U.S. warns Germany on World Cup sex workers

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States warned key ally Germany on Monday that it should do more to stop a tide of sex workers arriving for this month's soccer World Cup, and accused 12 nations of failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers.

"The U.S. government opposes prostitution," which is legal in Germany, a State Department report on global human trafficking said. "These activities are inherently harmful and dehumanizing."

A U.S. congressman and other anti-trafficking advocates estimate that thousands of foreign women, many from Eastern Europe, will be forced into sex work during the four-week tournament that begins June 9.

At a briefing, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denounced "the sordid trade in human beings" and said the fight against trafficking is "a great moral calling of our time."

"Together we will stop at nothing to end the debasement of our fellow men," she said.


More: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/05/human.trafficking.ap/index.html


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Condi, hun, that's not moral high ground you're standing on, it's quicksand.

.....yea, that's it...:evilfrown:

This coming from a government with a torture policy...a goverment that marginalizes it's citizens...

Oh yeah, the US really cares about "our fellow men"

:sarcasm:

It's embarrassing when this country would rather someone fight in a war than have sex.

to the rest of the world when they make their moral pronouncements like this? They have zero credibility, don't they understand they have squandered what little credibility we once had?

Talking about morality, how moral is it to have so many millions of citizens dying because they are without health insurance? Now, that is deeply immoral and a problem our senators should be working on. Not worry whether Germany has legalized prostitution or not.

:grr:

I for one am sure of it

:)

And how much STD's are controlled because the women are tested?

Seems to me that she should have been denouncing his "business" - especially since he was a White House regular.

his website was hotmilitarystuds.com. Support the troops! :patriot:

and Germany is one of the worst offenders.

"As many as 800,000 people are bought and sold across national borders annually or lured to other countries with false promises of work or other benefits, the State Department said in its annual survey of international human trafficking. Most are women and children."

These women and children are NOT doing this of their own accord. They have either been kidnapped outright or have been lured by false promises of bogus jobs. Once they arrive at their destination, their passports are immediately confiscated and their "employers" either force them into prostitution and/or sell them outright at slave auctions and their new "owner" then forces them into prostitution. Women that don't cooperate are beaten and worse. Some are killed outright as an "example" to the others. They are kept in horribly appalling conditions and if they try to escape, they will of course be killed. If a customer complains about a "less than satisfactory" performance, they will be beated or killed, depending on the whim of the "owner." The "owners" know who these girls are, where they came from, and who their family members are. If a girl does manage to escape, the "owner" often retaliates on her family. That's one of the many threats used to keep "the girls" in line and it works. Organized crime is behind this and they carry through on their threats. The girls also can't turn to cops and/or government officials because they are more often than not "in" on the deal. The cops are some of their most frequent customers and the "owners" make sure they get "freebies" to look the other way. Government officials get $$ so they're more than happy to ignore the problem.

This is NOT legalized prostitution we're talking. This is human trafficking and it's a HUGE black market business, coming in third behind arms sales and drug sales. Germany is one of the worst offenders. Israel is also at the top of the list but you won't see them listed in the State Department report. The whole thing has been politicized and some of the most egregious offenders have been moved to Tier 1 (the "OK" Tier) whereas "enemies of the US", such as Cuba for instance, are somehow relegated to Tier 3 (the worst offenders). I see Iran and Syria appear to be in that Tier in the 2006 report and that the only two countries that have been sanctioned are Equatorial Guinea and Venezuela. That figures. The State Department report is a sham. It's just more politics as usual.

For more information on trafficking of sex slaves, check out Victor Malarek's book "The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade."


I posted the above info in another thread earlier today about the same subject:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1357045&mesg_id=1357045

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