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<DIV><FONT size=4>Perhaps some may find the following offers a different view of
southern slavery that the Cultmaster.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=ctl00_cphMainContent_lblMainText><STRONG><EM>Bullwhip Days
</EM></STRONG>edited by James Mellon (Grove, $14.50). In the 1930s, former
slaves were interviewed for the Federal Writers’ Project. They recalled being
whipped, raped, and worked nearly to death, and their memories serve to remind
us that there was nothing benign about the Stars and Bars. <BR><A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802138683/theweekmagazi-20"
target=new><B>Buy it at Amazon</B></A> </SPAN></DIV>
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title=london@moscow.com href="mailto:london@moscow.com">Bill London</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pkraut@moscow.com href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">Pat
Kraut</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:11 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] The Black Market in Human
Beings</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How can these cases of modern human slavery be
a problem since Doug Wilson has explained that slavery is both acceptable and
God-ordained?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:03
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is one of the real problems that we have in
this country...not some of the stupid ones the dems keep fighting for or some
of the ones the repuds do either.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=deco@moscow.com href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 10, 2006 11:34
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id=ctl00_cphMainContent_lblDek>Police recently broke up a
sex-smuggling ring that had enslaved dozens of Korean women for
brothels throughout the Northeastern U.S. Wasn't slavery wiped out
long ago?</SPAN> <BR><!--week_date data--><SPAN
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id=ctl00_cphMainContent_lblMainText><STRONG>How widespread is
slavery?<BR></STRONG>Though outlawed around the world, slavery has
made a disturbing comeback. The slave trade is now the third largest
type of illegal trade in the world, after drugs and weapons, according
to the U.S. State Department. Between 600,000 and 800,000 people are
trafficked across national borders each year, the State Department
reports, with up to 17,500 of them entering the U.S. The International
Labor Organization estimates that slave trading generates $31 billion
annually. The traders seem to be getting increasingly brazen: In June,
British authorities announced that "slave auctions" were being held in
public places in airports, with brothel keepers bidding on women
arriving, under duress, from Eastern Europe. "This is a new area,"
says Vernon Coaker, Britain's top domestic security official. "It's
something five, 10 years ago perhaps, people very rarely talked of."
<BR><BR><STRONG>Who are the victims?<BR></STRONG>They encompass a
broad range of ages, backgrounds, and nationalities. "Nikkie," for
instance, once lived in an impoverished Thai village; she was just 14
when her father sold her to a pimp who took her to Australia, where
she was forced to service dozens of men a day. Olena Popik, 21, of
Ukraine, was pimped across five countries over the course of three
years and was still being rented out at Bosnian truck stops even while
she was dying from AIDS. Advocates say there are tens of thousands of
victims like Nikkie and Olena, caught up in a shadowy international
trade stretching from the farthest reaches of the undeveloped world to
sweatshops, massage parlors, and the private homes of the wealthy in
the U.S. and other Western nations. <BR><BR><STRONG>Why is human
trafficking flourishing?<BR></STRONG>Experts point to several factors,
including the end of the Cold War. The economic shocks that
accompanied the demise of the Soviet system thrust millions of Eastern
Europeans into desperate poverty and resulted in an explosion of
criminal rings capable of selling women into slavery. Globalization
expanded that phenomenon worldwide. In a world with increasingly
porous borders, the poor are willing to leave their homelands in
search of jobs. "Olga," a single mother from Moldova, is a typical
case. She answered an ad in a newspaper that offered to send locals
abroad ostensibly to care for senior citizens for $1,000 a month.
Instead, a trafficker kidnapped her to a bar in Kosovo, where she was
severely beaten and forced to have sex with patrons. With the help of
a fellow victim, she finally escaped. An aid group is helping to
arrange for surgery to repair her two severely damaged retinas.
<BR><BR><STRONG>What's being done to stop slavery?<BR></STRONG>The
world is starting to take action, though victims' advocates say far
more needs to happen. Countries with the worst records—including
China, Laos, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico—say they are cracking down on
smugglers, while the U.S. has put diplomatic pressure on such
supply-side states to do more. In 2000, Congress set stiff new
penalties for human trafficking. But few malefactors have been
prosecuted: In the last five years, the Justice Department has tried
just 91 cases. "This offense is so serious, so pervasive, and so
dynamic," said Mohammed Ibn Chambas, executive secretary of the
Economic Community of West African States, "that only a coordinated
effort of all states will be able to address it successfully."
<BR><BR><STRONG>Are slaves used only for sex?<BR></STRONG>No, but most
are. The Human Rights Center at the University of California at
Berkeley found that 46 percent of enslaved people in the U.S. are
pressed into some form of prostitution. Domestic service accounts for
another 27 percent; agriculture, 10 percent; sweatshop or factory
labor, 5 percent; and hotel and restaurant work, 4 percent. "There are
so many faces on this," said Carole Angel, a former attorney for the
women's rights advocacy group Legal Momentum. "It happens in rural
communities, big cities. It spans all education levels, different
countries, different races." <BR><BR><STRONG>Do the victims ever
escape?<BR></STRONG>Rarely. The captors usually manage to keep their
victims under control by beating them and threatening them with death.
In most cases, only outside intervention—by authorities or a good
Samaritan—can free the captives. In one poignant case, a waitress who
was tricked into leaving Albania in 2002 was slaving as a prostitute
in Italy when a man from her old neighborhood recognized her. When he
saw her wasted frame, bruises, and purple cheekbones, he bought her a
fake passport and a ticket to Chicago, where he had friends. "I had no
other choice," he later explained. "I decided to help her as if she
was my own sister." <BR><BR><STRONG>Does everyone agree about the
scope of the problem?<BR></STRONG>Some experts have doubts. Advocacy
groups and international agencies have put forth some truly astounding
statistics—asserting, for instance, that 1 million children in Asia
alone are victims of the sex trade. Even the State Department's far
more modest estimates have been second-guessed. Measuring the scope of
the problem is, by all accounts, an inexact science, due to its
far-flung and often remote origins. Still, nobody disputes that the
problem is getting worse. "Some of these things may be happening in
lovely homes in suburbia," says Joanne Parrott, a Maryland state
legislator and anti-slavery activist. "I don't think we've seen the
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Door<BR></STRONG>Modern slavery frequently involves not just
single victims but many. In August, local and federal
authorities arrested 31 people who had been operating houses of
prostitution in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C.
Fifteen months in the making, the bust began when Gina Kim, a
suspected madam in Flushing, N.Y., allegedly paid an undercover
police officer $125,000 to secure protection for her operation.
Through wiretaps and surveillance, authorities found a trail
that led to 19 brothels that were masquerading as massage
parlors, health spas, and acupuncture clinics. Ultimately, the
police freed 71 Korean women who had paid tens of thousands of
dollars apiece to enter the U.S. illegally, only to be forced
into sexual bondage until their debts were paid. "These are
women who have been mentally and physically broken down in every
way," says federal immigration official Julie Myers, "in order
to achieve a mental state in which they can no longer fight or
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