Exposed: the myth of the World Cup ‘sex slaves’
Article here. First it was DV increasing during the Super Bowl, then trafficked sex workers/slaves for the World Cup. All a bogus tissue of lies. Seems men getting together in large groups and enjoying themselves largely out of the company of women is so scary to feminists, they have to do whatever they can to spoil the fun. Good thing the BS-meters are working, though. Excerpt:
"Last summer, lurid headlines claimed that 40,000 women would be smuggled by sex slavers into Germany to be prostituted to World Cup football fans. The truth is very different indeed. Newly unrestricted European Union documents reveal that the German police uncovered just five cases of ‘human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation’ related to the international football tournament.
Despite a huge ‘awareness-raising’ campaign, the setting up of telephone hotlines run by non-governmental organisations, and extra police checks on Germany’s borders, the prostitution scare stories, boosted by an unholy alliance of European left-wingers, feminists, police officers, Christians, the American right and US President George W Bush, have turned out to be pure fiction."
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As good as it is...
...that some people have active BS meters and are diligently trying their best to expose the lies, not one of these groups that are responsible for the lie in the first place will ever recant a single word of it.
Most people still believe that 40,00 sex slaves were brought into Germany for the world cup. Nothing as insignificant as reality will deter them from their beliefs.
More and more people are buying that prostitution is the new slavery.
In fact, just wait until next year and the hype of currently unimaginable proportions that these very same people will build up over Beijing '08...
China already has a poor human rights record according to all these people and they will undoubtedly use that as an excuse to raise misandry to a whole new level.
Some progress
Thank god that this is at least published. As you say Paragon, facts never get in the way of the feminist dogma, but at least we have some online digital record of the lies now.
More importantly, when you look at the self righteous gnashing of the teeth and the subsequent large expense to deal with the fictitious problem, someone should be sacked for ever believeing it and committing to the budget.
It's a harsh truth that this might be a man that loses his job, but it's the only way the ridiculous notion of chivalry and believing everything a woman says will be smacked out of some men.
If people still believe it ...
... then it is our duty to tell them otherwise. Make it known to the masses that these are lies. Comment on all the articles perpetuating this myth.
Unfortunately..
..the author didn't name the real reason for this: misandry. He took the usual route and called it misantrophy.
After all, we know only women are targeted by hatred specifically because of their gender. Right?
You're right, they won't recant
That's what is so frustrating about all this- they insist that it's going on clandestinely, citing wide ranging estimates with no clear basis or origin (10,000 to 50,000 or 800,000 to 2.5 million). http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=1022
The media jumps all over sex-slave stories, but no one recants when it turns out to be false. And when you confront people like Donna Hughes, Melissa Farley or John Miller about it, they'll claim that the victims denied being slaves for fear that their slavers (now in jail for running a house of ill repute) would retaliate. Yet for some reason they see fit to deport these women as criminals for refusing to collaborate, even though they're really terrified victims (yeah, right)
We've had numerous massage parlor and brothel raids here in the US, but few trafficking prosecutions. If you look at the number of trafficking cases prosecuted http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/annualreports/tr2005/assessmentofustipactivities.pdf (similar information was not in the 2006 report- only foreign nation assessments) the conviction rate includes any case involving trafficking charges even if those charges were dismissed (that is, if they get them for money laundering, harboring illegal aliens or running a house of prostitution, they count it as a conviction in a trafficking case.
In the San Francisco Bay Are, we've had two recent major "sex trafficking" federal crackdown efforts- Operation Gilded Cage and Operation Bad Neighbor. Both supposedly involved heinous criminal organizations that enslaved young Korean women and forced them into sexual servitude. Not a single "victim" backed those claims. Most were deported within weeks, a few had to testify that they worked off their $10k trafficking debt before pocketing any earnings. Here are a few press releases on the outcome of the two cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/2006/2006_11_03_Lau.plea.press.html
http://justice.gov/usao/can/press/2006/2006_07_07_gilded.cage.kim.pang.pleas.press.htm
http://justice.gov/usao/can/press/2006/2006_05_25_bad%20neighbor%20sentencing.htm
When OGC first went down, we heard about the infamous "Yang's taxi" trafficking group. Supposedly they were responsible for transporting victims back and forth between varous sex dens like livestock or something. But when you read the indictment http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/assets/applets/2005_07_01_Gilded_Cage_ind.pdf the phone transcripts make it clear that they were more like chauffeurs catering to the needs of the "victims."
Very rarely do the people perpetuating the myth get called on their nonsense, but it happens from time to time. Here are a few examples
http://www.slate.com/id/2094896/
http://www.alternet.org/rights/15947/
http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/content/otherpublications/WeitzerVAW-1.pdf
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/11/ma_570_01.html?welcome=true
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/09/was_story_about_sexual_trafficking_exaggerated/
http://www.travaildusexe.com/magazine/anglais/Abolitionsts.htm
http://www.walnet.org/csis/papers/doezema-choose.html
http://www.walnet.org/csis/papers/irwin-wslavery.html