Have you noticed how everything we don't like is turned into a human trafficking question?
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New spring. Then there is spring cleaning again. Not before is the constitutional celebration and 17. May be done, then it will be cleared outside the thousand homes and shops.
This is becoming an annual offense this time: Police, politicians, shopkeepers and the tourism industry are shouting at each other to get away with debris, speed, garbage, packages and other begging packages. Whether it is beggars, gypsies, drug addicts, poor people or prostitutes of African women: They should, or should they.
None of these foreign elements should, in fact, disrupt the cityscape, which should reflect our best-of-breed small-town dream. We do not want to show our cities the way they are, but the way we want them to be. We want to live in a life lie based on the social beauty tyranny of society, hide the problems and make them bigger.
Rather than being honest with ourselves. Rather slide under the blanket than face the challenges of reality and try to solve them, for those who need it most.
Because it is more comfortable that way. The days pass by more easily. The sun shines stronger. The night's sleep is so much more comfortable. We need fewer sedatives like this. We can only clear away the problems, and they will go away, even from our bad conscience.
Out of sight, out of mind. That is why we have spring cleaning. It turns so pure white in all the nooks and crannies. Just the way we want it.
Vulnerable situation
It would probably also be predictable if we in Ny Tid were to criticize these cleansing processes again, the catharsis projects that make us more harmonious people. This which creates the very Community among us who manage themselves – without help from others. Well yes, without help from everyone else except from the state then, but that help all good citizens are entitled to – just not the less good citizens.
So no, we will therefore neither criticize nor rant about all the cleaners who are now swirling across the whole country. Just bite us notice that there is now a new concern for the weakest among us. Both police and politicians have dismissed the argument that beggars in the cities are some swindle that should be banned. No, now the problem is that they are victims of "human trafficking".
Or, as Aftenposten wrote on May 22, under the title "Will ban beggars from abroad": "Neither Oslo's new city council leader, Stian Berger Røsland (H), is talking about the" troublesome beggars ", but that they are being exploited. »
And Røsland says: “People are lured into a vulnerable situation, driven around, placed and retrieved. We know that money often helps fund other crime. It's problematic for the city. "
Dramatic increase
Yes, because, as you know, it is not problematic for the victims themselves, they have to thank themselves. Now, we should not rule out the so-called human trafficking of beggars from Romania, although NOVA scientist Ada Engebrigtsen does not recognize in the new claims:
"Everything I've seen confirms the image of a population looking for something to live by, trying to send money home and come here voluntarily."
But what good does researcher opinion towards political truths help?
Looking at the databases of articles in Norwegian newspapers, you will find that "human trafficking" hardly existed before the Iraq invasion in 2003. That year, the word "human trafficking" was mentioned 116 times in the media, 100 times as often as in 1991, five times as often as 2001, and as much as in the entire 80s and 90s combined.
The breakthrough was not noticed until 2005, when a total of 569 articles dealt with this new phenomenon – since then it has been higher. It was also by chance in 2005 that the term could for the first time be linked to Nigerian women in the country's big city streets, as well as to foreign beggars.
Previously, "human trafficking" was associated with slave trade. Gradually, the concept was adopted to be used in spring cleaning instead. Never so dirty that it is not good for anything. ■