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In a recent post I examined how in reality, we are captured by a system which keeps us working towards goals and agendas not our own, in effect, wage slaves. Because we cannot break free from our need for that which our owners control, the flow of money. Not unlike hamsters in a cage; we run our own rat race over & over without a lot to show for it; but it keeps us busy and distracted from the reality of our situation.
For over 30 million people there is no such luxury of diversion, they must consciously live each moment of their lives without any of the things we consider essential for life, because they are the victims of human trafficking. Right now, here today on this planet; there are more humans in slavery than in the 300 year history of the Atlantic slave trade!
Human trafficking is a global phenomenon which is fueled by poverty, gender discrimination and plain old greed. Slavery generates over 32 Billion dollars globally each year. Recent studies estimate that 26% of slaves are under the age of 18, and that as many as 50% of commercially sexually exploited children are boys.
There are basically five types of human trafficking which occur every day around the world: Forced labor, the white sex slave trade, the trafficking of children for sexual exploitation. Then there is debt bondage, and trafficking for organ removal.
Those sold into a life of forced labor and no hope of freedom; until the sweet release of death. In this part of the flesh trade they seek out and exploit the strong, poor and uneducated with “paying work” which soon becomes forced labor. This includes the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some kind of labor or commercial sex act. While there may not be chains and cages in a literal sense; most of these slaves are kept in line thru violence and intimidation.
In Indonesia huge illegal commercial fishing fleets are operated by slave labor. The crews are seldom if ever paid the wages promised, and in many cases are kept at sea being shuttled from boat to boat which prevents escape. Early immigrants to America were often tricked into forced labor working for “the company” or “the store” which always arranged it so the workers debt to the company for room and board amounted to equal what was owed in wages, making it impossible for workers to either get ahead or leave. Sound at all familiar, does it?
Migrant workers have always had to suffer through whatever changing and often brutal conditions awaited them in the fields. You just go along to get along; and hope not to get a beat down or worse. All of these atrocities are taking place you know, after slavery was made illegal.
White Slavers:
Next there is the white sex slave trade: wherein Caucasian girls, boys and young women are literally abducted right off the street to never be seen by family again. Unlike a traditional prostitution operation, white slavers are looking for very specific types of people because they are shopping. White slavers are the personal shoppers of the most depraved examples of humanity you can ever imagine.
In the white slave trade, young blonde, blue eyed American girls and women are the most sought after prize, and fetch the highest price. Sometimes actual slave auctions are conducted in lavish accommodations, with each slave going to the highest bidder. Usually such a sex slave is sold or bartered several times before they’re no longer acceptable because of damage from abuse.
65% to 80% of trafficked girls have Aids/HIV and some contract several STD’s at once. It is quite common for white slavery victims to be beaten and tortured both physically and mentally, to break their spirit and to control them thru brutality. Unfortunately the life expectancy can be short for white slaves as insatiable appetites desire the young, fresh and terrified. This means that young white girls and women are always at risk for abduction because the white slave trade runs on a constant supply of fresh meat, just like the cows, fish or any other livestock sold in bulk.
Child Trafficking:
There perhaps is nothing in this world more depraved than the trafficking of children for commercial sexual exploitation. This goes way beyond the traditionally envisioned plight of kidnapped children by a sole deviant pedophile and includes children abducted for use in mass produced commercial gay and pedophile sex videos.
Children go missing in the blink of an eye from crowded public places way too frequently, which is what inspired the practice of putting their photos on milk cartons in hopes that someone recognizes them and calls authorities. Unfortunately, when these children have exceeded their usefulness they are quite often simply killed and deposited in an unmarked grave. Sometimes these abducted and abused children survive into adulthood damaged and scarred so badly that they themselves become abusers, and possibly even abductors.
Then of course there are entire cults based upon the lifelong sexual abuse of children such as the infamous Children of God pedophile cult from the 60’s which still operates today as the Family.* I suppose that tells us something important about our species; that a pedophile cult can operate freely for forty years without law enforcement worries. I don’t want to believe that this is who we really are, but the evidence does seem to point solidly in that direction, and directly at us as a species. Why do we allow this?
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