Thursday August 28, 2008, 5:26 am
Hmm ... "Something went wrong. Please contact GreenNet".
I'll try again later.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 5:27 am
Signed the declaration. Noted with thanks Kelli.

Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55595

Thursday August 28, 2008, 5:27 am
hi thanks kelli,this is just horrific what terrible cruel people who did these crueleacts of slavery.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:00 am
take action - to do list
Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55599

Thank you Kelli.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:04 am
My lord, I just cannot believe this cruel form of slavery to a human being! This photo shows how inhumane subhumans can be, it is so sad that it made me cry to see this young lady in a contraption that does not belong on her at all, when will slavery be abolished? What the heck? This photo looks like something from the Roman era or something...it truly upsets me to see it on her.

I signed the declaration, I am #55598 and signed up for messages from them.I would like to thank Charles 4 the forward. TY Kelli for this article, hopefully it will get through to people that you cannot treat nor use other humans as your personal slave. This is just disgusting!

Noted.
FreeSpiritRunning...

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:05 am
SIGNED PETITION THANKS

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:12 am
Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55601

Thanks Kelli

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:39 am
Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55603

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:45 am
Noted and thanks Kelli and Charles for the posting. Petition signed.

This decision by our High Court in Australia just happened today. It's hard to believe slavery has happened in this day and age in our country.

Brothel owner's sex slave conviction upheld

* August 28, 2008 - 11:38AM

Wei Tang.

Wei Tang. Photo: Craig Abraham

The High Court has upheld the convictions of a Melbourne brothel owner who became the first person found guilty of possessing and using sex slaves in Australia.

- Order overturned
- Women enslaved
- Jail sentence

Brothel owner Wei Tang was found guilty in 2006 of five counts of possessing a slave and five counts of exercising a power of ownership over a slave.

She was sentenced to 10 years' jail for her role in enslaving five Thai women at her brothel, Club 417, and forcing them to work off debts of up to $45,000.

But in June last year, Tang successfully appealed her convictions in the Victorian Court of Appeal.

The court quashed her convictions and ordered a new trial, ruling the directions given to the jury were inadequate.

The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions appealed that decision to the High Court.

Tang cross-appealed against the order for a new trial.

The High Court today overturned the Court of Appeal's order for a new trial and held that the prosecution made out the required elements of the offences.

Tang was the first person to be found guilty by a jury under the federal anti-slavery laws introduced in 1999.

The case came to light after Club 417, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, was raided in 2003.

A Victorian County Court jury in Melbourne found her guilty of the counts after an eight-week trial and was sentenced to jail for a minimum of six years.

The five Thai women worked six days a week serving up to 600 customers to pay their debt.

If they worked a seventh day, they could keep the $50 per customer.

The women were not under lock and key but had little money, limited English, worked long hours and feared they would be found by immigration authorities.

Their visas had been obtained illegally and their passports were withheld by Tang.
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Many people think that slavery no longer exists. Yet at least 12 million people live and work in contemporary forms of slavery which have been defined and prohibited in international conventions. This campaign aims to revitalise the abolitionist spirit which created the momentum to end the slave trade in 1807 and harness it to make the abolition of all forms of slavery, in law and in practice, a priority for each and every government in the world.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:48 am
Signed!

Thursday August 28, 2008, 7:06 am
Noted and signed,thanks Kelli.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 7:20 am
Noted, signed ---

Humans - cruel and unrelenting - forever -

Thursday August 28, 2008, 7:27 am
signed, thanks !!!

Thursday August 28, 2008, 7:37 am
SIGNED #5561, THANKS FOR POSTING.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 7:46 am
Disgusting. I hope these slave traders etc. don't call themselves human...sub-sub-human would be to good too.
Noted and signed. TY Kelly

Thursday August 28, 2008, 7:53 am
Pledge signed and forwarded to friends.

TY, Kelli.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 9:32 am
Signed. It is hard to imagine this depravity still exists.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 9:37 am
...Signed 2 petitions...or letters ?
+ declaration...

OOOOOhhh my english is my big handicap !!!

