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Factors, Gaps & Other Impediments
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Government reform needed to fight U.S. modern-day
slavery
Critical
gaps in our infrastructure perpetuating
rampant growth of this crime
Iraq type atrocities are happening in U.S.
Major
flaws in U.S. State Dept 2004 Trafficking
in Persons Report
Also
see
DISPEL
THE MYTHS ABOUT MODERN
DAY SLAVERY
AND THE
LOCAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING PROBLEM
WORK
ON THIS PAGE IS IN PROGRESS
Government reform needed to fight U.S. modern-day
slavery
Critical
gaps in our infrastructure that are
perpetuating the rampant growth of this
crime
The
recent publicizing of U.S. slavery omits a
great deal of essential information of
critical gaps in our infrastructure that
are perpetuating the rampant growth of
this crime, which are the major reasons
this heinous practice has been able to
become so widespread:
VICTIM
RESCUE *
Slavery
victims are still being required to
contact authorities, or other otherwise
service providers, and report that they
are, indeed, victims. By the nature of
the conditions, which make them slaves,
most often this is not possible. If
someone other than the victim is
reporting to authorities that the victim
has been taken, that person is required
to submit medical records that prove
that the victim is being held by force.
U.S.
anti-slavery efforts need to primarily
focus on rescue and prevention. It will
be important to provide these victims
with needed medical attention,
protection and other services once they
are freed, but victims need to be
rescued first for it to be possible for
them to benefit from those services.
One
of the major aspects that impedes victim
rescue is the terrorism often associated
with the presence of this crime. In such
an environment, members of the community
often have directly or indirectly been
warned or threatened against exposing
these criminal operations. Because of
this, and the complex and sophisticated
criminal networking that appears to be
inherent in this crime, possible
informers, i.e., witnesses and others
with the information needed for
investigation and/or rescue, are
concerned about phone tapping, email
intrusion, web site hacking, etc..
But,
for traffickers, one of the major easily
monitored avenues of communication is
evidently the U.S. postal service and/or
similar non-electronic modes of
communication. Despite this, many
entities, particularly governmental, are
still requiring the use of
non-electronic modes, even after being
advised of considerable danger to the
safety of informers in this requirement.
CORRUPTION
Other
otherwise seemingly unconnected efforts
need to focus on eliminating corruption
and organized crime, including the
monitoring, accuracy and completeness of
police reporting about this crime, the
entry point of crime statistics that
drive federal law enforcement budgets
and resource allocation. The same must
be done of requests and appeals,
relating to this and other issues, made
to other authorities, including federal
and state representatives.
This
mechanism would increase accountability
and allow needed public scrutiny. Until
efforts are made in these areas, they
will continue to impede efforts to fight
human trafficking activities in the
U.S., particularly efforts to free
victims.
There
have been numerous indications that, not
only are U.S. authorities often refusing
to investigate possible slavery
situations, they are also failing to
record that requests have even been
made, therefore perpetuating the
"invisibility" of this crime,
in that the result is that these even
"possible" indications will
not even appear in any crime mapping or
statistics database. This, thus, also
perpetuates another gap reported in
Trafficking in Human Beings on a web
site of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime, www.unodc.org/unodc/en/trafficking_human_beings.html:
"...a lack of systematic
research means that reliable data on the
trafficking of human beings that would
allow comparative analyses and the
design of countermeasures is scarce..."
In addition, authorities are not using
protocol appropriate for this crime.
There
is evidence of traffickers extensively
abusing law enforcement and the legal
system, or working those into their
schemes, to protect and support their
operations. That this may be a possible
tendency of many traffickers appears to
be reflected in the wording of 18
USC CHAPTER 77 that relates to
slavery and the sexual exploitation of
children:
Whoever
knowingly provides or obtains the
labor or services of a person -
(1)
by threats of serious harm to, or
physical restraint against, that
person or another person;
(2)
by means of any scheme, plan, or
pattern intended to cause the person
to believe that, if the person did
not perform such labor or services,
that person or another person would
suffer serious harm or physical
restraint; or
(3) by means of the abuse or
threatened abuse of law or the legal
process,
shall
be...or if the violation includes
kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap,
aggravated sexual abuse or the attempt
to commit aggravated sexual abuse...
