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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (23573)	7/27/2003 5:05:46 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Karen, Re: What the heck? OK, this isn't exactly obvious a first glance. But here's the outline of the argument. In certain countries, there is a trend toward desperate families selling off their daughters into the sex trade. This is a big problem in Myanmar, parts of Thailand and India right now, and the problem is growing. My point is that what drives this sex trade is the desperation of the parents, who justify selling off their daughters into the sex trade because their own survival is at stake. As far as I'm concerned, this problem has every likelihood of growing and becoming more pervasive. As with the sort of sociological evidence that points to the notion that child abusers were often abused as children themselves, so to with the sex-slave trade. This pathology gives every indication that it can become a permanent feature of human existence. To put this in the context of U.S. corporate-military-industrial complex, the children who were sold into white slavery for the sex trade in Kosovo and Bosnia and run as prostitutes by employees of Dyncorp will most likely have only one idea about how to make a living should they survive to adulthood. You'll recall that not only does Dyncorp run prostitute rings, it also is engaged in U.S. foreign policy initiatives on at least three continents with the approval of Don Rumsfeld and the boys.