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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:18 PM
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Sick, Sick Americans buying children in Cambodia for sex
according to NBC Dateline just now. Not teenagers but small children, gonna be sick.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:19 PM
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1. WHAT? Oh God, I'm gonna be sick too.
I can NOT live in this country another minute.
BHN
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 09:35 PM
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39. I hate to say it, but at least we are in the USA
and not Cambodia. And I travelled there. In places, it's a beautiful country. But, at least we have laws here that effectively fight against this type of activity.

I agree, 100%, that those people are disgusting pigs. I'm not sure what the laws are here, but I would like to prosecute them, here, for their exploits over there. It's disgusting and depraved, and it makes me very sad for the state of humanity.

And, before we blame all Americans for this activity, the perpetrators come from many, many countries. Not just the USA. It was quite common for travellers from the Germanic countries to take "sex tours" to the Philippines and Thailand. Also, Australians. Not to mention the peoples who inhabit every other continent.

If you want to move, the only safe place seems to be Antartica. Sad, isn't it?
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 09:45 PM
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41. Welcome to DU!
But no, I think there are places other than Antactica!
Check this out:
http://www.nz.com/tour/StewartIsland/oban.html
My FAVORITE web cruising site on the net these days!
I am going in November and I CANT WAIT!!!
BHN
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DoNotRefill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 09:54 PM
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42. Americans can be prosecuted by the US government...
for having sex with children, even if it's legal to do so where it happens.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 10:00 PM
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44. Unfortunately...
the people who can prosecute are probably also the
guilty parties...and so it goes in this fucked up country.
BHN
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DoNotRefill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 10:03 PM
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46. not necessarily....
I recall a case not too long ago of a travel agent who set up sex tours in SE Asia and their clients being busted. Never heard if they were convicted, but the arrest made the news.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:19 PM
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2. Just an update on it. They didn't play the full story.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:21 PM
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3. This has been going on for a long time
in virtually all of southeast Asia.
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:21 PM
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4. !!

Oh like this hasn't been going on for years...especially in Thailand.
Business as usual.
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Katarina Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:22 PM
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5. Disgusting
I just saw that and lost it. I've kept the TV off all day. The stress is killing me. I woke up this morning with chest pains. I have so much anger in me and then I watch this and it's all right back. So much sickness in the world these days. Those poor little children. :cry:
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:27 PM
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9. Allow me to share my therapy with you:
Go here:
http://www.nz.com/tour/StewartIsland/oban.html
and realize this shit is not happening on some parts
of the planet...there is still beauty, just not here.
I am SO looking into moving to NZ.
Just give me a cave and some berries and let me
forget the horrors of this country and its population.
BHN
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:22 PM
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6. I remember the story
Most of these guys are straight, married businessmen with kids of their own, pillars of their church. They buy children for sex only because it's forbidden and they want to "try it out."

Yeah, it's sick. People are just as awful as they're given permission to be, it seems, and they assume anything goes among people who are poor and desperate.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:34 PM
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27. Wouldn't Be Surprised If GOP Has Access To Info
on who has done this... and pix too.

Honestly, I bet there are back channels for them to get dirt on people so they can blackmail them.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:23 PM
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7. Must be sweeps week again

This has been going on for decades... and not just Americans, Germans,
English, Aussies, and especially the Japanese have been picking up
young girls (and young boys) and paying the parents some amount of
money (or sex slave traffickers). Sometimes the children WANT to be
purchased (though I'm sure they do not understand the implications).

Anyway, it's old news, but its' always good for a little salacious
sex story to run (and promote!) during sweeps.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:23 PM
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8. Why do they hate us?
For our FREEDOMS to parade around the planet
with our DEMENTED, depraved, disgusting behavior.
God I am so ashamed of our diseased populace.
BHN
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:29 PM
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10. Neil Bush, brother to the Chimp in the Oval Office

I believe Neil got his venereal disease over in Thailand. Women just kept appearing at his hotel door demanding sex. This is a true story.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:38 PM
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11. Consensual sex
between fascists and hookers is one thing-
but I believe pedophilia is quite another.
The thought makes me physically ill.
BHN
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:46 PM
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12. Anyways...

What makes you so sure of Neil's tastes? Grown women, children, etc.?

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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:01 PM
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18. Ummm...
If you read your post you will see that it was your assertion
that "women" were knocking on his door.
I have not seen any children who would qualify
for your description of his partners, but hey, who knows?
Perhaps he was buying children too...I put nothing past the
BFEE.
BHN

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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:15 PM
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:21 PM
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22. ICK!
Actually, I don't view people or sexuality that way.
and as a hetro woman, I wont be contemplating
"pussy" as you call it, at all.
BTW- I find your post extemely crass...

BHN
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:30 PM
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25. Yes, it's crass

But if you don't think people deal in sex that way in these places, then you're dreaming, sister. Wake the hell up.

