Ghislane Maxwell arrest

[Dill]

(07-24-2020, 10:15 AM)bengaloo Wrote: I heard that about Bill Clinton, and its really sad if its true. The way I feel, is that I hope Maxwell doesnt suicide and turns in a bunch of people. I would love to see this kind of evil eradicated from the world. This is a global issue. Human/sex trafficking, pedophilia is absolutely disgusting and evil! This is an issue I would get on board with no matter who was president.

Well, actually, those trips are pretty well accounted for, going to foreign cities with Secret Service accompaniment. There's no record that Clinton went to Epstein's infamous private island, with or without SS.

(07-24-2020, 10:10 AM)bengaloo Wrote: I really dont like politicians even Trump, and especially didnt in the beginning. But I heard a stat that took some of that away and made me think a little different, and its about sex trafficking. The last 4 years of Trump being pres, there have been more arrests made and more efforts made towards stopping human trafficking than the last 15 years combined. I dont care whos on the right or the left, I think we can all agree this is a very good thing. This is one of those cross platform issues. I think the majority of ppl around the world would see this as a good thing. Have to give credit where credit is due.

Just curious, do you have a link to the Trump stat?

This NYT comlains that arrests for sex trafficking are actually down under Trump, and he has reduced protections for victims.

Trump Uses Kids Sold Into Sex Slavery to Score Political Points
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/child-sex-trafficking.html

“Over the last three years we have watched with horror as the administration has dismantled protections for trafficking survivors,” said Martina Vandenberg, the president of the Human Trafficking Legal Center in Washington, who stayed away.

“Using human trafficking for pernicious political purposes is new,” she added. “It is a Trump administration invention.”

The Human Trafficking Legal Center reports only 146 federal trafficking indictments in 2019, down from 204 in the last year of the Obama administration.

A whistle-blower complaint alleges the administration diverted antitrafficking money from well-respected nonprofits to less-effective organizations like “Hookers for Jesus.”

Foreign women and children who have been trafficked into America’s sex trade are eligible for a special visa, the T visa, under a program with bipartisan support, but the administration in 2019 approved only 500 T visas, down from 748 in 2016, and wait times are now three or four times longer. The administration now threatens to deport trafficking survivors who are denied T visas, so applications have fallen....

“We are losing the ‘war on trafficking,’ mostly because we have made this all about prosecutions,” Vandenberg said. “We are doing almost no prevention.”...

Rachel Lloyd, who was trafficked into the sex trade as a teenager, now runs an excellent program in New York City called the Girls Educational and Mentoring Service, or GEMS, which helps girls who have been trafficked. Lloyd said that when she realized that the administration was only engaged in a P.R. effort, she turned down a position on an administration advisory panel and also declined a $10,000 donation from Ivanka Trump for GEMS.

“Why would we give them cover and validation?” asked Lloyd, whose memoir, “Girls Like Us,” is one of the best books on trafficking.