Obama Administration Adds US to List of Nations That Traffic in Slavery
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 11:55 AM
Will their America-hating ever stop?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton included the US in the list of nations that traffic in human slavery. This is the first time that the US has been included on the list.
The New York Daily News reported, via FOX Nation:
Secretary of State Clinton included the U.S. for the first time on the State Department’s list of nations “trafficking in persons” for forced labor ranging from farm workers to pole dancers and prostitutes.
“There are Americans, unfortunately, who are held in slavery,” Clinton said in releasing the annual report on nations who promote or permit the international trade in human beings for profit.
The report said the main source countries for forced labor in the U.S. were Thailand, Mexico, the Philippines, Haiti and India.
“The obvious reality is that we, too, are a source country,” said Luis C. de Baca, ambassador-at-Large for trafficking in persons.
In the report, the U.S. was singled out as “source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor, debt bondage, and forced prostitution.”
The report added that “Trafficking occurs primarily for labor and most commonly in domestic servitude, agriculture, manufacturing, janitorial services, hotel services, construction, health and elder care, hair and nail salons, and strip club dancing.”
And, soon our children and grandchildren will be slaves to their massive debt.
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Kevin P commented:
Hey Hillary – F You!!!
gus commented:
Hope and Change.
Bob commented:
God help us
John commented:
When we say that a country traffics in slavery, we mean either that the government participates in it, or approves of it, or knows about it but does nothing about it. In the U.S. slavery is illegal and when that activity is discovered the people are prosecuted and usually sent to prison.
This is absurd.
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Betsy Ross commented:
Let’s all just relax and have ourselves a “bushwacker”…apparently that’s king barry’s latest favorite drink…(check out Drudge)
Kevin P commented:
Sorry for my initial reaction – but the more I read of these people and what they’re doing – it’s getting really hard to contain.
My gosh – it would suck to be a brainless liberal – continuously sucking up to turd-world dictators – while hating the only nation that is a true beacon of freedom!
anonymous commented:
It is pathetic!
vagabond trader commented:
Yeah and the demonrats run the biggest plantation in the USA,replete with dependent serfs receiving big gov handouts in exchange for their vote.
DANEgerus commented:
First… this is really stupid as it creates moral equivalence between the USA that prosecutes for slavery and a nation like Sudan that practices slavery. Second… it is the (D)emocrats who seceded to preserve slavery, founded the KKK to perpetuate racial supremacy, wrote the Jim Crow laws, enforced segregation, and now use black voters as tools for their agenda. Or… hadn’t you seen what they are doing to Alvin Greene for getting… uppity?
Militant Conservative commented:
BINGO #8
The slave master wannabe is the Government.
The slaves to be are the American public.
This three percenter says no.
powder is dry.
Mrgoodwench commented:
The report said the main source countries for forced labor in the U.S. were Thailand, Mexico, the Philippines, Haiti and India.
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China is not on the list ? Why? Because illegal chinese of chinatown give money to Hillary for her campaign ? Perhaps arriving on US shores in containers is not inhuman anymore.
And India? What did they do? send people to work in hi-tech, or run stores and motels and gas stations and hospitals ? OOOOHHH thats some slavery .
Does the UN know the difference between work and slavery ? Does Hillary know it herself ?
gus commented:
These amateurs have no idea what the consequences are for their mistakes.
Sh**ting all over your own country does not make other countries like you. It does not make enemies turn to friends.
It merely displays weakness.
Obama and Rodham have NO ACHIEVEMENTS in their pathetic lives. NONE. Instead of leading this great nation, they play subserviant to rogues.
Saint commented:
Actually, this is pretty much the truth. What Obama and his adminitration won’t say is that slavery is a direct result of illegal immigration. Esentially, its indentured seritude, where people pay for the passage to the U.S. with a little money up-front and the promise to work for the trafficers associasts.
The only way to eliminate slavery is to eliminate illegal immigration. But they won’t say that.
Just_Saying commented:
As a hard-working U.S.citizen who pays taxes, in some respects, I probably AM a slave –to the government!!
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gus commented:
errrrrr. Does the word “hola” mean anything to you folks?
Do you smell what I am cooking?
regularguy commented:
Folks, this is actually a true, national disgrace. Trafficking is real, and it is here. It is part of the illegal alien smuggling and trafficking “system.” For this reason alone, illegal immigration should be opposed vehemently. The most despicable aspect is that liberalism aids and abets this horror. Meanwhile, the very victims of smuggling and trafficking (in large part, hispanics), further the cause of the smuggling rings that make BILLIONS off the illegal trade by chain migration to unite families, and call the rest of us racists who oppose all of it. Might as well condemn the businesses that knowingly hire illegals and perpetuate the crimes, in part encouraged to do so by high tax codes which strain them in competition with other companies around the globe.
