Nepal News - "On Guard Against a Flesh Trade "

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From the Los Angeles Times -
On Guard Against a Flesh Trade

Some guys in this forum have said nice (and pretty much honorable) things about the attractiveness of some Nepali/Sherpa ladies on these pages. There are bad guys out there whose intentions are quite serious and not honorable. The story linked above is about a few young ladies in Nepal who have escaped or been been rescued from sex slavery in India and who now stand guard at border crossings, helping the police nab flesh smugglers.

Since 1997 they've rescued 240 girls and caught 70 slavers. A small fraction, alas. And the crime should probably be prosecuted as murder or attempted murder, because once they're sold and put to "work," the victims will end up with AIDS.

Of course, South Asia is not the only place where this happens. A recent CIA report says slavers are doing it here too, and getting away with it.

Thinking thoughts of guys who should be reborn 120 times as 120 prey species, all high enough on the evolutionary scale to feel pain and terror....
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It's a disgrace and it has been going on for years in Nepal and a lot of other places, too. A common practice when I lived there and a damned despicable one.

I knew one girl who was kidnapped and served four years in a brothel in Delhi and then by a stroke of good fortune was able to escape and get back to Nepal. Talk about a horror story!

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I joke about the ones over here, but even where legal, and "voluntarily" it's too often a choice taken for a lack of knowlege of the other choices and by those brought up to feel themselves wothless.
 
With regard to the slavers, where is Rusty's castrating knife?
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I'd like to see these fellows sing soprano!
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Harry
 
In the other LA Times article on the 3-D Tibetan mandala under construction here in Glendale, one of the lamas said that we should feel compassion now for Mao Tse-tung, on account of the eons of suffering he'll have to endure to work off his karma debt.

I'm trying to remember which critters I've seen on the PBS & Discovery nature programs a slaver should most justly be reincarnated as a female of.

The demand for loveless sex, like the demand for "dope," is inelastic, and if the guys who want it can't buy it at a bordello that's regularly checked by the county health department, they'll buy it from criminals. I have no direct knowledge, but I would think that if there was a place the customers could go for pleasure that's legal and safe, though sleazy, there would be no market for the services of kidnapped sex slaves.

...Unless the customer likes them underage, I suppose. Groucho Marx once said that a man is only as old as the woman he feels, but why on earth would a man want to be 14 again!?!?
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And guys who buy a sex slave's services from her "owner" should also have appropriate karma vistited upon them.


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- JKM
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After killing at least 60 million,Mao has some kharma to work on.Stalin said,speaking of the Ukrain,"If you kill one person,it`s a crime and a tragedy.If you kill 30 million;it`s a statistic."
 
There are places out there even today where slavery - including sexual slavery - is defended by people upholding "traditional values."

There are families in Ghana who are obligated, on account of some ancestor's sin, to give their daughters to the local traditional priests as menials and concubines, and outsiders who try to rescue them are called meddlers and cultural imperialists and such.

There is a passage in the Bible, in Deuteronomy, that sets down the rules for a soldier taking a female POW home as a war trophy. Once he has his will with her, she becomes his wife and he may not sell her, but if he gets tired of her he has to let her go free. The assumption was that there was legal slavery, and a woman couldn't say "no," and the Good Book regulated these things. Progressive legislation in its day, I suppose.

Looking back at most of recorded history, and looking around at a lot of places today, it occurs to me that if

...I have a horror of slavery - sexual, agricultural, industrial, or political

...and I believe that a woman has an absolute right to say "no" to a man who wants sex ("No, I won't marry you," or "No, not without a condom," or "No, I have a headache," or even "No, your card was declined"!),

that makes me a liberal.



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I still have my causes where I grab my Marto Don Quixote sword, and go charging into battle. Mistreating children isn't one of them.

You won't hear me get upset or emotional over abused, neglected, or exploited children. Many social workers who handle 50 of those cases end up almost unable to function in their private life inside a year. It drives them nuts, or to alcoholism, or to high maintenance levels of psychotropic drugs.
drugs. I did those kind of investigations for over 10 years and 500+ cases. I just don't see them happening anymore. I can't afford tofor my own health.
 
I`ll trade.Would an old scarred up vet be worth anything?The current administration doesn`t think so.Perhaps we could do better on the open market.
 
Which brings up an interesting point.

Nepal's Gorkha soldiers are feared and respected as "master mercenaries" properly or not. But the Nepali Army? How many conventional soldiers does it take to counter act a single guerrilla? Are the Maoists really Nepali and exfiltrated to China for training? Here's another ambitious book waiting to be written.

Once Bill gets back we'll have to keep him occupied in this area.

In the meantime

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Just a point -- it's illegal to own a gun in Nepal without a government permit which is not all that easy to obtain. When the Maoists go into a village they are well armed. The locals are lucky if they can muster up a single gun. Does this story tell anything to anybody?

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