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Title: Migrants are being sold at open slave markets in Libya
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/migrants-are-being-sold-open-slave-
URL Source: http://IBT
Published: Apr 11, 2017
Author: Brendan Cole
Post Date: 2017-04-11 09:29:13 by cranky
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Views: 1559
Comments: 20
Vulnerable refugees from West Africa often arrive in the country with no money and no papers. Migrants from West Africa are being openly traded in "public slave markets" across Libya. As a departure point for refugees trying to get to Europe, migrants arriving in Libya from sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable due to a lack of money and little in the way of documentation. Survivors have told the International Organization for Migration (IOM) how there are slave markets and private prisons all over Libya. Mohammed Abdiker, IOM's head of operation and emergencies, told The Guardian: "The situation is dire. The more IOM engages inside Libya, the more we learn that it is a vale of tears for all too many migrants." One survivor from Senegal spoke of how he was brought by smugglers across Niger in a bus to the southern Libyan city of Sabha, where he was due to risk a boat trip to Europe. When the middleman did not get his fee, the survivor was put up for sale along with other passengers. He was taken to a prison where he worked without pay while the captors demanded 300,000 West African francs (about £380) before selling him on to a larger jail. Livia Manante, an IOM officer based in Niger, told The Guardian how migrants would be brought to a square where they were put up for sale. A migrant prays on the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) after being rescued off the coast of Libya, in June 2016. The International Organisation for Migration says migrants from are being sold openly as slaves in Libya.Reuters "IOM Italy has confirmed that this story is similar to many stories reported by migrants and collected at landing points in southern Italy, including the slave market reports." Those who did not get their ransom paid were often taken away and killed while others would die of hunger and disease in unsanitary conditions. "If the number of migrants goes down, because of death or someone is ransomed, the kidnappers just go to the market and buy one," Manente said. IOM has helped repatriate 1,500 people back to West Africa so far this year where it is trying to inform people not to risk the journey to Libya where they face exploitation. "Too often they are broken, brutalised and have been abused. Their voices carry more weight than anyone else's," IOM spokesman Leonard Doyle told the newspaper. 
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Shitty 'cultures' are shitty. Keep them confined to shitty countries.
It's happening now all over the West. Deal with it.
Until 150 years ago there was slavery in USA. Who infected whom?
NATO needs to occupy Libya and establish Martial Law, similar to MacArthur's postwar occupation of Japan...
Who infected whom? 250 years ago there was not a USA, while slavery was documented thousands of years before Columbus was born. The West inherited slavery, and the West eliminated slavery. The "hey hey, ho ho, Western civilization has got to go" types are the ones who bring back slavery. Celebrate that diversity. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Who infected whom? It doesn't matter what happened 150 years ago. Or 100 years ago. We are living in the here and now. I certainly acknowledge the challenging economic conditions that the overhang of slavery and segregation (in particular) wrought on American blacks. But what that realization accounts for in terms of actual policy prescriptions is my belief in a high standard of public education across the US, and a high standard of law enforcement, the enforcement of NECESSARY laws for the social order, but the striking down of unnecessary and intrusive laws (such as the laws against pot use). I recognize that history has an overhang. But the reason I want to treat people well in the present is not because any sense of debt or guilt - I have none. It is because of a Catholic sense of the equality of man before God, and the need to care for all of our Christian brothers and sisters. I think that the best way to take care of people is through strong educational and social structures paid for by a strong economy. Where, then, do African and Middle Eastern refugees fit into this? They don't fit into it much at all. I did not cause the problems that exist in the Muslim world. Islam did. I am willing to bring in CHRISTIAN refugees from these hell holes, but I am not willing to admit Muslim refugees. The REASON those lands are all hell holes is BECAUSE OF Islam. Islam is the evil that destroys everything. I am not willing to import the disease. I AM willing to bring all of the Christians OUT of those hell holes to better places where they can contribute to the advance of Christian civilization. Islam needs to be dealt with in its own homelands.
I thought you were not for using military to intervene in other countries?
Once word gets out that this is happening people that could be captured and enslaved will not go there.
Until 30 seconds ago, there is slavery in Moo-slum (pigpiss be upon them) shitholes. And ending it is not even being discussed by those defective murdering assholes. A lot of Americans died to end slavery 150 years ago, so shove your 150 years up your barack. And Allah rapes pigs.
Very convenient way to avoid responsibility. Yes I kiled a man two years ago, but we are living in the here and now.
No problem. We have a Halfrican former president not doing anything,so I suggest we send him to Libya to hold a "Beer Summit". He can kick back wid his African homies,crack a few Colt 45's,and talk bout it.
BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Exactly! If they aren't ambitious enough to stay home and fight to make their home countries decent places to live,HTH are they going to be an asset to any western country they move to? BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Why,that was practically last week! This means the US is virtually identical to Africa! I think in order to give them a fair chance,we should deport them all to Poland,where there hasn't been any slaves since the collapse of Communism. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Better yet,surround it. Nobody in and nobody out. Let them kill and eat each other off until they are tired of it,and then deal with the survivors. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
The people called American Indians today held slaves. If there was any tribe that didn't,I never heard of them. BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
It depends on the situation...