But, yes, this is a REAL problem. You illegal immigration opponents are only learning the tip of the smuggling and trafficking hydra, and you should still be proud to oppose it even if you do not truly understand the depth of the problem. There are illegals here who are literally slaves until they pay off their ransom demanded by the smugglers, and sweatshops are an ugly reality in cities large and small. The media are truly masking a disturbing reality by not reporting on it. It is particularly cynical of this administration to label this problem what it is, and not admit being a major part of the problem by opposing the effective means of reducing illegal immigration by laws such as SB1070 in Arizona.
bill-tb commented:
Hillary must not know as much law as she thinks she does. In 1807 Slavery importation was made illegal in the USA … Search the suppressed history “Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807″, it was effective on Jan 1, 1808 and mirrored the similar law in the UK from 1807.
So if Hillary knows of these lawbreakers isn’t she obligated to turn them in to the fuzz post haste.
jorgen commented:
“There are Americans, unfortunately, who are held in slavery,” Clinton said
Yes, they are called taxpayers! They slave for an ungrateful government.
howlowwilltheygo commented:
Huh??????? Perhaps if they fenced the border and controlled the entries (might require hiring inspectors, i.e. created jobs!) it would minimize the human trafficking!
Paddy commented:
There are slaves in the US, but not those that Hillary claims. Our slaves are captured and held in bondage by our welfare laws and other “entitlements.” This ever expanding underclass are indentured for life.
newton commented:
“But, yes, this is a REAL problem. You illegal immigration opponents are only learning the tip of the smuggling and trafficking hydra, and you should still be proud to oppose it even if you do not truly understand the depth of the problem. There are illegals here who are literally slaves until they pay off their ransom demanded by the smugglers, and sweatshops are an ugly reality in cities large and small. The media are truly masking a disturbing reality by not reporting on it. ”
That is absolutely correct. The problem is deeper than anyone thinks. It also gives us a great opportunity here.
Any candidate who opposes illegal immigration must begin campaigning against the amnesty advocates using the 13th Amendment (“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…”) as the clause to empower local and state law enforcement to combat illegal immigration. Hold state and local raids. Send the slavemasters (people who use illegals for cheap labor) to jail.
13th Amendment with teeth. That sounds good.
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On the other hand… slaves in health care and nursing homes? WTH?
dan commented:
regularguy is right. Human trafficking exists and is a real problem in America. I’m not aware of what the formal definition is, but I don’t see that it requires acknowledging government involvement or approval…of course we don’t qualify on that score.
And I don’t think it implies moral equivalence with Sudan or Thailand for our government to admit that the phenomenon exists here. If we’re embarrassed by the fact of its existence….good. It’s a first step to doing something about it. Just a few miles from our border, the city of Vancouver is reputed to be the world “capital” of human trafficking, especially in children, and especially for sex slavery.
Don’t shoot the messenger because the message is appalling. Demand action instead of practicing denial.
Callipygian1 commented:
I dislike Hillary Clinton.
Bop commented:
Just when I think I have seen and heard it all with this administration, they manage to top themselves. This has got to be stopped. January 2011 had better bring a new era, or God help us all.
bg commented:
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OT..
Rush Limbaugh got married this past week-end!!
Elton John was gust singer (RL’s on cloud nine)..
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Evil, Evil, USA commented:
This is just more of the same, lame apology tour the Oministration has been on for the last 18 months, and now we know what we’ve suspected all along – Hillary drank the koolaid.
All together now:
Evil, Evil, USA
Evil, Evil, USA
Evil, Evil, USA
bg commented:
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WHEN EUROPEANS WERE SLAVES
[The result is that between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly
1 million and quite possibly as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.
Davis said his research into the treatment of these slaves suggests that,
for most of them, their lives were every bit as difficult as that of slaves
in America.
"As far as daily living conditions, the Mediterranean
slaves certainly didn't have it better," he said.
While African slaves did grueling labor on sugar and cotton plantations in the Americas, European Christian slaves were often worked just as hard and as lethally – in quarries, in heavy construction, and above all rowing the corsair galleys themselves.
Davis said his findings suggest that this invisible slavery of
European Christians deserves more attention from scholars.
"We have lost the sense of how large enslavement could loom for those who lived around the Mediterranean and the threat they were under," he said. "Slaves were still slaves, whether they are black or white, and whether they suffered in America or North Africa."]
to be continued..
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bg commented:
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re: bg #30 continued..
Fear of the Horizon.. Barbary brutality.
