Human Trafficking (june 13)

So the Lifetime movie was based on human trafficking and it kind of made me upset. On the one hand I say that it is corrupt, wrong and despicable on all sorts of levels. Every human being should be treated as such and not as a piece of property to be bought and sold or critiqued like a piece of meat. Those who do it should be punished and jailed in the seemingly endless attempt to rid the world of the entire industry. However, on the other hand, I must realize that I am looking at the situation from an American point of view and that is not the only nor right way to look at it. In some countries and cultures, things such as involuntary servitude and prostitution are legal so who am I to say you should not do such things as human trafficking when obviously those “inalienable” rights have no substance in those places. It is unfortunate that the world has such twisted people out there who think it is okay to buy and sell people like they are meat. On the car ride home from the movies, one of the passengers said she blames men and if they would keep their “little men” in their pants the problem would be solved but it is not just men who are perpetuating the problem. In the movie, one of the main coordinators of the trade was a female and she had no qualms about hoodwinking the young girls and arranging their shipment to the hungry, waiting men. In the movie, starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland, statistics scrolled the screen saying human trafficking is the most profitable international industry (something like that) next to drugs and something else. Okay so I just messed up that statistic really badly which makes my point moot, but the point is human trafficking is and has been a lucrative business that does not seem to be slowing. And you know the sad thing is that the majority of the transactions are occurring here in the United States! Yeah, the good old US of A so you cannot even say it’s those dirty people across the ocean or in third world countries because it’s not. It could be your next door neighbor, your doctor, your boss, you never know. And the girls…you never know who they are either. You know what, a book I just finished reading touched on human trafficking as well. Hopefully this recent attention to the sad topic will bring more light to it and eventually bring about its demise.