Infiltration via Innocents

As often as I have witnessed "soft target" programs being used as shields for nefarious activities in various parts of our world, and by this I mean "humanitarian efforts" be they in education, health or the general catch all of "capacity building"...it still sickens me and I am still surprised when I see it happening.

However, after years of doing evaluations and being part of programs, schools, grand scheme projects in conflict zones, or what used to be labeled as "third world" countries-my eyes, ears and seventh sense is able to "case a place" rather quickly and sniff a scam/shield when I stumble upon or walk right into one.   

First the outward signs of being "legitimate" are created.   A logo with a western established icon and nation label such as "American"  or "British"  or "Canadian" or "United Nations" sponsored - clinic, refugee camp, school, or even university is designed.   Then a website is posted with the stereotypical photos of children in need, then children smiling and all sorts of credentials displayed along with pictures of "events" with notable "officials" receiving "gifts".   Then, "future plans" are presented, donations accepted and "testimonials" placed to give "credibility" to whatever program or project is being advertised.

Who is the audience for these advertisements?  Well, that depends.   There can be a number of registers advertising at once. 

• Actual beneficiaries in a country for health, education and capacity building and the potential government departments or ministries who would act as sponsors/funding for these programs. 
• "Foundations" who might benefit as a tax write off, a way to launder money or worse a tie in for their "products" to be identified, "packaged" and "moved".   Too often, their "products" are children.  
• Criminal networks vying for leverage and "partnership" in such a profit bearing enterprise.   Their crimes will likely never be revealed or prosecuted.​​

Human trafficking is a $43 billion global industry, the fastest growing and second largest criminal activity in the world, tied with arms (weapons dealing) and after drug dealing.   Children...innocents fetch the highest prices on the global "open market".   The estimate is about $32 billion a year is the "profit" from child sex industries including sales of "live feeds access" on  the darknet and videos.  Greed combined with perversion and lust is a powerful and dangerous mix.

In the United States of America, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day is observed annually on January 11. Beginning in 2010, by Presidential Proclamation, each January has been designated National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.   We are two weeks into January 2020-half way through a month supposedly dedicated to raising awareness and action-but I have not seen enough articles or alerts posted continuously online.  As least not yet-hence my post this week as part of my personal effort to keep shining a light on this dark scourge on our earthly population and especially on our most vulnerable and innocent segment of the world's population...and our future.

Refugees awaiting "placement" and aid in northern Iraq

Shamefully, my home state of Texas is listed as the #1 state in human trafficking and sex trafficking of children.   Children from within the state and the USA as well as tens of thousands of minors from other countries are trafficked through Texas.

Some of these children trafficked to the USA are orphans culled/selected via "refugee camps", some are kidnapped and "disappeared", tragically some are sold by members of their own community or family.   Some are "born into the sex trade" and into cartels or other criminal or extremist gangs.  Some children are forced to be "child soldiers" and "enforcers as well as recruiters" for other children.   

​Children from Asia including:  Russia, China, Thailand, Pakistan and from "war torn countries" of Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Syria and Iran are collected and dispersed throughout the world.  When they get sick or grow older, become addicted or try to run away and their "usefulness" is at an end...they are often filmed, then "harvested" for their organs, sold again even after their death.   A horrible fate for anyone.  Human beings carry out these vile and evil acts.   Human beings are not doing enough to protect our children and bring the perpetrators to "justice" and exposure.

The perpetrators of these crimes (the traffickers, johns, pimps) don’t fit a single stereotype.  They represent every social, ethnic, economic strata and racial group. Some perpetrators are involved with local gangs, others are members of larger nationwide gangs and criminal organizations, and some have no affiliation with any one group. Traffickers can also be women – in fact, many women run established rings around the country.  https://leb.fbi.gov/2011/march/human-sex-trafficking

A lack of food access is one reason children will be forced to trade sex for food.  Food "insecurity"  (not knowing where you next meal will come from)  impacts millions of children around the world today-there have been a number of cases in different countries where those who were supposed to be distributing food that was donated "charged" children and families for the food.  If they could not pay they were subjected to "trading" - sex - for something to eat.

FOUNDATIONS  & ORGANIZATIONS AS "SHIELDS" FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN, BLACKMAIL, MONEY LAUNDERING

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As part of their strategy to gain access and the trust of children and communities, some of the most high profile foundations dcdirtylaundry.com/the-clintons-laura-silsby-haiti-amber-alerts-human-trafficking/
and religious institutions which purport to "help children" and particularly "help victims of sexual abuse", are the most grievous offenders and predators of children.  For more specifics read this excellent investigative report and summation by Corey Digs:  www.coreysdigs.com/child-trafficking/are-bill-hillary-clinton-involved-with-child-trafficking/ (see captions under the photos above) 

The Catholic Church has been prosecuted through it's member priests, bishops cardinals and nuns and so has the Anglican church and Islamic "schools" and "charities" in a wide range activities of their shield organizations and foundations.  Individual investigations of other sects and "charities" with tax breaks because of their "religious affiliations" are not often covered in the media but hundreds of thousands of children have been sexually, physically and emotionally abused/used and denied justice and counsel over the past decades in the USA and globally. 
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Southern-Baptist-sexual-abuse-spreads-as-leaders-13588038.php
www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2007/11/child-abuse-rife-in-madrassas-and-mosques/
www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/31/feature/the-epidemic-of-denial-about-sexual-abuse-in-the-evangelical-church/
jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/topic/child-sexual-abuse/
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Ignorance of this scourge on the children of our Earth is no excuse anymore.  Moreover, most parents are unwittingly (perhaps)  "sharenting" and posting multiple pictures of their precious children, and/or teacher/administrators proudly posting photos of their underage students on the worldwide net casting a "free view" for sophisticated criminal networks as well as individual predators to scan, file and possibly use to entrap or kidnap children for "product" for their "clients". 

Read this (and other articles) to know some of the strategies they use easily online.  Don't feed the beast!   nationalpost.com/news/canada/photos-shared-on-pedophile-sites-taken-from-parents-social-media-accounts

Closing this morning with a music video from "Take No Glory" based on the true story of one victim.   The song is entitled:   "Beautiful Slave".   I suggest you watch it more than once.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYU9meVXKg&list=PL4-42hn_MPYD1MfmFUpXLIk2wSZNi8CC4&index=1

If you have children, work with children or just live in neighborhoods, communities with children...be vigilant for them. Learn to recognize the signs they have been abused, the signals they may use for "help".   No matter the race, culture, language or economic strata most young children exhibit the same signs if you know what to look and listen for when you are with them. They are our most vulnerable and precious resource now and for the future. We owe them protection from harm.  

​Never underestimate the tactics used by the ruthless or the power of prayer as a shield.  "Defende Omnis Innocentis"  have the courage to "defend the innocent".

Signing off from Iraq,

Jo