As I’ve mentioned before, trafficking is a broad category of crime that dismisses the possibility that some of the so-called victims might not be victims at all. For example, prostitution is regularly being promoted as a profession where all of its practitioners are presumed to be forced into it.
With all wannabe epidemics, statistics are the friend of the fear mongers so we are hearing lots of them and you can be sure they describe a crisis where children are being kidnapped and forced to be sex slaves before being eaten alive by people you bump into every day. A task force in Ohio reports:
The report by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission released Wednesday also said it found that more than 1,000 children born in Ohio are forced into the sex trade each year.
Then there’s little piece of news:
Kathleen Davis, of the Washington-based Polaris Project, previously told the panel that up to 17,500 trafficking victims come through Ohio every year.
And according to the Project Polaris website:
An estimated 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked annually in the United States alone.
So, I guess all 17,500 must be paraded through Ohio on the way to their final destination.
As is the case with all organizations that promote sex hysteria, their strategy is to broaden the definition of the crime so as to pump up the statistics, leading people to believe there is evil lurking in every playground and behind every myspace contact. Then they campaign for stiffer laws, because Lord knows sex predators in the U.S. barely escape with a slap on the wrist. And when they’re done (as if they ever are) they congratulate themselves for replacing the public’s complacency with utter paranoia.
1- It would be nice to know who you are………..putting your name on these comments would be a good first step.
2- The number you are focusing on is truly unimportant dude – ONE is too many.
3- Check out our site http://www.stopslavery2010.com , watch the videos , and then tell me why some of us should not be hysterical about this bullshit.
- Phil Cenedella
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1. What difference does it make who I am? Do my posts read differently depending on who I am?
2. The number I was focusing on came from the article I was commenting on. If the numbers are unimportant, why do THEY focus on them? The idea that “one is too many” is the sister of “if we save even one, it will have been worth it”. It’s a simplistic argument that justifies any cost as long as even a meager benefit is realized. Saving one is not worth any cost.
But, if you were seriously interested in helping the real victims of human trafficking, you would be campaigning to legalize prostitution to move it en masse out of the criminal underworld where you have no control into the legitimate business world where prostitutes actually have rights, an open political voice, and recourse against those who would victimize them. Arresting prostitutes isn’t helping them; it’s only victimizing them more.
3. I will view some of the videos you recommend when I can. I don’t object to the notion that slavery and child sex abuse is wrong or that it should be illegal. I object to the characterization that all prostitution or pornography is exploitation and should therefore be summarily outlawed.