Frivolous “rights” demonstrations eclipse human trafficking,
modern- day slavery
Excerpt, editing by Carolyn Bennett
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Philippine citizens
Rafaela, Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) is an Oberlin College graduate in
English who in college wrote for an independent, right-of-center student
newspaper. Her journalism career has included work with the Los Angeles Daily
News (columnist 1992-1994); Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise
Institute (free-market, anti-government regulation, libertarian think tank) journalism
fellowship (1995); Seattle Times and Creators Syndicate (nationally-syndicated columnist (1996, 1999);
contributor on right-of-center radio and
television programs; founder of websites “Hot Air,” an internet broadcast
network, and “Twitchy.com,” a Twitter site (2000s). Malkin’s books include: Invasion: How America Still Welcomes
Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces (2002); In Defense of
Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on
Terror (2004); Unhinged: Exposing
Liberals Gone Wild (2005); Culture of
Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (2009).
While I do not consider myself of her political spectrum, I find “Slavery in
America, Saudi-Style” (Michelle Malkin - July 19, 2013) most revealing. For the most part, spot on.
“…There is a war on women in America but it is not the phony
‘war’ that tampon-hurling feminists are always shrieking about ….” It is “a
real war on women waged by Saudi royals and elites who have imported human
trafficking and abuse of domestic workers on to U.S. soil.”
July 11, 2013, Human Trafficking News report (Guardian UK)
Prosecutors in southern California
have charged a Saudi Arabian princess with human trafficking and accused her of
bringing a Kenyan woman to the United States and holding her against her will
as a servant.
The accused woman, Meshael Alayban,
42, brought the Kenyan to the U.S. in May and paid her $220 a month while
holding her passport and keeping her confined to an apartment complex in
Irvine, California, where Alayban lived, Orange county prosecutors said. The
servant, whose name was not released, had to wash dishes, cook, clean, do
laundry and iron, with no days off.
Police arrested Alayban early on (July
10, 2013) at her apartment, a day after the Kenyan woman escaped and flagged
down a bus driver; Alayban is charged with one felony count of human
trafficking.
Authorities also said they found
four Filipino women in the home who may have had their passports seized by
Alayban’s family. An investigation was conducted to determine whether others
were involved in the alleged human trafficking scheme.
While it is unclear “what exactly happened, who is
responsible, and what are the consequences,” Malkin writes; and “the Department
of Homeland Security has not responded to (her) follow-up inquiries … the recent
cases must be set against the cultural backdrop of abuse and violence by Saudi
royals and elites.”
Continuing and citing human trafficking cases from the 1990s
through today, Malkin concludes that “while many Saudi enslavers and abusers
have been charged, untold cases are abandoned. Brandon Darby, who worked with
the FBI in an undercover capacity on anti-human trafficking efforts in
2011-2012, told (her) that
…‘the Justice Department, specifically
the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office, have backed away from aggressively pursuing
human trafficking cases.’
“Political correctness and diplomatic fecklessness,” she
says, “are the handmaidens of women’s subjugation, right here in the US of A.
Sources
Real Clear Politics, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/19/slavery_in_america_saudi-style_119292.html
The Guardian, UK, http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jul/11/saudi-princess-accused-slavery
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin]
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