As anyone who's watched "Capturing the Friedmans" knows, hysteria sells. It's a tool used by the instigator to garner self-worship and accolades from on high, to be declared a "moral savior". You see these people everywhere posing as defenders of the oppressed and, uh, whomever else is the flavor of the day. They live for the line: "You're doing good and necessary work". Such is the need for purpose in the human psyche.
I got caught up - OK, trapped - by the hysteria when a meeting I attended was hijacked by one of these "hero women" with her pre-packaged slideshow of horrors. She wailed for a good half hour nonstop and by the time she was done the whole room was applauding - except for me. Being a con myself I can spot another a mile away. I didn't have any hard facts to disprove anything she said but I know a witch burner when I see one.
Here is some of the propaganda that was being floated around before the Super Bowl:
The Super Bowl Prostitution Issue
Arlington, Fort Worth and Dallas have been seeking solutions to the anticipated prostitution problem since being awarded the honor of hosting the beloved football championship. Officials were already proposing laws and enforcement efforts before it was known that the Green Bay Packers would square off against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Prostitutes flooded Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, in droves of tens of thousands, as they visited the area to capitalize on the revelers' desire to have a good time. Dallas hosted last year's NBA All-Star Game and saw an estimated 40,000 prostitutes flooding the streets. The prostitution has gotten officials' particularly close attention because many of the prostitutes were only children, some as young as ten-years-old.
This from cafemom.com:
Something like 10,000 teen prostitutes and their johns are expected to be in Dallas this week. Yes, you read that right. Nestled right in with the Lombardi Trophy and those silly commercials is a scandal of stadium-sized proportions. And don't blame Dallas. The Super Bowl, according to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, "is a magnet for child sex traffickers." I think I may have just lost my appetite for chips, salsa and sitting in front of the big screen on Sunday.
From the cafemom article! Perverts!
There's more, but you get the idea. I'd read it in the paper myself, awed by the 10,000 figure and marveling at a hoped for economy of scale. But it wasn't until Supermom in her very suburban, very made up plastic face started screeching at me did I think something was up. Nothing she said seemed to make sense. The "facts" and "figures" didn't ring true and there were telltale signals of a con. To wit, she constantly threw out shocking statements that would discourage all but the bravest from questioning her a-thori-tie.
She told stories of underage girls going over to spend the night at friend's houses only to find themselves kidnapped by pimps, never to be seen again. She said the pimps had their slaves infiltrate the schools, make friends with other girls, invite them over and boom! they were snatched up too. Couldn't they just run away, you say? No! because the these uber pimps told them their families would die if they ever breathed a word. Why don't we hear about this going on, you ask? Well, you see, most of these girls die after a few years so there's no one around to tell their story. Except for the Super Saviors.
How convenient.
But the plastic blondie who was "trying to keep from crying as she spoke" had more. Those who did threaten to squeal to cops had to listen to their pets get killed right over the phone! They were forced to participate in the worst kind of orgies: the kind with older men! Not only that, the girls were branded like cattle to mark them as the pimp's property. That's when blondie very seriously told us to look at teenage girl's arms while standing in line and look for these brands. But don't confront the fire breathing pimp! Just alert the authorities and save a life.
You see, folks, that's what she's doing: saving lives. Or not.
Try researching what happens to these women
after their hands are used up for life
after their hands are used up for life
I was disgusted by her dirty stories and I had to keep averting my eyes to her sick pictures. I wanted to bitch slap that bitch for putting me through that! A few days later I saw an article in the Dallas Observer that made it all clear. Sure enough, the soccer mom terrorist was part of a Christian group called traffick911 that puts out wildly bogus figures. I believe the woman told us 30,000 children are forced into sex slavery each year. I knew she was a right wingnut when she kept emphasizing "and these are white girls being taken!" [emphasis hers].
I know what the morons out there are thinking: "Wow, he must not now there are really bad people in the world!" Yeah, that's me, just fell off the turnip truck. It's me who's been saying, "Show me a capitalist and I'll show you a rapist." I mean that literally and I'll let history be my judge. Rape is the American pastime. And because we know that but can't admit that, it gives us a psychological need to find a scapegoat, to burn the witch and thusly save us. Yes, there are heartless monsters everywhere, in corporate boardrooms, in church pulpits, in food processing plants - just about everywhere you look. It's you dear ones who are naive.
So what did happen at the Super Bowl?
Arlington, host to the game, unleashed extra manpower and bagged an impressive 59 arrests. But it found scant evidence of erotic hordes. Of the 100,000 supposedly Lone Star-bound hookers, Deputy Chief Jaime Ayala says, only 13 were found by his guys. Their busts largely involved rousting the local talent.
A big fizzle. Not that anyone wants to let facts get in the way of an angry self-righteous mob as this has turned into a political football:
Six years into his presidency, Bush had burned through $150 million on the fray. But of the 300,000 supposed victims during that time, the Justice Department managed to find just 1,362. Less than half were actual sex slaves. An even smaller number were underage prostitutes.
That's because human trafficking, as defined by the government, isn't solely about sex. It's usually about forced labor. Think of the Chinese man made to work in a kitchen to reimburse a snakehead's smuggling fee. Or the Mexican kid forced to toil on a Kansas farm.
By the time anyone realized all that money was flowing for naught, no one was brave enough to tighten the spigot. In Washington, it's far better to waste millions than give the appearance you don't care about kids.
Steve Wagner knows this. He worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving as director of the Human Trafficking Program under Bush. He threw millions of dollars at community groups to aid victims. Yet as he told the Washington Post in 2007, "Those funds were wasted....They were available to help victims. There weren't any victims."
I don't hold for hysterics or any chains by another name. I don't hold for witch burning either - but I wouldn't mind scorching a few witch hunters myself. They are a danger to us all - just as is anyone who doesn't honor the truth.
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