Thank you, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for spearheading a government crackdown on human trafficking. The reauthorization act, which President Bush signed this week, grants additional federal funding to combat the smuggling of humans for forced labor or sex, particularly children. As Bush said at the signing ceremony (in photo), the new provisions “will help expand our efforts to combat this brutal crime that steals innocence and destroys lives.”
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President Bush: Tell us why US Tax Dollars Fund Israeli Prostitution Business?
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Israeli government must stop human rights abusesagainst trafficked women
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE150242000
Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129157,00.html
U.S. Report: Israel not doing enough to fight human trafficking
By Ruth Sinai, HAARETZ
“Israel is a destination country for traffickedpersons” according to the U.S. State Department’sAnnual Trafficking in Persons Report, released inWashington yesterday. Throughout the world, some800,000-900,000 people are victims of traffickingeach year, a global business that yields $7-10billion in profits for those who conduct thishuman trade, the report states.Israel is ranked among the “Tier2″ countries in the report,
http://www.kavlaoved.org.il/katava_main.asp?news_id=537&sivug_id=24
I wonder if Bush also made a “signing statement” allowing human trafficking if he thinks it is necessary to do so, similar to the “anti-torture” bill.
Way to go, Brownback. At least someone in Congress is taking a front seat to this despicable practice. I notice the Liberals here are the first to bash Bush and obfuscate the bill signing. Where were you while all this has been going on? Gee, stupid of me to ask. The Liberal tendency here is to bash first, offer nothing later. Do your party a favor: abort yourselves.
Leftist Liberals aren’t really interested in policy or law JM Walker. They are interested in only in power and telling people what to do.
Thumbs up for Bush for combating this huge problem. I remember hearing an investigation reporter, I believe wrote for the New Yorker Magazine, talk about this subject of human trafficing in the USA. I haven’t really cried since I was a child, but that story made me cry. There are some seriously dispectable and tragic stories of women and children caught in the trade. I remember him saying that the FBI told him they predict up to 300,000 women and children are kept as sex slaves in the USA alone.
Fox News:
“Traffickers spend about $21 million a year to get the girls into Israel. Each prostitute can earn them more than $200,000 annually; the take for one year of smuggled women is about $62 million.”
“Israel recently got off the U.S. State Department’s black list of nations that allow human trafficking by prosecuting the individuals who buy, sell and transport the women. But in the last two years, Israeli police have raided more than 200 brothels, prosecuting 150 traffickers.”
{ Israelis do not jail Israelis for making money any way they can. Notice no mention of what happened to the women or children }
Bush could not insist that Israel shut-down all of its brothels in their tiny country by making that a prerequisite to receiving billions in foreign aid?
Or is it easier to just look the other way? Especially when so much money is involved?
Is Bush too stupid to “Google?”
Are Republicans too stupid to “Google?”
Well, to all of you stupid Republicans, here’s what you get when you Google: “Israeli sex trade”…..1,740,000 hits for Israeli sex trade. (0.22 seconds)
Try “children” in “your Google” if you really want to know just how bad things can get. But only if you really want to know.
Jeasus H Jones, Somebody get Joe a tissue!
Sam Brownback has spoken forthrightly on both this issue as well as the human tragedy unfolding in Africa. I salute him for that. Now I just hope that we can find a way to deal seriously with these problems – with no exceptions for our “friends” like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
You’ll lose your head in Saudi Arabia for doing what is done in Israel openly.
Nice try to deflect attention { didn’t work }.
“Google” Israeli Child Porn:
1,750,000 for Israeli child porn. (0.23 seconds)
Ed,If you put quote marks around the above search terms, the return rate drops to 7 on google (0.27 sec.) Without quotes, any site with any of the words you stipulated would be returned. I am sure that would be a large number as you indicate.
Maybe the problem is not as great as your earlier numbers would indicate.
Ed – i am not diverting. Prostitution IS done in Saudi Arabia, they just keep it under wraps. In fact, Saudi Arabia has been cited by a number of international agencies for their human trafficking. This is not intended to excuse Israel by any means; just to note that the US has a double standard between countries we like and ones we don’t like.
As for ‘open’ brothels they actually bother me less as they tend to be adults rather than children. Also, conditions in them in countries where it is open (such as Holland) are kept much better than in the hell-holes where it is kept “under wraps”
As one of the biggest liberals here, I’m all for it. Since as JoeW put it, we liberals want to tell people what to do, I want to go on record to say that people shouldn’t be able to have sex with people who don’t want to have sex.
