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6 charged in human trafficking

Started by Adios, September 04, 2010, 04:49:33 PM

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September 04, 2010, 04:49:33 PM
There are more people living in forced labor today than when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
--Tom Simon, FBI special agent in Honolulu, Hawaii

Six job recruiters have been indicted in federal court in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking operation ever to result in charges in the United States.

An indictment unsealed in Hawaii on Thursday accuses employees of a California-based company of luring about 400 people from Thailand with false promises of lucrative jobs. Many of the imported workers wound up laboring on farms under substandard conditions, had their passports confiscated, and were threatened with deportation.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/03/hawaii.human.trafficking/index.html?hpt=T2

I am amazed this is going on.

Salty

#1
September 04, 2010, 06:27:31 PM
I'm amazed it was on CNN, but not surprised that it happened. I mean, c'mon, it's not as though there's anyone in America that wants to be paid to work on a farm. And who are we to question methods used to keep costs down, which in turn allows companies more money to provide better goods and services for a lower price thus allowing the commoooooooooh no.

I will meditate on this when I enjoy my next mixed-fruit cocktail.
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Dysnomia

#2
September 04, 2010, 06:36:33 PM
I'm not amazed it happened.  I'm amazed people did anything about it.


That said.  I hope those fuckers get the book thrown at them. 
It's all fun and games, till someone gets herpes.

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#3
September 04, 2010, 10:29:58 PM
There's been stuff on NPR about this kind of thing for years; it gets ignored.

Slavery? Not us, nosirree!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Adios

#4
September 05, 2010, 12:48:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel on September 04, 2010, 10:29:58 PM
There's been stuff on NPR about this kind of thing for years; it gets ignored.

Slavery? Not us, nosirree!

Yeah, right.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#5
September 05, 2010, 01:10:42 AM
Quote from: Charley Brown on September 05, 2010, 12:48:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel on September 04, 2010, 10:29:58 PM
There's been stuff on NPR about this kind of thing for years; it gets ignored.

Slavery? Not us, nosirree!

Yeah, right.

Well, you know, people who "immigrate" here *involuntarily* don't count.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
September 05, 2010, 01:11:32 AM
Besides, illegal immigrants got no rights.
    \
:mullet:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Lies

#7
September 05, 2010, 01:31:54 AM
"Have you ever heard of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?"

"No, sorry, I don't listen to rap"
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

Nephew Twiddleton

#8
September 05, 2010, 12:43:17 PM
Quote from: Lysergic on September 05, 2010, 01:31:54 AM
"Have you ever heard of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?"

"No, sorry, I don't listen to rap hip hop"

Quote fix
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Adios

#9
September 05, 2010, 01:20:33 PM
Quote from: Lysergic on September 05, 2010, 01:31:54 AM
"Have you ever heard of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?"

"No, sorry, I don't listen to rap"

I was going to lulz, then I just couldn't.
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