The difference of course is that two years ago I myself did it, and I am conscious of my guilt. But what happened 100 or 150 years ago I did NOT do, and I am only willing to accept some responsibility to the degree I think is reasonable - and I get to decide that. Those who would impose on me by pressing my guilt upon me are bound to be disappointed, because I have no sense of guilt at all for what people did a century ago. I know I am not guilty of it in fact, or before God. My institution - the US government - did something at some time. So there's a DEGREE of responsibility I am willing to bear, in the here and now, to try to address what was done then, but only a degree of it. And that degree is not enough to, say, derail current policiy, or the economy, or really, anything. If I "make amends" for the actions of past generations, it is an act of PURE charity. I am not actually guilty of anything they did, not before God, not in my own conscience, and not under the laws of men. So, in truth, it doesn't matter what happened then, to me, except to the extent I let it matter. I will worry about what I have done, and in my leisure time, with extra resources, I will have a care to the past. But you're never going to be able to build a political platform against me based on my "guilt" for a past that I wasn't part of, because I have no sense of guilt whatever for what was done by others. If I killed a man two years ago, I'm responsible. If my great grandfather ran a slave plantation in Virginia (he did, actually), I'm not at all responsible for that, and I feel no guilt about it. It's an interesting detail of history, nothing more. I do see the overhang of slavery today, and I support reasonable programs to address that - poverty relief, efforts to improve schools in poor black areas. But beyond that, some sort of personal guilt for reparations? Utter nonsense. Pfffft.
The difference of course is that two years ago I myself did it, and I am conscious of my guilt. But what happened 100 or 150 years ago I did NOT do You guys are completely missing the point. The issue is "Shitty 'cultures'" and comparing them to non-shitty ones. Well, cultures last longer than 150 years. When we talk about achievements of Western culture we should not limit ourselves to the last 10 or 50 years as the cultural revolutionaries do. If Americans abolished slavery 150 years ago and some remote "shitty" corners (some could be in USA) still have it, it might mean that the later are 150 or 200 years behind or regressed back as we can do some day. Do not become complacent and arrogant - "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"
The shittiest countries are shitty because of Islam and Communism, not because of slavery. They have slavery because of their religion and their government. Their choices. We no longer have slavery because of our religion and our government, both of which are better. They cannot repair themselves if they hold onto Islamism or Communism. They are doomed to be shitty because they have chosen shitty and stubbornly cling to it. That is not my responsibility. But if they gas kids, they get hit, to frighten them into not doing that anymore.
Au contraire, mon ami! (A little French lingo there to demonstrate my fondness for little froggies.) Americans shouldn't and won't have to deal with this. I don't believe many more of these filthy, perverted 'migrants' are going to be entering the country. Those that are here will eventually be the victim of an open season with a bounty on Muslims. We won't have another Merkeland here in America. Liberals are a lot like Slinkys, they're good for nothing but they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
They've had hundreds of years to observe and learn how civilization is done, yet they still don't have a clue. Fine; screw 'em.
Yeah, it's harsh. Would you rather infest and infect normal Western countries with this 'culture'?
#2. To: Hank Rearden (#1)
Would you rather infest and infect normal Western countries with this 'culture'?
#3. To: Hank Rearden (#1)
Yeah, it's harsh. Would you rather infest and infect normal Western countries with this 'culture'?
#4. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
It's happening now all over the West. Deal with it.
#5. To: A Pole (#3)
Until 150 years ago there was slavery in USA.
#6. To: A Pole (#3)
Until 150 years ago there was slavery in USA.
#7. To: Willie Green (#4)
NATO needs to occupy Libya and establish Martial Law, similar to MacArthur's postwar occupation of Japan...
#8. To: cranky (#0)
Migrants are being sold at open slave markets in Libya
#9. To: A Pole (#3)
(Edited)
Until 150 years ago there was slavery in USA.
#10. To: Vicomte13 (#6)
It doesn't matter what happened 150 years ago. Or 100 years ago. We are living in the here and now.
#11. To: cranky (#0)
#12. To: Hank Rearden (#1)
Shitty 'cultures' are shitty. Keep them confined to shitty countries. They've had hundreds of years to observe and learn how civilization is done, yet they still don't have a clue. Fine; screw 'em.
#13. To: A Pole (#3)
Until 150 years ago there was slavery in USA.
#14. To: Willie Green (#4)
NATO needs to occupy Libya and establish Martial Law, similar to MacArthur's postwar occupation of Japan...
#15. To: nativist nationalist (#5)
250 years ago there was not a USA, while slavery was documented thousands of years before Columbus was born.
#16. To: Justified (#7)
I thought you were not for using military to intervene in other countries?
In this instance, Libya is too factional & dysfunctional...
Military intervention would be required to provide peaceful and law-abiding stability until Libyan's become capable of self-governance.
#17. To: A Pole (#10)
Yes I killed a man two years ago
#18. To: Vicomte13 (#17)
"Yes I killed a man two years ago"
#19. To: A Pole (#18)
#20. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Deal with it.
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