Posted on 06/16/2005 12:28:45 PM PDT by vigilante2
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/4578420/detail.html
Sec. Rice apparently disagrees with you
http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/global_issues/human_trafficking.html
She says 800,000 people a year.
I can further assure you that my father doesn't find anything "tititilating."
OK. let's organize a search party of all the brothels....volunteers?
He was trying to get some "tail" hooked!!
"WTF is a Naval doing not helping this girl?"
Maybe the Naval officer was somewhere he wasn't supposed to be. Or involved in activity that was unbecoming to a military officer and didn't want to have to testify in court.
Regardless of anything else he was or wasn't doing, turning his back on this girl - if the story is true - was the most unbecoming activity he engaged in that day. A plea for help from an American woman in a foreign brothel and he doesn't report it immediately ... that's shameful.
And not wanting to get in trouble for being there is a lousy excuse.
That was my question when I first read that. Why not call someone and stay with her until help arrived? It's all too strange and bizarre.
Something tells me the tourist trade is gonna pummel in Aruba.
Very true. And this is an issue that the present CinC caes very much about. So much so that he spoke about it very passionately at the UN. AFN television is replete with public service announcements showing women being rescued from white slavery situations. I suspect that if a similar situation arose today the officer in question would feel more compelled to act.
That's their biggest worry. I read somewhere that the island has a population of 75,000 (or thereabouts) but gets 500,000 a year in tourists. At the very least, Carlos 'n Charlies will probably close.
I completely agree.
Our soldiers are suppose to preserve and protect, among others, fellow Americans, and especially those who are helpless. Not only was the officers actions shameful, I find it to be detestable.
Thanks, I was getting tired of people posting lame excuses (sort-of) defending the fellow.
I hope it doesn't happen. I personally find the thought horrific, not titillating.
Sounds like a fate worse than death . . .
Bump.
More often than people know...or want to know.
Perhaps the dozen armed guards around the brothel deterred his decision to try and rescue her.
When he went back with help, the place had burned to the ground, as the article says.
The way I read the article, and perhaps I'm mistaken, he waited quite some time before notifying anyone. Either the article or someone posting on the thread said he was out of the service when he notified the FBI about the incident.
Strategerist says trafficking in humans is a figment in the minds of people who find it titillating.
RE post 27: I understand some Canadians saw Amy Bradley also but I have not heard a time frame. If too much heat is applied it would be easy to dispose her in the sea SAD situation.
Any time we go out of this country we are under some danger. WE are really unde danger in this country if a group wishes to dispose of a person.
There are a lot of missing persons.
My other guess is she was drunk and they gave her a drug in order to make it easier for the three to have sex with her and she overdosed and died. The body was then weighted down and dumped in the ocean by boat where sharks and crabs have eaten her remains.
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