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Media blackout on marches happening today

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orangesnapples · 22/08/2020 15:23

Is it me or is it not very strange that 1000s of people currently marching though our major cities today and no media coverage?

They are marching for our children's rights, to awareness to trafficking etc

Does the lack of coverage just play into the hands of those that accuse the media of being part of the problem.

They are currently peacefully marching to bring awareness because there sadly is hardly any awareness of trafficking, most people have the completely strep typical idea of what trafficking is, that is all some world wide elite club.
But the sad truth it looks very different, and is probably happening in a home near you right now.

So why no coverage. My SM is flooded with 1000s I f people walking the streets of Liverpool, London etc.

I don't want to believe there is darkness in control of our media and what we see etc but honestly I can't think for the life of me why this isn't being covered.

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lookatallthosechickens · 22/08/2020 17:19

@Clive222 so thousands of young children are trafficked into the UK to work on cannabis farms and in, what, child sex slave brothels? And somehow as if by magic not one of these cannabis farms or brothels full of children has ever been discovered? Surely that would make the news, wouldn't it? Honestly, listen to yourself. You're spouting nonsense.

amber763 · 22/08/2020 17:20

This is QAnon. Don't get sucked in.

dwiz8 · 22/08/2020 17:21

@isntthatnice

My niece and her friends are part of save our children and they are far from right wing or conspiracy loons.
Nah but they just align themselves to groups who are full of conspiracy nutters

Birds of a feather flock together

UsernameNotValid · 22/08/2020 17:21

I saw a post about this movement a few days ago shared on social media from someone affiliated - maybe the leader, I've never heard of it before tbh.

It said that they weren't just working against the trafficking of children but also from the "Mother's" who don't feed them and the "Mother's" who let them go dirty and without decent clothing and worst of all from the "Mother's" who LET men rape them...

I put it down to a Fathers4Justice type thing that thinks that all a child's issues are down to one single person, which is of course, the woman and not at all a man's fault. Not even the men who actually seek out and rape said children 🤔

HaveYouSeenMyFriendKimberley · 22/08/2020 17:21

There are a lot of small demos all the time tbh.

isntthatnice · 22/08/2020 17:23

@dwiz8 not at all and they certainly are not Trump supporters.

dwiz8 · 22/08/2020 17:23

[quote isntthatnice]@dwiz8 not at all and they certainly are not Trump supporters.
[/quote]
Sure...Hmm

They just happen to align themselves with known conspiracy nut jobs

SaskiaRembrandt · 22/08/2020 17:23

@PhilSwagielka

Also, it kills me that they’re claiming to be pro-veteran and holding up a sign saying ‘G-d bless Donald Trump’ when Trump mocked a disabled veteran on TV.

I don’t trust them.

And also mocked the parents of a dead American soldier www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-36935175
Clive222 · 22/08/2020 17:25

I am a foster after. I have cared for many children trafficked into slave labour. It’s complete rubbish to say it’s rare. It’s thousands. But what makes you think such children can ever be classed as above or below 8? No records, no birth certificate, no name in many cases. They are issued an ‘official’ date of birth by the home office, so the home office decides to only issue dates that would make the children over 8. Then they use their own figures as proof that the uk has no slaves under 8. Again this thread is showing appalling ignorance. But anyway. even one or two would be too many.

EngTech · 22/08/2020 17:25

If it was true, it would be on FB 👍😎

BoreOfWhabylon · 22/08/2020 17:26

They're all coming out of the woodwork now Grin

CrocodilesCry · 22/08/2020 17:27

@Clive222

its not white British people in general

Wrong again. Many hundreds of white British are trafficked as slave labour in the sex and drugs trades.

I am getting increasingly concerned about the ignorance shown on this thread

It's not. In the UK around 25% of those trafficked are UK nationals and the majority are not white British. Don't disagree if you can't back up your statements with facts.
amber763 · 22/08/2020 17:29

People will get sucked in due to the tagline but they want to "Save our Children" from Obama, Ellen, Hilary Clinton and Tom Hanks amongst others who they believe are killing kids in satanic rituals to harvest adrenechrome from them. Trump is the world saviour who is working to stop this and the rest of the evil elite cabal (dismissing the fact the funding to anti trafficking organisations has been cut under trump) Oh and if you dont believe it you're supporting pedophilia. Oh and there are mole children under Central Park.

