The world is burning

Not necessarily with fire, but with people's lives being destroyed. Do we really live among people who are engaged in human trafficking? I have no idea, but I'm guessing there are at least a few people in Canada who are involved. Line up at Tim Horton's. Table next to you at McDonald's. I'm not trying to predict where these people eat but they probably go to the grocery store too. They should be shot on sight.

Am I out of line saying that? I don't know. I'm not trying to play god here, but I don't see why people who buy and sell other people as commodities deserve to live.

It sounds like I think I deserve to live, but I don't. No one chooses their life, and deserving is a stupid word I think. But it's hard to draw a firm line anywhere in the sand when it comes to people and the suffering they inflict. It's happening all the time, everywhere in the world.

So what can be done? You have to bring the darkness and put it in the light. It's the only way to destroy it. You have to find the people who are doing this, and for fuck's sake, aren't they doing it in broad daylight? I mean, why traffic a person if you're not going to use them as a hooker etc. Don't hookers need clients? And aren't those clients NORMAL FUCKING PEOPLE who live in your neighbourhood?

I'm just wondering, if the news reported: "Today, the RCMP shot and killed 3 more who were found to be running the Toronto branch of the Worldwide Human Trafficking Federation..."

Who would complain? I mean, these people have mothers, fathers? Really? I know they do, but it blows my mind. Wouldn't they have some conflicting feelings if they saw that news report.

I can't get into the head of the human trafficker. How do you rationalize that? Well, let's see, I'm going to take this Haitian (or wherever) child, and sell it to Mr. X. What he does with them is none of my business, it's purely a business deal. Obviously they know what is going on here. Everyone involved has to know exactly what is happening.

To me, that is such an incredible absence of empathy, it's hard to imagine. Especially because human traffickers are not Former Victims of Trafficking (sorry Hunter). Or are they? I don't know. Maybe it is like the child who is beaten by their dad and they grow up to be a child/wife beater like their old man. I doubt it.

If it's not, if these people are simply business people who have such a desire for money (or inability to make it in other ways), they are the perfect picture of the darkest roots of humanity. I'd say lower than Hitler, because Hitler was blinded by his ideology, his beliefs. These people have one god - money. Hitler likely loved the German people. He just hated Jews so incredibly much but he hated them because he thought they were holding back the people he loved.

The traffickers, on the other hand, would sell anyone to make a buck. They would inflict a lifetime of physical and psychological damage on another, for what? Nice house, cars, food, transport, freedom. Other stuff too but the point is made.

You really get an indication of the extent to which spirit can vacate a person. I mean the complete absence of love. Could they have love and still do this? Could they have a family and feel feelings of love towards them? HOW? Every person shipped, every child sold, is to their parents what the trafficker's kids are to them. How is that missing from their mind?

What am I missing? The self hatred that must occupy that space in the trafficker's heart is so vast.

Future glimpse

When all the exotic animals are dead and gone, and only stuffed artifacts remain, the deceased collector's descendants will sit in their houses with their taxidermed hand-me-downs. A curious friend might ask what some of the former beings are called. As the years go on, the answer will undoubtedly become 'I don't know'.