Posted on 10/06/2012 9:28:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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.
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.
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”).
I’m fine with the death penalty for them, too.
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.
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.
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