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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:36 PM
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28. I am WELL aware of the fact that they do.
Thank you- I am not dreaming at all.
The pictures of the prisoners in Abu Ghraib
show all too clearly who we are- a depraved
and sick society that unfortunately brutalizes
the entire planet with our psychosis.
I want no further part of it.
BHN
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Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:46 PM
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13. Hmm
Yes, only Americans commit depraved acts.

Any place you can find on a globe has atrocities. Americans aren't responsible for them all.

Happy hermit cave-dwelling!
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Syncronaut Seven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:51 PM
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15. so you're ceding the moral high ground
Being born an American automatically grants you then? Snicker, Snicker.
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:00 PM
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17. The problem is...can you name a depraved act by the U.S.??

/Yes, only Americans commit depraved acts.

Name one. Go ahead, be brave. I know you can do it.

I'll give you some hints, El Salvador? Chile? Bay of Piggles?
Anything?? Or are Americans too pure to commit no-no's?? How bout the Indians? Was that genocide or what? You tell me.

C'mon, I know you can do it!! Try!!!
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:07 PM
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20. Welcome to DU
And thank you for your good wishes.
I am very much looking forward to escaping
the rude and arrogant assholes that our country
seems to produce en masse these days.
They seem to be EVERYWHERE I turn.
Check out my destination:
http://www.nz.com/tour/StewartIsland/oban.html
Some how I doubt there is much child trafficking
going on there.
BHN
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DoNotRefill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 09:55 PM
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43. it's not just an american phenominon...
it's widespread, and happens virtually EVERYWHERE.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:47 PM
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14. Cambodia is part of the Vietnam mess we helped create.
After we pulled out, Pol Pot and his Communists killed everyone who disagreed with them, known as the killing fields, leaving a nation destroyed and without a national identity. It's no surprise the women and children suffer from this destruction and reconstruction as the first victims. We share much of the blame. We have so much Karma to repay.
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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:51 PM
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31. not "after we pulled out"
more like "after American planes dropped more bombs on Laos & Cambodia than on NAZI FUCKING GERMANY". That tends to leave a place open to quite a few things. Thankfully the Vietnamese liberated their neighbor, if a bit late.. of course, that good deed did not go unpunished and American politicians still backed the Khmer Rouge for years after.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:54 PM
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33. Thanks for filling in the details, My memory was a bit fuzzy
and I didn't have time to research. We still are at a lot of fault IMHO.
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 07:52 PM
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16. How much?
Just kidding!
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:02 PM
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19. NOT FUNNY
at all.
Please make it go away. This is not a joking matter.
Respectfully,
BHN
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:28 PM
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23. There is an entire epidemic of slavery of young girls/boys in several
Edited on Fri Jun-18-04 08:28 PM by mzmolly
countries around the globe. No one seems to give a shit.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:33 PM
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26. I DO!
I give a serious shit, because I have seen up close
and personal the damage of pedophilia.
That a so called "moral-bible-thumping-nation" of
idiots is implicated and perpetuating these
crimes against children is just disgusting.
If they are insist on showering the planet with
their DISGUSTING idea of sexuality, the for God's sake,
they must SHUT UP about their so called "righteousness."
Can I get a witness?
BHN
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:57 PM
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34. AMEN!
:hi:
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 09:02 PM
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36. Thank you for your witness Sistah Molly!
For our country to be pontificating on
morality and just wars is simply LUDICROUS!
for God's sake, our number one export is
PORNOGRAPHY and death!
Fucking hypocrites every where.
BHN
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 09:04 PM
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37. Your most welcome!
I totally agree.
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mongo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 10:01 PM
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45. hold on now....
Porn - filmed consensual sex between ADULTS has nothing to do with this.

If you want to find child predators look in your local churches and day care. It seems that the more of a holy roller one is, the more likely they are into some nasty evil shit.

Millions of Americans enjoy porn. Normal, decent people who would never go to Thailand for sex with children.

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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:37 PM
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29. Didn't Junior Mention It In The SOTU?
people thought it might be an implied threat...

like, we have photos of you with little children so you definately want to donate money to Senator D.'s campaign... and offering him the use of your corporate jet wouldn't hurt either.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:57 PM
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35. Yeah, he *mentioned* it. Lip action and nothing more.
:(
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 09:36 PM
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40. Give a shit?!!

They love the trade!!! Why give a shit?

They're getting what they want.

Globalization, baby.
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:29 PM
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24. Neil Bush must be horny
Sorry, but it had to be said.

Carry on.
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Tosca Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:49 PM
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30. Neil Bush, Indonesian bush wacker...ooh er.
Yes, Neil Bush will go his way, fiddling diddling through life because he's protected by his family's money from falling in a ditch and ending up as a cursory obit in someone's second rate newspaper.

Oh Neil! You could have been so swell!
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:52 PM
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32. Don't worry
He'll get the presidential pardon in December.
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