Despite
this awareness, no attempts are being
made by U.S. authorities to correct this
problem. Basic research and management
practices can substantially help ensure
the recording of reports and requests
for investigation of abduction,
slavery/forced services, sexual
assault/exploitation of children and
related crimes that are currently not
always being recorded. Those or similar
practices can also substantially reduce
police corruption related to alleged
human trafficking victims and
complainants, including retaliatory
false arrests of informants and other
obstruction of justice schemes involving
police and federal officials. The public
needs to be made aware that mechanisms
as simple as these are not in place:
-
Federal
or state level monitoring of
municipal police training and
certification
-
Police
training in activities relating to
abduction, slavery and tactics used
by perpetrators to mask activity,
prevent investigation and force a
local population to support and
protect their operation
-
Periodic
police examination of awareness of
current federal laws, crime trends
and schemes
-
Ensuring
law enforcers receive notices and
training in changes in federal laws,
and emerging crime trends and
schemes
-
Mandating
law enforcement supervisory and
management policies and practices
designed to prevent police
corruption, false arrest, etc..
In
addition, criminal operations involving
abduction and slavery often join
national syndicates, which also makes
government infiltration easier and more
likely. The lucrativeness of this crime
and the crimes often associated with
abduction and slavery facilitates major
lobbying efforts by crime syndicates.
Political "concern" may mask
efforts by traffickers to further their
own welfare while hiding it under the
name of the welfare of others.
Governmental and public attention to and
scrutiny of proposals are more important
than ever.
ASSOCIATED
ORGANIZED CRIME*
Often,
intricate coordination of a number of
individuals is required to carry out the
clandestine operations surrounding
abduction for the purpose of slavery and
the subsequent slavery activities. In
this way, such operations fall under the
definition of organized crime, and,
depending on various aspects of that
operation, may also fall under that of
racketeering, as well as the many other
federal and state laws their activities
violate. The overly simplistic approach
of U.S. authorities fails to take the
aspects of possible organized crime into
consideration in response to information
of abduction and slavery activities
within its boundaries.
ASSOCIATED
TERRORISM
Terrorization
results to a community in which possible
rampant abduction and sex slavery,
unchallenged by authorities, is being
possibly openly carried out and in a
very organized way, the community thus
terrorized into supporting and
protecting trafficking operations on
implied or open threat of abduction or
other harm to them if they do not
cooperate. Such threats carry a heavy
weight due to the poor response of
authorities, combined with the highly
complex schemes of traffickers to mask
abduction and slavery situations and to
prevent investigation.
Getting
information needed in anti-trafficking
efforts requires awareness of both signs
of the possible presence of such
terrorism, as well the type of community
behavior that would result from that
presence. Current U.S. law enforcement
practices are not recognizing the
possibility of such terrorism in
expecting victims or other members of
the community to openly reports signs of
this criminal activity.
INTER
JURISDICTION ACTIVITIES *
Traffickers
often move victims from one area of the
country to another, as well as from
place to place. While some areas of the
country are reporting that information
is being shared with neighboring law
enforcement jurisdictions, it is neither
widespread nor consistent.
There
also doesn't appear to be any
centralized managing of the development
of inter jurisdiction databases of local
level activities at a national level.
Heated controversy relating to the
various systems being proposed for
various levels and resistance to
information sharing between local level
jurisdictions as well as between local,
state and federal levels, are reported.
An emerging school of thought is for the
need for more centralization of law
enforcement entities, and appears to be
what we need to implement before law
enforcement makes any real progress in
this area.
COMMUNITIES
PARALYZED BY COMBINED DYNAMICS *
The
environment in which epidemic abduction
and slavery breeds results in that
community being unable to help itself
overcome these dynamics, let alone begin
to challenge traffickers themselves.
Traffickers are able to thwart any
attempts the community may make to
challenge them.
Effective
non-profit organizations and other
entities that offer the services needed
cannot exist in such an environment.
People from outside the local area are
needed to help in the efforts, but most
law enforcement agencies and other
service providers are restricted from
providing services to victims and
communities in other geographical areas.