[The Mediterranean slavery of the 16th and 17th centuries fell somewhere between those two. It was not race slavery, but nor was it indiscriminate. It was religious slavery. The human beings kidnapped and sold by the Barbary pirates were fair game because they were Christian. A Christian slave on the Barbary Coast could attain his freedom by converting to Islam, and many did so.]
Muslim Black slavery – Islam slave history of Black Africa
Truth Of Slavery
to be continued..
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bg commented:
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fun facts..
funnier facts..
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DKN commented:
Does slavery occur here? Yes, often it’s illegals enslaved, or imposed by resident foreigners on their imported housemaid etc., not usually “Americans”. But it is not, as has been pointed out by other posters, either legal, condoned, or ignored. Nor is the magnitude anything like that in the world at large (millions in some countries). Nor are other countries as involved as we are in fighting slavery (one of Bush’s unsung efforts). Clinton making this kind of moral equiv. proves beyond a doubt that she is devoid of sound moral judgment. Unless the left quickly and loudly condemns her, they are too.
Melvin Winter commented:
Obama Supporters Use Latest Debt Projections to Press for Constitutional Amendment Allowing Involuntary Servitude http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-supporters-use-latest-debt.html
gus commented:
DKN. Can you give me ONE example of Hillary Rodham EVER showing CHARACTER???
Just one, and I’m not kidding.
Saint commented:
Gus:
“DKN. Can you give me ONE example of Hillary Rodham EVER showing CHARACTER???
Just one, and I’m not kidding.”
Oh, she’s a character all right…
DMartyr commented:
“Trafficking occurs primarily for labor and most commonly in domestic servitude, agriculture, manufacturing, janitorial services, hotel services, construction, health and elder care, hair and nail salons, and strip club dancing.”
Yeah, but aren’t these all jobs Americans won’t do and that Mexicans are coming across our borders illegal to do?
Damned if we do, damned if we don’t…
Stop illegal immigration and we are cold-hearted, inhumane bastards keeping these people from earning a living and feeding their families…
Legitimize illegal immigration, and we are encouraging a slave trade, since the whole point of this report, is to eventually expose how little we pay illegal immigrants to do the jobs Americans don’t want to do…
Taqiyyotomist commented:
If slavery is people reaping the benefits of others’ labor by force of law… we already are slaves. We are slaves to ACORN workers who get paid our tax dollars to do nothing. We are slaves to census workers who get paid our tax dollars to do nothing. We are slaves to illegal immigrants who take our tax dollars in the form of government freebies. We are slaves to union workers who want to steal our tax dollars to pay for their princely pensions. We are slaves to those perpetually and generationally on welfare, who steal our tax dollars then riot when banks won’t give them housing loans.
Democrats never changed. They were always the slaveowners, and they are to this day.
And we, the workers and taxpayers, are the slaves. Because I have to give some of my $9 an hour so that some fat piggish union worker or welfare queen can have another Harley or another big-screen tee-vee.
mcon commented:
I would like to know where you guys get your informtion about American slavery. I worked in law enforcement for 30 years, from California to New York, from Mexican border to Canada and did not encounter one slave nor did I ever read about a true and documented slave trade in the US.
I know about pimps and their “slave prostitutes”; most of which got into the business voluntarily. I met many illegals that were working off their debt to their smugglers. They made a bad deal. The prostitutes and illegals were not treated nicely and were often taken advantage of but they were not chained, bought or sold and they all started their “employment” with their consent.
The sob stories you hear on TV are for the most part dramas for gulible entertainment. TV “Law and Order” is not real
The Triguy commented:
You’re mising the point. This is the way the democrats can bring back the race discussion without ever having to say the word race. It’s clumsy to be sure, but that’s what they do best.
bg commented:
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re: bg #31 continued..
just a sample:
WHO SOLD US INTO SLAVERY? ( AH WHO )
SLAVES
Modern Day Slaves – Niger
Slave Trading – Sudan
My Slave, My Infidel
Child Slavery pt 1 of 10
Child Slavery pt 2 of 10
more here..
fyi: The Black Chinese
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snowman commented:
This lady needs a straight jacket and rubber room. or she’s mixing drugs with alcohol. either way straight jacket and rubber room is in needed
pst314 commented:
It’s unfair to bash Hillary for this: There is human trafficking in the USA. I have seen more than one news report on girls enticed to come to the USA to work, but then held as prisoners and forced to work at strip clubs and massage parlors.
The Unitec States is not on the list because it is an egregious violator of these civilized norms; it is on the list because there is some trafficking going on here.
The United States is on the list in the Tier 1 category, meaning that it is fully compliant with the minimum standards of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
There are 4 categories, from Tier 1 at the top through Tier 2 (not fully compliant but making efforts to improve) down to Tier 3 (not fully compliant, which seems to usually mean hardly compliant at all.)