Finally! for animals is good!
Fortunately ... this is not a love letter to our "awful" president: "small" Nicolas

AAAAHHH!

Thursday August 28, 2008, 9:49 am
Noted and signed. Thanks Charles for sharing.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 9:53 am
Thanks
Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55627

Thursday August 28, 2008, 9:56 am
Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55626

This is the first petition I have signed that is not for the animals, but slavery for any living being whether human animal or non human animal is the same thing to me, no slavery for any animal.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:19 am
Noted and already signed, thanks Kelli.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:32 am
Thanks, Kelli and thanks for the fwd, Annelies. I signed the petition but can't remember what # I am. Also sent an ecard. I can't believe slavery still exsits. Slavery has exsisted since B.C. and it's such a shame!! It only goes to show that the evil doer has a strong hold over it and the only way to abolish it is to pray to GOD because HE is our Creator.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:32 am
Noted and signed.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:58 am
Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55631

Thursday August 28, 2008, 1:17 pm
Thank you Kelli, sadly noted, angrily noted!

This is a business that is alive and thriving worldwide in all of our countries.....

Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55632

Please Note: for anyone getting an error "please contact green net": you need to check the box; "Please tick here which will prove to us that you are legitimate and not an advertising spammer."

It breaks my heart to know we still treat each other this way.....

Thursday August 28, 2008, 1:51 pm
Nothing more beauty than freedom freedom mean life but how I sign and you dont put my country Iraq in the list??????

Thursday August 28, 2008, 2:02 pm
signed it thanx for posting the news item this needs to stop now , should have stopped long ago another site that takes action about human trafficking & slavery is http://covenanthouse.org/ ( tho their primary focus is homeless children .. another note covenant house is a christian based organization which i personally avoid but they seem to be one of the few that focuses on helping folk and not proselytizing)

Thursday August 28, 2008, 2:51 pm
how vulgar, I would rather be dead. money and power rule while the innocent are tortured to death.
glady signed, ty Kelli

Thursday August 28, 2008, 2:59 pm
Noted and gladly signed, thanks kelli

Thursday August 28, 2008, 3:51 pm
Very Noted, Pledge signed, and thank you.
you are signatory no. 55636

Thursday August 28, 2008, 9:09 pm
Noted.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 9:47 pm
Noted and signed. Thanks Kelli.

Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:54 pm
Noted and action taken,Thanks,Kelli!

Thursday August 28, 2008, 11:18 pm
Noted

"Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55652"

Friday August 29, 2008, 12:38 am
tried several times and said Error please contact Green net. Will try tomarrow again

Friday August 29, 2008, 1:50 am
Thanks Kelli...signed the declaration.......happy that you're back on line given all your continued and valued contributions!
Sheila D.

Friday August 29, 2008, 3:08 am
55654 noted and signed. Please do not disrespect primates by calling these creeps sub-human, they do not rate a human designation, no way no how. PIMPS! nothing better.

Friday August 29, 2008, 4:21 am
Noted & pledged. Also to receive other story so we can help. number 55,655. Thanks to Liz D for sending this to me.

Friday August 29, 2008, 2:49 pm
Noted but I tried to sign sevral times but kept getting and error reading that said to contact Green.net.

Friday August 29, 2008, 10:37 pm
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read and sign. My Afro-American Ancestors were made slaves in the state of Georgia until the end of the Civil War.
I've signed in reverence for what they were put through, stolen from their homeland, cramped into the storage holds of slave-ships.
After thousands of miles, they were brought to, separated and sold in a foreign land by those who spoke , to them,an unknown language, The only exception to their dilemma, was their recognition of some of the indigenous plants which grew there that had reminded them of their homeland.
Peace in our Quest for Truth

Friday August 29, 2008, 11:51 pm
Gmb... Please don't post in peoples comment areas with links to sell products. This is a comment area to post your thoughts about the news story. Thank you

Sunday August 31, 2008, 1:07 am
TY Kelli,signed.

Sunday August 31, 2008, 7:34 am
Thanks for signing the petition - you are signatory no. 55687

I will crosspost and share!
Thanks for the information.

Friday September 5, 2008, 5:55 am
Signed 55718