E-mail to our 232 Members inviting them to join this Working Group

[johnkarls]

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Subject: Your Invitation to join our new Working Group on Modern-Day Slavery in the United States (The delivered price of a slave in the US in 2019 was only $5,250)
Date: Friday, November 8, 2024
To: To Each of Our 232 Members One-By-One
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To Each of Our 232 Members One-By-One – for reasons explained in the 4 postings in Sec. 2 of www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org.


Dear Friends,

As many of you will recall and Sec. 8 of www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org states, we form Working Groups “whenever a particular policy issue (1) may require immediate action on the spur of the moment (rendering addressing it at the next regular monthly meeting impractical), and/or (2) may require long-term attention.”

Our 9/18/2019 meeting focused on a book by the then-Director of the Harvard Univ. Kennedy School’s Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery -- “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery” (Columbia U. Press – August 29, 2017).

Courtesy of Prof. Kara, we became aware that, inter alia, the United Nations has been conducting a War on Trafficking in Persons for, at the present time, a quarter century and, inter alia, publishes a biennial Global Report on Trafficking in Persons – the last of which was published in 2022 so the new one is due imminently.

Since our 9/18/2019 meeting, we have often summarized the 2019 situation as --

(A) Trafficking human slaves is more profitable for organized crime than illegal guns or illegal drugs.

(B) There are more slaves today than ever throughout history!!!

(C) Indeed, at least TWICE AS MANY people are CURRENTLY TRAPPED in some form of slavery as were traded throughout the 350 years of the transatlantic slave industry!!!

(D) And virtually all of the slaves come from refugee camps where they are easily enticed by the false promise of a better life!!!

(E) Indeed, the retail price of a slave delivered in the U.S. is only $5,250 as a result of which the average price of a sex act is only $27.50 which has unleashed incredible demand!!!

(F) And the average sex slave performs 3,296 sex acts per year for $90,648 of gross income which means that the net return after expenses (meals, bribery of officials, etc.) is an ANNUAL net profit of MANY TIMES the initial investment – with no workforce training!!!

(G) Of course, you can use your slave for anything you want including working in your vineyard or on your farm or in your factory under whatever inhumane working conditions you like and, of course, for no remuneration other than enough calories to keep the slave alive!!!

(H) AND QUITE A FEW SLAVES ARE PURCHASED FOR ORGAN HARVESTING!!!

(I) The average sex slave is dead by age 35!!!

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Obviously it is time --

(1) to update these 2019 statistics;

(2) to study the 2024 United Nations Global Report on Trafficking in Persons as soon as it is published;

(3) to undertake as soon as possible whatever campaigns directed at national leaders are appropriate; and

(4) to remain vigilant vis-à-vis this issue and take whatever action may be appropriate in the future.

If you would like to volunteer for this new Working Group, please press Reply and type “I volunteer.”

Your friend,

John K.

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