Asian beat downs.

[fintstone]

Fred? Seriously?
By current law/definition, trafficking in persons is relatively widespread and was prevalent among the immigrant workforce of the period (men, women and children) and widely exists among illegal immigrants today who are used for cheap labor, in the sex trade, petty crime, smuggling, the drug trade, etc.). While used to describe the sex trade, it describes other activities as well. The term is used for:..

"a crime whereby traffickers exploit and profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them to perform labor or engage in commercial sex. When a person younger than 18 is used to perform a commercial sex act, it is a crime regardless of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion.

The United States recognizes two primary forms of trafficking in persons: forced labor and sex trafficking. The basic meaning of these forms of human trafficking and some unique characteristics of each are set forth below, followed by several key principles and concepts that relate to all forms of human trafficking.

More than 175 nations have ratified or acceded to the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (the UN TIP Protocol), which defines trafficking in persons and contains obligations to prevent and combat the crime.

The United States’ Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended (TVPA), and the UN TIP Protocol contain similar definitions of human trafficking. The elements of both definitions can be described using a three-element framework focused on the trafficker’s 1) acts; 2) means; and 3) purpose. All three elements are essential to form a human trafficking violation.

Forced Labor
Forced labor, also referred to as “labor trafficking,” encompasses the range of activities involved when a person uses force, fraud, or coercion to obtain the labor or services of another person.

The “acts” element of forced labor is met when the trafficker recruits, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains a person for labor or services.

The “means” element of forced labor includes a trafficker’s use of force, fraud, or coercion. The coercive scheme can include threats of force, debt manipulation, withholding of pay, confiscation of identity documents, psychological coercion, reputational harm, manipulation of the use of addictive substances, threats to other people, or other forms of coercion.

The “purpose” element focuses on the perpetrator’s goal to secure labor or services. There is no limit on the location or type of industry. Traffickers can commit this crime in any sector or setting, whether legal or illicit, including but not limited to agricultural fields, factories, restaurants, hotels, massage parlors, retail stores, fishing vessels, mines, private homes, or drug trafficking operations.

All three elements are essential to constitute the crime of forced labor.

There are certain types of forced labor that are frequently distinguished for emphasis or because they are widespread:

Domestic Servitude

“Domestic servitude” is a form of forced labor in which the trafficker requires a victim to perform work in a private residence. Such circumstances create unique vulnerabilities. Domestic workers are often isolated and may work alone in a house. Their employer often controls their access to food, transportation, and housing. What happens in a private residence is hidden from the world – including from law enforcement and labor inspectors – resulting in barriers to victim identification. Foreign domestic workers are particularly vulnerable to abuse due to language and cultural barriers, as well as a lack of community ties. Some perpetrators use these types of conditions as part of their coercive schemes to compel the labor of domestic workers with little risk of detection.

Forced Child Labor

The term “forced child labor” describes forced labor schemes in which traffickers compel children to work. Traffickers often target children because they are more vulnerable. Although some children may legally engage in certain forms of work, forcing or coercing children to work remains illegal. Forms of slavery or slavery-like practices – including the sale of children, forced or compulsory child labor, and debt bondage and serfdom of children – continue to exist, despite legal prohibitions and widespread condemnation. Some indicators of forced labor of a child include situations in which the child appears to be in the custody of a non-family member and the child’s work financially benefits someone outside the child’s family; or the denial of food, rest, or schooling to a child who is working.

Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking encompasses the range of activities involved when a trafficker uses force, fraud, or coercion to compel another person to engage in a commercial sex act or causes a child to engage in a commercial sex act.

The crime of sex trafficking can also be understood through the “acts,” “means,” and “purpose” framework. All three elements are required to establish a sex trafficking crime (except in the case of child sex trafficking where the means are irrelevant).

The “acts” element of sex trafficking is met when a trafficker recruits, harbors, transports, provides, obtains, patronizes, or solicits another person to engage in commercial sex.

The “means” element of sex trafficking occurs when a trafficker uses force, fraud, or coercion. Coercion in the case of sex trafficking includes the broad array of nonviolent means included in the forced labor definition. These can include serious harm, psychosocial harm, reputational harm, threats to others, and debt manipulation.

The “purpose” element in every sex trafficking case is the same: to engage in a commercial sex act. Sex trafficking can take place in private homes, massage parlors, hotels, or brothels, among other locations, as well as on the internet.

Child Sex Trafficking

In cases where an individual engages in any of the specified “acts” with a child (under the age of 18), the means element is irrelevant regardless of whether evidence of force, fraud, or coercion exists. The use of children in commercial sex is prohibited by law in the United States and most countries around the world.

Key Principles and Concepts
These key principles and concepts relate to all forms of trafficking in persons, including forced labor and sex trafficking.

Consent

Human trafficking can take place even if the victim initially consented to providing labor, services, or commercial sex acts. The analysis is primarily focused on the trafficker’s conduct and not that of the victim. A trafficker can target a victim after a victim applies for a job or migrates to earn a living. The trafficker’s coercive scheme is what matters, not a victim’s prior consent or ability to meaningfully consent thereafter. Likewise, in a sex trafficking case, an adult victim’s initial willingness to engage in commercial sex acts is not relevant where a perpetrator subsequently uses coercion to exploit the victim and cause them to continue engaging in the same acts. In the case of child sex trafficking, the consent of the victim is never relevant as a child cannot legally consent to commercial sex.

