Prostitution in US of A! Hello?

“As many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe are brought to the United States under false pretenses each year and forced to work as prostitutes, abused laborers or servants, according to a CIA report carried last Sunday in the New York Times.

“The 79-page report — “International Trafficking in Women to the United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery” — paints a broad picture of this hidden trade and of the difficulties that government agencies face in fighting it”.

“Law enforcement officials have seen episodic evidence of years of trafficking in immigrant women and children, some as young as 9 years old”, the Times said. “But the report says that officers generally do not like to take on these case because they are difficult to investigate and prosecute….”

“Over the last two years, while up to 100,000 victims poured into the United States, where they were held in bondage, federal officials estimated that the government prosecuted cases involving no more than 250 victims”.

“The report describes case after case of foreign women who answered advertisements for au pair, sales clerk, secretarial or waitress jobs in the United States but found, once they arrive, that the jobs did not exist.” “Instead, they were taken prisoner, held under guard and forced into prostitution or peonage. Some of them were, in fact, sold outright to brothel owners”.

Frank E. Loy, undersecretary of state for global affairs, told a Congressional subcommittee in February: “It seems incomprehensible that at the dawn of the 21st century, the primitive and barbaric practice of buying and selling human beings occurs at all. Yet international trafficking in persons, predominantly women and children, is widespread and, by all indications, a growing reality”.

Gee! This must really be bad tidings for hypocrites like California Congressman George Miller, former OIA Director Allen Stayman, special interest groups including human rights, and modern day legal extortionists.
It definitely turns our perceived case smaller than all the dwarfs that once played around fairy tale lady Cinderella.
It boggles the mind that our detractors never came to realize the drawbacks in bully pulpit approach to a problem that exist in one’s own backyard in greater magnitude. The bigger problem is two fold, nationally: 1). Lack of legal infrastructure to right the egregious modern day slavery. 2). The obvious lack of law enforcement because officers admit it’s too difficult to investigate and prosecute.
Sounds familiar, huh?

Our detractors ought to clip this issue and stick in permanently on their walls as a constant reminder that the Glass House Syndrome never works, eh?
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While at it, we ought to send a copy of this story to Hawaii Senator Daniel Akaka so he can begin his own backyard cleaning. Prostitution abounds around Waikiki as to threaten families living in adjacent residential areas. In the words of Representative Norman Palacios, “make sure you brush your own teeth before accusing others of bad mouth odor”, yeah?
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I don’t mean to beg the issue, but it has come to the point where my cup is overflowing with piles of hypocrisy from self-righteous dimwits. If prostitution and child slavery exist and spreading nationwide, why can’t do-gooders begin cleaning this filth right in their own backyards first? Is the US Department of Interior blind, deaf and mute?
Well, the truth shall prevail and it won’t be long before this propped-up probe is added to Clinton’s Wish List of Scandals.