In Obama’s Speech, Their Voices

[tay]

When President Obama made a landmark speech against modern slavery on Tuesday, many of us in the news media shrugged. It didn’t fit into the political narrative. It wasn’t controversial, so — yawn — it wasn’t really news.


But women like Sina Vann noticed. She’s a friend of mine who was trafficked as a young girl from Vietnam into Cambodian brothels — where she was regularly punished by being locked inside coffins with scorpions and biting ants. Now an anti-trafficking activist with the Somaly Mam Foundation, she sent me an exuberant e-mail (in fractured English, her third language) with a message for Obama: “We are survivors here so proud of you, you are the big president in U.S. and you take action of trafficking. So you give victims from around the world have hope.”

Rachel Lloyd, a survivor of human trafficking who was nearly choked to death by her pimp, felt the same way. Lloyd now runs a superb program in New York City, GEMS, to help American girls escape “the life.” She told me that watching the Obama speech was “one of the most gratifying moments in my 15 years of work on the issue.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/opinion/kristof-in-obamas-speech-their-voices.html?ref=opinion

 

[Walter]

Here' s someone that is becoming a slave of the state.

Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone - YouTube

 

[The Old Medic]

Name one thing the current administration has proposed to help shut down the "human trafficking" that goes on with under-aged prostitutes in the USA, much less in the world?

Yes, this was a great "mention", the problem is, that is ALL it represents, a mention.

 

[WLDB]

Yes, this was a great "mention", the problem is, that is ALL it represents, a mention.

True. This is something many governments should be paying attention to. It should not be happening here - or anywhere for that matter. I'd consider human trafficking to be much more of a threat than drug trafficking.

 

[eh1eh]

Here' s someone that is becoming a slave of the state.

Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone - YouTube

Sensational video aside.
Well that's his job. Considering the people are the state. Therefore if any leader is not a slave to the state then he is a traitor to the people that democratically elected them. Geez man, don't you understand the principals of democracy?