THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
AUSTRALIA LEADS WAY IN FIGHT AGAINST ORPHANAGE TRAFFICKING
An unidentified woman holding a baby. (Cambodian Children’s Trust)
Australia Leads Way in Fight Against Orphanage Trafficking
SYDNEY—Australia has just become the first nation in the world to recognize that the trafficking of children into orphanages is a form of modern slavery. Passed last month, the Modern Slavery Bill also focuses on the role that tourists who support orphanages unwittingly play in enabling child abuse and exploitation.
The legislation, which comes into effect on Jan. 1, requires large travel companies, educational institutions, and other entities to publish reports on what they do to assess and address modern slavery risks in their supply chains, including orphanages.
Tara Winkler (L) and Sinet Chan (2-L), from Cambodia Children’s Trust, at the Australian parliamentary inquiry into modern slavery on Aug. 18, 2017. (Cambodian Children’s Trust)
About 80 percent of the 8 million children in orphanages worldwide actually have at least one living parent. But in some countries, families can be persuaded to hand over their kids to orphanages with promises of food, education, or medical care.
While caring for children in institutions is regarded as a thing of the past in places such as Australia and the United States, orphanage numbers have been on the rise in several poorer nations, such as Uganda, Nepal, and Indonesia.
Overseas Funding
Tourists who fund these places, by making donations or paying to volunteer their services, think they’re making a positive contribution. They may unwittingly be perpetuating what Australian Sen. Linda Reynolds has described as “the perfect 21st-century scam.”
Many orphanages use children to raise money by performing shows or interacting with visitors. Few have child protection policies and procedures, and visitors have unfettered access to vulnerable kids. Children are often forced to work and are abused in other ways.
An unidentified woman holding a child. (Cambodian Children’s Trust)
Orphanages in Cambodia are all foreign-funded. A 2017 Australian parliamentary inquiry that led to the Modern Slavery Bill heard the harrowing story of a Cambodian woman named Sinet Chan, who was placed in an orphanage after her parents died when she was 9 years old.
“The orphanage got its funding from the tourists, and when the tourists came we need to perform for them to make them happy … like singing a song, playing a game, learning English and Japanese,” she told the inquiry. “Sometimes [tthe tourists] would buy us some clothes or food, but we were not allowed to keep them. The director of the orphanage would take them back to the market and sell everything. … At the time, performing felt like working, for me. We were also forced to work at the director’s rice field and at his fish farm.”
Chan told the inquiry that she was sexually abused, that the orphanage provided no drinking water or medication, and that food was scarce. “Often, we would catch mice to eat,” she said. “I used to like it when volunteers came to the orphanage; they would play with us and sometimes buy us some food. But it was even more terrible when they left every time. It felt like we were being abandoned.”
Chan is now an ambassador for Cambodia Children’s Trust (CCT). It was founded by Australian Tara Winkler, who rescued Chan from the orphanage in 2007. CCT now works to return children in orphanages to their family or place them in the care of other families.
“Exploitation of children in orphanages doesn’t just relate to the corrupt orphanages … because children are harmed in all orphanages, in all forms of institutional care,” Winkler told the Australian inquiry. “Over 60 years of international research has shown us that children who grow up in institutions, even the very best institutions, are at serious risk of developing mental illnesses, attachment disorders, growth and speech delays, and many will struggle to reintegrate back into society later in life.”
CCT is part of a network called ReThink Orphanages, founded by another Australian, Leigh Mathews. The network has been helping companies such as Projects Abroad, Intrepid Travel, and World Challenge withdraw from the orphanage tourism business.
An unidentified woman holding a baby. (Cambodian Children’s Trust)
“[I’d also] like to see how [nations such as Australia] look at supporting countries where this is an enormous problem and acknowledge we have been a big part of creating it and perpetuating it, and what can we do to support government in-country to implement policy and regulation around how they can address this,” Mathews said.
Volunteer tourism has become increasingly popular in recent decades with people looking to enhance their travel experience by “doing some good.” It’s a $2 billion industry. Reformed voluntourist and New York-based writer Pippa Biddle is an incisive critic of voluntourism, including where it involves orphanages.
“You have adventure … you have your own development, you have self-gratification, and you have this weird thing called ‘giving back,’” she said. “[But] the reality is, change is not visible in a day or a week or year … in the period of our weekend or a holiday, or summer break.”
She says that kind of short attention span can result in overlooking harm that may be caused. “And, in this case, the action is endangering children.”
Tackling the Issue
The Australian legislation only applies to organizations with an annual turnover of at least $100 million and does not include penalties for noncompliance with reporting requirements. These limitations will be reviewed in three years.
It remains to be seen what real impact the new law might have. Mathews considers it an enormous step forward, but says there’s much more to be done. She would like to see, for example, government policies to say schools and universities should not visit or fundraise for orphanages, and regulatory mechanisms to stem the flow of money, people, and resources out of a country into overseas institutions.
