There is one neglected area of foreign policy in which President Bush “is making a historic contribution: he is devoting much more money and attention to human trafficking than his predecessors,” wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof this week. Fighting sex trafficking and other slavery is a cause also rightly championed by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., Kristof noted, and an office in Bush’s State Department is making a real difference by bullying governments into prosecuting traffickers, arresting pimps, closing brothels and, in the process, saving prostitutes from AIDS. He wrote: “On that crucial issue, Mr. Bush is leaving a legacy that he and America can be proud of.”
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President Bush could start at home with some ethnic restaurants which depend on, what amounts to, slave labor for their help.
Sex education should be free and mandatory worldwide.Same with condoms.
But is he getting soda pop out of the schools?
If we don’t vote out some of the KSBOE, we’ll keep our kids in the dark ages.
Saving lives? Compare that to the lives lost in Iraq, and now the lives that will be lost.It appears 200,000 AK 47s are missing. They were supposed to go to Iraqi soldiers. They were to be flown in by an airlines cited by the United Nations for smuggling weapons to terrorist organizations. Not what I would call saving lives: http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fnorthernireland%2Fnews%2Ftm_objectid%3D17058632%2526method%3Dfull%2526siteid%3D94762-name_page.html
Wow, at least Rhonda could finally muster up a compliment for Bush.
It seems all the typical “I can’t say one good thing about Bush” people couldn’t.
Thank you Rhonda.
Nathan, Compliments, like respect, are earned, not awarded.
Nathan, since Bush subsizides death and tyranny around the globe (yes, like most of his predecessors, but not to his extent), it’s little tough to get too excited when he happens to do the right thing. Way to go, George! Now there’s other things you need to work on. . .
It’s kinda bizarre to see Bush, Cheney and Rice repeatedly saying nice things about dictators that their State department condemns!
http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/917/1/
Rage,
If only you brought something more to the discussion than:
“since Bush subsizides death and tyranny around the globe”
It really doesn’t do you any justice to make statments so blatantly misrepresenting of the truth.
bush finally does something resembling something positive.
And the only reason is because it concerns naughty sex.
Maybe we can find a way to make naughty sex an issue in other areas so bush can crusade further.
JR,
Did you have some actual reasons to think that is the only reason Bush is doing this or is it more assumptions prejudiced by your hate of the man?
It’s kind of like room full of monkeys shooting rubber dart-guns.
Eventually, if you give them enough time, by pure random chance, on will hit a target.
All this shows is that the Worst. President. Ever. by pure chance, did something good in spite of himself.
“It really doesn’t do you any justice to make statments so blatantly misrepresenting of the truth.”
What do you call supporting regimes that your own state department calls dictatorships?
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 $7-10billion in profits for those who conduct thishuman trade, the report states.Israel is ranked among the “Tier2″ countries in the report,
http://www.kavlaoved.org.il/katava_main.asp?news_id=537&sivug_id=24
Rage,
Support is such a subjective term.
Besides your statment was a definitive one about him subsidizing death and tyranny around the globe.
Which is little more than another weak attempt at making an accusatory statement founded in little to no truth.
This a president who says his greatest accomplishment was catching a bass.
Nathan
Israel, “The Maggots of the Middle East,” are slave-trading a million people a year and you’re worried about “Gage” overstating the Bush misery index?
You’re goofy.
“Gage is “Rage.” And it’s funny how people start in on me by saying they know how I “feel”about Israel but never direct their attention to my complaints which should be their complaints as well.
Attack the messenger?
ED,
you are so right on this but never expect shrub, clinton or yellowback, traitors all to tell the truth when it comes to israel and the jews. Afterall, they suffered that terrible “holocau$T” and jews can only ever be victims, right?