NARROW
SCOPE OF SERVICE PROVIDERS *
It
is inhumane and a violation of human
rights to allow slavery victims, men,
women and children, many of whom are
U.S. nationals, to continue to be
subjected to the conditions of their
situation until all of these other
complexities are resolved.
Merely
allocating effective resources for
services if a victim has the freedom to
approach a service provider, and/or
after a victim is freed, does not
address the U.S. slavery problem and is
a sham.
Slavery
victims have to be rescued, need
assistance in getting freed, in order to
be able to benefit from the funds and
resources that are currently being
allocated for their welfare.
NGOs,
particularly those receiving government
funding to fight slavery, need to
include in the scope of providing
benefits to slavery victims activities
such as:
-
Coordination
of the necessary community
surveillance activity and networking
with other communities and NGO's in
that same activity
-
Advocacy
and coordination of investigation
and rescue appeals to authorities
and other entities Activism in
police and government reform
-
Assistance
to other communities too terrorized
to be able to act on their own
and/or in which corruption may be
too prevalent to enable an
appropriate response
-
Proactive
media relations
-
Publicizing
these many aspects of the complexity
of this problem to help motivate the
change, and possibly the public
outcry, necessary to effectively
address them
* I
may be contacted for documented evidence
of these facts.
Current
publicizing of U.S. slavery The recent
publicizing of U.S. slavery also omits a
number of points that hamper efforts such
publicizing is intended to achieve: to
create public awareness due to the need
for help in victim identification and
rescue, and to prevent additional
victimization.
My
own awareness of these shortcomings is
through my experiences since witnessing
the August 2002 abduction of David, my
main love, who has been subsequently
forced into a sadistic form of homosexual
prostitution and torture. Since then, I
continue learning of additional victims,
and of many aspects of this crime as it is
being carried out in the U.S. today.
Most
of the current news articles are still
portraying this crime as something that
"only" involves non U.S.
nationals, and only those who've been
"abducted," i.e., taken under
control of human traffickers, either in
another country then brought here, or who
have been lured to the U.S. for the
purpose of making them slaves. Some even
talk about the need for victims to come
forward to report their situation -
totally ignoring the restraints/conditions
under which these people are held.
Articles
are also still not alluding to the rampant
heavily masked abduction and slavery
taking place here, in the U.S., of U.S.
nationals and people who had been living
in the U.S. well before being targeted for
abduction. News articles are also not
publicizing how easy it is to be taken
victim. This is particularly the case for
someone working "undercover" in
anti-slavery efforts, such as trying to
identify victims, and the many working
"underground," i.e., someone who
has infiltrated a trafficking ring for the
purpose of trying to help victims escape.
We
reach a bit of a milestone in articles
that talk about victims being
"usually too frightened or isolated
to get help." However they fail to
describe this in a way that the public can
understand what victims and advocates are
up against, and how vulnerable they, these
other members of the public, may be:
Victims
are usually/often "isolated" by
being kept:
-
out
of sight of the general public by
being held captive in brothels, etc.,
and not permitted contact with the
public, other than sex patrons and
those guarding them, usually watched
through the use of hidden cameras
during that time
-
heavily
drugged into unconsciousness and in
physical restraints when not working
(David
was found in chains once, abandoned, in
an otherwise unused basement of a
business, by the person who'd been
responsible for harboring Dave. But the
people who found Dave did not know that
he would now need special protection
from the traffickers. Dave's
"rescuers" thought that all
they had to do was release him from
those chains. They didn't realize that
he couldn't tell them that he, as well
as I, because he is being threatened
with harm to me, should he escape, would
subsequently need such protection until
his traffickers are effectively
apprehended. So now, 17 months later,
Dave is still being held and has been
subjected to additional incredible
suffering and abuse.)
