Posted on 07/31/2021 4:44:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Does the movie "Taken: come to mind when you think of human trafficking with a well-organized global syndicate of criminals snatching teens from high-class apartments in broad daylight? The reality is that a trafficker is online at this very moment grooming a teen to enter a life of servitude unwittingly.
Traffickers do not fit a specific mold; they can be organized groups to sole individuals, from family members to massage parlor owners, not one trafficker is exactly like the other. I have been interviewing those in the trafficking field for several months. There is a shared thread among their view of traffickers; the traffickers look at victims as commodities to sell, essentially dehumanizing them.
Can you spot a trafficking victim? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) provides key warning signs of potential trafficking victims. Some characteristics they talk about are; multiple cellphones, hotel keys, the presence of a controlling male/female, a history of running away, and tattoos or branding. No, a hotel key and tattoos do not mean a person is trafficked. Instead, it means each potential case needs to be looked at individually.
Kara Smith, a targeting analyst with the non-profit counter trafficking organization DeliverFund, recently discussed trafficking victims. Smith said, “They didn’t believe they were the victim. They thought it was their fault because the traffickers make it seem that way.”
The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop human traffickers from exploiting their victims for profit. On the contrary, it likely put more potential victims at risk. Traffickers prey on the vulnerable. Scouring the internet from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram and elsewhere, looking for a way to find a way into the victim’s life. Once they find an opening, they exploit it any way they can; through sympathy, gifting, support, etc.
Yes, human sex trafficking is rape for sale; it is industrialized rape. Does the fact that traffickers sell children and teens for rape make you mad? Does it make you want to take a stand? It should. It is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons Day, and we must do more to recognize trafficking that could be happening next door. We must end human trafficking while also demanding resources for victims to help them become survivors and beyond.
To find out more about human trafficking, go to the NCMEC site at www.missingkids.org. To report information about a missing or exploited child, call our 24-Hour Call Center: 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678)
I know someone will point out the reverse is also true, but as long as there are buyers there will be sellers. OTOH, without a market to sell them to there would be no sellers.
The left loves to take past ( 100+ years ago) slavery
Wrap themselves in the subject
And make it a present problem.
But they refuse to even acknowledge
the Present day slavery
at the boarder and in the USA.
They do the bait and switch weasel word play and substitute the word
” Trafficking “
Quit upswing that word, correct others when they use that word.
ITS NOT TRAFFICKING !!!
ITS SLAVERY !!!
Modern present day DEM SLAVE TRADERS
We took the Democratic party’s slaves away over a hundred years ago
And now the Democrat Party has resurrected slavery at our boarder
TaDa!
Dam slave trade back in bussiness !
Slave labor for chamber of commerce
Slave labor for sex
Slave labor for crime syndicates
Slave labor votes ( dems pushing the illegal ability to vote)
No id
No rights
No protection
SLAVES
Dem slave trade back in bussiness !!!
Call it what it is
Modern Day Dem Slave Trade.
An open southern US border is a pretty clear sign.
They are not coyotes
They are SLAVE TRADERS !
They are not “ traffickers”
They are SLAVE TRADERS !
“Does the movie “Taken: come to mind when you think of human trafficking...”
Nope. The movie “Taken” brings to mind a rabid non-American, anti-gun/anti-2A actor making movies in which he usually plays an American exercising his 2A rights...and his use of guns to kill the bad guys plays a big part.
The word “hypocrisy” comes to mind.
Groups of people herded into public transportation and relocated to another city/state in the middle of the night.
Shiny blankets.
People in cages...
Are you talking about the Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter?
I see dead people and traffickers everywhere
You’re right, they’re ba-ack!
Yes, I look at the border situation and I see the largest Human trafficking operation in world history. I also see our “so called” president and his party as head human traffickers and white slavers, no one else comes close.
Find a Democratic politician and you will find a human trafficker—easy peasy.
“The buyers are also a big part of the problem. Without them there would be no market for this.”
Makes you wonder why ALL those politicians in Washington DC NEVER bother with this particular issue.. Nope, they have all those other nonsensical issues to slam us with.. Climate change; the January 6 “insurrection”, get your jab campaign, etc...
My guess is that the largest bunch of “buyers” are that bunch we have sitting in DC.
I thought this was going to be a large picture with lots of activity and you had to find the traffickers.
The pimp, the prostitute, the John, the van full of immigrants, girl on the auction block, the UN workers bidding for her, Hunter Biden, Hillary with Haitian children, the drug addict and her pusher, the old arab paying a dowry for his unwilling bride, etc
There seems to be a larger number of missing children in the past several months. Trafficking may or may not be the reason but sickos are all around us.
All you need to know about human trafficking talk to the democrat party ring leader Joey winks.
Yup
Democrat party. Catholic Charities, Lutheran Services. Are three I can think of as the biggest human traffickers in America.
How are Catholic Charities and Lutheran Services involved in human trafficking?
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