Tier 1 nations include the USA, Sweden, France, and the UK.
Tier 3 nations include Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran and Cuba.
The State Department report lists 177 nations.
Google “human trafficking” plus “tier placements” to learn more.
Paul___ commented:
America doesn’t need outside enemies to finish her. The VOTERS are doing a good job.
Yvonne commented:
The Salvation Army does a lot to fight slavery in the US. You can get information from them. I am involved with churches in Orange County, CA which will have a booth to draw awareness to this problem at the Orange County Fair in July and August. The problem is very real and of course illegal. The left seems more aware of it but seems to emphasize the forced labor as opposed to the sex trade. That at least is my observation. I will leave you to join me in wondering why that might be the case.
bg commented:
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re: bg #30
The Racist History of the Democratic Party
[Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the States, but to the African Americans at that time, it was the War Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats gave their lives to expand it, Republican gave their lives to ban it.]
Black Slave Owners
[The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large.[.]
The census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves. Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves).]
The Truth May Inconvenience Our Perceptions
[.] Can we not be legislated into slavery, or simply taxed into it? If many blacks recoil in horror at the thought of tens of thousands of black Confederates fighting and dying under the Confederate Battle Flag 135 years ago, it may just show the extent of their indoctrination, their alienation with the past, and the magnitude of the challenge Southerners face in ending racial hostility.]
Out of America:
[E.G. Long: "Africa is a painful reality. Over the past 21 years, I have lived and worked in five African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire and Nigeria. ..There is nothing in Richburg's book that I could contradict. I too, experienced the horror, and hopelessnesss of that continent. I read 'Out of America' in one sitting... "
Steve Wishnevsky: "This is the voice missing from the current race 'dialogue.' Mr. Richburg is a courageous writer and clear observer...
His is an authentic voice and should be listened to closely. America is the only land where the descendants of Africans have anything approaching freedom and economic opportunity."
H. Luther: "So much of what you hear about Africa lately is from people who have never been there. People who want to romanticize what is in
fact chaos and disaster... Richburg has written what he has seen, he has presented reality with great integrity. It is a must read."]
oh btw: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America
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Paul___ commented:
Why blaming the boy and his masters? Blame the voters who gave them power.
wanumba commented:
The Obama Administration, the Democrats sell us out again via our State Department.
The Democrats all happy about dragging everyone else into this self-flagellation of theirs?
Watching “Ghosts of Rwanda” about the Rwandan genocide, and to watch Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright and all the Clinton Administration – ALL the names – making excuses and rhetorical dodges to avoid helping the Tutsis, then afterwards looking off, averting their eyes, mumbling, “Maybe we could have done something after all”…. “I really didn’t know how bad it was”….”I wish I’d pushed harder … it wouldn’t have changed anything, but I would have FELT better about ME,” and Clinton’s despicable, “Well, yeah you were all being slaughtered, but you have to understand people like me who were in offices …. and … really didn’t know…”
Total, 100% proof that Democrats are not only incompetent at governance, they are lethally so.
Now these failures at humanitarian anything are calling the USA a slave nation?
The Democrats should have been banned as a political party after the Civil War. They went right on to establish racism to keep themselves in power.
bitterclinger commented:
I sure hope Hillary runs against bam in ’12. She’d be SO much better.
/sarc
bg commented:
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pst314 @ 2:28 pm #43
thank you..
US Includes Itself in Human Trafficking Report for First Time
["The United States takes its first-ever ranking not as a reprieve but as
a responsibility to strengthen global efforts against modern slavery, including those within America. This human rights abuse is universal, and no one should claim immunity from its reach or from the responsibility to confront it."]
i agree, so when is the truth about Islam
going to spread across the land?? /sarc/
ipso facto:
ISLAM IS NOT JUST A RELIGION,
ISLAM IS A POLITICAL SYSTEM..
stop protecting Islam to the point of
betraying America and deal with it!!
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wanumba commented:
This sort of attitude seems straight out of Nation of Islam and Jeremiah Wright’s preaching about America.
It’s so much what NOI preaches, one wonders how much direct, active input NOI has right now in the White House.
ogee commented:
This is patently untrue!
What is going on?
Illegals don’t work for less. They get paid the going rate or more, in cash, without a tax burden. What??? Hillary still lives in her bubble world.
Unbelievable! They are liars.
Agreed=
“I would like to know where you guys get your information about American slavery. I worked in law enforcement for 30 years, from California to New York, from Mexican border to Canada and did not encounter one slave nor did I ever read about a true and documented slave trade in the US.”
