CasaV wrote:
Not making a political statement as much as a moral one but I can't help but find it a little silly that with no laws being broken and everyone involved being a consenting adult that the very people who risk their lives protecting our freedoms have their freedoms taken away in this manner. Just doesn't seem realistic or make any sense.
It is about freedom. Those who would change their fellow man to conform to their ideas of morality don't have their leash around most Americans' necks, yet. However, servicemembers and gov't employees aren't so free. So, the social engineers who say oppose smoking tobacco but support smoking 'medical' marijuana on the basis of health, oppose the world's oldest profession but support gay marriage on the basis of 'morality,' support killing fetuses but oppose executing convicts on the basis of "advancing concepts of civilization," and support giving welfare to the able bodied but cannot abide a small businessman who puts in an 80 hour work week from keeping more of his profits are just begining their project to create the "new man" with the segment of the population that they have total control over: the G.I..
What two consenting adults do in the privacy of a bedroom is nobody's business, if it is two LGBTs who insist on their right to be Marines, or who want to force the Catholic Church to marry them. However, if it is a monger and a chica....well, that's different.
First, they start with language games. It is not the "world's oldest profession." That would imply that the Emperor of Rome, the Holy Roman Emperor, facist and communist dictators, popes, presidents, and priests could not stop prostitution but that our new masters will be able to. Sure they will. Aren't they the same ones that tell us that the war on (some) drugs has failed and you can't even keep drugs out of prison?
So "world's oldest profession" is dropped and turned into "human trafficking.'" "
Human trafficking is bad, m'kay?" I remember sitting through one of those briefings. They try to tell you what it is: recruiters exploit poor and underemployed youth, they offer them training and jobs, usually overseas, , and once they have signed a 'contract,' they are taken overseas, the traffickers separate them from their families, limit their communications with the outside world. When the victim is overseas and find out that things are not the way they were promised to be, the victim is told that they cannot quit, and that they have incurred a 'debt' that they must 'pay off,' or there will be consequences. Usually the victim's passport is taken away and force is used to keep the victim from walking off the job. The victim might actually be forced to stay in confined, tightly controlled living and working conditions controlled by his traffickers.
More than a couple of times, I have had young soldiers stand up and say they were "trafficked." They say things like "recruiter," "promises," "contract," "penalties," "barbed wire," "threats of imprisonment," "not allowed to leave," "passport taken away," "kept in a foreign country to work against their will," "debt to be paid off."
Of course, these enlightened youth are dismissed as "trouble makers" and "wise ass hecklers," but usually it gets most of the other troopies thinking.... "Damn, my life sucks harder than Laura with a garden house and a golf ball......"
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