George Bush's "Sex Trade." What is it and what's in the news about it?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Bush spoke about the terror of the sex trade last night with Brit Hume and today as he addressed the UN.

I googled and Yahoo'd and this is what I fund under "Sex Trade" in current news:

From Seoul Korea:
Sex trade blames foreigners as sales drop
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200309/17/200309170247149979900090409041.html

In an effort to stem fears that Korean prostitutes are spreading disease contracted from foreigners, Miari, a major red light district in Seoul, the country’s largest, is barring foreign customers while hanging banners in the streets that read “Foreigner off-limits place”.
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Is Dubya mad that Americans can't get laid in Seoul?

The Kurdish News has this: Saddam's Sex Trade http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=4302

And in Hong Kong...

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=3404230

Sex Trade Thrives in Hong Kong as China Ties Grow
Mon September 8, 2003 08:26 AM ET

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Near Hong Kong's main train station, Ah Chuen and several other young women from mainland China position themselves by the entrance of a cheap hotel.

Decked out in a bare-backed top, tight jeans and stiletto heels, the prostitute throws a teasing glance at a passer-by before sashaying up to whisper in his ear.

Ah Chuen, 23, and her compatriots are among thousands of mainland Chinese who have been quick to take advantage of an increasingly porous border and Hong Kong's closer ties with China since the former British colony returned to the Chinese fold in 1997.

Hong Kong is hoping that a flood of Chinese tourists will help revive its ailing economy, but fears are growing that they will also bring an increase in crime such as prostitution, money laundering and theft.

Instead of thronging tourist sites, restaurants and fancy boutiques, some female "tourists" offer sex while men work illegally on construction sites.

"It's my third time visiting Hong Kong in the last year," said Ah Chuen, who charges customers HK$500, or $64.
<snip>


And from the Commie bastards up north...
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030912.usexx0912/BNStory/National/

Vancouver council okays residential sex trade


By ROD MICKLEBURGH
From Friday's Globe and Mail

Vancouver — On the eve of opening North America's first safe-injection site for drug users, Vancouver City Council has now sanctioned the right of sex-trade businesses to operate from local residences.

In a surprise move, councillors voted 4-3 to include elements of the sex trade among approved businesses that a person can run from their home in the city's increasingly residential downtown core.
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Nowhere did I find evidence of a 19th century style kidnapping for prostitution scheme going on as Bush is inferring. My guess is they realize the terrorist threat is wearing thin and that sex sells. Especially to the fundies who think the world's brown swarthy men want white American girls and will go to any link to get them.

How stupid does he think we are?

[patdem]

1. Maybe he and Jeb know more than we do..all those

missing kids from social services from Florida???? Who knows?

[meegbear]

2. Becuase THIS is the reason we invaded ...

the lucrative sex trade in Iraq!

This is just political blackmail.

Here at home, if you don't support *, you support terrorism.

Abraad, if you don't support *, you support the sex trade and the raping of women and children.

[catmandu57]

3. Must be the pimp juice

Maybe he's had one too many cans, the next thing you know we'll be seeing the chimp* in a broad brimmed hat and fur coat turning condi and pickles out in DC.

[walkon]

4. MSNBC Did a report several months ago

All about luring young, mostly "eastern block" women to "western" jobs and then forcing them into the sex business - many taken to Israel and others near U.S. military bases. It was two or three parts and while it covered the eastern European problem I seem to remember it identified the problem as world wide - largely due to failing economies in so many parts of the world. I wonder if the BFEE is seeking to get control over this the way they have drugs and weapons.

Found a link:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/725802.asp

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. On the serious side, I WOULD like to know what the hell this new

"cause de jour" is all about. I'm sure that it happens, but no tthat often in America and I wonder if he wants to take on the sex trade world wide. Maybe he got a message from Baby Jesus in his dreams. This man scares me.

[walkon]

10. It reminds me

of how * has used "women's issues" as causes when we attacked Afghanistan. Syria and Iran have WMD - eastern Europe and Maylasia/Phillipines/Koreas have sex slaves. But really I can't tell what these guys are up to.

[LynneSin]

22. It's his new distraction with the failing War on Terrorism and Economy

And he knows how the public gets their balls in a gander when sex is involved!