BurmaShave commented:
I have been trying to tell people that Hillary is finished running for President. Is there any doubt left?
mark commented:
Arizona SB1070 specifically bans Human Smuggling, and that includes people grabbed against their will. So Obama lists US as a slave trade nation (yea right) and then condemns AZ for trying to stop it. Never in history has any president talked out of both sides of his mouth and gotten away with it.
ogee commented:
I am livid at the Repubs who voted for this evil UOTOS. Absolutely livid.
You owe us ALL and apology!
aprilnovember811 commented:
SHE IS ONE UGLY WOMAN.
bg commented:
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watch, the new code words for amnesty will be “free America’s slaves”.. oh yeah, shut down the PORN industry.. there goes half the problem (did you know your tax payer dollars are being used to pay for “inmates’ to be hmm
hmm hmm“serviced”, go f$gure)..
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Sojourner commented:
bg says, ‘watch, the new code words for amnesty will be “free America’s slaves”…
…ding..ding..ding..score one for #57
( .. did ya notice Foggy Bottom left chubby interns off the the list of America’s slaves??.. shame on her!)
{ God, I’m so fed up with both Clintons.. wish they’d just shut up and go away).
bg commented:
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wanumba @ 2:51 pm #51
no wondering here (just a sample)..
Obama Administration Stacking the Deck with Islamists
[Abdul-Malik also makes no bones about discussing how the election of President Obama is a step forward in the project of Islamization and the long term goal of Islamist domination which falls right in lock-step with
that of the Muslim Brotherhood as revealed in their manifesto.
“…even under the pressures that you and I know about, the deen of Islam is growing because people see even within all of this struggle it is better to be a Muslim under these conditions than to be a kaffir under any conditions... before Allah closes our eyes for the last time you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America-that's where we are now- to being the first religion in America.”]
Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
From Influence to Insurrection
NATION OF ISLAM (NOI)
["We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own -- either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe
that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and ... to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years -- until we are able to produce and supply our own needs. … We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in … We want the government of the United States to exempt our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land. … We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their own teachers. … The United States government should provide, free, all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings. … We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught without hinderance [sic] or suppression.”]
Black Panther Party
Obama, al Mansour
al Mansour, Black Panther Party
yup, we be duh slave masterin’ racist racists.. /sad sarc/
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thomas mc donnell commented:
this reminds me of when hillary was in the white house in the ninties. there was a mock up of a japanese interment camp at ellis island. what the hell did that have to do with immigration to this country? the clintons hate this country and they always did. the united states will only be a good country when we become a marxist slave state.
bg commented:
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“For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the ‘straightjacket world’ created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches…. I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.”
~ Malcolm X
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DMartyr commented:
mcon, #39 -
There have been instance of modern day slavery in the United States, but I believe almost all (if not all) cases were committed by immigrants from countries in which slavery is still legal.
jonyjoe101 commented:
have the international warcrimes tribunal issue and arrest warrant for obama for slavery. We won’t fight extradition of him. We won’t, we will even pay for the gas for the plane.
Allisurd commented:
This is a smoke screen to give La Raza, et al. an excuse to riot because we’re “slave traders.” We don’t want them here. If they report to their local ICE/law enforcement – if they report to me – we’ll send them back to the homes they left to come here in the first place.
This is unspeakably evil perpetrated by wicked, wicked men & women.
wanumba commented:
Good links, bg.
NOI is a cult of Islam, not the real deal. Their totally unforgiving stance towards America’s slave period that lasted less than 200 years (1660s to 1864) and less if counted as America an independent nation in 1776, eradicating slavery by 1864, with the bulk of it concentrated in a limited number of large Southern plantations, so less than half the country, is so self-focused they are totally willfully blind to Arab Muslim slave policy of conquest in Africa – 1,400 years and STILL unrepentent, as in slaving whenever they can get away with it. While Black Americans, generations away from slavery, but decendents of slaves enjoy high achievement in all sector of American society, wealth and a standard of living that’s the best in the world, there are regions of Africa that have not recovered from the Arab Muslim slaving depredations, with regions that still have slavery at this moment. Not a peep from slavery-hating NOI. Not one peep of protest for their African brothers and sisters in bondage.
Teeth grinding to see all sorts of unofficial “favored nation” White House financing flowing to Brazil, which is run now by a hard-core Socialist, buddies with CHavez and didn’t outlaw its own slavery until after the USA did.
ALso, NOI could be cozy with and certainly would be courted by such like the Muslim Brotherhood or the Wahhabists, but at the end of the day, the “purists” will turn on what they perceive as the apostate and inferior NOI. Ghaddafi, a favorite of NOI, complains about this all the time, alternately trying to strike out with his own vision or trying to ingratiate himself with the haute Saudis who look down on him as mixed race inferior. Same dynamics with the Persians, who are arch rivals with the Arabs. Short term alliances, long term put down.
