"...Mr. Clinton was elected to the presidency the following month. [1992] In an economic world order dominated by his Administration, the international trading of women has reached extraordinary proportions. Resting almost exclusively in the hands of organized crime - a fact discussed openly and publicly in official circles, international financial institutions and establishment media - the enormous and ever-growing illegal profits it generates represent a large sector of the international economic system.
Labeled "dirty" because of its illicit nature, this money is first laundered through "off-shore" banking institutions and then introduced into the legal and regulated financial structure, under the watchful and indulgent eye of government agencies.
As easily predicted, Russia has indeed unloaded their powerless human merchandise over the planet, selling millions of their women to all corners of the world, flooding the streets of Western and Central Europe, in aggressive competition with Asian exporters. In the United States, the market for such live products is thriving and legal, conducted by catalogues and videos advertised in otherwise respectable press outlets.
There was no "international outcry" as hoped. The reverse took place instead when governments began to coordinate strategies to bring order to the lucrative operations. A few of them have joined forces to actually promote the worldwide legalization of prostitution which, in turn would automatically legalize the buying and selling of women. The United Nations is cooperating. Last June, a U.N. Committee did not hesitate to "order" the Chinese government to" allow" their women to sell themselves, an obvious if perhaps unintended defense of the flesh merchants regularly put to death in that country.
In the United States, the effort to legalize prostitution globally is led by "The President's Interagency Council on Women", an arm of the U.S. Department of State. Mrs. Clinton is the Honorary Chair of the fifty or so Council Members, Secretary Albright is Chair and Secretary Shalala is Past Chair. When questioned about the attempts to force legalization in China, Miss Shalala seemed irritated that the subject could even come up and asked, in reply, if anyone present would not rather "talk about Fiji".
Among the well-known women listed as Council Members are Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy, Ann Lewis ( Counselor to President Clinton) and Audrey Tayse Haynes ( Chief of Staff to Mrs. Gore and Special Council to the Vice-President). General Kennedy, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States Army, just retired. She recently made headlines when she revealed that she had been sexually harassed by another United States General in 1996.
Conservatives in the United States have been at the forefront of the harsh struggle to prevent the legalization of prostitution. NOW and other feminist groups with close ties to the Democratic Party and to the Clinton White House have remained passive, projecting an image of anti-legalization activism through the occasional press release, toothless in-house resolutions and strident declarations while giving full political behind-the-scene support to the Administration. The fraudulent posture, which provides the perfect cover for the trading of women to flourish, continues to be given credence by a politically partisan media reluctant to reveal the connections between rafficking, crime syndicates and the highest levels of the political and financial power apparatus, additionally hostile to credit conservatives for anything involving the defense of women.
Except one. Joseph Farah, CEO and editor of World Net Daily, became the first American editor to recently publish the work of Charles Smith, an investigative reporter who writes frequently on issues of national security. Tearing open the veil surrounding the horror, Mr. Farah sat the tone for the serious journalistic standards that have been oddly lacking on the issue, at least on this side of the Atlantic."
Source: www.dullesnow.org/womenforsale.html (there is a lot more to read). Selling women and kids makes me sick and we ought to do something about it but Kate is BS'ing us here.