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To: TobagoJack who wrote (132152)	3/15/2017 10:51:09 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217587

it's not a pleasant topic is it how can humans be so brutal to their fellow humans, for no other reason except to exploit them? and there is no one country or race that has a monopoly on brutality even though the U.S. officially banned slavery in this country after the brutal civil war of 1860-65 defacto slavery existed until the 1930s in some former slave states "Slavery by Another Name is a 90 minute documentary that challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon, the documentary explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century Punishment in a forced labor camp, 1930s, Georgia

To: TobagoJack who wrote (132152)	3/15/2017 10:55:06 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217587

Look TJ.. this is an actual interrogation report related SPECIFICALLY to Korean "comfort women". It's dated 1944. You can call it human trafficking, but that's a matter of definition. But it's CLEARLY NOT "sex slavery" when the girls signed a contract.. Which means they VOLUNTEERED.. Get it? They were dirt poor, relatively unattractive Korean girls (according to the interrogators comments in 1944).. And they were, by their own admission, treated very well.. Sure, they paid their 'cut' to the "house master", but so do every Masseuse in Thailand giving foot massages. They were advanced money as part of their contract.. Now yes.. we COULD call it indentured servitude, working to pay off a debt.. But were they coerced? They didn't state that to the interrogators. They also showed that the Japanese Army ordered that any girl who had fulfilled her contract could leave to return home.. This was in 1943.. Now.. I will admit that I don't have any experience with prostitutes (Thai massage, yes, but no "happy endings", although I've been propositioned often..).. but from what I understand, it's pretty common that poor girls get involved with pimps and madams because they don't believe they have any other options for survival. So spin your Chinese propaganda all you want. Nothing China desires more than to see this distortion of history impact relations between S. Korea and Japan.. But the FACTS, as reflected by 20 Korean "comfort women" in remote Burma tells us that they were prostitutes paid for providing their services. Not much different than the sex trade that CURRENTLY exists in S. Korea, Japan, AND CHINA.. And don't try and tell me they don't have prostitutes and human trafficking RIGHT NOW in China.. Foreign prostitutes in China.. en.wikipedia.org Hawk