The Myth of Trafficking

[Robintheboywonder]

This was taken from another poster from the red board but in times like this the more information is out there about the wool that is being attempted to be pulled over our eyes the better it is. It is usually always about the money and trafficking to some is really making them wealthy.



It’s a classic heroic tale: bad guys abduct an innocent little girl, hero barges into their lair and saves the damsel in distress. It’s the exact story that we get told about human trafficking in the sex industry. Human traffickers steal a woman away and force her to work until the heroes storm the brothel and save her. But what if the ‘damsel’ wasn’t actually in distress? What if there are no bad guys to be found? What if the heroes turn out to be the bad guys?

The is big business. The USAID Counter Trafficking in Persons project pulled in a good 7.3 million US dollars. The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, one of the largest international organisations against prostitution, offers financing and jobs to countless projects and persons.

The Dutch organisation Free a Girl raised more than a hundred thousand euro through their Lock me Up campaign, for example for the Alliance Anti Trafic, which orchestrates rescue missions in which prostitutes are taken from their workplaces and kept locked in government buildings. In itself a worthy goal, of course, trying to rescue women from sexual exploitation.

But there are problems.
“It’s as if prostitutes don’t want to be saved,” said a surprised manager of a shelter in India.

The rescuers had once again made a raid on a brothel, after which the women had been forced into a shelter they weren’t allowed to leave. Again and again , continually protested their imprisonment in the shelters, and returned to their old workplaces as soon as they were able to make a run for it.

It was as if the women were working as prostitutes of their own accord, didn’t view themselves as victims, thought of the rescue missions as threats to their human rights and livelihoods and for the most part felt victimized by the rescue industry.

We have now reached a point in history where there are more women in the Thai sex industry who are being abused by anti-trafficking practices than there are women being exploited by traffickers.
- Thailand, Empower Report

 

[Gump]

Sad isn't it?.

 

[User-E]

Good article Robin - thanks.

 

[BEER]

Good article Robin - thanks.

But sadly he still has homo tendencies.

 

[Frontierman]

Yeah thanks.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Personally I want to believe that every sex worker is there of her own free will and she is happy with her choice.

Unfortunately there are some real bad apples out there that get the bulk of the headlines.

Then the politicians get involved and start with the propaganda pushing their own agendas.

It's the same spin over and over again and I don't see it stopping anytime soon.

 

[Diditt]

Personally I want to believe that every sex worker is there of her own free will and she is happy with her choice.

Unfortunately there are some real bad apples out there that get the bulk of the headlines.

Then the politicians get involved and start with the propaganda pushing their own agendas.

It's the same spin over and over again and I don't see it stopping anytime soon.

From what I know 99 % of agency owners respect and take care of their girls. But cannot speak about that 1 %.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

From what I know 99 % of agency owners respect and take care of their girls. But cannot speak about that 1 %.

Exactly and it's that 1% that's ends up dragging the whole industry down.

The problem is how do we go after the 1% without affecting the rest.

 

[Analme]

Ever since the SCC threw out the laws and gave the Harperites Hypocrites one year to pass a new law the media has been relentless with trafficking documentaries, violent pimps and twisting the numbers.

I can honestly say they have forever lost my vote forever.

 

[RED]

Read on.

Many of the Justice Department's finest legal minds are falling prey to a garden-variety Internet scam.

An internal survey shows almost 2,000 staff were conned into clicking on a phoney "phishing" link in their email, raising questions about the security of sensitive information.

The department launched the mock scam in December as a security exercise, sending emails to 5,000 employees to test their ability to recognize cyber fraud.

The emails looked like genuine communications from government or financial institutions, and contained a link to a fake website that was also made to look like the real thing.

Across the globe, an estimated 156 million of these so-called "phishing" emails are sent daily, and anyone duped into clicking on the embedded web link risks transferring confidential information — such as online banking passwords — to criminals.

The Justice Department's mock exercise caught 1,850 people clicking on the phoney embedded links, or 37 per cent of everyone who received the emails.

That's a much higher rate than for the general population, which a federal website says is only about five per cent.

The exercise did not put any confidential information at risk, but the poor results raise red flags about public servants being caught by actual phishing emails.

A spokeswoman says "no privacy breaches have been reported" from any real phishing scams at Justice Canada.

Carole Saindon also said that two more waves of mock emails in February and April show improved results, with clicking rates falling by half.

Increasingly used as attack vehicle of choice

"This is an awareness campaign designed to inform and educate employees on issues surrounding cyber security to protect the integrity of the department's information systems and in turn better protect Canadians," she said in an email.

