Prostitution

It is commonly accepted today prostitutes living and breathing on the streets of Britain are in less than a harmonious state. They are still referred to as 'whores' by the intelligentsia and writers of all kinds. The statistics on prostitutes walking down the street in this cruel and imperial island are not only shocking to many, but also totally criminal. Statistics, of course, change from time to time, but to cite some from recent times will show its faithful enthusiasts often label the barbarity of the trade, as it is often labelled by its faithful enthusiasts. Up to 90% of 'working girls' are dependent of the lethal drug, heroine; the average age a woman, or rather a child, begins as a prostitute, is just fourteen; up to 40% of the girls have been raped at least once, and these are just cases reported to the police. The statistics speak for themselves, as does the Government’s policy towards these poor girls.

The government of its day in Britain, whatever government may be, is of little consequence and makes little difference what government is in power on legislation concerning this issue, and especially for the well-being of those girls.  What the beastly men in power are doing here is beyond grotesque: they are forcing young girls into the dangerous areas in cities across the country, making the event of terrible things happening to them more likely.  They are often beaten, raped, and even murdered because the Government would prefer them not to be round where all the 'respectable' people live, so they are moved on to more gruesome areas.

They are, as George Orwell would refer to them as, unpeople or an unperson; they do not matter; they are of no significance, they do not influence the Government class-war agenda so they are left alone to suffer, to suffer alone, no doubt.  This is one kind of prostitution, we could be perverse and call it voluntary prostitution; there is some choice for many of these girls working in these horrendous circumstances, but if this was not macabre enough, there is a far darker element to prostitution, which is what we call forced prostitution, or sex-slaves, being trafficked from place to place.  For these girls, there is a heavy price if they refuse sex: they are raped, beaten and even tortured to such inhumane levels, that a commentary on the torture would appal many.

In a study by Oxford University’s Centre for Migration, policy and  Society (COMPAS), say children, and this is just children, leaving aside adults, 120,000 of them, children that is, are trafficked into the country for exploitation; that is staggering 1 in 100 children. That is a rate far higher than in the North American countries such as the United States or Canada.  Sex trafficking is more prevalent in Eastern Europe amongst teenage girls and adults, in Southeast Asia, child sex tourism is much more common, it is not hidden either, and men all over the western countries, as elsewhere, go to these countries for that purpose alone.  There was a European-led initiative to help prevent or at least limit sex trafficking throughout the continent, but Tony Blair and later Gordon Brown refused to take part, the only country to decline, and such brutes did not hide the reason either: they were against these victims staying in the country as immigrants, no, they would prefer horrific abuse to continue once again.  That, in essence, is the state's policy towards vulnerable children and women in the country, and outside it.

The process of trafficking young girls for sexual exploitation is truly horrific and is purposely kept out of the capitalist press, for if people knew, such barbaric practices would have to be stopped almost immediately.  Of course, the Government like to downplay the figures and statistics on these issues.  Indeed, it is important for people to know.  There are times, albeit seldom, that such things do reach the mainstream press, but then the following day the newspaper moves onto more mundane aspects of the “news”, such as the daily, infantile affairs of parliamentary politics, government reshuffles and so forth.  They do not like to tell their leaders’; girls’ from Eastern Europe are promised luxurious jobs in London, Paris, Madrid and so on, with a high wage.  It is a dream come-true for many of these impoverished young girls. The dream, however, is short lived.  Their passports are stolen, which can only be described as mobs and gangs, they are then kidnapped and ultimately “trained”; that is raped by large groups of men, usually Balkan and other Eastern European lunatics that traffic the girls, so they train them to have “sex” with perhaps 40 men a day, that is  raped 40 times a day.  Many of the girls are never seen again.  The girls either take their own lives because the abuse is so unbearable, others are killed because they no longer exist as a financial commodity to these criminal gangs, or they are just caught up in a cycle of abuse, which is impossible to escape from.

The girls are sold to those wild beasts, and have to pay back the “debt”.  However, unknown to them, the debt can never be paid off because it keeps rising and rising.  They employ similar tactics as a loan shark.  A friend of the girl or perhaps the girl’s boyfriend may be heavily in debt and they repay these gangs by taking their girlfriends’ or whoever it maybe, and selling her into sexual slavery.  It is the stuff of nightmares.  The practice could be abolished tomorrow, but for reasons, which only they know, states and governments around the world, would prefer such horrors to take place.  For they do nothing to stop them, and more, they do not even pretend to do so.