It’s looking more and more as an acendency of hate-race politics – which wouldn’t go far without the enabling of rich Liberal Left White elites.
If there was any group that deserved being taxed into burlap sacks, it’d be the spoiled destructive brats of the wealthy Liberal Left, but they slip aside and plan that for everyone else.
wanumba commented:
jonyjoe101
June 15th, 2010 | 6:16 pm | #63
have the international warcrimes tribunal issue and arrest warrant for obama for slavery.
……….
DIng-ding! The Left ran to The Hague to get Sudan’s Bashir. If Obama thinks AMerica should be on the list, then he as POTUS should take responsibility.
ralph commented:
Read the story:
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/14/slavery-in-america/
wanumba commented:
for forced labor ranging from farm workers to pole dancers and prostitutes
…….
Pole dancing isn’t slavery! It’s what ALL the pop stars DO. It’s EXERCISE! Big Daddy Slaver Bruce Jenner?
Miley Cyrus!!
Is Hillary CLinton telling us that there’s a … sleezy side of pole dancing Beyonce and Britney and MTV aren’t telling us?
wanumba commented:
We lived in Mauritania for six years in the 1980s. Slavery was open, the slave caste is the Harritin, the Blacks. The “WHites” – Arab Berber Maurs are the owners.
Slaves could be found from the toilet-cleaners jobs all the way up to heads of offices. It was especially tricky at the upper levels. The owners could hide behind their educated slaves, calling the shots without foreigners ever guessing the head of this or that program or office was a slave, who was carrying out orders from his owner.
Slavery was made illegal in Mauritania in 1981. The last open air slave sale was in 1984. The slave sales now are ALL under the table, between families. Only in about the last two years or so have ANY teeth been given to the anti-slavery laws. The American Congressional Black Caucus repeatedly rebuffed appeals from Africans for help.
wanumba commented:
SO, there is a universe of difference bewteen a country that promotes slavery and human trafficking and a country that has a criminal element engaging in it. One is national policy, the other is a law enforcement issue. NO ONE in AMerican society approves of such activity, and the MExican cartels are the source of most of the trafficking – that would be then MEXICO at fault as the active agent.
‘Thanks” Hillary Clinton, for lumping the USA in with regimes that use slavery and human trafficking as social policy and a tactic for conquest like Northern Sudan against Southern Sudan.
morgan commented:
APPEASING THE BIGGEST SLAVERS…
THE MUSLIM NATIONS…SHE TOOK
A PAYOFF TO DO THIS…IT IS ALL
ABOUT MONEY.
THAT IS HOW MICHAEL SAVAGE OF
MICHAELSAVAGE.COM
GOT ON THE BANNED FROM BRITAIN
LIST TO “BALANCE THE LIST” AS
IT WAS HEAVILY MUSLIM.
ANYTIME YOU SEE SOMETHING THIS
RIDICULOUS, THERE IS A PAYOFF
GOING TO THE PERSON WHO SAID
IT. WE ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY
OUR OWN GOVT…CORRUPT, SAVAGE
AND GREEDY…EVIL TO THE CORE…
DON’T BELIEVE IT? WAIT AND SEE..
THIS PRESIDENT NEEDS TO BE INDICTED
FOR CRIMES AGAINST THIS NATION IN
REGARD TO THIS OIL SPILL WHICH SHOULD
HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH BY THE 3 RD
DAY.
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pst314 commented:
“‘Thanks” Hillary Clinton, for lumping the USA in with regimes that use slavery and human trafficking as social policy and a tactic for conquest”
Wrong: Sweden, France, Britain, and other civilized nations are also on the list–and like the USA, they are listed in Tier 1, which means that they are recognized as serious about fighting all forms of slavery. They are only on the list because some trafficking remains–and all sensible people recognize that it is very difficult (if not impossible!) to completely eradicate any kind of crime.
USMC Thomas commented:
“There are Americans, unfortunately, who are held in slavery,” Clinton said.
The illegal’s are now American’s?
wanumba commented:
pst314
June 15th, 2010 | 7:41 pm | #73
“‘Thanks” Hillary Clinton, for lumping the USA in with regimes that use slavery and human trafficking as social policy and a tactic for conquest”
Wrong: Sweden, France, Britain, and other civilized nations are also on the list–and like the USA, they are listed in Tier 1, which means that they are recognized as serious about fighting all forms of slavery.
……
I know these gimmicks are used all the time to provide cover for or to blunt criticism of abusive regimes. The complaint is that countries shouldn’t just roll over and accept being lumped with real abusers.
