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Slavery: Worldwide Evil
American Anti-slavery Group ^ | 2004 | Dr. Charles Jacobs

Posted on 01/29/2004 11:09:32 AM PST by Salman

http://www.iabolish.com/today/background/worldwide-evil.htm

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; asia; skavery; slavery
Please click the link, I cannot format it properly.

This is important!

1 posted on 01/29/2004 11:09:33 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman
Well how does Indiana fit into this besides the misleading title?
2 posted on 01/29/2004 11:20:17 AM PST by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: Salman
In Sudan, Africa's biggest country, chattel slavery is making a comeback, the result of a 18-year-old war waged by the Muslim north against the black Christian and animist south. Arab militias, armed by the government, have been raiding African villages, shooting the men and enslaving the women and children. The latter are kept as personal property or marched north and sold. ASI reports that there is probably "no village in the north without its kidnapped black slaves."

In March 1994, the special UN human-rights monitor, Gaspar Biro, reported the existence in Sudan of what he said might be called modern-day slave markets. Like any commodity, the price of human flesh in Sudan has varied with supply. In 1988, one automatic weapon could be traded for six or seven child slaves. In 1989, a woman or child from the Dinka tribe -- an exceedingly tall and proud pastoral people of the Nile -- could be bought for $90. Some of the children are trucked to Libya, according to the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. The fate of these slaves is unspeakable. Not only are their bodies in bondage, but they are stripped of their cultural, religious, and personal identities.

According to an ASI report: "Kon, a thirteen-year-old Dinka boy, was abducted by Arab nomads and taken to a merchant's house. There he found several Dinka men hobbling, their Achilles tendons cut because they refused to become Muslims. Threatened with the same treatment, the boy converted." Kon was lucky to have escaped: Others who are caught trying are castrated or branded like cattle.

Where is General Clark? Where is the NAACP? Where is Al Sharpton? Where are all the liberals who wanted change in South Africa?

These are the areas of the world where the light of American freedom needs to be ignited

3 posted on 01/29/2004 11:33:43 AM PST by 2banana
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To: Salman
"Q. How have the International Community and the US Government responded?

So far, governments have done little, while individuals have done much." From the FAQ on the site.

This may be why they are successful although that was not the writers intention in writing this.

The cause is good but the organization may have the common perception that government is the solution to the problem.

Ok, Ladies and Gentlemen, what is the conservative perspective on this or is it laissez-faire?

Beyond your first impression that this is another liberal activist group, what should a conservative think and do?
4 posted on 01/29/2004 11:43:05 AM PST by PeterPrinciple
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To: PeterPrinciple
laissez-faire:

1) A doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights.
2) A philosophy or practice characterized by a deliberate abstention from direction or interference esp. with individual freedom of choice and action.

The first definition I agree with and can think of no exceptions.

The second I don't agree with. I do believe in individual choice and action BUT think we are to be active "sowers" of what is right and good.

words have meanings............
5 posted on 01/29/2004 11:53:36 AM PST by PeterPrinciple
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To: Khepera
Well how does Indiana fit into this besides the misleading title?

Dunno what the deal is with Indiana. Yes, a misleading title. It's still a very important issue that isn't properly publicized.

In general, article writers are not responsible for headines.

6 posted on 01/29/2004 11:57:26 AM PST by Salman (Mickey Akbar)
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"Darlene Atkins, coordinator of End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (EPTC - USA, which is launching a RugMark campaign in this country) says that if it is successful, prices of carpets may rise only 1 to 2 percent."

This remark rubs me the wrong way. Since when is the price of carpets worth more than the children who make them? Americans are better than this and could care less how much the carpets may rise, if it meant ending slavery for a human being....especially children.

It's wonderful that this organization exists, but I think they need to reach out to these communities and warn the parents of these children. It looks as if this continues because the parents are clueless as to what is happening with their children.

One more point....where the hell are the human rights activists? Probably gathered at the prison where terrorists are being held!!!!
7 posted on 01/29/2004 12:12:18 PM PST by Arpege92
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To: Salman
what about the white slave trade into the US? supposedly that story is about to break.
8 posted on 01/29/2004 12:20:22 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: Salman
The victims of slavery need reparizing.
9 posted on 01/29/2004 1:25:27 PM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: Arpege92
One more point....where the hell are the human rights activists?

Fighting the evils of capitalism, of course. They'll say something about sweatshops in Bangladesh, and truly be right. Yet they will say nothing about African slavery, forced labor camps in China and Vietnam, etc.

10 posted on 01/29/2004 2:35:20 PM PST by Salman (Mickey Akbar)
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To: Salman
If you think slavery is bad, then don't have one.
Is my limosine here yet?
11 posted on 01/29/2004 4:12:10 PM PST by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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To: Salman
Not to fear....the UN will put an end to it pronto!
12 posted on 01/29/2004 4:18:22 PM PST by Lizavetta (Savage is right - extreme liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: Lizavetta
Not to fear....the UN will put an end to it pronto!

Seriously, this is one of the things the UN was created to combat. The Anti-Slavery Group daren't say so, but they are bucking the UN.

13 posted on 01/29/2004 7:57:49 PM PST by Salman (Mickey Akbar)
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