Such a thing could never happen to a daughter of a politician, a Monarch, a tyrant or whoever; it only happens to other people’s children.  Just like terrorists belong to distant lands, never our own, that is why we are able, or rather, they are able to break laws of every kind and keep people locked up, abused and mistreated for years on end.  Likewise, the electorate know this would never happen to their own children but we do not know the response of the electorate because the media continue to act in a criminal fashion and decide not to inform people of the facts.  By not informing them they are preventing people from acting on their empathetic impulses, and in turn, bear heavy responsibility for the suffering of these young girls.

A lot of it has to do with fanatical racism.  It is dressed up as “nationalism”, “patriotism”, and other such things.  “Charity starts at home”, is one of the most perverse phrases in the English language but what does it tell us about our society when men go out to rape these girls?  A phone call is all it takes to free them, that is all it takes.  For these men morality is made of sterner stuff.  Men and women can walk down the streets of New York, London, Sydney, Paris and wherever else, pretending such suffering does not exist, such people can do this for all eternity, and there are a small minority of people who do know. The people who laugh and joke about it have less ethics than government itself.

 It is true, there is a third kind of prostitution. It is, like the first, voluntary, but does not take place in dark and seedy street corners.  It takes place in “brothels”, “massage parlours” and other places.  Many of the girls’ call themselves “escorts”.  They are often young and attractive young women, and come from all parts of the globe.  They are in safe and luxurious apartments, neither are they forced into this type of work and they even refuse clients if they wish because they often work alone, for themselves. This is a more preferable form of prostitution. However, once again in Britain, successive governments have undermined such practices.  The premises where the girls work are often the target of the police and ultimately the premise closes, due to draconian licence laws and harsh practices.  These women are then pushed into the streets, to live a life of misery and agony because the treasury would like to robs the pockets of all its citizens (apart from the richest ones, where opposite rules apply).  They do this, and still have an obnoxious smile on their faces.

If only these girls were left to their own devices and lead lives through self-determination, and without government interference.  Indeed, so what the Government should be doing is taking these girls from the streets and putting them in safe shelter to work in a safe environment where they can be looked after.  They should see that the girls get urgent help with drug addiction and other problems.  Many of the girls come from the most hopeless of backgrounds.  A certain amount of them have been in care, prison, been subject to child abuse; they really ought to be offered counselling.  These suggestions are not even debated, let alone implemented.  They are not made because the state, in all its recidivism sees the girls’ as unpeople.  It is the current fashion for governments to pretend to care about people’s lives.  If it was not such a serious matter, we should all die of laughter. 

So it is up to charities and volunteer groups to help these girls, and for Human Rights groups, such as Amnesty International, to document such abuses and highlighting the savagery of sexual slavery.  In fact Amnesty have been campaigning for some years on this issue but the media often ignore these organisations, when it suits their interests to do so.  The public ought to be forced to hear such horrific stories of abuse and their struggle; their experiences must be documented, until this happens nothing, absolutely nothing will progress.  The media will continue to be loyal servants to the state.  In the meantime, young girls in many parts of the world are screaming for their lives as they are raped night after night, in some dark, alien world somewhere. Such girls may never see freedom, humanity, affection, love or happiness again

16th November 2012

the Savage Injustice of the Europeans

It is common today for philosophical, political, literary and intellectual figures to be denigrated, censured and misrepresented. Adam Smith is one of these people; a particular group of ideologues often misuse and claim blatant fallacies against him to prop up their own branch of market fanaticism.  Parallel examples can be used of people's ideas being disregarded and used for malicious practices to carry forth their demented savagery. With political figures, their fascism, credentials for international terrorism and so forth have been regarded as such and we read nothing much more than propaganda about them.  These political saints include Winston Churchill, John.F Kennedy Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

It also happens with thinkers like Adam Smith but this is rather different. Smith was not engaged in international terrorism like Kennedy or mass murder like Churchill.  With him the opposite principles apply.  So far example he talks about "the savage injustice of the Europeans".  

"It is not by the importation of gold and silver, that the discovery of America has enriched Europe. ...The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe. A new set of exchanges, therefore, began t o take place which had never been thought of before, and which should naturally have proved as advantageous to the new, as it certainly did to the old continent. The savage injustice of the Europeans rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries."

