Them ol' Southern salt marshes-old ways there R not forgot...

[August]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Ahh, but it still happens here in the U.S. and it's completely acceptable and legal in todays society. In 2013 there were somewhere around 6 million slaves in the U.S. workin for or under the supervision of the man.

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

Surely you're not comparing the barely moving convicts that I see every day picking up trash along the highway with real slaves are you?

[Platapus]

The history and current government structure of South Korea revels that it is a better country only in comparison to North Korea.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by August

Surely you're not comparing the barely moving convicts that I see every day picking up trash along the highway with real slaves are you?

Oh, the humanity!

[Wolferz]

Look away, nothing to see here. ...

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by em2nought

Oh, the humanity!

And just to be sure someone doesn't try to twist that quote, it's in regard to prisoners being given the choice to work or not. It has nothing to do with actual slavery which I have no use for. Well, I'd take a sex slave if she offered herself to me, so mostly against.

[Oberon]

Damn those convicts, coming over here and fighting those wildfires:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34285658

[Aktungbby]

I've been following this grim tale of the sea for a while now. For those of you who love Walmart Calimari...SHAME!

Five Thai fishing-boat captains and three Indonesians were sentenced Thursday to three years in jail for human trafficking in connection with slavery in the seafood industry.
The suspects were arrested in May in the remote island village of Benjina after the abuse was revealed by The Associated Press in a report two months earlier. The men were tried separately in Tual, an island in southeastern Maluku province, about 1,800 miles east of Jakarta.
The three-judge panel also ordered the defendants to pay fines of about $12,250 each or serve two more months in jail. In addition, the Thai captains -- Youngyut Nitiwongchaeron, Boonsom Jaika, Surachai Maneephong, Hatsaphon Phaetjakreng and Somchit Korraneesuk -- have to pay a total of $67,800 in compensation to their crew members.
"They all have been proven guilty of violating the anti-human trafficking law," said Edi Toto Purba, who led the panel. "They deserve the jail sentences as well as the fine."

http://www.semissourian.com/story/2285297.html Well I can order shrimp again guilt free! ( America is the No. 1 purchaser of Thai fish products, including tuna and shrimp. In 2011, Thai frozen and fresh exports to the US were valued at $1.8 billion.)

The men said they were deceived by labor brokers, who promised work and then sold them to the ships’ senior crew. On board they said they were detained against their will and regularly beaten.
Two of the men reported seeing at least five fellow migrant workers tortured, killed, and thrown over board for trying to escape. Another man said he saw multiple bodies tossed out to sea by crew members, who forced workers to watch as they beat them to death.

"We were shocked by the extreme levels of violence inflicted on and witnessed by migrant men held as captive workers on these boats,” said Steve Trent, executive director of EJF in a statement. “This is not an isolated case, but indicative of the widespread acceptance and use of modern slavery in an industry that feeds a global appetite for seafood."

On second thought: I'll just have New Zealand lamb ribs tonight for my birthday dinner! It's a real bummer to sit in any restaurant, anywhere on Earth, wondering who really paid the price for your supper...

[Aktungbby]

In todays news: What lies 2 sell dead fish! http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/08/foreign-fishermen-confined-to-boats-catch-hawaiian-seafood.html

Hawaii's high-quality seafood is sold with the promise that it's caught by local, hard-working fishermen. But the people who haul in the prized catch are almost all undocumented foreign workers, confined to American boats for years at a time without basic rights or protections.
About 700 men from impoverished Southeast Asian and Pacific Island nations make up the bulk of the workforce in this unique U.S. fishing fleet. A federal loophole allows them to take the dangerous jobs without proper work permits, just as long as they don't set foot on shore.
Americans buying Hawaiian seafood are almost certainly eating fish caught by one of these workers.
A six-month Associated Press investigation found fishing crews living in squalor, paid 70 cents per hour, on some boats, forced to use buckets instead of toilets and suffering running sores from bed bugs. There have been instances of human trafficking, active tuberculosis and low food supplies. Their catch ends up at fancy restaurants and in supermarkets' premium fish counters across the country, including Whole Foods, Costco and Sam's Club.
All companies that responded condemned the mistreatment of workers. Costco said it was investigating. Wal-Mart, which owns Sam's Club, declined to comment.

<In this March 23, 2016, A Honolulu Fish Auction worker receives fish from a U.S. fishing vessel crewed by foreign fishermen at Pier 38 in Honolulu. A single yellowfin tuna can fetch more than $1,000, and vendors market the catch as "sustainable seafood produced by Hawaii’s hard-working fishermen."

"Ask, where did this fish come from? Is it the kind of fish that you got from someone in slavery?"

Indeed!Well...there goes my'healthful' ahi tuna burger on sourdough at the local Hamburger Habit till I'm positive the matter is cleared up!

[Aktungbby]

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'!