THE MOST INTERESTING TOPIC THIS SEMESTER.....
I am going to have to say that it was the sex trafficking. I was moved by the man who would not give up looking for his wife and appalled at the audacity of people thinking that they have any right to sell another human being. I thought that I was bothered by slavery before the Civil War but this takes slavery to a whole new level. In many ways it is the same but in a day and age where we really do know better it jsut blows my mind to think that this can happen so frequently. The "justice" systems in these countriesis also a mind boggler as they really don't seem to care what is going on. In the video we watched, the man admitted to selling a woman into sex slavery and the judge pretty much shook his finger at him and told him to stay out of the cookies!!!! REALLY?!?!?! It was like, "ok so you sold a lady, who was raped and beaten repeatedly all because you sold her to a nasty 'ol pimp, right? Well don't let me catch you do it again." It was clear that it would happen again and that again, nothing would be done. I was shocked! And it was all recorded and streamed across the internet!!! I hope karma bites these people where it counts!
It is shocking to think that this trafficking goes on every day and the people who are profiting from it don't seem to be punished. I live in Houston and saw a story about the hundreds of women being trafficked right here in my city. In fact two women who were victims of trafficking were murdered just behind my husband's office, 1 block from the police station. Nothing was on the news, that I could find and the neighborhood policeman said that was one of the risks of prostitution. It just seems like we think these women are expendable. It's very sad.
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