"Giusi" > wrote in message
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> "George Shirley" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> Try looking around the rest of this old earth. Slavery still runs rampant
>> in some countries, primarily in Africa. Some Arab nations didn't free
>> their slaves until 1962 but kept them on as unpaid servants as they "were
>> to old to turn loose without a job." There are still slave markets
>> running today, none I know of in the US or any of the other Western
>> nations.
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>> Skin color has nothing to do with it, the Romans and Greeks enslaved any
>> captives and bought and sold them on the open market. The Spanish
>> enslaved, raped, and murdered, untold thousands of Native Americans in
>> all of the Americas where they were. Native American tribes enslaved
>> other tribes people. It appears from history that slavery was the norm
>> for a very long time. I would certainly hope that mankind is enlightened
>> enough to not enslave others but wouldn't bet on it around the world.
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> I'm not ignorant of any of this and know of slavery situations going on in
> many places not so far from me. Ukrainian, various Africans and some
> Albanians are tricked into coming to Italy or to other countries for jobs
> as models which turn out to be prostitution. They take their ID from them
> and threaten their families remaining at home. It's a very large part of
> the Caribinieri duties to find the perpetrators and get rid of them.
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> As a citizen however I would fight it in the US even harder. As someone
> who generally admires Wayne, I really wanted clarification.
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Not just in Italy, there have been sting operations anywhere there have been
large immigrant settlements. The former soviet mafiosi that have immigrated
to the US have promised marriages to US men, education, etc. to Russian
girls to get them here then put them on the streets to earn money for them.
There are Chinese girls who have 'work off' their passage to this country,
illegals from South America who have been told they will be reported to INS
if they don't 'perform'.........slavery is alive and well in the good ol' US
of A.
-ginny