Posted on 01/18/2020 7:11:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Some 20 years ago, I was invited to a meeting to discuss "human-trafficking." Held at the Salvation Army Center on D.C.'s New York Avenue, only 10–15 D.C. policy analysts were invited — feminists, conservatives, evangelicals, politicos — and none of us had previously heard of the term "trafficking." That meeting, convened by Michael Horowitz, then at the Hudson Institute, opened our eyes to a problem that is now addressed at the national level as well as internationally through cooperation among nations, as a consequence in large measure of the diligent work of those whose eyes were opened that day.
Prior to that meeting, sex-trafficking was seen as something that happened somewhere else; it didn't affect Americans. Besides, it was an "underground" kind of crime that was isolated and rare. Through Horowitz's passion, we learned that we had been blind to reality. With our eyes opened, we had to do something!
I got involved by helping to draft the original Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), lobbying to get it passed, doing the same for subsequent reauthorizations, and providing manpower in the bipartisan coalition that Horowitz spearheaded to provide a foundation for anti-trafficking work that was so effective under the Bush 43 administration and that has flourished dramatically during the Trump administration through the leadership of Ivanka Trump Kushner.
While there is much to celebrate at the beginning of 2020 and during January — the National Human Trafficking Awareness Month — there is an overarching problem that has yet to be resolved. The "blind eye" problem remains an issue: people still don't see what is happening right under their noses. Many Americans still think the issue of human-trafficking is other nations' problem. Far too many people fail to see that trafficking victims exist in plain sight.
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I’m 3 days older than dirt and waaayyyy out of this loop, but I don’t get this sex-trafficing stuff. is it really that big of a problem and why? from my seat all it takes is a stroll the local wmt parking lot and you’ll get multiple offers.
Let someone kidnap your daughter or another female you love, drug her up, and force her into prostitution, and you'll see what the problem is.
In the U.S., illicit massage parlors (with profits estimated at $2.5 billion) are a cesspool of sex-trafficking
Men complain of how they face bias against them in the family court system and of how little money is spent on men's health issues, yet here they are spending billions on human trafficking that could have been spent doing something about these issues they supposedly care about.
That's in addition to the crimes committed against these females to provide men with the thrills they're paying billions to human traffickers for.
Absolutely disgusting, no matter how you look at it.
“Absolutely disgusting, no matter how you look at it.”
I agree. As a nation, and as a society of human beings, if we don’t stand for something, hold ourselves to a moral code that demands more of us, and protect those who can’t protect themselves, our earthly existence becomes meaningless.
I live in rural Oregon. I know a pastor or a church in a nearby small town, a childhood friend my nephew, who says that he knows of several houses where girls are being held against their will and forced to be prostitutes.
These houses are just outside of town where the police cannot touch them. The county knows about them, but doesn’t seem to care. The sheriff’s office will raid them only when they are forced tp take notice. Another town twenty miles away from my house is a national center of child porn production. Again, town and county authorities don’t seem to care.
Why???? Very good question.
It's not just a matter of protecting them from trafficking. Men could put an end to this tomorrow by not patronizing this business. Being part of the problem by patronizing the "products" the traffickers are "marketing" is what's so disgusting.
“and why?”
M O N E Y !
Most of our border problems are drugs and human trafficking.
The two groups of "men" you are speaking of do not share many - if any - common members.
How long has Epstien been a rich pedophile?
I watched a documentary about the sex traffic trade. It’s not just females that are kidnapped. They are shifted from location to location to avoid getting caught. Sometimes to foreign countries. They are forced into drugs to the point they become addicted. Once that happens they are easier to control.
95% of them are NEVER seen again. Very few ever escape. They just disappear. You can draw your own conclusions as to what happens.
The article says nothing about drugging and kidnapping.
Sounds like local “law enforcement” needs to be investigated. The FBI? Pfftft...
It’s ALL about money.
It’s a horrendous situation for girls to be in. I even participated in a march once against sex trafficking, which ended in speaker presentations afterwards. The only thing is that they said it’s not a problem in my county, so I lost interest. Now I participate in other things — like rallies for Trump :-)
Drugging and kidnapping are part pf human trafficking.
There are laws on the books everywhere against trafficking. The only REAL questions are those concerning WHY they are not enforced.
Prove it.
I wouldn't be surprised if many who we are trusting to fix this problem aren't patronizing it instead.
That is when good men in the dark of night need to raid these places in a way that force the issue with the people and the governing authorities. A good bet is that the ruling democrats are in on the trafficking and what will they do if anonymous persons started exposing their crimes by freeing these people, taking out their pimps, and burning these places down?
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