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Todays headlines: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/09/22/fishermen-slavery-lawsuit-boat-owner-thoai-nguyen/ I occasionally eat at Scoma's now I gotta wonder about who's enslaved out on the boat that brought me dinner??!! http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/23/indonesian-fishermen-who-fled-slavery-in-san-francisco-sue-boat-owner.html

The lawsuit comes two weeks after an Associated Press investigation found around 140 fishing boats based in Honolulu, including Sea Queen II, were crewed by hundreds of men from impoverished Southeast Asia and Pacific Island nations. The seafood is sold at markets and upscale restaurants across the U.S. A legal loophole allows them to work without visas as long as they don't set foot on shore. The system is facilitated by the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as Customs and Border Protection who require boat owners to hold workers' passports.
AP found some men are paid as little as 70 cents an hour. Others had to use buckets instead of toilets, suffered running sores from bed bugs or sometimes lacked sufficient food.

that this goes on in the world's 10th most powerful economy (California) is mindboggling...oddly enough on the day after the anniversary of Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclomation! Sept,22 1862: <enlarges (4x) for clear no-bull reading! does not only apply to slaves on land, does not exempt California & and is the Law of Land or 600,000 died for nuthin'!