Sex Trafficking

[Willie T]

The purpose of my original post was to generate communication about sex trafficking and how to prevent losing our loved ones.

Really? Then why say, simply, "Trust in God.", when asked for some concrete answers to the problem?

 

[kcnalp]

Really? Then why say, simply, "Trust in God.", when asked for some concrete answers to the problem?

Actually this is quite complex. Some of us know how to trust God. Some don't. Paul knew Ps 91, "He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways." And yet Paul was very careful and even hid.

 

[Willie T]

Actually this is quite complex. Some of us know how to trust God. Some don't. Paul knew Ps 91, "He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways." And yet Paul was very careful and even hid.

Did you used to have a job shoveling manure? That is one of the poorest attempts at "Double-speak" that I have heard in awhile. You're really doing nothing more than saying, "Yes, sex trafficking is a problem — but just ignore it, because God will make it go away without us having to lift a finger."

 

[kcnalp]

Did you used to have a job shoveling manure? That is one of the poorest attempts at "Double-speak" that I have heard in awhile. You're really doing nothing more than saying, "Yes, sex trafficking is a problem — but just ignore it, because God will make it go away without us having to lift a finger."

I'm sorry you're so upset, but who is making you read here, God?

 

[Willie T]

You obviously haven't a single practical thought in your brain about eliminating Sex Trafficking, so why did you bring it up in the first place?

 

[kcnalp]

You obviously haven't a single practical thought in your brain about eliminating Sex Trafficking, so why did you bring it up in the first place?

Why are you reading this thread? Don't you even know? Some of us are concerned about sex trafficking!

 

[Willie T]

If you honestly cared a bit about it, you would already be well aware of suggestions such as these made at this link:

https://www.state.gov/20-ways-you-can-help-fight-human-trafficking/

Anyone can join in the fight against human trafficking. Here are 20 ideas to consider acting on in the year 2020.

1. Learn the indicators of human trafficking on the TIP Office’s website or by taking a training. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, educators, and federal employees, among others.
2. If you are in the United States and believe someone may be a victim of human trafficking, call the 24-hour National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or report an emergency to law enforcement by calling 911. Trafficking victims, whether or not U.S. citizens, are eligible for services and immigration assistance.
3. Be a conscientious and informed consumer. Find out more about who may have picked your tomatoes or made your clothes at ResponsibleSourcingTool.org, or check out the Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. Encourage companies to take steps to prevent human trafficking in their supply chains and publish the information, including supplier or factory lists, for consumer awareness.
4. Volunteer and support anti-trafficking efforts in your community.
5. Meet with and/or write to your local, state, and federal elected officials to let them know you care about combating human trafficking and ask what they are doing to address it.
6. Be well-informed. Set up a web alert to receive current human trafficking news. Also, check out CNN’s Freedom Project for more stories on the different forms of human trafficking around the world.
7. Host an awareness-raising event to watch and discuss films about human trafficking. For example, learn how modern slavery exists today; watch an investigative documentary about sex trafficking; or discover how forced labor can affect global food supply chains. Alternatively, contact your local library and ask for assistance identifying an appropriate book and ask them to host the event.
8. Organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds to an anti-trafficking organization.
9. Encourage your local schools or school district to include human trafficking in their curricula and to develop protocols for identifying and reporting a suspected case of human trafficking or responding to a potential victim.
10. Use your social media platforms to raise awareness about human trafficking, using the following hashtags: #endtrafficking, #freedomfirst.
11. Think about whether your workplace is trauma-informed and reach out to management or the Human Resources team to urge implementation of trauma-informed business practices.
12. Become a mentor to a young person or someone in need. Traffickers often target people who are going through a difficult time or who lack strong support systems. As a mentor, you can be involved in new and positive experiences in that person’s life during a formative time.
13. Parents and Caregivers: Learn how human traffickers often target and recruit youth and who to turn to for help in potentially dangerous situations. Host community conversations with parent teacher associations, law enforcement, schools, and community members regarding safeguarding children in your community.
14. Youth: Learn how to recognize traffickers’ recruitment tactics, how to safely navigate out of a suspicious or uncomfortable situations, and how to reach out for help at any time.
15. Faith-Based Communities: Host awareness events and community forums with anti-trafficking leaders or collectively support a local victim service provider.
16. Businesses: Provide jobs, internships, skills training, and other opportunities to trafficking survivors. Take steps to investigate and prevent trafficking in your supply chains by consulting the Responsible Sourcing Tool and Comply Chain to develop effective management systems to detect, prevent, and combat human trafficking.
17. College Students: Take action on your campus. Join or establish a university club to raise awareness about human trafficking and initiate action throughout your local community. Consider doing one of your research papers on a topic concerning human trafficking. Request that human trafficking be included in university curricula.
18. Health Care Providers: Learn how to identify the indicators of human trafficking and assist victims. With assistance from local anti-trafficking organizations, extend low-cost or free services to human trafficking victims. Resources from the Department of Health and Human Services can be found on their website.
19. Journalists: The media plays an enormous role in shaping perceptions and guiding the public conversation about human trafficking. Seek out some media best practices on how to effectively and responsibly report stories on human trafficking.
20. Attorneys: Offer human trafficking victims legal services, including support for those seeking benefits or special immigration status. Resources are available for attorneys representing victims of human trafficking.