Movement

Neither U.S. law nor international law requires that a trafficker or victim move across a border for a human trafficking offense to take place. Trafficking in persons is a crime of exploitation and coercion, and not movement. Traffickers can use schemes that take victims hundreds of miles away from their homes, or exploit them in the same neighborhoods where they were born.

Debt Bondage

“Debt bondage” is focused on human trafficking crimes in which the trafficker’s primary means of coercion is debt manipulation. U.S. law prohibits perpetrators from using debts as part of their scheme, plan, or pattern to compel a person to work or engage in commercial sex. Traffickers target some individuals with an initial debt assumed willingly as a condition of future employment, while in certain countries traffickers tell individuals they “inherited” the debt from relatives. Traffickers can also manipulate debts after the economic relationship begins by withholding earnings or forcing the victim to assume debts for expenses like food, housing, or transportation. They can also manipulate debts a victim owes to other people. When traffickers use debts as a means to compel labor or commercial sex, they have committed a crime..."
Read the rest:
https://www.state.gov/what-is-trafficking-in-persons/

[911pcars]

"By current law/definition, trafficking in persons....... "

Nice cut and paste.

You could have continued and easily found the answers to the questions you posed in #289...... if you were interested.

[RWebb]

I think he is setting up for a whine about his ancestors, their suffering, and how he overcame it via the force of his super powers



Now, the topic is on the large number of attacks on Asian people in the US, which just happens to coincide with a public figure making a lot of racist comments...

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by RWebb

I think he is setting up for a whine about his ancestors, their suffering, and how he overcame it via the force of his super powers



Now, the topic is on the large number of attacks on Asian people in the US, which just happens to coincide with a public figure making a lot of racist comments...

Way to oversimplify! It coincides with a lot of things. Violence is up in general. Sorry the Asians are getting some of it. Sorry a lot of people are getting some of it. But it's complete bullsh.t to say one person brought this on by calling it the China virus or the Wuhan Flu. The fahkin "news media" has been referring to the strains by the country they originated in. So when does the violence against these people. Get a grip folks. It's more than just someone calling it by the name of the country the virus originated in.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by 911pcars

Nice cut and paste.

You could have continued and easily found the answers to the questions you posed in #289...... if you were interested.

I know the answers, I teach the class.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by RWebb

I think he is setting up for a whine about his ancestors, their suffering, and how he overcame it via the force of his super powers



Now, the topic is on the large number of attacks on Asian people in the US, which just happens to coincide with a public figure making a lot of racist comments...

Actually, I was trying to better inform those that think illegals are not trafficked.

Yes...lots of racist statements out there. We have heard them nonstop for at least a year. They were used to justify violence all over the country against law enforcement and people with opposing political views. Cities burned while politicians and Hollywood cheered them on. It may be why whites and Asians are being targeted (like in a Boulder supermarket)...quite possibly due to race.

[911pcars]

Nick,
You underestimate the ability of lazy minds to latch onto a grain of truth and run with it. I think mankind has a propensity to explain the origin of a mysterious strain of death, then assign blame to some place or group solely based on pop news repetition.

The Spanish flu reportedly wiped out 50-100M. Many scientists over the years studied evidence frozen by time and concluded that, while the flu had spread in Europe, there was earlier evidence of it first appearing "in Kansas in March 1918 and then in April in France, Germany and the United Kingdom."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

Feel free to look elsewhere for other data.

I don't recall anyone else repeatedly nick-naming COVID19, "the Wuhan flu" as much as our just-departed dear leader along with his other pointed, country-of-origin names such as ChinaFlu and KungFlu. His words are followed - about 74M voters or about 47% of votes cast in the last election.

By all accounts, the Spanish flu label should be dropped and more accurately called the US or French or German or English flu. Racial supremacy adherants will add whatever derogatory term that suits their purpose or stay with Spanish flu. There already is a name for COVID19. Maybe we assign a proper name based on the country with the highest number of COVID cases or fatalities. Uh oh.

[Tobra]

fintstone (Fred/Freddy) you have in past post described that while in High School you fell in love with a college female student of Asian decent, got married after your graduation, joined the military, had a daughter that also joined the military and is now a doctor. You have also bragged how both you and your wife made sure your daughter was an academic achiever, hence Tiger Mom and Dad.

George, you are one strange ranger, creepy even. Between you, Terry, Don and all their alter egos, you are set to field the Oregon State Hospital baseball team.

Large number of attacks on Asians, almost exclusively by African Americans, yeah, definitely a white supremacist deal. Oh, you want to include the "hate crime" by the crazy massage parlor guy? Sorry, no dice, he already spilled the beans and race had nothing to do with it.

