Today- February 1, 2009 is Human Day. “Renri”, literally “Human Day” in Mandarin, is the seventh day of Chinese New Year and Chinese believe that it was the day when human beings were created. If the weather on Renri is fine, it can be forecast that God will grant good luck to all people on earth. Fireworks can also be lit, so Renri celebrates the birthday of fire as well.
Certainly there will be fireworks tonight in Tampa for the Super Bowl and the weather is expected to be clear and warm for the event. The other thing making an appearance at the Super Bowl, will be prostitution. Real men don’t pay for sex, but there are plenty who do. The really sad thing is the amount of human traffucking- er, trafficking that occurs around large sporting events.
The majority of young male and female victims of sexual exploitation tend to be runaway or thrown away youth. Some are recruited into prostitution by forced abduction, pressure from parents or through agreements between parents and traffickers. Controlled commercial sexual exploitation is linked to escort and massage services, private dancing, drinking, photographic clubs, conventions, cultural events, tourist destinations and sadly, major sporting events like the Super Bowl. One-fifth of child prostitutes become entangled in nationally organized crime networks and are trafficked nationally to solicit their services. http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/prostitution.html
How does one advertise such a service? Is it like standing out on the corner where someone yells, “Get laid here,” rather than, “Get your programs here?” Ads on the Internet are one way Tampa police say they found out about numerous prostitutes coming to town during Super Bowl XLIII. “The reason we know that is we see a gigantic uptick in Internet activity,” Tampa Police Chief Bret Bartlett said. http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Tampa-police-plan-to-battle-Super-Bowl-week/3dGS8MxnO0iwXBCeNQCwmg.cspx
Human trafficking is nothing less than slavery which forces millions of people around the world into labor or sexual servitude. Following illegal drug and arms dealings, it is estimated to be the the third largest illegal industry.
Poverty, ignorance, superstition, social customs, greed, government corruption, and human cruelty combine to put families — particularly women and children — at risk. Too often traffickers are known to their victims as family members or neighbors. Some had received an advance payment against their birth. The images are often horrific and some can be seen here,
http://www.gtipphotos.state.gov/gtip.cfm?galleryID=563&id=1 . Props to
http://armybarmyremix.blogspot.com/ who keeps tabs on the buying and selling of people.
The U.S. Department of State’s, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP), provides the tools to combat trafficking in persons and assists in the coordination of anti-trafficking efforts both worldwide and domestically.
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/. Maybe the Obama administration will put as much effort to take steps forward in combating global slavery as on, combating the fallacy of man made global warming and a green agenda to create jobs.
Sex may sell, but buying sex is just wrong on so many levels. The reality that human beings continue to be bought and sold in the twenty-first century is an abomination, and so is paying $3490 for a ticket to the Super Bowl.
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