 

[DPMartin]

Kcnalp,
You really shouldn't just be blowing spiritual smoke in the hopes of sounding "religious." Answer the man's question. Specifically how does "Trusting in God" stop sex rings?

it pretty stupid if you ask me.

King David didn't trust God to save his enemies. he trusted God for his own salvation. why do you insist DNB's pretense of ignorance should continue this farce?

surly you don't encourage a mockery of the plain truth of trust God. or do you?

 

[kcnalp]

If you honestly cared a bit about it, you would already be well aware of suggestions such as these made at this link:

https://www.state.gov/20-ways-you-can-help-fight-human-trafficking/

Anyone can join in the fight against human trafficking. Here are 20 ideas to consider acting on in the year 2020.

1. Learn the indicators of human trafficking on the TIP Office’s website or by taking a training. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, educators, and federal employees, among others.
2. If you are in the United States and believe someone may be a victim of human trafficking, call the 24-hour National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or report an emergency to law enforcement by calling 911. Trafficking victims, whether or not U.S. citizens, are eligible for services and immigration assistance.
3. Be a conscientious and informed consumer. Find out more about who may have picked your tomatoes or made your clothes at ResponsibleSourcingTool.org, or check out the Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. Encourage companies to take steps to prevent human trafficking in their supply chains and publish the information, including supplier or factory lists, for consumer awareness.
4. Volunteer and support anti-trafficking efforts in your community.
5. Meet with and/or write to your local, state, and federal elected officials to let them know you care about combating human trafficking and ask what they are doing to address it.
6. Be well-informed. Set up a web alert to receive current human trafficking news. Also, check out CNN’s Freedom Project for more stories on the different forms of human trafficking around the world.
7. Host an awareness-raising event to watch and discuss films about human trafficking. For example, learn how modern slavery exists today; watch an investigative documentary about sex trafficking; or discover how forced labor can affect global food supply chains. Alternatively, contact your local library and ask for assistance identifying an appropriate book and ask them to host the event.
8. Organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds to an anti-trafficking organization.
9. Encourage your local schools or school district to include human trafficking in their curricula and to develop protocols for identifying and reporting a suspected case of human trafficking or responding to a potential victim.
10. Use your social media platforms to raise awareness about human trafficking, using the following hashtags: #endtrafficking, #freedomfirst.
11. Think about whether your workplace is trauma-informed and reach out to management or the Human Resources team to urge implementation of trauma-informed business practices.
12. Become a mentor to a young person or someone in need. Traffickers often target people who are going through a difficult time or who lack strong support systems. As a mentor, you can be involved in new and positive experiences in that person’s life during a formative time.
13. Parents and Caregivers: Learn how human traffickers often target and recruit youth and who to turn to for help in potentially dangerous situations. Host community conversations with parent teacher associations, law enforcement, schools, and community members regarding safeguarding children in your community.
14. Youth: Learn how to recognize traffickers’ recruitment tactics, how to safely navigate out of a suspicious or uncomfortable situations, and how to reach out for help at any time.
15. Faith-Based Communities: Host awareness events and community forums with anti-trafficking leaders or collectively support a local victim service provider.
16. Businesses: Provide jobs, internships, skills training, and other opportunities to trafficking survivors. Take steps to investigate and prevent trafficking in your supply chains by consulting the Responsible Sourcing Tool and Comply Chain to develop effective management systems to detect, prevent, and combat human trafficking.
17. College Students: Take action on your campus. Join or establish a university club to raise awareness about human trafficking and initiate action throughout your local community. Consider doing one of your research papers on a topic concerning human trafficking. Request that human trafficking be included in university curricula.
18. Health Care Providers: Learn how to identify the indicators of human trafficking and assist victims. With assistance from local anti-trafficking organizations, extend low-cost or free services to human trafficking victims. Resources from the Department of Health and Human Services can be found on their website.
19. Journalists: The media plays an enormous role in shaping perceptions and guiding the public conversation about human trafficking. Seek out some media best practices on how to effectively and responsibly report stories on human trafficking.
20. Attorneys: Offer human trafficking victims legal services, including support for those seeking benefits or special immigration status. Resources are available for attorneys representing victims of human trafficking.

