A packed crowd heard author E. Benjamin Skinner speak about his just-released book, A Crime So Monstrous, last night at the Discovery Institute offices in Washington, D.C. Discovery senior fellow and former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large on Human Trafficking, John R. Miller, was present and spoke for a few minutes, too.
Hundreds of thousands of human beings are sold into bondage in the world each year, often with the connivance of governments and even more often while governments look on with seeming indifference. Like most evils that go under-noticed, this one suffers from the problem that everyone says he is opposed to slavery, but few, indeed, are willing to do anything to stop it. In a strange way, if some group were to defend the practice there might be cause for a debate and, through that, a heightening of public awareness.
Do you ever look back on the slavery of yore, or the anti-semitism in Europe that preceeded the Nazis, and wonder, why didn't people pay attention? Well, our grandchildren may well ask the same of us.
Free press has brought out the book. I am just getting into it myself and already can recommend it to Discovery Blog visitors.