As Child Exploitation Becomes Easier for Criminals, Punishments Must Become More Severe
“Take no part in unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” Ephesians 5:11
A morally just society would execute its murders. Such actions are not accidental. Murder is defined legally as the unjustifiable and intentional killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
Instead, we let them rot in prison, wasting tax dollars and oxygen on those who have earned death as punishment. From there, how the Western World treats criminals only gets worse.
Those who commit more heinous crimes receive a much lighter punishment.
For human labor trafficking a mere maximum sentence of 20 years. 18 U.S.C. § 1589. For sex trafficking, depending on the age of the criminal, a minimum of 10 or 15 years, or life with the possibility of parole. 18 U.S.C. § 1591.
For the few out of millions who are saved from this Modern Day Slavery, the rest of their life, whatever is left of it, is destroyed. Why does the criminal get off easier?
I offer a simple solution: all criminals involved in facilitating the crime of human trafficking, child molestation and pornography, and rape should be summarily executed. These criminals are worse offenders than murderers.
Murderers are not typically international criminal organizations with vast power, such as human trafficking networks. A fact never mentioned: the global drug cartels make the vast majority of their money in human trafficking. Drugs are a side business.
The movie The Sound Of Freedom was a summer blockbuster. It showed millions of people for the first time the horrific reality of human trafficking. The movie is based on Tim Ballard’s life working for the State Department over a decade ago. This is good for the movement to change the public’s opinion on how to handle the criminals.
But things have changed. Criminals have adapted. Their job is easier.
The Wall Street Journal reported how Instagram facilitates the mass proliferation of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking. While Instagram was busy outright banning conservatives and shadowbanning whatever the government told them to, millions of women and children were raped, sold, and desecrated.
President Reagan’s foreign policy of peace through strength should become our policy towards criminals. President Reagan stated, “We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted.”
Everywhere we see, criminals have become emboldened. And not for minor crimes. Governments have decided to not punish mass rioting, looting, and other such crimes. If these crimes have only proliferated, what do you think has happened to human trafficking?
Social justice warriors always cite studies that the death penalty is an ineffective deterrent to crime. And of course, it is. The reason the nuclear bomb is an effective deterrent against foreign adversaries is because we’ve used it, twice.
When your likelihood of dying on death row is slim to none, being sentenced to the death penalty is nothing more than words on a piece of paper. For it to be a deterrent, all those sentenced must receive what they have earned. Other than that, it is a paper tiger.
The next time some SJW tells you it is inhumane to execute murderers, sex traffickers, and child rapists, ask them this, what is more inhumane: allowing women, children, and even boys and men, to continually be raped day in and day out, drugged and destroyed, or to take those all involved in this Modern Day Slavery and execute them, quickly?
Mackenzie Alan Bettle is an economist and attorney in Arizona. He learned about human trafficking from June N. Foster’s amazing fictional novel, The Girl and The Golden Leaf, soon coming to a silver screen near you.