If you had posted that to begin with rather than attacking me there might not be no problem!

 

[kcnalp]

it pretty stupid if you ask me.

King David didn't trust God to save his enemies. he trusted God for his own salvation. why do you insist DNB's pretense of ignorance should continue this farce?

surly you don't encourage a mockery of the plain truth of trust God. or do you?

Ummm, I didn't say that.

 

[Willie T]

it pretty stupid if you ask me.

King David didn't trust God to save his enemies. he trusted God for his own salvation. why do you insist DNB's pretense of ignorance should continue this farce?

surly you don't encourage a mockery of the plain truth of trust God. or do you?

Even as a boy, David didn't just "Trust God." He spent hours learning his skills.
When he met Goliath, he already owned that slingshot that he had made.
He had practiced and practiced with it.
He had faced lions and bears with it.
He had a plan in mind to defeat the giant.
Those stones didn't just "appear." He had to go down to a streambed and select far more than he used.
He had to get within range.
He had to know what part of Goliath to strike.
He had to take careful aim.... because he already knew his weapon, and how to use it.

 

[kcnalp]

Even as a boy, David didn't just "Trust God." He spent hours learning his skills.
When he met Goliath, he already owned that slingshot that he had made.
He had practiced and practiced with it.
He had faced lions and bears with it.
He had a plan in mind to defeat the giant.
Those stones didn't just "appear." He had to go down to a streambed and select far more than he used.
He had to get within range.
He had to know what part of Goliath to strike.
He had to take careful aim.... because he already knew his weapon, and how to use it.

Well gee, remember attacking me for "blowing spiritual smoke"? Did you forget what this thread is about?

 

[Willie T]

If you had posted that to begin with rather than attacking me there might not be no problem!

I've known much of this for years. Why don't you?.... you are almost as old as I am.

 

[Willie T]

Why didn't you post a link like that to begin with? I think it is just because you wanted to reply to any responses by declaring how righteous you think you are by chirping, "Just trust God."

 

[Grailhunter]

If you honestly cared a bit about it, you would already be well aware of suggestions such as these made at this link:

https://www.state.gov/20-ways-you-can-help-fight-human-trafficking/

Anyone can join in the fight against human trafficking. Here are 20 ideas to consider acting on in the year 2020.