Victims
are "usually too frightened"
because:
-
they
may be kept under constant guard in
public, or know that they will be
interrogated under sodium pentothal
(truth serum) so that trafficker's
will know if they've said/done
something to reveal their slavery
situation
-
if
traffickers learn that a victim has
said/done things to reveal his or her
actual situation, the victim will be
severely punished, etc., by the
traffickers - as what has been done to
David
-
rescued
victims showed signs, and/or reported,
having been badly beaten and were
exhausted, undernourished and in need
of critical medical attention, at the
time they were found
Victims
are often "homeless and
destitute" because:
Traffickers
often
-
force
their victims to maintain what may
appear to be the victim's normal
interaction with family and friends,
so that their victimization is less
likely to be evident
-
cause
a victim, or targeted victim, to end
what had been the person's normal
employment or social associations, to
make a slavery situation easier to
hide and to possibly make a targeted
victim more vulnerable to becoming a
victim
-
are
someone the victim knew before
becoming a victim, including as a
family member, and even a spouse
-
gain
control of a victim through systematic
bullying, harassment and assaults,
particularly sexual assaults, often
carried out and/or reinforced by other
people, and often, initially, in
exchange for drugs
-
have
someone who is guarding a victim
appear to be the victim's
"new"
girlfriend/boyfriend/lover
-
will
take other victims to prevent those
people from revealing their operation
-
make
victims less likely to be found, often
moving the victim to another area or
illegally to another country, if the
trafficker is concerned that the
victim's actual situation is suspected
-
use
law enforcement to support their
operation ·will sell the victim to
another trafficker, rather than
releasing the victim
-
can
not be trusted to honor a ransom
payment
The
public must be made completely and
accurately aware of the U.S. abduction and
slavery situation, how serious and
dangerous it is, and the urgency needed in
addressing it. Traffickers are domestic
terrorists and this critical problem is
getting more rampant and complex the
longer it continues at its current force.
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Iraq type atrocities are happening in U.S.
The
recent publicizing of productive advocacy
against U.S. abuse and other human rights
violations of detainees in Iraq gives hope
that, possibly, international
organizations may be willing to play the
same role in similar but worse atrocities
taking place here in the U.S., even
though, also paralleling the situation in
Iraq, there is evidence that such
practices are, in the very least, being
protected and supported by U.S.
authorities. The human rights violations
taking place here include abduction,
sexual abuse, slavery, torture, inhumane
treatment, and many other crimes that may
or may not be considered human rights
violations, such as characteristics of
government corruption and organized crime
that is resulting in the terrorism of a
population. Victims are men, woman and
children who are U.S. nationals as well as
others who are expatriates of other
countries and who are not U.S. citizens.
Through
efforts I've been making since August 2002
to resolve the abduction and enslaving for
the purpose of extremely sadistic sexual
and physical abuse of David _________, an
Irish immigrant, DOB 5/7/72, someone very
close to me, I've discovered what appears
to be complex efforts, of what may
actually be parties of the U.S.
government, to protect and support these
criminal operations. The pattern and
consistency of this evidence is very
clear, and, as more and more is uncovered,
it is appearing too
pronounced to be considered simple neglect
and definitely not happenstance. I can
provide more detail on the evidence of
this upon proof that such sensitive
information would be used by an
international organization to propel it's
investigation, however, it may be more
meaningful if other investigators were to
discover, through their own investigation,
evidence proving or disproving what may be
the underlying factors of this situation.
Specific factors are outlined in "Government
reform needed to fight U.S. modern-day
slavery."
David
was abducted into total custody, right
before my eyes, early morning August 9,
2002, here in the U.S., and is being
sexually and, literally, sadistically
trafficked, again primarily, and possibly
only, here in the U.S. There are also
reports of performances in which he is
forced to be sexually and physically
tortured. In my attempts to get Dave freed
somehow, a number of other victims, mostly
local U.S. nationals, both men and women,
have either made their situation known to
me or have been otherwise
"deciphered." In addition, last
fall I received information that this
operation, which appears to be relatively
large, is most likely also associated with
a local ring of exceptionally perverse
pedophiles.
The
people who have so taken David were
evidently banking that authorities in the
local area would behave as though they did
not believe that such a situation could
materialize, and also seemed to have been
very aware of how law enforcement would
react. When I got the report about the
local ring of pedophiles, it was also
reported to me that others in our local
area have had similar reaction from police
when attempting to report sexual
assaults/exploitation of children.