[Bluerthanblue]

25. i think you got it

spot on LynneSin-

Sex sells- and terra's gettin old-

Any means to an end-

How many prostitutes are there right here in the US, who are under age?
Perhaps we should work on getting our OWN house in order?

i forgot, that is what Democrats are always wanting to fritter the "hard earned" money of Americas 'christ'ian conservitves away on. <<hisss>>>

[veganwitch]

33. the anti-sex trafficking movement is still very young.

it started in the late 90s and reached a national level with the passing of the trafficking victims protection act in 2000.

the worst areas are eastern europe and the asian rim (including india). and whenever there is social upheavel and economic destruction (from wars maybe?) the atmosphere is perfect for sex trafficking. female family members and male children may be "sold" because the family has no money. children without parents are kidnapped. women lured from their families with promises of good jobs only to become sex slaves and their lives threatened if the go to the police or run away.


and there is lots of money in it. sex trafficking is third in under weapons and drug trafficking in the amount of money brought in.

for more information please visit www.humantrafficking.org and www.polarisproject.org

[KoKo]

6. When he said "Rape Pits" and "Sex Trade" in his speech to UN I almost fell

over....He sounded like some fundie preacher....admonishing his congregation about the "wages of sin."

It was repulsive. These are major issues which need to be dealt with all over the world....but it wasn't up to Chimp to start lecturing the UN when he was there with a tin cup. I thought that and the rest of his "lecture" were outrageous. He's an embarassment...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. He reminds me of Mel Brooks characature of Louis XIV in

History of the World, Part II. "It's great to be the king" and the peasant shoot ring true for this simpleton... Hell, he even has a Count de Monet (count de money) in Cheney.

[LoneStarLiberal]

18. Reminds Me More of Blazing Saddles

With Bush as Governor LePetomaine to Cheney's Hedley Lamarr.

[mlawson]

32. Yeah, KoKo. I thought he was going to rave about 'White Slavers'!

Gee, he must think he is Warren Harding...

[berry]

7. Oh, it's a real problem, all right. But do I believe Bush* cares about it?

NO!! All I could think about were all the child laborers he didn't mention. Anyway, if he really cared about solving the problem of child slavery (either kind), he would have to become someone else. He's too far gone as a true believer in hyper-capitalism to ever get it. He and his ilk ARE the problem.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Good point... He spoke of there being "900,000 victims" of the sex/slave

trade. I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about the millions of third world women and children making our Nikes and tee shirts for $0.25 a day.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Far less , my friend. Some work for 10 cents a day.

Then this is only a distraction. Smoke and mirrors time.

the real issue is glossed over and covered with distractive shit. Like the Nose Miner gives a shit with sex slaves.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

15. Listening again to Bush's speech, he made it sound as if NAMBLA

was an invading hoard from outer space. While it IS an important issue that should be a harshly punished crime, I don't believe it is the sort of problem that merits the attention Bush is trying to garner with it...

It's one of those things that he can spew about that if anyone says anything against his spewing they can be labled as a supporter of kiddie porn. This shit is UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!

[KoKo]

35. To make it worse Jennings/ABC showed pics of Hooker and Slave Trade

was the part of the speech they focused on! Now, I'm a female.....and have issues about all of this!

BUT, Bush wen to UN with tin cup extended for coins and bodies and he focuses on "Rape Pits and Sex Trade??"

He should go over to Buzzflash and check out the BFEE Crime family deaths and the Repugs who have been indicted for SEX CRIMES.....and all kinds of disgusting stuff...before we have ABC PANDER to us FEMALES over BUSH DEFENDING us over Sex Trade and Rape Pits!

What about that "Bohemian Grove" stuff that goes on in California! GIVE ME A BREAK FROM REPUG SEX STUFF!!!

[smallprint]

12. maybe this has something to do with it:

March 10, 2003

UN Complicit in Balkans Sex Trade

"A senior United Nations official is demanding that her colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted," reported the February 9th issue of The Scotsman. "Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be brought to justice in their home countries."

Prior to the mid-1990s, the Balkan sex trade was practically nonexistent. This changed abruptly when the UN took over administrating Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995. Since then, sex slavery - abduction of girls as young as 12 from eastern Europe to serve as prostitutes in brothels - has become a major industry in Bosnia and Kosovo (also under UN administration). UN officials, both civilian and military, are deeply involved in this despicable commerce.

Kathryn Bolkovac, a former UN police officer, was fired from her post in Bosnia for exposing the involvement of UN and DynCorp officials in the Balkans sex trade. (DynCorp is a U.S.-based military contractor.) "Bolkovac had revealed UN peacekeepers went to nightclubs where young girls were forced to dance naked and have sex with customers, and that UN personnel and international aid workers were linked to prostitution rings in the Balkans," observed The Scotsman. "At the time, Rees described it as 'the biggest cover-up I have ever seen,' adding that she believed thirty percent of those visiting Bosnia's brothels were UN personnel, peacekeepers or aid workers."

link: http://news1.beograd.com/english/articles_and_opinion/m/030310_UN_Complicit.html

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

16. Definitely an anti-UN rant on someone's part...

There's no way to confirm the voracity of the accusations made in the document. I've got a feeling that this might be an effort at mountain building with mole hills.