"In this case, this exercise specifically dealt with the threat from phishing which is increasingly being used as an attack vehicle of choice by cyber criminals."

"As this project progresses, we are pleased that the effectiveness of this campaign is showing significant improvement."

A February briefing note on the exercise was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

The document indicates there are more such exercises planned — in June, August and October — and that the simulations will be "graduating in levels of sophistication."

Those caught by the simulation are notified by a pop-up window, giving them tips on spotting malicious messages.

The federal government's Get Cyber Safe website says about 10 per cent of the 156 million phishing emails globally make it through spam filters each day.

Of those, some eight million are actually opened by the recipient, but only 800,000 click on the links — or about five per cent of those who received the emails.

About 10 per cent of those opening the link are fooled into providing confidential information — which represents a worldwide haul of 80,000 credit-card numbers, bank accounts, passwords and other confidential information every day.

"Don't get phished!," says the federal website, "Phishing emails often look like real emails from a trusted source such as your bank or an online retailer, right down to logos and graphics."

The site says more than one million Canadians have entered personal banking details on a site they don't know, based on surveys.

In late 2012, Justice Canada was embroiled in a major privacy breach when one of its lawyers working at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada was involved in the loss of a USB key.

The key contained unencrypted confidential information about 5,045 Canadians who had appealed disability rulings under the Canada Pension Plan, including their medical condition and SIN numbers. The privacy commissioner is still investigating the breach.

The department has some 5,000 employees, about half of them lawyers

 

[Bugsbunny]

This was taken from another poster from the red board but in times like this the more information is out there about the wool that is being attempted to be pulled over our eyes the better it is. It is usually always about the money and trafficking to some is really making them wealthy.



It’s a classic heroic tale: bad guys abduct an innocent little girl, hero barges into their lair and saves the damsel in distress. It’s the exact story that we get told about human trafficking in the sex industry. Human traffickers steal a woman away and force her to work until the heroes storm the brothel and save her. But what if the ‘damsel’ wasn’t actually in distress? What if there are no bad guys to be found? What if the heroes turn out to be the bad guys?

The is big business. The USAID Counter Trafficking in Persons project pulled in a good 7.3 million US dollars. The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, one of the largest international organisations against prostitution, offers financing and jobs to countless projects and persons.

The Dutch organisation Free a Girl raised more than a hundred thousand euro through their Lock me Up campaign, for example for the Alliance Anti Trafic, which orchestrates rescue missions in which prostitutes are taken from their workplaces and kept locked in government buildings. In itself a worthy goal, of course, trying to rescue women from sexual exploitation.

But there are problems.
“It’s as if prostitutes don’t want to be saved,” said a surprised manager of a shelter in India.

The rescuers had once again made a raid on a brothel, after which the women had been forced into a shelter they weren’t allowed to leave. Again and again , continually protested their imprisonment in the shelters, and returned to their old workplaces as soon as they were able to make a run for it.

It was as if the women were working as prostitutes of their own accord, didn’t view themselves as victims, thought of the rescue missions as threats to their human rights and livelihoods and for the most part felt victimized by the rescue industry.

We have now reached a point in history where there are more women in the Thai sex industry who are being abused by anti-trafficking practices than there are women being exploited by traffickers.
- Thailand, Empower Report

Whoa, whoa whoa!!!

The article is completely denouncing some of the methods by which "rescue" operations work, and has nothing to do with the "myth of trafficking".

Some of these organizations, obviously, do nothing to assist those "victims" whether it be emotionally, financially, or physically. They are not offering a means to help those people deal with the trauma associated with being trafficked. They are removing those victims from one type of living hell and placing them in another living hell. Based on the accounts in the article, it is apparent that in their first hell, they were at least fed and looked after (although it may not have been much), whereas in the second hell, it's almost like they are sent to a concentration camp.

The real myth of trafficking is that most of us denounce it and find some level of disgust with it. However, when we can see it almost right in front of us, we ignore it.

 

[User-E]

168 children rescued in U.S. sex-trafficking operation

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/168-children-rescued-u-sex-trafficking-operation-203509483.html

 

[Wanker]

168 children rescued in U.S. sex-trafficking operation

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/168-children-rescued-u-sex-trafficking-operation-203509483.html

:YMAPPLAUSE: Good on the good guys.

 

[Analme]

:YMAPPLAUSE: Good on the good guys.

Good guys, are you sure or are these inflated and trumped up charges to justify their witch hunt of the industry.

 

[Madman]

They are using the trafficking card when it's already illegal and as seen with all the arrests it can be dealt with without a daddy knows best bill C36!