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| SEX SLAVES- SO Easy To Buy a Girl Its Criminal. |
| 2005-02-26 |
| "48 hours mystery: Rescued from the Shadows" 10 p.m. CBS In perhaps a first on TV ~ CBS News correspondant Peter VanSant actually buys a slave on-camera, in tonight's "48 Hours Mystery:Rescused from the Shadows". Van Sant and crew traveled to Romania, among other places, to investigate the billion dollar slave trade, which is flourishing all over the world, and was able to but a young woman within one day of arrival. Yes, buy. To keep. Of course they bought her to rescue her and ensconse her safely in a shelter for women victims of the slave trade. According to the show, "There are more slaves now than at any other time in human history". While that claim seems exaggerated at best, or at least impossible to prove (after all, before our modern age, either a person fell onto the side of conqueroror the conqueror or the conquered, and those who fell into the latter, generally became slaves). the show does stand behind it. Many of them fall victim to flourishing slave trade. Often times lured with promises of jobs, food and shelter, they become trapped as sex slaves, where they are beaten, bought and sold. Van Sant's cameras take us into a middle class area of Queens, N.Y. and into an apartment where young girl's work as sex slaves. (ALthough it is impossible to prove that they aren't there of their own free will.) Most astounding is an interview with a Mexican woman who daughter had been abducted by a criminal slave- dealing family and sold into slavery in the U.S. This woman not only managed to fight the system but get her story told on the front page of the New York Times magazine. Eventually, against all odds, the woman's daughter was found and is now a government witness. |
| Posted by:Andrea Jackson |
| #12 So easy to buy a girl it's criminal---- Who the hell wrote that title? is it a case of fair trade? |
| Posted by: z man 2005-02-26 7:50:48 PM |
| #11 It's shoved under the table because people at the UN and in governments world wide are profiting from the Slave trade. If you doubt a rural Mexican could be brought to the US and enslaved you are mistaken. It would be very easy. Just as easy as it is to do it to eastern European women. As a pseudo-libertarian this crap sickens me to the point of being moved to violence if I discovered it. I don't have any problem with prostitution when free and willing adults are involved but this crap is pure evil. |
| Posted by: FlameBait 2005-02-26 6:24:41 PM |
| #10 SW - Bush actually has made an issue of it, but the UN and others keep trying to shove it under the rug. Wonder why? Bosnia, Congo, oh, that's right. |
| Posted by: Elmagum Elmelet3878 2005-02-26 6:12:02 PM |
| #9 People, what the hell is this? M'perfectly willing to watch -- no, I WILL watch -- because isn't the perfect cover for lies a smathering of truth? We've found the lies, so I'm with Steve White, Frank G (your second point), Andrea Jackson and Mike Kozlowski on this. It being from CBS doesn't make this any less factual, does it? (Let's take 60 Minutes out of the equation, people ...) |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-02-26 3:39:33 PM |
| #8 Harvest of Shame. Yeah, that got us the War on Poverty. We won that one too, Ed. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-26 3:10:15 PM |
| #7 buy todays New York Post for the article. The girl's are among the homeless youngsters all over the world who live in the sewers and back alleys from Bucharest to Bangkok to Bangalor. (watch the show and see). Andrea Jackson |
| Posted by: Andrea Jackson 2005-02-26 3:08:23 PM |
| #6 Eddie, who is Dan? |
| Posted by: GK 2005-02-26 2:59:49 PM |
| #5 Harvest of Shame anyone? Remember when CBS was news? Dan? |
| Posted by: Eddie R Morrow 2005-02-26 2:31:24 PM |
| #4 Even Israel, god bless em, has a bad habit of being an import point of E. European sex slaves |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-26 2:28:37 PM |
| #3 ...Because the Sudanese and the Saudis would kill them, that's why. The sad part is that - IMHO - CBS has laid out an important story about a horror that still lurks in our country, and all anyone will think of is how they managed to tarnish themselves with the Memos. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-02-26 2:24:17 PM |
| #2 CBS huh? Are we sure these are even girls? Fake, but accurate? How about Sudan? Why didn't they go there? Or Riyadh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-26 2:20:15 PM |
| #1 The U.S. ought to be in the forefront in the fight against slavery, just as it is in the WoT. I rather doubt the story about the Mexican woman (not saying it couldn't happen), but wherever in the world slavery is occuring, the U.S. ought to hold governments to account. We don't necessarily need to JDAM them, but the possibility shouldn't be publicly dismissed. One of the best things the Brits ever did (amongst many) was their naval blockade of the Middle Passage in the 1800's. It didn't end slavery by itself, but it made clear what the price was. We and the Anglosphere should be doing the same. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-02-26 2:09:29 PM |