Smith was very much a man of the 18th century.  He was born in 1723 and died in 1790.  When Smith talks about "the savage injustice of the Europeans", he is referring to something quite particular.  The British Raj (rule) did not begin until 1858 and ended in 1947 when Adam Smith was dead.  It is clear then he can not have been referring to the 1943 Bengali famine orchestrated by Churchill, where conservative estimates state seven million people died, nor was Smith referring to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, which according to the Indian historian, Amaresh Misra resulted in the murder of almost ten million Indians.  He was not speaking about the 1876-1878 famine, where over ten million people died. At least five million died in the 1896-97 famine, of which Smith was not referring,  as he was dead when all these horrors took place, all at the hands of the British Empire, it must be added.  

Adam Smith, when he talked about "the savage injustice of the Europeans" was referring to the 1769-72 famine in India  An excess of ten million people died in the most savage circumstances. Of course, it is clear he was referring to the British in what only can be described as a prolonged genocide.  But Smith, for all his compassion for humanity and an opponent of savagery, is the darling of right wing lunatics, why is this, one enquiring mind ought to ask.

A few myths should be dispelled about Adam Smith.  (1), he was not in favour of THE free market, rather, he was in favour of A free market bringing  total "equality", "liberty" and "freedom". (2) For Adam Smith, one key principle is that individuals ought to be free. (3) He did not believe in the division of labour, being subjected to such things, destroys people, says Smith, but free market fundamentalists would have you believe otherwise.  Smith, no doubt, would not be in favour of the free market. He believed in the opposite of this bedraggled capitalism.  (4) Interestingly enough he labelled "the national interest" a total fraud, saying it was a delusion. (5) It was Adam Smith who said "principal architects" in his country (England), he was Scottish but no matter, were "merchants and manufacturers" who went on to say they used the state for their own interests.

Today Smith would be regarded as a dissident of sorts. Today "merchants and manufacturers" are multi-national businesses. It is far more serious than that, as people should recognise, as they are now integrated into the core fascist values of the modern "democratic" state, this fascism comes under the guise of public services. i.e corporate fascism.  These so-called public services are being over-taken by profit-driven megalomaniacs, thus removing the "democratic" from communities and entire societies.  If Adam Smith was alive today he would be regarded by the so-called right wing factions as a "lefty-loony".

Defunct Moral Decline

The country is in a frenzy, or at least soon will be.  That is in Britain of course.  The reason is what people refer to as 'the general election'. The dispossessed, the downtrodden, unemployed, despised, inevitably will not vote, neither will much of the population.  In the northwest of the country very few will vote the Conservatives, and this is very well-known.  Can anybody name a single Conservative Member of Parliament elected in Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, that is a Conservative MP? No.  Because there is not one.  Whoever is elected, and it makes little difference who is, there will be a sort of war, as there is already.  Who can beat and destroy the downtrodden the most? It is the case with the Nazis or the Fascists, who to pick? Well, the truth is it does not make a huge difference because they are both, or rather all are playing the same ferocious game on who can make people's lives the most unbearable. This is not represented in the mainstream press of course, and why would it? That is frivolous talk.  Class warfare is not only restricted to the Conservatives, but extends to the other parties, and they have shown how savage they can be.  This Government, an illegitimate one, has condemned a higher education system for the elite, the public sector workers have been bruised and battered; pensions have been robbed, in the process they are to work longer hours and draw their pension later.  This is how a government applauds its nurses, teachers and so on.  The poor creatures subjected to the harsh conditions of the welfare state also have had a vicious war launched against them with the full complicity of the media, the immigrants as well, are punished even more so.  It is a truly hideous political system that has been imposed on all of us by all of us.  Most countries, or rather all of them, barring Britain, progress in some way, even Saudi-Arabia and the Islamic fanatics have progressed in some way but it is not the way in Britain; there has been no progression.  In fact the opposite is the case: things have gone more backward and of the people that have been utterly repressed, oppressed and suppressed, they are not even aware of this fact which tells you a great deal about the 'democratic' system.  'Parliamentary democracy', said Tony Benn, 'is a sham'.  A sham it is and far more besides.  Tens of people commit suicide in prison each year but few of us are aware of it because it seldom gets reported, the baleful practices of the social services seldom gets reported, the lack of liberties, civil rights of the country are ignored.  But people will think of the election and vote for a sociopathic sadist, reducing their freedoms and rights even further.  We must not think about that though.  We must think about who will be the best leader, Hitler, Stalin, or Mussolini.