Australia is, nevertheless, at the forefront of efforts to protect children from exploitation in orphanages and to educate tourists. A government-sponsored Smart Volunteering campaign earlier this year reached a large audience.
“It has been impressive to see how much of the research about issues of voluntourism more broadly, and orphanage tourism, has come out of Australia,” said Biddle. “There is clearly a very active conversation … it’s got attention. This is not a conversation in the United States. There is a debate around volunteering, but it’s not nearly in the same place.”
ReThink Orphanages Steering Group members, including Leigh Mathews (L) and Tara Winkler (R), meet with Australian Sen. Linda Reynolds (2nd R) in March 2016. (Leigh Mathews)
ReThink Orphanages has recently established hubs in Europe and North America to continue to raise awareness of the issue. Testimonies from former orphanage residents, such as Chan, add a powerful voice to the discussion.
“It is not easy for me to tell this story, but I don’t want you to feel sorry for me,” Chan told the Australian inquiry. “It is important for people to know about the abuse and exploitation in orphanages. I would like to urge people to stop supporting, donating, or volunteering at the orphanage. Your kindness and generosity can help solve this problem if you have organizations where people are supported to stay with their families. Thank you.”
ABORTION KILLS…. the innocent!
PLANNED PARENTHOOD:
America’s baby murdering factories…. Your tax dollars at work
Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a "uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.
The common second trimester abortion procedure – also known as dilation and evacuation (D&E) – involves dilating the mother’s cervix and then removing the baby’s limbs using surgical instruments prior to extracting his or her remains from the uterus.
“Ohio Right to Life is immensely grateful to our governor and our pro-life legislature for prioritizing this crucial legislation,” said Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life, adding:
Ohio Right to Life has seen 21 pro-life initiatives become law in the last eight years. All of these initiatives have led to abortions decreasing by more than 25% in Ohio, and half of Ohio’s abortion clinics shutting down. With four years of pro-life Governor-elect Mike DeWine ahead of us, the prospect of ending abortion in Ohio has never looked better.
Abortionists who perform dismemberment abortions in defiance of the law could face fourth-degree felony charges, including a jail sentence and fines, reports Fox 31.
The new law provides an exception for cases in which the mother’s life is at risk, but none for rape or incest.
In 2017, the Ohio Department of Health reported nearly 3,500 dismemberment abortions in the state.
Similar dismemberment abortion bans have been enacted in nine other states, and introduced in 17 other states in the past three years. Fox 31 reports that of the nine other states that have enacted such a ban, only those in Mississippi and West Virginia have not been temporarily blocked by the courts.
The Dismemberment Abortion Ban will go into effect in March 2019.
Planned Parenthood condemned the dismemberment ban and hinted at a challenge:
Just a reminder of what @PPact is defending: the practice of ripping living unborn children limb from limb (between 13 and 24 weeks) in order to kill them. #EndDismemberment
Iris Harvey, president of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, called the ban “extreme legislation to turn medical decision-making into political ideology.”
“Patients, and the medical providers who serve them, rely on the overwhelming medical evidence that shows abortion is one of the safest medical procedures,” Harvey added. “The method ban dangerously limits people’s options, undermines patients’ constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion, and compromises medical providers’ decision making.”
The Gospel According to Nancy: No Borders, Kill Babies (UNLESS THEY'RE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABIES!)
Tucker Carlson pointed out a few days ago how the already insufferable leader of the Congressional Democrats has recently been "ordained….an archbishop in the church of progressive sanctimony." For a while now, Nancy Pelosi's been the country's expert on morality (e.g., border wall: immoral; abortion on demand: moral). She's now taken to telling the country how much she prays, and she's urging others to do it, too – at least that old sinner, Donald Trump. After last Thursday's televised squabble in the Oval Office, Pelosi shared with reporters how she told Trump she was praying for him and urged the president (whom she also called a "skunk" while ridiculing his manhood) to accept the Democrats' budget proposal with no funding for a border wall. "In fact," she said with stomach-turning piety, "I asked him to pray over it."
When a smug person ends an argument by telling you to "pray over it," she's really saying, "Ask God. He knows I'm right!"
Summarizing her and Chuck Schumer's meeting with Trump, she told the media, "I myself thought we should open the meeting with a prayer, which I did. I told him about King Solomon, when he was to become king of the Jews, he prayed to God, he said: 'I need you to give me great understanding and wisdom, Lord.'"
King Solomon is Pelosi's favorite Bible character, especially because he proposed solving a problem by cutting a baby in half.
Now Sister Nancy's praying for Trump to keep the government open so federal employees can finish their Christmas shopping.