[morningglory]

13. The Military Industrial Complex misses the cold war.

They need things like the war on drugs that are guaranteed to never end, the way the cold war did. Hence the war on terruh, and this would be a good one, the war on the OLDEST profession. Old for a reason. It will never end.

[elfin]

14. Someone told him "Sex Sells"

So he put this ongoing issue into his speech to divert attention from the matter at hand - Iraq.

Trying to make an appeal to women for '04 - otherwise he doesn't give a rip. Oh, sure, it stirs his "compassionate", "Christian" sensiblilties -- but it has NOTHING to do with why he was at the UN.

[Lady President]

17. Distraction

This reminded me of the summer of 2001 when the news focus was, "The economy is going downhill, but at least you weren't eaten by a shark." Followed by summer of 2002, "The economy is even worse, but at least your children haven't been kidnapped." Pure distraction.

I actually had a conversation with my mother about this portion of Bush*'s speech a couple minutes ago. I told her I was going to the grocery store and she responded with, "Be careful. Apparently white slavery is rampant out there." (sarcasm oozing) If my 60+ yr. old mother who worries about everything thinks this was a feeble attempt to look compassionate, the U.N. surely saw through it.

[mojowork_n]

19. Unfortunately, Clinton/Albright's Balkans have them too

In Kosovo:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/761183.stm

and in Bosnia:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/06/dyncorp/

where 12 and 15 year old girls were bought and sold by Pentagon "private" subcontractors...

[mojowork_n]

20. Those sorts of disclosures could hurt Clark...

The google search I did to find those links didn't produce any "UN gets tough" or "Pentagon reacts strongly" links... These things have been going on ever since U.S. troops got in there, and for all I know, they're not being dealt with.

[Bozita]

21. That may be the reason for its inclusion in the speech.

I can just picture the Rove ads..."Clark ruled over Bosnian sex trade."

[Skittles]

23. why are men so f***ing disgusting?

paying to use women as their semem receptacles? F***ING GROSS.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

26. The Bosnian event gave up the accused as being Dyncorp

Who was recently bought up by CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation). Dyncorp's CEO of the time says "You can't find a guy more Republican than me." (This Gun for Hire Wired 11-02 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.html )

Now that the CORPORATION that was blamed for the Bosnian incidents no longer exists, I guess it's okay for the Pres to declare war on the indiscretions of an American company by blaming it on someone else.

[Andy_Stephenson]

24. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=384851&mesg_id=384851

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

27. Mr. Skolnick scares the hell out of tin foil.... He uses lead.

:evilgrin:
But, some of his stuff is fun to read when taken with a boulder of salt.

[Osolomia]

28. Bush announced this 2 weeks ago!!!

The day after a bipartisan majority in the House voted to lift the travel ban against Cuba despite Bush's threatened veto. Coincidence?

U.S. Clamps Down on 'Human Trafficking'
Wednesday September 10, 2003 9:49 PM

By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States will impose economic sanctions on Burma, Cuba and North Korea for failing to take steps to stop ``human trafficking,'' such as forcing people to work or engage in sexual acts against their will, the White House said Wednesday.

... ``The president is committed to leading the fight to eradicate trafficking in persons, which according to our recent estimate involves up to 900,000 people a year being moved across international borders into forced labor, sexual exploitation and other forms of modern-day slavery,'' McClellan said.

``These important actions will punish the perpetrators and help the victims of this heinous crime around the world,'' he said.

In June, the State Department alleged in an annual report that 15 countries had made no significant efforts to stop trafficking in humans and could face sanctions under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Officials said sanctions could include voting against loans to the countries from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

... ``The steps taken by these countries stand in contrast to the continuing failure of Burma, Cuba, and North Korea to make significant efforts to comply with the act's minimum standards,'' he said. ``As a result, the president decided to impose sanctions on these countries in accordance with the act.''

More...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3131754,00.html

[Osolomia]

29. Shucks, a little does of reality spoiled DUers fantasies yet again

What a SHAME eh?

[0rganism]

30. Cuba posesses weapons of mass seduction! Eeeek!

Meanwhile, my brother is working in a state-run program to inocculate the Albuquerque prostitutes against syphillis. Maybe we should have trade sanctions against ourselves?

