The headline says "slavery" the article says "modern slavery". A meaningful difference?

https://www.walkfreefoundat...

Note the Foundation's definition of "modern slavery". It surprised me. It may surprise you.

I looked at the definition on the web page you linked. Does that render contracts null and void? Does that mean being a soldier in the US Army is slavery? Hmmmm.

I just don't buy the almost half million slaves in the US. If that were true we would periodically have stories about groups of escaped slaves rescued and we don't really see that.

There is some slavery in the US - people kidnapped and forced into prostitution and foreign workers brought into domestic servant roles who are then secretly kept as slaves. Neither of those would be enough to add up to the number Walk Free gives, though. Their definition of slavery includes people who aren't able to quit their job because of debt, which makes me wonder that the number of American 'slaves' is actually that low. Given Johnny Depp's massive debt and the kind of movie roles he's been forced to take in order to try and stay solvent, it would seem that Walk Free would consider him a slave.

Apparently anyone in debt is a slave - so I would guess that the majority of Americans would be considered slaves by this organization.

We are also forced to have health insurance or pay a fine. I guess that would make an even larger portion of our population slaves using their definition. "their freedom to control their body, their freedom to choose to refuse certain work or to stop working." So I I am not working I still must pay for Insurance or pay a fine, right?

That requirement was rescinded by the current administration.

"the kind of movie roles he's been forced to take in order to try and stay solvent"

Sounds like Nicolas Cage, too.

But don't you kinda think Nicolas Cage enjoys acting in those awful movies? Can you honestly watch The Wicker Man and not think Cage is enjoying himself, punching out women and shouting about bees?

Which would suggest that all the employees of tech companies that give them stock options that only pay out after they've worked a certain number of years are slaves - even though they make some of the highest salaries in the country. The horror!

Yeah, some truth in that. I was driving by a Chinese restaurant in the morning a few years back and noticed that a extended cab pickup, with a camper, was just pulling in and from the front came the two Chinese managers and the camper door opens up and like a clown car at the circus young hispanics came pouring out the back. Must of been 20 of them.

I personally know of two slaves who won freedom from their wealthy employers. The employers are cunning. They hire meek foreigners with limited if any English, take away their passports, and isolate them. If you haven’t yet read stories of escaped slaves — and mind you, they won’t always be in groups — you’ve missed it. Look up human trafficking. Too many sad cases right here in the US. Also, the media tends not to report on them. The LA Times ran an article in 2016 about a federal investigation together with the LA Sheriff Department, resulting in the arrest of a huge ring of 200 human traffickers for crimes involving child sex slaves. The article mentioned celebrity “household names” were involved. Then no follow up story was printed ... ever. I keep looking. Nothing. Another case of human abuse being suppressed.

According to their definition, yes.

It also means that a NFL owner cannot make a player stand for the national anthem.

Here's their definition:
https://www.walkfreefoundat...

By the definition most soldiers would be slaves. Unable to leave work, refuse work, etc. In addition high levels of debt seem to be considered slavery. Does that mean getting a college degree equals enslavement? I think in trying to throw as wide a net as possible they have weakened their position. It sounds better in fund raisers I guess.

Military service, either volunteer or draft, is part of the cost of freedom. By stretching the slavery definition we're all slaves to something in our lives.

Being compelled to defend your community is as old as mankind. The colonies required all able bodied men between 16 and 45, typically, to be in the militia, possess rifle and ammunition and to drill periodically with the militia.

It seems the term "modern slavery" was coined so the hate groups could label the U.S. and other western countries as having part of their society in slavery which is an ABSOLUTE FALSEHOOD.

Nailed it. It's meant to prey on the very lucrative White Guilt market.

BINGO

The term "militia" can also cover when say a natural disaster takes place and the survivors need to quickly create some kind of protective law force! Our 2nd Amendment is crucial!

No it isn't. Napoleon Bonaparte is credited for this Revolution in Military Affairs. Prior to Napoleon's conquest of Europe, militaries were always comprised of what basically amounted to mercenaries. You can still see a good example of a trace of this with the Vatican's use of Swiss guards.