So I’m fully supportive of it.
The funny thing is that Bush mentioned this in a State of the Union Address about four years ago, but I guess late is better than never . . .
And Joe W., since you “libertarians” refuse to “tell people what to do,” you’re perfectly fine with forced sex and child sex?
I don’t think so.
So why don’t you stop being a hypocrite and admit that sometimes government has an important role to play in a healthy functioning society?
I do Galahad. Government is very necessary. They protect me from people like you.
Well, Now, the children don’t have a “choice” nether do the women who are being ” trafficked ” against their will. But you Israeli supporters really don’t have any morals so why should you care about anything?
You don’t, and that’s the point.
You’re scumbags, pure worthless trash, all of you.
The whole sorry lot of you, all defending the indefensible.
GTH
Ed! I know you hate Israel and Jews with a passion. I don’t care about Israel myself because its not in my concern. Only myself, my family, Wichita, Kansas, and the United States of America and that is were it stops. I don’t extend my love and care beyond that.
That being said. If anybody around the world is trafficing anybody, they need to be stopped, procecuted and thrown in prison forever.
You know what you want to know, which, as usual, is far from the truth.
Steven E.
Do you know how to read?
“Israel RECENTLY got off the U.S. State Department’s black list of nations” { That doesn’t mean they’ve cleaned-up their act, that means they got off the list }
They’ve been buying and selling women & children for 50 years.
US STATE DEPARTMENT’S BLACK LIST…..HELLO?
For the record, yes, I support Brownback taking on this issue and a handful of others, and contrary to your statements, Walker, you know very well I’ve said so in the past.
Brownback also voted against torture–but he blindly supports the regime that condones it. He’s at best a mixed bag. And the strong stands he takes that I support tend to be “no-brainers,” albeit issues that sometimes fall below the radar.
Ed, Steven E.’s point was about the perils of trumpeting the results of indiscrimate Googling. A minor geek point, but a valid one nonetheless.
Rage,I am aware of your opinions on many issues, and I agree with many of them. My point was the fact that I read the blog and the first two post say basically nothing about the good that become of the signing, but point out the same thing they say everytime they post: bash.It would be nice to read something good that someones does, from either party, and hear a bit of applauding for it, without going into a tirade about how hypocritical every politician is, or how bad they are. Sometimes I think this blog is populated by some of the most hateful people in Kansas. It would be nice to see the other side of them, but for some, I wonder if it exists. Some people here need to learn to smile. It does wonders.
As usual, Sammy is pumping sand to get recognition. Human traficking is deplorable, but there are more immediate issues that need attention. How about the homeless from Katrina to start; or real effort to balance the budget.
Joe Williams said:
Only myself, my family, Wichita, Kansas, and the United States of America and that is were it stops. I don’t extend my love and care beyond that.
As a citizen of Ks and the U.S., I am really feeling the love Joe.
Just out of curiousity, Big Joe, in what way do I threaten you that you need protection?
One thing to think about; back in the 1890’s, everybody assumed that “White Slavery” was the cause of prostitution. The FBI was formed to investigate and combat it, and investigate it they did. They found that what forced women into prostitution wasn’t White Slavery, but the economics of the times that prevented single women from earning a reasonable living legitimately.While I know that human trafficking goes on, and must be ruthlessly stamped out, let’s don’t fall into old traps of thinking it’s a major cause of prostitution.
Gee, Whodathought. All the while it was economic conditions which drove children into the open-arms of the Israeli Government’s human-trafficking business for sexual exploitation { and their mothers and daughters who thought they were on an all-expense-paid-visit to somewhere, got off the plane and were immediately chained to a Israeli brothel’s bed }.
Which is not a bad as Bush bombing a village in Pakistan, murdering 17 villagers hopping to kill that even-resilient number 2 man for, you got it, Al-Qaida. { the villagers are really upset with the United States, but were probably all “terrorist” anyway.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10842035
Wait, Rice has it all wrong on that list of human trafficking countries where Israel was raised from tier 3 to tier 2 so as not to have sanctions placed on their nice little county.
Okay, JM, I can see that.
P.S. Joe W., funny one-liner!
. . . you WERE joking, weren’t you?