[The Lizard of Oz]

I was surprised and heartened to see the NY Times, which harbors the obsessive "sex slave" rescuer and white-knight extraordinaire Nick Kristof, publish this op-ed which lifts some of the veil on the outrageous lies about "sex slavery" and "trafficking" and the price that these lies exact in the countries from which the "sex slaves" are supposed to be rescued.

In brief, some Cambodian woman named Somaly Mam made up extravagant lies about being "trafficked" into prostitution and about widespread trafficking of whores in her country. She was feted by the usual suspects in the US, and her (since then retracted) lies resulted in Cambodia enacting draconian laws which actually harmed brothel whores who had to suffer brutal police raids, and were kidnapped from brothels in supposed "rescue" operations (which were further celebrated by western dupes and do-gooders). All based on egregious and wholly fabricated numbers about the prevalence of "sex slavery" and "trafficking". And this in the supposed "trafficking" capital of Cambodia -- yet people still have the f'ing nerve to tell us that this nonsense is occurring at all times everywhere in the world including the US.

People like Maggie McNeill who have been debunking the "trafficking" hysteria for years must feel some measure of vindication to see these lies exposed at the NY Times of all places. This is a significant occurrence.

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WITH a sensational story of surviving child sex slavery in Cambodia, Somaly Mam became a worldwide icon, the best-selling author of a memoir and the head of a foundation raising millions in the name of saving girls and women from the sex trade, victims she recounted rescuing in dramatic brothel raids. Last year, introducing the State Department’s annual “Trafficking in Persons” report, Secretary of State John Kerry called Ms. Mam “a hero every single day.”

But all this wasn’t true. A Newsweek cover story last week found inconsistencies and flat-out fraud in Ms. Mam’s story of being abducted and forced to work in a brothel as a child — instead, former neighbors said she came to their village with her parents and graduated from high school, later sitting for a teacher’s exam — and in the stories of women she said she had rescued by the thousands. Ms. Mam even said traffickers had kidnapped her teenage daughter — but the girl’s father said she ran away with her boyfriend.

On Wednesday, Somaly Mam resigned from her own foundation.

Quote:

In 2008, Cambodia enacted new prohibitions on commercial sex, after the country was placed on a watch list by the State Department. In brutal raids on brothels and in parks, as reported by the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers in a 2008 documentary, women were chased down, detained and assaulted. The State Department commended Cambodia for its law and removed the country from the watch list.

Human Rights Watch later conducted interviews with 94 sex workers in Cambodia for a 2010 report. “Two days after my arrival, I was caught when I tried to escape,” one woman said. “Five guards beat me up. When I used my arms to shield my face and head from their blows, they beat my arms. The guard threatened to slit our throats if we tried to escape a second time, and said our bodies would be cremated there.”

She was describing a “rescue” and detention at the Prey Speu Social Affairs center near Phnom Penh. Human Rights Watch urged the Cambodian government “to suspend provisions in the 2008 Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation that facilitate police harassment and abuses.”

These are the women whose stories are not told in an anti-trafficking fund-raising pitch. Some of the “victims” whom Ms. Mam said she saved then attempted to escape from her shelters, only to have her claim to the press that they had been “kidnapped.” She later apologized for a 2012 speech before the United Nations General Assembly in which she asserted that the Cambodian Army had killed eight girls after a raid on her shelters.

[Basil Ransom]

This whole sex slave trafficking hysteria came out of nowhere, and the US government is a prime culprit in promoting it as an Urgent Matter. I've always been like, "what the fuck are they talking about?" Sex slaves in Sudan or Saudi Arabia, sure, but the only immigrants smuggled in here look like this:



So, no sex slaves. Just goes to show our government will never say no to a white knighting save a ho opportunity.

[El Chinito loco]

In a lot of ways the english speaking anglo world is a playground for asian women like Somaly Mam. They fit into the "oppressed woman of color" narrative that liberals push daily and can also be used as a political patsy for multiple "activist" causes spanning both the left and right. An example of an asian female patsy for the right is Michelle Malkin.

Asian women have also filled an odd hierarchy gap left by feminist upper middle class white women. Asian women have moved in and become "proxy" white women and their status has been up jumped because of it. In her own country she would be maybe a 4 on the local woman scale while being largely ignored by the local press and the local men. However, in the U.S. with the right amount of crocodile tears and playing up her new found status she can attention whore hard on an international level.

[Quintus Curtius]

This is a long time in the making.

The whole "sex slave" thing is a scam and has been wildly exaggerated for a long time. I did an article on ROK about the feminist lies about this.

It's like our actual government is one big white knight. Did you notice how fast they sprang into action when they heard that the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria had "kidnapped" about 200 girls? They actually sent in the military for that bullshit.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

So she's had to resign from her foundation in disgrace. But she's not a bad looking woman (see center, below). I wonder if she'll have to resort to posing in Playboy for money? If so, the world will finally get to see Somaly's mams.

(Yes, I contrived this whole post for that one last joke.)

[puckerman]

All the sex-slave is reason to legalize prostitution everywhere. When something is legal, it's out in the open where everyone can see it. That would make it easier to expose the sex traffickers.

Unfortunately, the idiots in government see it as a reason to outlaw it.

A guy from Brazil told me it definitely exists down there.