Human Trafficking is NOT the “New Normal”
I just now watched it, a video in which a friend I know personally was accosted by a human trafficker in her supermaket parking lot.
She was aware and got in his face and screamed at him. He took off but did not go far. He hung around waiting for a new opportunity. He was with other men who were grouped around a van.
It was clear what their intention was and that they would not give up easily.
A few days later, another woman was accosted and this was witnessed by the same friend. The victim was a trauma nurse who had seen a lot of upsetting things in her career but she had never been so scared in her life. She was also not young. She was over 60.
Again, a man was following her, There was another group a little ways away. They worked together. Age in these two instances was not a factor.
Occasionally when I hear a news cast, there is the inevitable brain dead idiot who tries to tell us that this incredibly hostile and vicious environment is the “new normal”. There is nothing normal about human trafficking and I for one refuse to have it be part of my life
But what can we do as individuals to fight such a huge and diverse problem? Part of the trouble is that these vicious criminals are seemingly everywhere. There is no concrete source we can knowingly point to for attack.
It becomes in our minds, a huge, unconfrontable and unmanageable problem.
Human trafficking is actually the symptom of a different problem, one that has grown over the last several decades and has branches that reach out in all directions producing all manner of foul fruit.
When I was growing up, I walked to school every day. We had no cell phones and we were safe.
As I got older and had my kids, I was more and more worried. The safe neighborhoods that existed when I was growing up did not exist anymore except in rare areas.
What changed that caused these outgrowths of evil and destruction?
What changed was CONNECTION.
Back in the day we were connected.
Our neighborhoods were actual communities unto themselves where everyone knew everyone. If a kid was seen doing something he should not do, his mom would get a call.
If someone did not show up for dinner all the moms and dads would be out looking for them.
We were all a part of something bigger than just ourselves and our immediate families. We were part of a community.
If anyone showed up in our neighborhood that did not belong there, they would be confronted and if their story did not pan out, the cops were called and they dealt with it.
Men or women with vans hanging around waiting to snatch people would have had their asses handed to them in a most unpleasant fashion.
There are still areas in the world like this today.
I visit Italy a lot and that sense of community still exists there. The smaller towns and villages are all a part of the Nonna (grandma) network where members of the community come together to protect and guard their own.
Throughout the village balconies and stoops hold the nonna’s. They see everything. I simply cannot imagine what would happen to a human trafficker in a village in Italy. I anticipate that they might disappear forever into the canyons of the Pollino mountains and no one would ever miss them. At the very least they would be confronted and chased out with clubs and pitchforks.
Somehow we in American and many parts of the world have gotten into the mindset that we cannot be in each other’s business. Where does this come from? It has gotten so bad that people live next to neighbors for years and never know them.
The rise in “mental illness” to such alarming proportions is simply loneliness and isolation in many cases.
I remember once my brother was in trouble. I talked to my dad about it and he told me to mind my own business. What an amazingly stupid viewpoint!
I told him that my brother IS my business and it should be his too. We are all each other’s business.
Everywhere you look you see isolated people. And everyone is afraid to talk to the person sitting next to them. However when you do, so many times their story spills out as if it were just waiting for someone to ask.
We all want this connection.
And now we really need it.
Human traffickers would not be here if we made it extremely difficult for them. The rewards to the sick and degraded beings who partake in this disgusting evil are great.
A person trafficked can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in sex trafficking fees.
They will not give up easily when that kind of money is at stake. They will take risks and they are as cold and heartless as the most evil villain you can ever imagine.
Anyone who would knowingly and willingly kidnap a child or any other person and sell that person into slavery with absolutely no regard for their life, their hopes, their dreams and the pain it causes the people who love them is worse than Satan incarnate and frankly even Satan would turn up him nose and refuse to deal with them.
That is how filthy these people are.
The only way to thwart them is to MAKE them give up.
And they will if their asses were handed to them hard every time they showed up.
If you see groups of people hanging around parking garages or malls or super markets. Call the police. You may be wrong but you may be right. If you fail to act, you are complicit in what happens to someone who is affected by your failure.
If someone is following you make a scene and call the police.
If you see anything suspicious call the police and do not worry that someone might call you racist or alarmist or paranoid or whatever.
Be aware of your surroundings. If anyone seems suspicious in a shop or mall, look for others. They work in teams. They distract much as thieves do in crowds of tourists.
If anyone tries to distract you when you are with a child or a woman, be aware. This is a ploy.
Do not be looking at your phone when you are walking in a public area.
Get to know your neighbors.
Team up to go into parking garages.
Take martial arts classes. Insist your kids do too and NEVER EVER make them wrong for fighting back.
Do what you have to do to protect yourself. Injure, maim or kill an kidnapper if you can.
But most of all lets make an environment so viciously hostile to these animals that they pack it up and go somehwere else.
We can do that but not by being afraid of getting into each other’s business or hurting someone’s feelings. It is a small price to pay for the safety and security for yourself and those around you.
This problem has grown far beyond what it should have and WE ALL have a responsibility to handle it or it will get worse.
Human trafficking is so evil that it is difficult to confront. It is much easier to make lame excuses in our minds for the weird and suspicious behavior we see.
This is what they bank on. And they will use every trick, every manipulation they can think of to pull off their crimes.
Don’t let them.
Human trafficking is NOT the new normal. It is on the way out ONLY if we all pull together and do something about it.
The one thing that is true about human traffickers is that they are cowards. They are degraded to the point that the only thing they see is their own gain.
And the only thing they respond to is pain.
If we tip the reward to pain ratio way over on the side of pain for evil actions, there would be no problem.
We connect, We fight back, We make it way too painful to engage in their evil and We have won. We cannot do this by being polite, politically correct or nice about it.
It is done by confronting suspicious activity, calling it out, calling the cops, making a scene and if they touch you, hurting them hard.
So my friends, pull out your claws and get ready to use them. We do not have to accept this. We create the “New Normal” not them.
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