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Read this article about the Super Bowl: http://www.policymic.com/articles/79235/you-ll-never-see-this-side-of-the-super-bowl-on-tv
This part in particular stood out to me:
Look, I know this is a problem, especially in poorer countries. And I know people can get kidnapped, see the deal with the girls in Cleveland being detained for years. I know this. But it just seems to me that there's more to these 'American' prostitution and trafficking stories. Seems like this chick was hanging around with the wrong crowd to begin with. He 'stole' her information, then she hung out with him for 2 weeks? Who does that?
Bottom line, you hang out with scum, you become scum. And then you blame everybody else. The system. The police. The president. Whoever.
Am I the only cynical bastard who sees it this way?
This part in particular stood out to me:
Really? THAT simple, eh?Douglas was 17 years old in 2000 when she moved from New Jersey to start college at Northeastern University. One night, when she arrived at what she thought was a party, she found nothing of the sort. There was only one man there, who appeared to be in his mid-40s. He claimed to feel badly that there had been a misunderstanding, so he offered her in for dinner. For the next two weeks, they casually kept in touch. "I honestly have no idea how he got my information," she said in an interview. She suspects that he paid off her friends for her phone number.
At the end of that two weeks, everything changed.
"I was hanging out with him, we were going to get something to eat, so I thought, and I ended up in Chinatown where he basically shoved me out of the car and told me to make money for him."
She did not have her phone, purse, identification or anything. "I was pretty much in shock. I saw other girls out there at the time so I kind of understood what he wanted me to do, but I wasn’t interested in doing that. … I went into an alleyway to figure out what I was going to do."
He came around the other side of the alley. "He beat me very badly and threatened my life and told me to make the money or I was going to die. So at that point I just started following directions."
Look, I know this is a problem, especially in poorer countries. And I know people can get kidnapped, see the deal with the girls in Cleveland being detained for years. I know this. But it just seems to me that there's more to these 'American' prostitution and trafficking stories. Seems like this chick was hanging around with the wrong crowd to begin with. He 'stole' her information, then she hung out with him for 2 weeks? Who does that?
Bottom line, you hang out with scum, you become scum. And then you blame everybody else. The system. The police. The president. Whoever.
Am I the only cynical bastard who sees it this way?
