While I was reading about slavery in this weeks reading, it reminded me how sad and twisted our society has been and still is. There have been so many wins and changes over the years, mostly due to the revolutions and awareness of the issues at at. Even though our world has made many strides in the direction to help ed slavery, even still slavery is still a major problem everywhere in the world. I was already interesting to me how Strayer chose to add slavery to a chapter that was discussing trading. Interesting and at the same time discouraging. Discouraging since slavery is not trad but it was and in a lot of ways still is seen that way. Reading the information about slavery back then, and knowing about what goes on today, made me wonder if we will ever really be rid of "people trading". My hope is that we will and that more people like William Wilberforce, Martin Luther king and many more who have helped to bring slavery or opression in some way to some sort of stop. I wish I could say they brought it to an end, but this is just not the reality unfortunately.
Millions of children today are take captive against their will and forced to work in sweat shops and or forced into the sex trade. Even in the US, or maybe I should say especially in the US, since we do have one of the highest rates of human import and export in the slave trade, people are sold and bought every day against their will. Craigs list, a resource that so many know and trust and rely on, is involved in this trade. People are conned into come to interview for a "nanny" job, only to never return.
Parents who feel they cannot upport their children are also conned into believeing that their children will be given a good future if they "sell" them to these people who seem so caring. This happens most prevalently in some of the poorer Asian countries but also happens in many other affluent countries.The whole thing just sickens me really, and the worst part to me is that high powered officials, politicians, service agents such as police, fire, school teachers, and even the FBI and CIA, to name a few are involved in this type of thing. It is sad to know that our country and really this world is party run by these people. We are supposed to look up to those of some of those professions and do as they do in society, follow the rules and laws. To see the enforcers of the law doing something so against everything they stand for is really sick.
In so many ways our world and societies have evolved in many different ways and made many wonderful discoveries, like the discoveries of the solar system and the earth being round. I hope that one day the slave trade will be abolished. what would you call that kind of era if not Modern as we discussed in class. Perhaps the Sexual Perversion Era?
Some good news though, here is an email that I just ironically received from IJM - International Justice Mission.
Just this week, a powerful front for trafficking in the Philippines was shut down permanently, as the government forced the closure of a popular bar where girls as young as 15 were sold to customers for sex.
The closure order is a direct result of a recent operation in which IJM and the National Bureau of Investigation (the Philippines’ equivalent of the FBI) secured the rescue of 14 girls trafficked to the bar for sex.
Charges have been filed before the Department of Justice against 27 suspected perpetrators, from the floor managers and pimps to the owners and incorporators of the bar.
The rescued girls continue to receive counseling and medical care. IJM attorneys will fight for justice for these survivors. And the lock on this bar’s doors means the abuse will no longer continue.
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This is a sign of hope after discouragement.
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