Hillary will go down as our worst Sec of State EVER – hard to beat out Madeline Albright, but Hillary will achieve that handily.
dan commented:
check out The Polaris Project
http://www.polarisproject.org/
The idea that most prostitutes got into it “voluntarily” isn’t provable, but even if it were true, it wouldn’t mean that nothing should be done to help the many who didn’t “volunteer”, and who are exploited, transported, addicted, beaten and literally enslaved by a criminal element.
Andreas K. commented:
If the US belongs on the list of countries trafficking humans, then every single EU country should have been on there for years.
Why?
Mohammedan girls.
They are sold into marriage and forced into marriage. The EU countries have been ignoring this for years, they have actually supported it by allowing whole clans to follow their son/father into our countries and to continue their barbaric and uncivilized way of life in our countries. Why? Because we must be tolerant towards it, we must respect it, and if we don’t do that, we’re Nazis and what not.
And in said marriage, well. Let me quote you a couple of mohammedan writings, some from Muha the Mad himself:
While men and women are said to have equal rights in Islam, looking at the Qur’an we find that men are still presented as being superior to them: ‘And women shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but men have a degree (of advantage) over them’ (2:228).
The testimony of a woman is worth only half that of a man: ‘get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women’ (2:282).
Men are in charge of women and women should be ‘obedient’ to men. If they are not, they must be beaten (2:223).
Men may have multiple wives, but women can only marry one man.
Women are ‘as a tilth’ (a piece of land) to men, and husbands may have sex with their ‘wives’ whenever they want to, including on the ‘night of the fasts’, when a man may still have sex with his ‘wives’ (2:187). The only exception is when a woman is menstruating, which is presented as a ‘pollution’. Once menstruation is over, and the woman has ‘purified’ herself, her husband may once again ‘approach [her] in any manner, time, or place’ (2:222-223).
Even women who are not menstruating ritually pollute a man and if men ‘have been in contact with women’ prior to prayer, they must first cleanse themselves (4:43; 5:6).
Women must be veiled and should not ‘display their beauty’ to anyone other than close family members, slaves, ‘or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex’. Women are forbidden to ’strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments’ (24:31). When they leave the house, women ’should cast their outer garments over their persons’ (33:59).
Male children are to receive twice the inheritance of females: ‘to the male, a portion equal to that of two females’ (4:11); ‘if there are brothers and sisters, (they share), the male having twice the share of the female’ (4:176).
Muhammad’s wives are ‘not like any of the (other) women’ and are commanded to ’stay quietly in your houses’ (33:32-33). While there is ‘no blame’ on Muhammad’s wives if they ‘appear before’ close family members (33:55), men from outside the family may only address them ‘before a screen’ (33:53). If a wife of Muhammad is found guilty of ‘lewdness’ or ‘unseemly conduct’, their punishment will be double that of other women (33:30).
Muslim men will be rewarded in heaven by being given female virgins ‘whom no man or Jinn [genie] before them has touched‘ (55:56; 55:71-74). In other words, for men, the afterlife will be a kind of orgy. For women, no equivalent to this male ‘reward’ is offered.
(taken from http://europenews.dk/en/node/32935)
And
“[Aisha said to Muhammad:] You have made us (i.e. women) dogs.”–Sahih Bukhari 1:9:490
“[Aisha said to Muhammad:] You have compared us (women) to donkeys and dogs.”–Sahih Bukhari 1:9:493
“Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: The Prophet said, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?” The women said, “Yes.” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.”"–Sahih Bukhari 3:48:826
“Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: The Prophet said: “I was shown the fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful.”"–Sahih Bukhari 1:2:28
“Omar [one of the Khalifs] was once talking when his wife interjected, so he said to her: ‘You are a toy, if you are needed we will call you.’”–Al-Musanaf Vol. 1 Part 2, p. 263
“Ali reported the Prophet saying: ‘Women have ten (‘awrat). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten.’”–Kanz-el-’Ummal, Vol. 22, Hadith No. 858
“Had I ordered anybody to prostrate before any one, I would have ordered women to prostrate before their husbands on account of men’s rights over the women ordained by Allah.”–Mishkat al-Masabih Section ‘Duties of husband and wife’, Hadith No. 70
Fuzzy commented:
So let me get this straight. This administration flat out REFUSES to secure our borders, but adds us to the human trafficking list? Logic?
Marsh commented:
What? How can we be practicing human slavery? Illegal immigrants come here, work for evil and greedy employers, and the LEFT supports it all while the RIGHT wants it stopped. She’s bashing her own freaking open borders policies. Dear God these leftist democraps are so dense. It’s sad, pathetic and infuriating.
pst314 commented:
“What? How can we be practicing human slavery?”