It is a pandemic of racism

You backwards ass bastages need to travel, just a little. Go see what everywhere else is like

[fintstone]

Importing vulnerable children by the tens of thousands:
"A total of 16,513 unaccompanied illegal alien minors were in the custody of either Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as of March 23, according to the HHS Administration for Children and Families."

[island911]

And how many kids drown as they take their first crack at swimming at the Rio Grand..

[911pcars]

Originally Posted by Tobra

...... Sorry, no dice, he already spilled the beans and race had nothing to do with it.

Uh. Rule no. 1. Don't take the word of a mass murderer at face value just because he said so. Is that a Dr. Phil thing or what?

Did he also tell the police chief he had a bad day or was that the chief's summary? The perp may well have complained he did it because the adults gave participation trophies to everyone when he was a kid. "Oh, then I understand your angst."

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by 911pcars

Nick,
You underestimate the ability of lazy minds to latch onto a grain of truth and run with it. I think mankind has a propensity to explain the origin of a mysterious strain of death, then assign blame to some place or group solely based on pop news repetition.

The Spanish flu reportedly wiped out 50-100M. Many scientists over the years studied evidence frozen by time and concluded that, while the flu had spread in Europe, there was earlier evidence of it first appearing "in Kansas in March 1918 and then in April in France, Germany and the United Kingdom."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

Feel free to look elsewhere for other data.

I don't recall anyone else repeatedly nick-naming COVID19, "the Wuhan flu" as much as our just-departed dear leader along with his other pointed, country-of-origin names such as ChinaFlu and KungFlu. His words are followed - about 74M voters or about 47% of votes cast in the last election.

By all accounts, the Spanish flu label should be dropped and more accurately called the US or French or German or English flu. Racial supremacy adherants will add whatever derogatory term that suits their purpose or stay with Spanish flu. There already is a name for COVID19. Maybe we assign a proper name based on the country with the highest number of COVID cases or fatalities. Uh oh.

No I really don't... because lazy minds have latched onto a singular reason for an increase in violence against one group. Let's just forget that violence has increased throughout the country! Let's ignore any possibility except for the fact that Trump called it the Wuhan flu! That's how lazy minds work my friend.
The question: Why the increase in violence against Asians?
The lazy mind answer: Someone called a virus the Wuhan flu.

See! I don't discount lazy minds at all. Lazy minds went to the simple answer without even considering that violence has increased in general over the last year due to lockdowns and other things related to the pandemic... But it's clearly Trump calling it the Wuhan flu! SMH

They've used what happened in Georgia as an example of anti Asian violence... even though the person who carried out the act never said anything that would make someone believe that's what it was. Correct me if I'm wrong. But why would a guy who just killed 10 people lie about why he did it? If he's convicted of murder and gets life or the death penalty, having it labeled a hate crime isn't going to add much to it.

I've tried really hard to stay out of this conversation out of respect for Vash but this simpleminded "Trump called it the Wuhan Flu and anyone else who calls it that is part of the problem" is bullsh.t.

[black73]

Originally Posted by Tobra

....Large number of attacks on Asians, almost exclusively by African Americans, yeah, definitely a white supremacist deal.....

Very clever less than half truth that I would rate as almost totally false. What was really found...

"Asian Americans have a higher chance of being victimized by non-White offenders when compared to Black and Hispanic people..."


https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/hate-crimes-against-asian-american-black-and-hispanic-communities/65-dc8ca8f2-c0c7-43d1-920a-0321a232f4bc


But that doesn't make you racist, does it?

[cabmandone]

^^^
Watch the video feed. I can post A BUNCH more if you'd like.

https://news.yahoo.com/shocking-video-shows-man-pushed-191938941.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGWVPySskLDQqq8UNq-azBKf0iumLWZw3hNQyPkyKaBDBkX7LpyeO6WfK45O8edTc43zy enKTp8SAi_czlj9knu7G_W7YMFewK_zZRQpnbscWQoFNDqcwWU uNaqtlV81i0E2XZgfwrWkFJR-HWsFtihxzpYkSUYH7hKLNa1ldLQj

Should we just ignore this? "In New York City, where anti-Asian hate crime soared nearly nine-fold in 2020 over the year before, only two of the 20 people arrested last year in connection with these attacks were white, according to New York Police Department data analyzed by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. Eleven were African Americans, six were white Hispanics and one was a Black Hispanic."

I'm sure that 100% were Trump supporters and acting on his words though... right?

[black73]

[cabmandone]

You could have made some sort of factual rebuttal...but let's be honest, we both know why you didn't.

[island911]

we all know.

[911pcars]

Originally Posted by cabmando

^^^
...........
I'm sure that 100% were Trump supporters and acting on his words though... right?

Uh nope. I agree. Muggers and their motives come in all shades. And that video proves what, that the perps are not color-conscious when mugging and robbing, or they aren't Trump supporters because they appear to be black?

Let's ask these folks:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/capitol-insurrection-siege-trump-incitement-fbi-charges-rioters/

Yeah, the above link contains anecdotal data, not a valid survey of the nation, but at least they're first person quotes (authenticity assumed), not a random street mugging and liquor store robbery clip.

[island911]

OMG, you read Mother Jones.

no wonder...

brainwash

[fintstone]

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