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Slavery – Right Under My Nose
Posted by Bigfoot on November 26th, 2008
It’s sad to see the Thirteenth Amendment being violated, a stone’s throw from our nation’s capital. A man in Falls Church, VA has been charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal immigrants, for allegedly forcing women from Indonesia to stay in his house, while selling their services as housekeepers to families in Montgomery County, MD, which would be my side of the Potomac.
Soripada Lubis has been charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal immigrants. He has been released on bail and ordered to stay at his Roosevelt Avenue home with his wife and children.
It’s in that home, a federal agent said in a sworn statement, that Lubis kept between seven and 11 women at a time, sometimes sleeping two to a bed. He allegedly held the women’s passports, and threatened kill their families in Indonesia and alert immigration officials if they left him, the statement said. In summarizing an interview with one of the women the agent compared her response, based on his training and experience, to that of “victims of human trafficking.”
The article includes a picture of the Lubis house, which doesn’t look large enough to hold 7 to 11 involuntary guests in addition to his family. Here’s how the arrangement worked:
The women were charged between $300 and $350 a month, plus other expenses, to live in the one-story home on weekends. Lubis, or an unnamed relative, would drive the women to households in places like Potomac, where they worked and lived during the week, the statement said.
The “unnamed relative” would explain the “conspiracy” nature of the charge. A charge of conspiracy requires a plan, made between two or more persons. For the rest of the sordid details, read the article.
November 26th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
we had that on long island to.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Oh, slavery is closer, and much more common than that, even.
What do you suppose happens to a man who pays alimony in this country when he loses his job, or is forced to take a much lower paying one? He has to keep paying (even if he doesn’t have the money). To quote the courts:”Temporary unemployment or underemployment is not a cause for a reduction in support.” ….His assets get seized, if he has any. He gets dragged into court, without representation, if he can’t afford it, but irregardless of that, his ex-wife’s legal fees get allocated to him. His licenses get revoked, is he has any – including his driver’s license. He gets thrown into jail. If he tries to escape this fate by leaving the state/country, he automatically is classed as a felon. (Can you say ‘Dred Scott’?) His unemployment or new job (if he has one) will be garnished to 65%, prior to any sort of trial or hearing (and afterwards, because the outcome is virtually certain). And the trial won’t be in front of a Jury, no. Just a judge and lawyers bought into the system who will tell him that he deserves every bit of it.
This is real slavery, enforced by our government, and a lot closer to all of us than an oddball family in Falls Church.
This Thanksgiving, let’s remember that 60% of marriages end in divorce, with over 2/3rds of those filed for by women, and that a huge percentage of men who commit suicide are divorced – that in fact the significant difference between male and female suicide rates is made up entirely of divorced men. -And if you are not a divorced man, be thankful.
-M