Is there a reason why they say forced labor instead of slavery?
Two former residents of a Missouri faith-based residential program have filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were subjected to systematic abuse, neglect, coercion and forced unpaid labor while they were minors at Kansas City Girls Academy.
Because the US is used to chattel slavery, where someone “owns” the person and the person (in general) is never freed. “Forced labor” denies the fiction of ownership and maintains the illusion that everyone can be free.
[As a complete aside, ancient Rome had a law saying that a father could only sell his son into slavery a maximum of three times.]
pretty sure that’s classed as human trafficking
I have a feeling a good chunk of the parents that send their kids to places like these in the first place hope/know they’re forced labor or torture programs
That’s how you cure a “troubled teen”
All people have to do is stop believing and religion disappears and this kind of stuff stops. Simple as that. Let’s go!
Sure but religious people LOVE abusing children.
a crazy little fact George W. Bush gave Teen Challenge programs a license exemption in texas because their religious organization and because the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse was going to shut them down for multiple violations
Unfortunately, history says otherwise. Religion will always pop up, as will people prepared to exploit it for personal gain.
Boy I wish. But stop believing in gods and people find other things to worship, as the techbros and cults of personality prove. There seems to just be part of the population that wants a ‘higher force’ to mindlessly follow.
The lawsuit states that within days of admission, the facility allegedly discontinued prescribed psychiatric medications without proper medical oversight, denied medical care when the girls experienced distress or fainting and told them their mental health struggles were demonic or a sign of spiritual failure.
Those 10 John Does had better be facing some lengthy jail time over this bs.
That is fuckin terrible.
But why they on boats?
https://www.news.uscg.mil/Doing-Business/Photos/igphoto/2003677939/
Apparently it’s a Coast Guard drug operation in the Pacific. No idea why that picture is on this article. A mistake?
What a shithole country.
Dear downvoters, let’s hear why you think the US is not a shithole country. No harm in an honest discussion. I see the downvotes, but no retorts. Why so quiet?
I just got to this thread and didn’t downvote you, but I assume it’s because the US is huge and the laws are not the same in every state. So it’d be like calling Europe a shithole continent because Russia is conscripting men into war, or because Hungary is trying to suppress freedom of the press.
Should Canada be judged as a whole for the actions of Alberta?
But what if America elected a child-rapist psychopath serial liar con artist racist thief and murderer as President who destroyed democracy and civil rights at home, and broke every treaty abroad and backstabbed every ally internationally AND had a Missoury “church” run a labour camp. Then would it be reasonable to judge them as a whole? A shitwhole. A no go zone?
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L. Ron Hubbard sailed the world with underage girls under the guise of religion. Scientology and today’s “modern” Christianity are kindred spirits. Money, money, money.
Yay, religious freedom.
All gas no brakes with this idealistic view, eh?