It's an axiom that if a conservative says his faith informs his political decisions, he'll be condemned for establishing a state religion, while liberals get to veer back and forth over the church-state centerline as freely as those motorists who love to text while driving. Right now the liberal media are applauding the way Pelosi "schooled President Donald Trump about the Bible," but it's not clear why. It's not as if they're suddenly in favor of anyone being schooled in the Bible, especially anyone in a public classroom.
Pelosi never bats an eye without a political motive. This Saint Nancy act might be her attempt to occupy the spiritual high ground that, obviously, Donald Trump has shown no interest in occupying himself. Pelosi wouldn't dare try this with a president like George W. Bush, who, while he didn't boast about his piety on TV, was recognized as genuine in his Christian faith – prompting the left's usual reaction: Ross Douthat wrote in 2006 that "the fear of theocracy has become a defining panic of the Bush era."
Theology was less of an issue for liberals during the Obama years; he was their messiah, and they just worshiped him. Meantime, Obama conspicuously dissed orthodox Christians with everything from calculated snubs and criticism to gratuitously tormenting the Little Sisters of the Poor, all the while devotedly celebrating the unblemished virtues of Islam. In 2015, Hillary bluntly stated that "[d]eep-seated ... religious beliefs ... have to be changed" to accommodate the unlimited abortion license. Then, last year, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez said it is "not negotiable" that "[e]very Democrat" support abortion. Pelosi tried to mitigate Perez's remarks by saying "of course" there's room for pro-lifers in the Democratic Party, but try to find one who's not actually voting Perez-style.
This year, Pelosi watched the Democrats lurch wildly to the extreme left. For decades before that, they were trusted allies in the left's war on conventional morality and religion (except Islam!) for being repressive, patriarchal, and counterrevolutionary. It may be that, alarmed that the Democrat brand has become too materialistic, amoral, and atheist, she thinks she can give it religion. Maybe she can draw an unfavorable comparison between the reprobate and undisciplined Donald Trump and herself: the "ardent, practicing Catholic," who exhorts the President to beg for "the great understanding and wisdom" that she (and Chuck Schumer?) have already been granted by God. Haven't Republicans marched under the banner of morality and Christian values long enough? Now that they've elected the unholy Trump, why can't the Democrats seize that banner for themselves?
For one thing, because no evangelical or conservative Catholic would ever buy it. Sure, the Democratic Party is crowded with Catholics, but the serious ones left years ago. The leading unserious Catholic is Pelosi herself, who professes her devotion to the faith but does it while living in open, willful defiance of the Church's crystal-clear teaching against abortion: "It is the teaching of the Catholic Church from the very beginning that the killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified."
When her duplicity threatened to become an issue in 2004, Pelosi pretended that, moved by her "ardent" devotion to the Church, she had been studying the Church's teaching on the beginning of life "a long time," and she stated falsely to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that the Church has never defined it. Asked when human life begins, she replied, "We don't know," and that "[t]he point is, that it shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose" – the "it" being when a human life begins, which shouldn't have an impact on the decision to get an abortion. Easy mistake to make when your catechism is Roe v. Wade.
Later, when a reporter mentioned the Gosnell infanticides and challenged her own support for partial-birth abortion, an agitated Pelosi snarled back that "[a]s a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this[.] ... This shouldn't have anything to do with politics." But as a politician, she never stops talking about it, and the sacred ground she was talking about wasn't human life, but the exercise of a mother's "free will" to terminate her child. In response, New York's Cardinal Egan said, "Anyone who dares to defend that [the unborn] may be legitimately killed because another human being 'chooses' to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name." Her own bishop reluctantly corrected her misstatements in a public letter, necessitated by "the widespread consternation among Catholics" of her deliberate distortions of Catholic doctrine. Pope Benedict counseled her, in person, on the Church's express teaching, "which enjoins all Catholics, and especially legislators," to protect "human life at all stages of its development." Pelosi, " the respectful Catholic" who presumed to tell Trump to pray for wisdom, emerged from thatmeeting no wiser for it, obtusely extolling the "Church's leadership in fighting poverty, hunger and global warming."
Jesus warned against hypocrites who make a public display of praying "that they may be seen by men." The way Pelosi pretends to exemplify "prayerful" politics, and the way she told Trump "in private" that she's praying for him – and immediately announced it in a televised press conference – is pure Pelosi: cynical, addlebrained, phony. If it might hurt Trump, she'll pontificate how every MS-13 killer retains a "spark of divinity," then goes right back to her life's work snuffing out that spark from 60 million innocents and counting. The Bible never says it's intrinsically evil to build a wall or protect a border, but it's still got that commandment against murder.
Let the Democrats canonize this Pharisee if they need a patron saint. Her feast day can fall on January 22.
T.R. Clancy looks at the world from Dearborn, Michigan. You can email him at trclancy@yahoo.com.
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