1. Learn the indicators of human trafficking on the TIP Office’s website or by taking a training. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, educators, and federal employees, among others.
2. If you are in the United States and believe someone may be a victim of human trafficking, call the 24-hour National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or report an emergency to law enforcement by calling 911. Trafficking victims, whether or not U.S. citizens, are eligible for services and immigration assistance.
3. Be a conscientious and informed consumer. Find out more about who may have picked your tomatoes or made your clothes at ResponsibleSourcingTool.org, or check out the Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. Encourage companies to take steps to prevent human trafficking in their supply chains and publish the information, including supplier or factory lists, for consumer awareness.
4. Volunteer and support anti-trafficking efforts in your community.
5. Meet with and/or write to your local, state, and federal elected officials to let them know you care about combating human trafficking and ask what they are doing to address it.
6. Be well-informed. Set up a web alert to receive current human trafficking news. Also, check out CNN’s Freedom Project for more stories on the different forms of human trafficking around the world.
7. Host an awareness-raising event to watch and discuss films about human trafficking. For example, learn how modern slavery exists today; watch an investigative documentary about sex trafficking; or discover how forced labor can affect global food supply chains. Alternatively, contact your local library and ask for assistance identifying an appropriate book and ask them to host the event.
8. Organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds to an anti-trafficking organization.
9. Encourage your local schools or school district to include human trafficking in their curricula and to develop protocols for identifying and reporting a suspected case of human trafficking or responding to a potential victim.
10. Use your social media platforms to raise awareness about human trafficking, using the following hashtags: #endtrafficking, #freedomfirst.
11. Think about whether your workplace is trauma-informed and reach out to management or the Human Resources team to urge implementation of trauma-informed business practices.
12. Become a mentor to a young person or someone in need. Traffickers often target people who are going through a difficult time or who lack strong support systems. As a mentor, you can be involved in new and positive experiences in that person’s life during a formative time.
13. Parents and Caregivers: Learn how human traffickers often target and recruit youth and who to turn to for help in potentially dangerous situations. Host community conversations with parent teacher associations, law enforcement, schools, and community members regarding safeguarding children in your community.
14. Youth: Learn how to recognize traffickers’ recruitment tactics, how to safely navigate out of a suspicious or uncomfortable situations, and how to reach out for help at any time.
15. Faith-Based Communities: Host awareness events and community forums with anti-trafficking leaders or collectively support a local victim service provider.
16. Businesses: Provide jobs, internships, skills training, and other opportunities to trafficking survivors. Take steps to investigate and prevent trafficking in your supply chains by consulting the Responsible Sourcing Tool and Comply Chain to develop effective management systems to detect, prevent, and combat human trafficking.
17. College Students: Take action on your campus. Join or establish a university club to raise awareness about human trafficking and initiate action throughout your local community. Consider doing one of your research papers on a topic concerning human trafficking. Request that human trafficking be included in university curricula.
18. Health Care Providers: Learn how to identify the indicators of human trafficking and assist victims. With assistance from local anti-trafficking organizations, extend low-cost or free services to human trafficking victims. Resources from the Department of Health and Human Services can be found on their website.
19. Journalists: The media plays an enormous role in shaping perceptions and guiding the public conversation about human trafficking. Seek out some media best practices on how to effectively and responsibly report stories on human trafficking.
20. Attorneys: Offer human trafficking victims legal services, including support for those seeking benefits or special immigration status. Resources are available for attorneys representing victims of human trafficking.

WOW thanks for that. Good list. Everything there is important. I got one thing and it is just another thing to consider and that is the "the art of not being there" Of course this type of crime can happen anytime, day or night and anywhere, but I suggest not letting the teens run around at night with out a chaperone. The rest of us can carry a .45

 

[Renniks]

Even as a boy, David didn't just "Trust God." He spent hours learning his skills.
When he met Goliath, he already owned that slingshot that he had made.
He had practiced and practiced with it.
He had faced lions and bears with it.
He had a plan in mind to defeat the giant.
Those stones didn't just "appear." He had to go down to a streambed and select far more than he used.
He had to get within range.
He had to know what part of Goliath to strike.
He had to take careful aim.... because he already knew his weapon, and how to use it.

" Trust in God, but keep your powder dry."

 

[Willie T]

I think I owe an explanation here. My pretty emphatic reaction is because, as Renniks' post implies, I think an answer like "Trust God", by itself, is woefully inadequate for a situation like this.

I say, "Pray, and trust that God enables and empowers you to help do whatever is necessary to stop the Trafficking — through the overt efforts and activities you engage in." I didn't hear anything like that from @kcnalp.

 

[Grailhunter]

I think I owe an explanation here. My pretty emphatic reaction is because, as Renniks' post implies, I think an answer like "Trust God", by itself, is woefully inadequate for a situation like this.

I say, "Pray, and trust that God enables and empowers you to help do whatever is necessary to stop the Trafficking — through the overt efforts and activities you engage in." I didn't hear anything like that from @kcnalp.

People have different opinions on James but the good boy bump on the log is only a service to himself, waiting to go to heaven. There is also James 4:17 Therefore, to the one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is a sin. What is more likely to make a different; Pray for help and do what you can or just sit down and pray for it. There are times I think people think Christ is a genie.

 

[amadeus]

Actually this is quite complex. Some of us know how to trust God. Some don't. Paul knew Ps 91, "He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways." And yet Paul was very careful and even hid.

Complex but simple!

 

[farouk]

Oh yes, I see that part of it Farouk, but I was under the impression that sex trafficking often picked on very young vulnerable girls, and often they are duped into these awful situations by other means, very subtle ones , manipulated into trusting someone who then turns out to be a go between for those who are the making from selling the girls on and often shipping them out illegally to other countries sometimes, or vis a Versace, it happens in other poorer countries and they are shipped in.............what age are girls allowed to have hand guns in the US , also many of the girls are poor in the first place, or left home ect ( which is what add to their vulnerability in the first place - they have needs that can be manipulated and use to coerce them.
Rita

@Rita: Yes, some are too young to be able to have a gun; in any case, it ought not to be necessary. Very, very sad situation.