Activists are happy to attack simple targets like old statues but should start fighting modern slavery, a former police officer said.
Progressive activists need to stop attacking statues with various ties to the slave trade, which ended 200 years ago, and start taking action against real-life modern trafficking, also known as slavery, a former senior police officer said.
Tom Wood, a former deputy chief of Lothian and Border Police, made the statement after it was revealed that world-renowned Olympic athlete Mo Farah was trafficked to the UK as a child and forced to work as a domestic worker.
have opinions piece published in ScotWood stressed that Farah was only rescued through the astute actions of school teachers, a level of awareness or caring not usually reflected by anti-statue activists.
The former police officer also cited the case of a woman who was rescued as a “de facto slave” in the sex trade by two attentive police officers who arrested her captive after being called to the apartment where she was being held. Handling domestic events.
“A routine police job did a good job of freeing these women from slavery, and the officers concerned may never have known how important their work was,” he wrote. “In both cases, the ordinary Human vigilance and decisive action free victims of real-world captivity.”
Wood argues that this preoccupation contrasts with the actions of statue vandals, who, the former official argues, have actually done little to address the pressing problem of modern slavery.
“Influenced by the Atlantic slave trade, which ended 200 years ago, they knocked down statues and painted them. It was easy, but nothing changed,” he said.
“Confronting modern slavery is much more difficult and requires vigilance and action from all of us,” he continued. “We have to ask ourselves how the cheap clothes we buy are made of, where do the nail salon workers come from and what are the wages. Some sacrifices may be required.
“It’s not enough to be in a demo.”
Historic statues could be melted down and turned into anti-colonial monumentshttps://t.co/gOjlLW59rc
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 22, 2022
The issue of human trafficking has come back into focus recently, with the ongoing refugee and migrant crisis raising fears that many trying to flee Russia’s invasion of the east could find themselves victims of human trafficking.
While British authorities try to control the flow of Ukrainian refugees into the country, its open border obsession with neighbouring Ireland has been far less cautious, raising concerns among British officials because the two countries exist in a common state. Tourist Area.
already ranking One of the worst human-trafficking countries in Western Europe – even on a US watch list at one point – Irish authorities have detected There have been at least two cases of suspected Ukrainian refugees being trafficked into the country.
The country’s amnesty-loving undocumented immigration attorney general, Helen McEntee, expressed some platitudes about the current situation, saying trafficking had “no place” in Irish society and the government was adopting a “victim-centred policy” policy”.
However, the head of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission stressed that the country’s starting point was “very low” and that “critical prerequisites for an effective response to human trafficking remain unmet”.
