Media blackout on marches happening today

[orangesnapples]

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.

A quick search around the internet suggests that there were a slew of marches in the US about 6 days ago, and that this is very much driven by alt-right/pizzagate/q-anon types.

It's one of those insidious pieces of propaganda - deliberately pick a slogan no-one in their right mind could take issue with ("save our children") then use it to try to publicise a very unsavoury political movement.

At least these people are trying to help

Marching, protesting, large gatherings in the midst of a respiratorally spread pandemic, complete morons and that goes for every march that occurred for every movement in the last couple of months.

They're supporting Trump

Bunch of nut jobs

They're supporting Trump because they believe he's secretly trying to save the world's children from an elite cabal of celebrities who keep them in tunnels and sacrifice them to make a psychedelic drug from their blood. And they are being told all about this by JFK Jr, who faked his own death to bring the world the message.

In the real world Trump has separated immigrant children from their families and kept them in detention camps, but those children are just so much less interesting than the fictional ones in tunnels.

@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

Do you have anything to back this, and your assertion that children are trafficked for the sex trade?

@Clive222

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.

It's not ignorance

It's basic data from home office and various charity websites who help those who are victims of human trafficking

Less than 4% of all trafficking victims are 'young' children under 8

They are the least at risk group

@GoldenOmber

They're supporting Trump because they believe he's secretly trying to save the world's children from an elite cabal of celebrities who keep them in tunnels and sacrifice them to make a psychedelic drug from their blood. And they are being told all about this by JFK Jr, who faked his own death to bring the world the message.

In the real world Trump has separated immigrant children from their families and kept them in detention camps, but those children are just so much less interesting than the fictional ones in tunnels.

EXACTLY. Trump has separated thousands of kids from their families and cut funding to actual organisations who deal with trafficked kids but sure, he's the good guy.

We don't need that shit over here. Also, I read an interesting thread from an actual trafficking survivor who said that they tried talking to QAnon types who weren't at all interested in hearing from a real trafficking survivor. They just like the thrill of knowing they're in on some Sooper Seekrit Plot. None of them actually get involved with anti-trafficking charities or volunteer to help these kids.

[quote lookatallthosechickens]@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.[/quote]
Shame you didn't bother to look more into trafficking of children before you accused someone else of spouting nonsense.

And when the government wanted us to stay inside there were loads of "I can't believe how wonderful it is to work from home" and "step outside and you might die" type articles, now that the government wants coffee shops etc to pay more taxes again the media is all "Working from home is bad for your mental health" and "covid is mild for most people" etc etc I find it very weird.

Or. When this all started, people were optimistic about a bit of a lockdown and were generally staying inside. 6 months on the real problems of doing so are coming to light, more people are reporting problems with working from home. Every other day I see tweets from journalists asking “what are your experiences with xxxxx” These stories are obviously changing and that leads to a difference in reporting.

The biggest issue with helping the victims of trafficking in the UK
is the hostile environment
If a nail bar / cannabis farm slave goes to the police
they get deported
FFS Dominic Raab refused to pay for the repatriation of the bodies of those poor sods who died in a lorry in Essex.

If you want to reduce trafficking in the UK
DO NOT vote for the party that criminalises the victims

In the nail bar - who is doing your manicure
In the takeaway - who is cooking the meal
On the beach - who are those people picking shellfish
Do you smoke cannabis - who looks after those plants
Cheap clothes - those Boohoo factories in Leicester get away with it because the workers get deported if they speak out

A bunch of Conspiracy nut thugs will achieve NOTHING in the fight against modern slavery

Where did Clive say that under 8's were more at risk than other groups @dwiz8
As they correctly pointed out, many people come into the country without documentation. The HO try and "age" the person.

It's also not less than 4%. It is 4% which is far too many regardless how minor the risk is to this group surely?

It's also shocking that in the UK around a quarter of all trafficked children in care go missing.

@ListeningQuietly

The biggest issue with helping the victims of trafficking in the UK is the hostile environment If a nail bar / cannabis farm slave goes to the police they get deported FFS Dominic Raab refused to pay for the repatriation of the bodies of those poor sods who died in a lorry in Essex.

