Michigan legislative action thread
Oh boy fireworks yesterday...
The Revvvverend Jacksooon, as Rush would say was on Frank Beckman's Program ( 9 to 12 , 760 am WJR 50,000 watts Detroit ) Yesterday.
Frank asked him with the Reverend in Detwaa to protest the new Emergency Manager on his 1st day, what do you have to say and why aren't you protesting what was done for the last 40 years!
The Rev didn't like that and said something to the effect that the question was dignified and hung up the phone...
Isn't that special... LOL !!!
blacks enslaving blacks
On the surface this impresses me that, if you strip away the labels, such as “human trafficking” and “slavery”, what do you really have in this case?
“The victims told jurors that they were forced to vacuum, iron, cook, clean and shine shoes...” In what context?
If he was having them doing these things for other people, it would be the improper use of child labor. But if it was just in the home they shared, couldn’t these be called “chores”? That is, keeping house in exchange for room and board.
Likewise with the physical abuse:
“The victims said Toviave beat them with toilet plungers, broomsticks and electrical cords and deprived them of food and sleep if they didn’t follow orders.”
Again, this is all contextual. In most of the world, if children do not obey, they get some form of corporal punishment, such as a spanking. But even in the US, parents have long used electrical cords, “switches”, and spankings, for just this reason. Of course it is still controversial, and is popularly discouraged, but it is not entirely rare. Especially among recent immigrants.
Other than that, he did smuggle them into the country illegally, and is not related to them. But what does this mean?
Togo is a tiny, poor, West African nation, with the average salary about $1000/yr. Mostly agricultural and hard labor for small wages.
Parents there would likely jump at a chance for their children to be smuggled into the US, to have the opportunity for prosperity some day. They probably begged this guy to take their kids for this reason.
So is this guy really a monster who deserves 11 years in prison?
Paging the All-Cultures-Are-Equal crowd...
Detroit - the first American 3rd world cesspool.... our very own hellhole...