I have a relative and some friends who have gone so deep down this rabbit hole that it has completely changed their personality and I worry so much for their mental health. It's broken up relationships and families.

redbushtea · 22/08/2020 17:30

I agree OP. There seems to be an unprecedented increase in the level of censorship by the media. The media is not reporting marches and demonstrations which do not fit into the agenda of certain people in power.

Certain types of protests are well covered e.g. transgender issues while others such as this and concerns over the lockdown are entirely ignored.

canigooutyet · 22/08/2020 17:30

Children are Trafficked.
In 2018 in the US alone over 50% of those trafficked were children.

www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-human-trafficking

www.nspcc.org.uk/what-is-child-abuse/types-of-abuse/child-trafficking/

1 in 4 www.worldschildren.org/child-trafficking-statistics/

JaniceBattersby · 22/08/2020 17:31

Being anti vaccination is alt right is it? A different opinion to yours is to be labelled and maligned. You are what you profess to hate.

@bingbong1970

I haven’t said I ‘hate’ anybody.

Journalists are generally champions of free speech, however unsavoury the opinion being spouted, despite what you read about us on Facebook.

However, when that free speech is based on provable untruths and puts children at real risk of catching deadly illnesses, I won’t give it a platform. Some publications do, mine doesn’t.

And you’ve attempted to put words in my mouth. I don’t think every anti-Vaxxer is alt-right, but every alt-righter I’ve ever seen pontificating all over social media is an anti-vaxxer.

I’m also confused about why these protestors would want their events covered by the mainstream media when it’s run by elite, child-trafficking conspirators.

Clive222 · 22/08/2020 17:32

Of course children are trafficked in huge numbers. It’s shocking that so many people on this site don’t know that

lookatallthosechickens · 22/08/2020 17:33

@Clive222 I 100% don't believe a word of what you're saying and no one else should either. There are not thousands of child slaves in the UK and I don't know what your motive is for saying there are - maybe you're mentally ill or maybe it's darker than that, I don't know - but I hope you get the help you need.

JingsMahBucket · 22/08/2020 17:33

Oof. Some of the known MN anti-maskers are now on this thread too.

canigooutyet · 22/08/2020 17:34

I wouldn't call 10.1 million children a few would you?

www.ecpat.org.uk/child-trafficking-statistics published in 2018

PhilSwagielka · 22/08/2020 17:35

@Clive222

its not white British people in general

Wrong again. Many hundreds of white British are trafficked as slave labour in the sex and drugs trades.

I am getting increasingly concerned about the ignorance shown on this thread

Have you got any credible sources?
Clive222 · 22/08/2020 17:36

@crocodilescry don’t disagree if you can’t back up your statements with facts

I’ll disagree all I like. I am giving you facts. You have not backed up anything you say at all. Unless you count your random ignorant statements as ‘backing up what you say with facts’ which indicates you have no idea what backing up means and you certainly have no idea what the facts are

BoreOfWhabylon · 22/08/2020 17:37

@JingsMahBucket

Oof. Some of the known MN anti-maskers are now on this thread too.
Yup
canigooutyet · 22/08/2020 17:37

The United Kingdom is the most prominent country of origin for trafficked children – a total of 2,360 reported cases – followed by Vietnam (427), Eritrea (274), Albania (256), Sudan (220), Romania

PhilSwagielka · 22/08/2020 17:37

@amber763

People will get sucked in due to the tagline but they want to "Save our Children" from Obama, Ellen, Hilary Clinton and Tom Hanks amongst others who they believe are killing kids in satanic rituals to harvest adrenechrome from them. Trump is the world saviour who is working to stop this and the rest of the evil elite cabal (dismissing the fact the funding to anti trafficking organisations has been cut under trump) Oh and if you dont believe it you're supporting pedophilia. Oh and there are mole children under Central Park.

I have a relative and some friends who have gone so deep down this rabbit hole that it has completely changed their personality and I worry so much for their mental health. It's broken up relationships and families.

A lot of them are antisemitic and blame Jews for everything. You know, we’re the ones trafficking kids and drinking blood, blah blah Soros Rothschilds etc.