If you want to reduce trafficking in the UK
DO NOT vote for the party that criminalises the victims

In the nail bar - who is doing your manicure
In the takeaway - who is cooking the meal
On the beach - who are those people picking shellfish
Do you smoke cannabis - who looks after those plants
Cheap clothes - those Boohoo factories in Leicester get away with it because the workers get deported if they speak out

A bunch of Conspiracy nut thugs will achieve NOTHING in the fight against modern slavery

And these are just the ones we know about. Let's not forget the women working in 'massage parlours' either. And who knows how many of them are underage?

Why no media coverage of the marches? Because they are irrelevant to 99.99% of the population people and achieve nothing.

@ListeningQuietly EXACTLY EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID. Thank you.

@canigooutyet sorry did i miss a link to an article about a cannabis farm or brothel in the UK that was found to be full of all these child slaves that our pal Clive is referring to? Please do share it with me again if so, really sorry that it got past me.

One happened in Nottingham. They advertised it buy saying bring Nottingham to a stand still!! It failed, thankfully. They did protest peacefully in the square and the police kept it contained. I'd taken my children for a day out to a couple of local attractions and we didn't see or hear anything apart from the police helicopter.

They're supporting Trump because they believe he's secretly trying to save the world's children from an elite cabal of celebrities who keep them in tunnels and sacrifice them to make a psychedelic drug from their blood.

So was Trump just pretending to be friends with child trafficker and rapist, Jeffrey Epstein?

@chomalungma

This is a photo from Nottingham

That does not look like Nottingham.

Why are there barriers?
The spelling of 'pedos' is American - and 'antifa' - in Nottingham
And no masks being worn.

It absolutely is Nottingham - I was visiting my cousin there today and saw them.

Here’s the website of the bar behind them, The Alchemist, so you don’t have to take my word for it.

thealchemist.uk.com/venues/nottingham-king-street/

@Wannabegreenfingers The peaceful people in the Market Square were the counter protesters, Say No to Racism and other Nottingham groups. The fascists were only allowed as far as King Street, then went to Clumber Street where they were letting off flares and generally getting in the way of shoppers.

All a bit of a damp squib!

We're in the middle of a global pandemic. I don't know about you lot, but the media going out of its way to publicise such things would surely result in too many people too close together.

[quote lookatallthosechickens]@canigooutyet sorry did i miss a link to an article about a cannabis farm or brothel in the UK that was found to be full of all these child slaves that our pal Clive is referring to? Please do share it with me again if so, really sorry that it got past me.[/quote]
Couple of the many links I have previously posted.

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

www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts

There are also lots and lots of news articles talking about this.

A LOT of the Vietnamese lads in the Cannabis farms are teenagers
but just because they are the size of UK 8 years olds
does not mean they are

and TBH the actual age is not relevant.
They are victims of crime
but Priti Patel and the Home office demonise them as criminals

Until we accept that they are here and take them away from their traffickers and let them keep their wages
we are all complicit

tweets I found seemed to be suggesting c.500 max in London, with a high proportion of those conspiracy nut jobs.
Not really newsworthy, hardly surprising not reported.
But I'm certain the conspiracy nuts all plot that into a conspiracy itself.

@ListeningQuietly

A LOT of the Vietnamese lads in the Cannabis farms are teenagers but just because they are the size of UK 8 years olds does not mean they are

and TBH the actual age is not relevant.
They are victims of crime
but Priti Patel and the Home office demonise them as criminals

Until we accept that they are here and take them away from their traffickers and let them keep their wages
we are all complicit

Absolutely. Since when did it matter the age is of a victim of crime?

And even when they are taken into care for their protection, far too many go missing.

Interesting don't you think that no-one has posted anything to back up claims that trafficking isn't a thing in the UK, or isn't really that bad?

I'm not into the whole pizzagate conspiracy thing. However, what I have noticed is that a lot of the arguments about why it's all bollocks is because no-one in power could ever do this nor get away with it. Are people really clueless about the history of the country they were born in? I'm not suggesting it's true, just the reasoning is flawed.