Read the actual report. It’s not you and me, it’s a very small number of evil people. It’s not widespread, but it does occur.
pst314 commented:
“If the US belongs on the list of countries trafficking humans, then every single EU country should have been on there for years.”
Take a look at the report. Britain and France are on it. Sweden is on it.
The USA being on the list as a Tier 1 country DOES NOT mean that the USA is being called a slavery-friendly state. It means that the USA is hostile to slavery but that a small amount of trafficking does occur.
Read the report.
GaMongrel commented:
Love your site Mr. Hoft and greatly appreciate all you’ve done over the years but sadly, this is an issue that needs more local attention…
Granted, if we could properly secure the borders and enforce our laws, this problem might not exist in the US.
But, many of the illegals come to this country, not as free persons… but often they are forced to work for those that brought them here or by the nefarious underground criminal organizations that have been permitted to grow over the last few decades…
Now, just how big a problem is this in the US? Know one really knows. It could be relatively small – it could be huge. But some of the volunteer groups we’ve worked with have shown us that it is indeed a very real and sad problem. And law enforcement is either ignorant or turns a blind eye to the problem.
And what’s the first step for an alchoholic? First admit that there is a problem – and it’s not that your bottle is empty.
pst314 commented:
“China is not on the list ? Why?”
China IS on the list, Mr. Goodwrench. Read the dang report. What’s more, China is listed in Tier 2, indicating that it has a serious problem and is not serious about solving that problem.
In contrast, the United States and virtually all of Western Europe are listed in Tier 1, indicating that they do not have large problems and are very serious about combatting slavery.
Dang it everybody, read the report. All you have to do is google “state department trafficking in persons report 2010″. There are lists and maps and everything you need to understand it.
pst314 commented:
“indicating that it has a serious problem and is not serious about solving that problem.”
Arrgh, I screwed up. Please omit “and is not serious about solving that problem.” Tier 2 means IS making serious efforts. Sheer carelessness caused my annoyance.
pst314 commented:
From the State Department report (emphasis mine):
TIER 1
Countries whose governments fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards
TIER 2
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but ARE MAKING SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS to bring themselves into compliance with those standards
TIER 2 WATCH LIST
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, AND: a) the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; b) there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or, c) the determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year
TIER 3
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and ARE NOT MAKING SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS to do so
MikeY commented:
The difference is in the wording. Slavery may be practiced here, BUT IT’S AGAINST THE LAW HERE AND WE WILL PROSECUTE ANYONE ENSLAVING ANYONE.
There are countries around the world that condone slavery and make it legal – or at least look the other way. For example, there are at least two Islamic countries in Northern Africa where slavery is legal.
Why does our Secretary of State feel the need to slander us? Is this another Obama-moron moment?
pst314 commented:
“The difference is in the wording.”
What specific wording are you referring to?
Greg commented:
I swear, this blog is where terrifically stupid goes to regress. Both the author and the yahoo cheerleaders in the peanut gallery have severe mental issues. The United States government wants to be accountable and take steps to reduce the incidence of a truly horrific personal crime most commonly committed against women.
Now, what precisely is your problem with taking steps to protect American women from a fate worse than death?
Good slappin’ grief.
da_arf commented:
For those of you seeking info and statistics on human trafficking and slavery, check out this site:
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
You are also welcome to read the T.I.P report for yourselves:
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/
and see where each country stands as for as import, export, and usage of trafficked persons.
Before we can eliminate the problem at hand, we must educate the population that there IS a problem! Each time you say this does not exist and is just made up by the political parties to posture over, you risk costing another human being their life. Educate yourselves and Take a stand!!!!
Anonymous commented:
I am a conservative. through and through. no question about it.
I want to say that some of you simply dont know enough about this issue. The reality is that American minor girls are being forcibly prostituted in the US – at least 100,000 of them girls (as many as 300k – see NCMEC stats). Further, foreign nationals are trafficked here into the commercial sex trade, but also into forced labor. They’re lured here to by lies – promises of legitimate work and theyre forced to labor against their will, keep none of the money, and are held there by violence, threats, manipulation, forcible addictions to drugs, etc. It is horrible what they go through, and it happens here in the US. I am not one to “bash” america or “hate” on this country, but this report is the global authority on patterns of trafficking, and it is time we recognize the abuse, even in America, for what it is – modern day slavery. This is not a political issue, its a justice issue.
wanna see what it looks like in the US?
http://www.polarisproject.org/
http://www.sharedhope.org
http://www.gems-girls.org/
http://www.fairfund.org/