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Now, hopefully they do not come out and say "btw, we use the NSA metadata to find them all."
due to NAFTA, repeal of Glass-Steagall Act, etc. you know the rest ... so people will do anything ugly just to survive. 
Feel better now?
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/05/sex-trafficking-201105?currentPage=all
There is a section in this article from Vanity Fair that tells of a woman setting her underage niece up for a pimp.
And another section explains how these young women are sold for as little as 2 for 1200 dollars.
But there is so much more horror out there
May 24 2011
Thankfully there are good people in this world who work to protect our most vulnerable.
There is a section in this article from Vanity Fair that tells of a woman setting her underage niece up for a pimp.
In the fall of 2003, after turning 18, Gwen headed down to Hartford to visit her Aunt Lucy, her mother’s sister. Her aunt, in turn, introduced her niece to Brian Forbes. “She told me he was a really nice guy and stuff,” Gwen said. Employing a technique not unlike the “love-bombing” used by cults, Brian Forbes began to wine and dine her. “He was really nice,” Gwen recalled. “You know, he could give me, you know, anything I wanted.” Pimps refer to this trust-building courtship phase as “seasoning,” and they can be extremely patient. Forensic pediatrician Dr. Sharon Cooper, a specialist in treating juvenile victims of sex trafficking, terms the process “grooming.” Girls acquainted with “the life” call it “spitting game.” Forbes, Scates notes, was a master at singling out, on the high-school campus or at the shopping center, the vulnerable girl with abysmal self-esteem. “And,” she says, “he sensed what lines would be most effective on which girl.”
And another section explains how these young women are sold for as little as 2 for 1200 dollars.
‘Rahmyti” was the self-aggrandizing alias of Dennis Paris, a short, 300-pound, 32-year-old smooth talker who inhabited the dimmer fringes of the local club scene, and who had aspirations to become a rapper, like the musicians he claimed to represent. Gwen, the product of a broken home (her mom, caught up in an abusive relationship, did not allow her to know her father) in a lily-white Vermont village, had met Paris in an irregular fashion. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she had been sold to him, for $1,200, in a package deal with her best friend, Alicia. The vendor was Brian Forbes, a six-foot-five-inch, 40-year-old bodybuilder, whom local law enforcement understood to be employed in the bail-bond business.
But there is so much more horror out there
There are more young American girls entering the commercial sex industry—an estimated 300,000 at this moment—and their ages have been dropping drastically. “The average starting age for prostitution is now 13,” says Rachel Lloyd, executive director of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (gems), a Harlem-based organization that rescues young women from “the life.” Says Judge Cofield, who formerly presided over Hartford’s Prostitution Protocol, a court-ordered rehabilitation program, “I call them the Little Barbies.”
To force them to do his bidding, Davis allegedly sliced a girl in his “stable” with a box cutter and stomped others into submission with a special pair of Timberland boots—a technique known as “Timming.” Another female, a 15-year-old patient of Dr. Sharon Cooper’s, was zipped into a duffel bag and deposited by her pimp on a six-lane highway. The pimp of Caroline (a former Connecticut 4-H Club member) plucked out her fingernails one by one until she passed out from the pain. Natalie, an ex–Catholic schoolgirl rescued by gems, was from the age of 13 tortured or beaten with water, belts, chains, even a bag of frozen oranges. “Pimping,” Natalie says, “is not cool. A pimp is a wife beater, rapist, murderer, child-molester, drug dealer, and slave driver rolled into one.”
May 24 2011
Thankfully there are good people in this world who work to protect our most vulnerable.
Now we need "blanket phone surveillance" or we are a pedophile? Fuck that noise. Get a goddamn warrant.
There are no words.
what most of you and Snowden and Glenn are screeching with fire about, many of us knew about years ago. Why is that?
Why does Glenn bring up that kind of intentionally incendiary story now.
Creepy but necessary. Unfortunately people being what they are, there are ones who will use and abuse their powers for other purposes than what they were intended.
It's because that what he did last midterm. He ratfucked with Jane Hamsher.
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Grate job FBI,
I wonder if the NSA helped?
I hope the children are given lots of counseling and support from here on out.
