You’d almost think the leftists’ sympathies lie with the child traffickers. From Robert Bridge at strategic-culture.org:
Does the silence equal complicity in the unspeakable crime?
A new American film that reveals the brutal reality of child sex-trafficking has been greeted with muted enthusiasm from the political left, which begs the question: does the silence equal complicity in the unspeakable crime?
Tim Ballard is an American anti-human trafficking activist, author and founder of the non-profit organization Operation Underground Railroad, an anti-sex trafficking organization. A former special agent at the Department of Homeland Security who now works independently, Ballard’s life’s work is being immortalized in a Hollywood film, entitled Sound of Freedom.
The film, which stars Jim Caviezel in the role of Ballard, leads audiences through the harrowing twists and turns of Ballard’s true life experiences where he works to rescue children from the nightmare of sex slavery. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film has grossed over $140 million in the United States against a $14.5 million budget, while audience reception has been highly positive, scoring 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes film review site, and for apparently good reason.
It seems to me this is, yet again, an issue about power: sexual, financial, ego-based influence.
Many foolish people become more addicted to the acquisition of power than even to sex. How convenient that children have little power and the younger they are the less power they have to resist the gross, abusive and harmful attentions of narcissistic, useless criminals.
As with most if not all of society’s deeply corrosive problems, the perpetrators like to put a twee-sounding label over the corruption.
Build more prisons.