Tobin was responding to a very disturbing article in the New York Times (January 11, 1998) which described the horrible situation that Slavic Gentile prostitutes face today, trapped in Israel. As the Times notes, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and a resulting economic chaos, literally hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian women have been dispersed throughout the world, most entrapped in an international prostitution trade run by the “Russian mafia.” (Although it is certainly inferred, what the Times article does not overtly mention is that a significant part of the Russian mafia is Jewish. See later chapter). Glenn Frankel, however, a Washington Post correspondent in Jerusalem, took the perspective in 1994 that “there was much talk about the Russian mafia muscling in [to Israel], although the police and most crime experts agreed that the brothels were almost entirely under the control of the Israeli mafia and that the Russians worked mostly as low-level managers or hookers.” [FRANKEL, p. 175]“Israel has become a routine destination for the global trafficking of women,” noted Leonard Fein in a 1998 Jewish Bulletin,”women coerced into prostitution. The thousand such women brought into Israel annually derive principally from the countries of the former Soviet Union, and the way they get to Israel is that they are ‘purchased,’ each one costing between $10,000 and $20,000. And they are, of course, expected to repay the cost to their masters through what amounts to indentured servitude — or, if you prefer the simpler and more straightforward, slavery … Some [are] as young as 15, and even 12 … Each woman earns between $50,000 and $100,000 for her pimp. The turnover of the prostitution trade in Israel comes to some $450 million a year.” [FEIN, 1998, p. 21]In a country of six million people, this averages about $75 a year paid to a pimp for every man, woman, and child in Israel. There are today 150 brothels and sex shops in Tel Aviv alone. [SILVER, E., 8-25-2000, p. 32]In an interview with Marina, a Russian prostitute, the (Jewish) Forward noted in 1995 that there were nine or ten “Russian” prostitution rings in Israel. “Girls are regularly beaten to keep them obedient,” Marina told the Forward, “… [The Israeli police are] regularly paid off with free visits to our girls. A reporter like you thinks you’re picking up a stone from the road, but you might find you’re digging into a mountain.” [SHILLING, p. 5] As a report by Israel’s Women’s Network noted in 1997:”Every year, hundreds of women from the former Soviet Union are lured to Israel, gaining entry by posing as immigrants, on the promise of finding lucrative jobs, and then are lured into prostitution by abusive pimps.” [GROSS, N., 1997, p. 16]In 1998, Hungary’s Consul in Tel Aviv, Andrea Horvath complained that four Hungarian women “had allegedly met their Israeli employer in a Budapest discotheque. They were hired as dancers but were later forced to provide sexual services as well.” [MTI, 3-20-98] In 2000, Robert Friedman, in talking about his book about the “Russian Mafia,” noted Seimon Mogilevich, head of a major Jewish mobster network, noting him as “one of the world’s biggest traffickers in women, Eurasian women.” [PENKLAVA, M., 5-3-2000]“Women are sold into the sex business in Israel for between $5,000 and $15,000,” reported the Jerusalem Post in 1998, “while the pimps who buy them can earn between $10,000 and $50,000 a year per woman … 2,000 women are brought to Israel from the CIS and forced by pimps to work as prostitutes. Many are brought here on false pretenses and held against their will.” As Ira Omait, head of the Haifa Emergency Shelter for Women told the Post, “We are fast heading in the direction of trade in minors for prostitution and slavery.” [COLLINS, L., 12-15-98, p. 5] Incredibly, as noted in a Jerusalem Post editorial in 1998, “According to the Women’s Lobby [a women's group in Israel], part of the [prostitution] problem is that there is no law against slavery in Israel.” [JERUSALEM POST, 1-13-98, p. 10]“Poor Women of Ex-Soviet Union Lured Into Sex Slavery” headlined a 1998 Associated Press story. Women forced into prostitution in Israel, noted the article, were locked in rooms and provided only food and condoms. And Israeli law on the subject? In 1996 150 men were arrested for pimping or running brothels. Merely 21 cases went to trial, and no one was ever convicted of a crime. [LINZER, D., 6-13-98] In 1998 an Israeli judge even ordered an insurance company to pay for a client’s prostitution addiction:”An Israeli insurance company has been ordered to pay 300,000 shekels ($80,000) to fund the prostitution habit of a man injured in a car accident.” [DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR, 4-22-98]The man claimed that since a 1993 car crash he couldn’t form relationships with women and relied on the prostitution world.The 1998 New York Times article noted that more than 1,500 Slavic prostitutes — mostly from the Ukraine — have been deported from Israel for residence infractions in the past three years. (Israeli oppression knows no end: “Unlike many countries, Israel does not pay airfare for deportees.” [LINZER, D., 6-13-98]) Prostitution is not illegal in Israel and clients include foreign workers, “Israeli soldiers with rifles on their shoulders,” business executives, and tourists. The Times noted that”The networks trafficking women run east to Japan and Thailand, where thousands of young Slavic women now work against their will as prostitutes, and west to the Adriatic Coast and beyond … The routes are controlled by Russian gangs based in Moscow … In Ukraine alone … as many as 400,000 women under 30 have gone in the past decade … Israel is a fairly typical destination … Police officials [in Israel] estimate that there are 25,000 paid sexual transactions every day. [This in a country with a population of 6 million]. Brothels are ubiquitous … Once they cross the border [into Israel] their passports will be confiscated [by pimps], their freedoms curtailed and what little money they have taken from them at once … The Tropicana, in Tel Aviv’s bustling business district, is one of the busiest bordellos. The women who work there, like nearly all prostitutes in Israel today, are Russian. Their bosses, however, are not. ‘Israelis love Russian girls,’ said Jacob Golan, who owns this and two other clubs, ‘…. They are blonde and good looking and different than us … And they are desperate. They are ready to do anything for money.” [SPECTER, p. 1]“The situation,” wrote Jewish author David Weinberg in an 1998 article about prostitution in Israel entitled Not So Holy Land, “is enough to make you cry in despair, or vomit from shame.” [WEINBERG, D., 1-18-98, p. 8]http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/10whsla.htmhttp://www.rense.com/general32/jewsandwhiteslavery.htm
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
Ian
How do yopu like my:
“Maggots of the Middle East”
{that’s why they need to murder so much; to have something to eat }.
Tel Aviv’s best restaurant in the Morgue.
The United States is financing Israel’s whore houses. We pay for everything. They operate with no overhead. Talk about hypocritical.
The Zionists call their whore houses “Pizzerias” every time the Arabs blow one up.
The Jews advertise them as “J-Dates.”
Rice moved them up to tier 2 so as not to have to sanction them as being on the lowest level of tier 3.
Whore Houses are “legal” in Zionist Land.