking epidemic that is increasingly gripping the country.

I want to take a moment to call attention to one of the most egregious things going on across our country, and that’s Village Voice Media, who runs a number of newspapers around our country, including the New Times here in Miami-Dade County and actively, actively advertising the services of some of these young girls. Actively, you can go on there and buy a human being for two hours, and you can do that on advertising going on in newspapers being printed in this very town by Village Voice Media. It is an outrage.
They make millions and millions of dollars selling human beings in this country."
– Senator Marco Rubio

[a fool in paradise]

Time was that George Greanias was in line to become one of Houston’s endless line of connected Democrat mayors.

Who knows, may still happen.

[Sherman Logan]

It's kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment. And I have no problem with imposing the death penalty on the kidnappers, and for that matter on the johns.

Which would bring a screeching halt to the industry.

I quite agree it is like slavery in many ways, but I think that classifying illegal exploitation as being slavery is an inappropriate minimization of the horror that is real slavery.

After Alissa testified against her pimps, six of them went to prison for up to 25 years.

In real slavery, the police would have returned Alissa to her abusers at the specific direction of the law, not arrested and prosecuted them.

[a fool in paradise]

Slavery is illegal in the United States. Therefore the property is not returned to the “owner”.

Although there are corrupt figures (Democrats) who DO look the other way when children are being sold and public assistance is sought (recall the ACORN video of the “pimp”).

[Sherman Logan]

I’m fine with the death penalty for them, too.

[TurkeyLurkey]

All the defintions in my dictionary (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language) are:

1. the owning of slaves as a practice or institution

2. the condition of a slave; bondage

3. a condition of domination by some influence, habit, etc.

4. drudgery; toil

Don’t see anything about a legally enforced relationship between 2 persons.

Nontheless, slavery is not “legal” in this country. It was abolished over 100 years ago, thank the Lord.

There are many reasons for the lethargy...one includes bribery. I doubt that many of these young girls would walk into a police station with reporters in tow, most of them fear for their lives and there is no way of escape.
Reality.

[Sherman Logan]

Your definitions 1 and 2 both refer to legal relationships.

Possibly I’m picking the nits too hard. My only point is that I don’t want the horrors of true slavery, which some Islamists want to bring back, to be minimized by using the term for illegal mistreatment of vulnerable people.

Criminal behavior and exploitation of the vulnerable will be with us always. That is very different from having the same behavior approved and protected by society and its legal system, as it was in this country prior to December of 1865.