The truly scary movie
Of all the horror films on TV this weekend broadcast in honor of Halloween, the truly scariest was the bone-chilling docudrama on the sex slave trade called “Human Trafficking” on Lifetime. The film, which lasted for maybe about three hours, felt like it went on forever, in the same unfalteringly brutal manner “Schindler’s List” did. It is crucial that this international abomination of an industry be brought to the public’s attention, especially in the U.S. As the female lead in the movie, an FBI agent, says at the end in a press conference, a human being can be sold repeatedly for sex, whereas a drug can only be sold once, making it a vastly more profitable venture. And, she says, most of the people who are buying these sex slaves are people in the U.S.
So why isn’t our government, which spent so much time blustering around the issue of gay marriage and funneling billions of dollars into this “war” we’re having, doing anything about this issue? Where is the righteous zeal with which they waged the “Just Say No!” campaign of the ‘80s, and coined the term “drug wars”? At least with drugs, the participants are willing, if not addicted. Those forced into the sex slave trade, many of whom are children, have no choices. They are not even treated as humans.
Somehow I think this issue should take precedent in the purvey of our national concern as opposed to getting back at Iraq for 9/11.
All I could think while watching the movie was what kind of punishment should be doled out to those caught and convicted of this crime. Or more specifically, what kind of punishment they’ll really get after they die. I hate to say it, but I really think they should be slowly burned alive in public, maybe with their limbs twisted off first, but medicated so they remain alive and can feel some measure of the unparalleled, soul-mangling pain they’ve caused others. And to have such brutality televised as a warning to others who might have such demonically entrepreneurial interests. It makes me sick to my stomach to say something like that, and to post it publicly, but read up on the subject and I’m certain you will agree with me.