Ours
is a relatively small-town environment and
unsophisticated community, but within a
little over the last ten years what are
probably the two largest gambling casinos
in the world, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun,
have sprung up in our midst, evidently
creating a considerably increased
potential profit for sex slavery, related
drug dealing and similar illicit
businesses, in our area. The area also
"happens" to house a number of
potential world terrorist targets.
The
perpetrators are using pervasive domestic
terrorism tactics and schemes against our
local population to ensure support and
protection of their criminal operations.
Part of the dynamics of this is that,
other than my continual attempts to have
authorities investigate this, most other
people in our local area don't seem to
trust law enforcement enough, or may fear
them, as well as members of this criminal
operation, too much to report to
"traditional" officials what
those people know about any of these
activities.
In
trying to get others involved across the
country, people who have had loved ones
"disappear," it's become evident
that the non response from authorities,
and possibly even the terrorism of
communities that prevents assistance that
I am encountering, is not unique.
Despite
the impact of this operation on the
community, it appears that the loose
coalition of community members fighting
this criminal operation with me may
finally be willing to share what
information they have and are receiving,
especially as they continue to learn of
additional friends who have now been taken
victim. However, the U.S. currently has no
mechanism in place for them to safely, let
alone effectively, do so. What we have
discovered is that, even as national level
efforts to fight modern-day slavery in the
U.S. are being publicized, significant
gaps are still being perpetuated that
impede the road to success in helping
today's victims get freed, even as they
are suffering so horribly, as criminal
enterprise is expanding operations,
accumulating more revenue, becoming more
powerful and influential, and as
additional victims are being taken. Much
of our struggle against these terrorists
is being relayed on this web site, i.e.,
mykindredspirit.home.att.net.
As
in "Government
reform needed to fight U.S. modern-day
slavery," in order to begin to
resolve the overall situation, measures
are needed to be taken to overcome a
number of governmental issues. Merely
allocating effective resources for
services if a victim has the freedom to
approach a service provider, and/or after
a victim is freed, does not address the
U.S. slavery problem and is a sham.
It
is inhumane, and a violation of human
rights, to allow slavery victims to
continue to be subjected to the conditions
of their situation until all of these
other complexities are resolved. Hopefully
at least one international organization is
now positioning itself to provide advocacy
or assistance in trying to get a more
appropriate response to this tragedy from
the U.S. government and/or help in getting
victims rescued, particularly victims of
the operation we have been fighting here.
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Major
flaws in U.S. State Dept 2004 Trafficking
in Persons Report
The
US 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report
released on June 14, 2004, omits reference
to what may be the most contributive
factor in the current worldwide human
trafficking epidemic: rampant abduction
and modern-day slavery is going unchecked
in the US and, not only are US authorities
refusing to take effective action against
it, evidence is emerging of overt cover-up
on the part of these authorities. (See
"Government
reform needed to fight US modern-day
slavery" and "Iraq
type atrocities are happening in US,"
containing what may apply to what is
happening and needed in other parts of the
world, as well.)
What
is being done or not being done by the US
government against this heinous crime, as
it is being carried out in the US, helps
drive what is happening throughout the
world. One reason is that the US is
reportedly a prime destination for victims
from other parts of the world, so a major
factor in demand for victims. Another is
that the defense network that US related
corruption is so efficiently, extensively
and pervasively building in the US, and/or
funding with activities initiated in the
US, is capable of, and is most probably,
spreading throughout the world.
As
relayed in accounts of many who have done
so, identifying where corruption is
occurring and change is needed, and how
perpetrators are abusing and circumventing
law enforcement and the legal system to
support their activities and obstruct
justice, is as easy as walking through the
actual experiences of someone trying to
get authorities to act on a particular
suspected slavery situation.
Fighting
this epidemic crime will require
involvement of a significant percentage of
individual citizens everywhere, if only to
push authorities to take effective action
and for other necessary changes. A web
site set up by the US government in March
2004 talks about such a need, although
that government effort already appears to
be merely just another facade for
inactivity: The Campaign to Rescue &
Restore Victims of Human Trafficking, www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/.
Also
see
DISPEL
THE MYTHS ABOUT MODERN
DAY SLAVERY
AND THE
LOCAL
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
PROBLEM
WORK
ON THIS PAGE IS IN PROGRESS
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