But...but...CNN says....

For real? If yours is a contemporaneous authoritative reference, the second amendment should be watertight.

10 USC SECTION 310. Look it up.

I'm afraid that is a lot newer than the bill of rights.

That is the legal definition of the milita and who is a member.

The second amendment is watertight!

Technically the law still requires that -- read Title X someday.

The Bible teaches that without our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we are slaves to sin.

Were all enslaved to earn fiat to pay back debts and taxes created out of thin air by banks. We sell our labour for this therefore we are enslaved or we can refuse and be homeless.

Slavery never died. Now we are tax slaves.
http://whatistaxed.com

It died briefly, then came back in 1913 in the form of income tax. You are correct.

Exactly. Nice to see somebody understands the distinction.

They are soldiers by choice...Slaves are stolen and enslaved against their will by slavers (like obama's kenyan acensters)... slaves do not collect a paycheck or earn benefits...soldiers do.

Involuntary servitude is expressly prohibited by the US Constitution, as amended. Therefore, military conscription, on its face, appears unconstitutional.

Fortunately, the US Constitution is a living, breathing document with many penumbrae and emanations. God bless our federal judges!

BINGO. These groups are staffed by losers who cant function as productive members of society either because they are too lazy or too stupid or both, so they dwell as long as possible in academia performing "white collar panhandling" to leftist organizations that use them as raw material suppliers for leftist propaganda.

Are there still REAL slaves out there, sure, in Africa and likely parts of Asia. The USA abolished slavery and fought a brutal civil war to drive home the point, what is these countries in Africa and Asia's excuse? Oh I buy a cellphone, so that forces them to enslave people? I dont think so.

Children, sold hour after hour after hour, day after day, week after week, mostly for reasons of sex.

Right here, in the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

Children just like the ones that live in your home. Children just like the ones you are related to. Children just like the ones that live in your neighborhood.

In the first few days of February of 2017 alone, several arrests of child sex traffickers were reported. In Caliornia, over 470 people were arrested over a three day period as the state’s “Operation Reclaim and Rebuild rescued dozens of children, many of them taken from the foster care system in some way. 22 more were arrested in Detroit, Michigan, this time at North American International Auto Show, as police rescued two more young children, under the age of 16. In Dallas, Texas, during the same month, a 15 year old girl was rescued from a child sex trafficker. Another 16 year old girl, also from Texas, was also a victim of child sex trafficking. Police arrested an individual in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this time rescuing three minors from child sex trafficking.

Modern day slavery does exist. Right here, in America.

Their definition is very, very broad. Since you cannot declare bankruptcy on student loans, does that make you a "slave" to the US government student loan people? If a city bans tattoos, does that make you a slave because you don't have full control over your body. While I am NOT minimizing slavery in many of the places listed, I think the average person would find vast majority of the "slaves" in developed countries mislabeled.

Actually, you can declare bankruptcy on student loans but for the vast majority of them, particularly federal ones, you have to demonstrate such a level of hardship that you basically have to be quadriplegic or dead to qualify. There's been some recent shifts but it is just one more area, like the 910 rule, where the average Debtor is getting SCREWED by bad law.

The website doesn't give a definition of modern slavery at all.

It says "Those highest at risk include those who are physically or linguistically isolated, culturally disoriented, subjected to crushing debts and have little to no knowledge of their rights." Which really says nothing at all about what modern slavery is supposed to be, it says who are most at risk. It's more like a sleight of hand trick that infers what modern slavery is supposed to be vs actually saying what it is. It's meant to to mislead you but if someone questions what they said they can say "I didn't say that you came up with that by yourself."

Plus the statistics seem like they pulled them out of their um a.ses.

I read that crap twice and found nary a definition of 'modern slavery'. I figure if the truth were known, they'd like to define slavery as any existence under a capitalist system.

Bingo! This is a leftist definition, contrived to fit the Marxist worldview. Slavery, however, does indeed exist, much of it still associated with Muslim slavers and slave owners.