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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 11:18 AM
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Sex, Greed And Forced Abortions (& the morals and values crowd)
May 09, 2006
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Rebecca Clarren, an investigative journalist based in Portland, Ore., traveled to Saipan in February on assignment for Ms.The article below is excerpted from an exclusive investigative report that appears in the Spring 2006 issue of Ms. magazine. To read the full article , look for Ms. on 7,757 newsstands across the country—or subscribe at www.msmagazine.com.
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A naked Mongolian woman in a blond wig grinds her body around a silver pole. As music pounds through the small room, disco lights reveal an overweight, graying man in a Hawaiian shirt sitting in the corner, rubbing the thighs of another of the club’s dancers.

Outside this Saipan nightclub, scantily-clad Chinese girls, their hair dyed red or blond, sit on cheap white plastic chairs. “You want massage?” they call out to the Asian businessmen and U.S. Navy sailors who frequent the club.

“I can get you lots of Chinese girls,” says a man with one long fingernail, who calls himself Free. “You can take a girl back to her room and do whatever you want to her. All night.”

One would imagine that Tom DeLay, a right-wing Christian, would be appalled by the teeming red-light district of Saipan, the main island in the Micronesian chain of the Northern Marianas. Or Jack Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew. Yet these two men have been among the strongest supporters of an exploitative labor and immigration system on Saipan that has helped fuel not just this sex tourism, but work arrangements that are tantamount to indentured servitude.

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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/09/sex_greed_and_forced_abortions.php
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genieroze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 02:55 PM
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1. Here's a link for you
They really need to update their site, especially now with hookergate.
http://www.redmorals.com/
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