Slaves? Today?

Slavery of baby boys in the United Arab Emirates

Sheizad, a five-year-old from Bangladesh, wakes each day at 4 a.m. in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He does not remember much about his village, or how he came to the UAE. He may have been lured by recruiters, sold to a middleman by his parents, or kidnapped. Sheizad is now a slave, forced, because of his size, to race camels to benefit his master.

There are three typical methods of enslavement: 1) kidnappers steal children away from their families; 2) families sell their sons for relatively high prices, thus attaining sufficient income for the entire family for years; or 3) recruiters lure boys away from their families, promising an education and other appealing life changes.

This says alot about what you can get wih a foriegn company owning our ports. Maybe our children will end up in slavery. Could you imagine slaves being brought into Port Newark again?

P.S. This is not the only example of modern slavery.