I think the point being made by the website, is that there is a distinct lack of awareness of the existence of Human Trafficking in New Zealand, predominantly because it is not as significant a problem as other countries throughout the world.

It was only a couple of months ago that the papers discussed the abuse of fisherman on vessels in New Zealand waters, for which I believe the owners were prosecuted for breaking fishing laws, but walked from any human trafficking charges because they were New Zealanders?
Correct me if I’m wrong.

It’s too easy these days for people to stick their heads in the sand and ignore the suffering of others. You joke that we don’t need Liam Neeson here, but can I ask each and every one of you to ask yourself, what you would do if someone close to you became an inadvertent victim of trafficking – even if not in New Zealand – but if travelling internationally? (Admittedly I think most of the rubbish published in newspapers today deserves nothing better than to serve as tomorrows chip paper – but documentaries have also covered this story).

If people are talking about it, then at least some acknowledgement is being made that the problem exists – so good on whomever this website is – for attempting to raise the profile of an industry that in today’s age is a disgrace to humanity.

Oh, and P.S. since when the hell did humanitarianism become a socialist right? And since when did understanding Human Trafficking become a feminist pursuit? Sorry, but that displays a significant level of ignorance on the part of the person commenting.

Well – I got stash on stash and it ain’t nouveau cash.
Money’s in my family for generations.
My great-, great-, great-grandfather made the bag,
Selling European slaves in Africa.

I got cash motherfucker,
And you can’t tell whether or not I’m joking, can you?
Dumb fuck.

I see the media are hyping the latest Abe Lincoln ,such a great guy movie . I’ll bet there’s no mention of the fact he wanted to get them all out of his United States of America…..off to Africa or Central America.

No, history and nation states has to have it’s heroes and inconvenient facts can;t be let to get in the way.

I wish I were in Dixie.

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html

A story of aborting females and killing infant females across India. And how this results in a shortage of woman and seeing young girls/women as valuable scarce commodities. Females being kidnapped and trafficked acrss India for money and then being held in houses and raped by their captors.

The Delhi rape story just the tip of a very ugly story.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20938125

[Freetown, Sierra Leone] is one of the biggest shit-holes on the planet.

You might be right – I haven’t been there to see for my self. But it was a better place in the late 1700′s, and called Freetown for a good reason.

That’s correct….I gave a summary a while back about how massage parlors used to be governed by the police register, which protected hookers, madams etc from gangs, drugs and other ‘elements’….David Garrat acknowledged that it was correct, true, and more importantly….worked.

It kept crimminal whores out in the open on the sidewalk…….right infront of police constables and detectives!

It also kept the madams on the straight and narrow…..the police could then ‘shake the trees’ with the threat of prosecution if the register wasn’t filled out correctly, or drugs etc were found on the premises……this helped protect the working girls in the employ of madams.

Media rules with regards to adverts placed in the newspapers also played a part in keeping the massage industry more ‘honest’.

Well surprise surprise another load of bollocks from “progressives” that left decent law abiding folk pissed off .

But if it were the Jews who were trading in kids then Minto, Bradford and other Jew haters…….

This is nothing more than a demand for MORE money to be wasted in 3rd world governments by the UN etc.

Leftish morality in NZ is a fucken joke!

kowtow (3,532) Says:
January 10th, 2013 at 1:12 pm

wehana

that’s bollocks.

If it were a bunch of blacks or Pacific or whatever ,the lefties would be proclaiming grass or flax roots activism and community spirit etc

When it;s white or middle class ,they, as you say, are imposing /authoritarian etc

Is it exclusively whites? In any case, the point is simply that there should be compromise between competing interests. Public spaces are shared and so people have to find ways to coexist.

Poor analogy. However, both statements are consistent. A majority should not automatically be able to impose their sense of respectability and community standards on others and neither should their view on the rights of children be held as necessarily correct… in my opinion.

You clearly didn’t the the memo about immigration and the diversity dividend and how we should all be celebrating it’s undoubted benefits.

To point to any negative aspects marks you as a racist!!!!!!

Even the National Party prime minister has said New Zealand is a multicultural society ,so let’s celebrate what these immigrants bring to this boring,white, Anglo Saxon country.

Weihana Jan 2013 – “…and no one should have carte blanche authority to impose their sense of respectability on others”

Weihana Mar 2012 – “Therefore if the educated among us are able to determine objectively that certain [redacted] are not positive and not healthy then that to me constitutes a rights based argument. The idea being that the [mast majority]% (in reality probably lower) is ignorant and should be corrected by the force of superior knowledge. We should not hold their view valid merely by force of numbers”

that’s bollocks.

If it were a bunch of blacks or Pacific or whatever ,the lefties would be proclaiming grass or flax roots activism and community spirit etc

When it;s white or middle class ,they, as you say, are imposing /authoritarian etc

kowtow (3,530) Says:
January 10th, 2013 at 12:07 pm

Home owners who dn’t want hookers,pimps , their customers and detretus around the neighbourhood have human rights too.

Since when was it a “human right” for one individual, or a group of such individuals, to dictate to everyone else who is and isn’t allowed in the neighbourhood? Compromise is a necessary part of living in a community and no one should have carte blanche authority to impose their sense of respectability on others.

It’s the bully pulpit influence on the Manukau and Auckland City Council that is to blame for the latter, which will drive street sex workers underground, given that the Manukau City Council was responsible for creating the problem in the first place with its stupid ban on use of council rental accomodation for escort work, locked post-midnight public lavatories, and romanticisation of vigilante NIMBY citizens groups who are just as likely to engage in standover tactics as they allege that street sex workers are. Not to mention the transsexual-bashing Auck City Council report on street sex work that repeatedly refers to transsexual street sex workers as transvestites.

You disgust me. You’re opining on someing you have clearly never taken the slightest interest in, rather have just read a few opposing views. The reason that bill exists is because there is a problem, and it’s a serious one which is affecting people’s lives.

But then, it’s not you who’s being craped on so it’s ok.

I would think so much less of you were this not the case. Sadly I dont know who will credibly run the “anyone but Len” campaign.

But to the likes of chardongayguy and his fellow travellers human rights don’t apply to the respectable middle classes who are of course the enemy.

All so-called human trafficking involved foreigners from third-world countries willingly coming to NZ looking for to make money that they could not earn in their own country.

The woman may have been told they were coming to work in orchards, etc, but instead wound up having their passports taken and being forced into some other work like prostitution.

Without exception this trafficking was organised and committed by other immigrants, in other words – these people were exploited by their own kind.

I know of not a single instance of human trafficking being committed by a New Zealand-born citizen who grew up in New Zealand.