Oh wait, that's Bush's economic policy. Nevermind.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

31. Good point. The sex trade exists in virtually every metropolitan

area of the U.S. I think we ought to boycott all cities with a population of over 50,000 people....

[KoKo]

36. But, back to the issue...was Bush at the UN because of his concern/Sex/

/Slave Trade? NO! He was there to get money for his BOTCHED UP ......Iraq Invasion!

[Starpass]

34. Okay, fill me in because I have to be losing all concept of reality

or maybe this mafia is making me lose it. I wasn't around for the speech and have seen basically nothing about it until came to DU..........are you saying that this weed wacker went in front of the UN and started talking about sex slaves?? What fucking asshole wrote this shit into the speech?? It makes him look deranged and as must have the world saying "jesushchrist, we can under no circumstances believe anything this wacko has to say"!! And he did this in the same body that Powell stood in front of and waived a goddamn grad paper around as the most important piece of intelligence ever gathered on planet Earth. Where the fuck is the media just blowing this bastard to hell----this is a pathetic joke!! If you can't find WMDs, then lets try sex...........guess they figured it worked on Clinton....these people should not be running a nation.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

37. No shit. He actually spent time talking about sex trade/slaves

and what needed to happen to the customers.

It seemed as if the audience was looking at each other with a WTF??? look.

You can see it at cspan.com

[KoKo]

38. Billy's Right! "Terraists," Murder, Revenge, Kill, WMD,"Nucular," Sex,

Slaves, Violence/"Terra"/Killing/Violence/Palestinians/"Terraists"/Palestinians/MiddleEast/Kill/"Terra"/Sex/Violence......etec........etc.......

He's a "Piece of Work" our little re-incarnated CRUSADER!

[KoKo]

39. hey....starpass......read my post and Billy's here! Yeah! It was Sex!

He's a Repug. Creep....what do you expect.....someone filled his head full of "Rape Pitts" (an exact quote..from his speech) and Slave Trade....and he was off on his "Crusader Bunny Pants Mode" trying to save women.....and yet we know he doesn't give a "crap" (to use Starpass language) about Women.

He said it.....he made it one of the "major paragraphs of his speech) The Guy is a Religious Fanatic.....sort of like those old time Evangelical fire breather Christians.

They've convinced him.....his handlers....that he's the savior of Religious America.........

Yeah....sorry....it's the truth!

[Armstead]

40. It IS IMPORTANT!!!!!!

I am totally cynical about why George brought it up today. Hearing him talking about it was jarring, and I am sure he is using it for stupid political reasons.

But I am glad he brought it up.

Modern slavery is one of the most imoportant human-rights problems today. It should have been a central international issue years ago.

All over the world, millions of people are enslaved and living short, miserable lives because of it. Sex slaves. Child slaves. People held prisoner on plantations as slaves. All over the world.

Sorry if I sound like a self-righteous prig, but this really is a heartbreaking issue -- and a major problem today.Whatever the reasons, I am glad he brought the subject up. It is one of the major failings of our society that we are ignoring it.


Read about it, and then see how you feel.

http://www.antislavery.org/

http://www.iabolish.com/

http://users.erols.com/bcccsbs/bass/bass.html

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

42. I think we need to address the slavery issues that occure within our

own borders first. Migrant farm workers, people convicted of victimless crimes spending years in work camps, American Corporations with overseas plants that are using slave labor under different guises...

Let's clean up our own back yard first. Then we have the right to insist others stop the exploitation of the poor.

[KoKo]

43. Yes.....and thanks for the links....but with "tin cup out," why did Bush

Focus on this? We know he doesn't particularly care about Women or Female Rights....because Fundies think we are Slaves.

Was this Laura........the Garden Statue (couldn't remember how to spell Nombe, Knombe, Nome, whatever..get that dictionary out!)...but who the Hell put that stuff in what was supposed to be a "Humility Speech" before the UN??

What was that all about....?????

[Armstead]

44. I don;t know...and I don't care

REad the links KoKo. It'll tear your heart out.

Some things do transcend our political labels.

[Capn Sunshine]

41. Oh, It's out there all right

Read last month's National geographic. That is more about economic slavery, but Bush seems to gravitate to the purient

S. America sex slaves everywhere.

And what about Pickles?

[Nottingham]

45. Bush is trying to make himself look like he is a Saint!

and thats really HARD!

I too was very surprised about the Sex trade comment!

:bounce:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

46. He brought it up last night as well in the Faux interview....

They're posturing to make it an issue. Christ. This administration trying to act like they care about the exploitation of the poor? They wrote the book on it.

[Sailorforclark]

47. SMOKE AND MIRRORS

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