We get letters (updated)
Jul. 5th, 2007 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumRyan, the founder of Concientious Traveller, discovered the first piece I wrote.
He takes exceptions, and saw fit to send them to me. (you really ought to go and see the responses he's sent me)
He's offended that I said this was a scam, and asks what my problem is with his enterprise.
Ok, here are my specific problems: it's an insane idea which can never work; a mad enterprise which will, if actually undertaken, be lucky to end no more badly than a bunch of people in prison in someplace unpleasant.
That's the short version.
The long version.
What he is proposing is illegal. It's kidnapping people. To make it worse it's then taking them to some other place and making them prisoners of a different sort. They won't be refugees. They won't legally be allowed to go anyplace (except, pehaps, the place from whence they were stolen away). They will be at the mercy of those who stole them. It may be with the best of intentions, but that's what he proposes.
He claims to want to turn these girls into some sort of political players, people who will go home and reform the places from whence they came.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
When asked about getting passports for them (so they may attend university) the it goes like this:
Q: "But just because they are accepted to a university in Europe or the US doesn't mean that they'll be allowed to take up permanent residence. (How do you even propose to establish these children's identities, get birth certificates, passports etc., that will allow them to travel?)"
A: I never said they would. Now your asking very detailed information and it's not going to be answered, one as I don't deal with this part and secondly as this is not for public forums.
Not inspiring.
If he manages to kidnap some girls, they will be, at best (if all the madcap schemes work), like Ahmad Chalabi, seen as puppets for someone else's interest. At worst, they will go home, preach his brand of world reformation, and be locked up/killed, for being a threat to the gov't/society.
I'd love to see places like Burma become better places. Does anyone think I know enough about the situation to collect a bunch of "sex slaves" from Burma, take them to an island, where I've brought some others from Thailand, Laos, the Dominican Republic, etc, train them all; in, I assume, the same philosophical underpinnings of how the word ought to be (that's why I chose Plato's "Philosopher King" analogy, and they will be able to go home, to a society they were never fully a part of, and take over? All the while running a nature preserve and breeding up endangered animals to repopulate in the wild (I really like that touch, it gets the warm-fuzzie sorts of the "save the planet" sorts to buy into this).
No.
His responses elsewhere (this has become so my father tells me, a huge discussion at CouchSurfing because he's trying to recruit people to help him market Concientious Traveller, by selling them on the "altruistic" works of the subsidaries which will change the world by kidnapping children in the sex trade and brainwashing them into political missionaries for his utopic vision of a future world) don't make me feel any better about this.
Which was the other stuff, packed in there, which disturbing me.
What about the white girls in the same boat. There are women in, Japan Israel, Korea, and, I am sure, a few more places, who were lured with offers of jobs, and then forced into being prostitutes. I don't see mention of this.
I think it's because they are adults. Because they aren't likely to be pliable enough to be brainwashed into thinking they are going to be the salvation of the world.
I don't think it's concious version of the "White Man's Burden" and going out to help the poor, backwards Orientals join the civilised world, but that does seem to be part of the driving mindset.
I don't like the sex trade. I think the commodification of people is horrid. Going off on a vigilante raid to kidnap them, and then, "rehabilitate" them, much less training them to be advocates of his agenda, well... No.
That's at least as bad.
He takes exceptions, and saw fit to send them to me. (you really ought to go and see the responses he's sent me)
He's offended that I said this was a scam, and asks what my problem is with his enterprise.
Ok, here are my specific problems: it's an insane idea which can never work; a mad enterprise which will, if actually undertaken, be lucky to end no more badly than a bunch of people in prison in someplace unpleasant.
That's the short version.
The long version.
What he is proposing is illegal. It's kidnapping people. To make it worse it's then taking them to some other place and making them prisoners of a different sort. They won't be refugees. They won't legally be allowed to go anyplace (except, pehaps, the place from whence they were stolen away). They will be at the mercy of those who stole them. It may be with the best of intentions, but that's what he proposes.
He claims to want to turn these girls into some sort of political players, people who will go home and reform the places from whence they came.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
When asked about getting passports for them (so they may attend university) the it goes like this:
Q: "But just because they are accepted to a university in Europe or the US doesn't mean that they'll be allowed to take up permanent residence. (How do you even propose to establish these children's identities, get birth certificates, passports etc., that will allow them to travel?)"
A: I never said they would. Now your asking very detailed information and it's not going to be answered, one as I don't deal with this part and secondly as this is not for public forums.
Not inspiring.
If he manages to kidnap some girls, they will be, at best (if all the madcap schemes work), like Ahmad Chalabi, seen as puppets for someone else's interest. At worst, they will go home, preach his brand of world reformation, and be locked up/killed, for being a threat to the gov't/society.
I'd love to see places like Burma become better places. Does anyone think I know enough about the situation to collect a bunch of "sex slaves" from Burma, take them to an island, where I've brought some others from Thailand, Laos, the Dominican Republic, etc, train them all; in, I assume, the same philosophical underpinnings of how the word ought to be (that's why I chose Plato's "Philosopher King" analogy, and they will be able to go home, to a society they were never fully a part of, and take over? All the while running a nature preserve and breeding up endangered animals to repopulate in the wild (I really like that touch, it gets the warm-fuzzie sorts of the "save the planet" sorts to buy into this).
No.
His responses elsewhere (this has become so my father tells me, a huge discussion at CouchSurfing because he's trying to recruit people to help him market Concientious Traveller, by selling them on the "altruistic" works of the subsidaries which will change the world by kidnapping children in the sex trade and brainwashing them into political missionaries for his utopic vision of a future world) don't make me feel any better about this.
Which was the other stuff, packed in there, which disturbing me.
What about the white girls in the same boat. There are women in, Japan Israel, Korea, and, I am sure, a few more places, who were lured with offers of jobs, and then forced into being prostitutes. I don't see mention of this.
I think it's because they are adults. Because they aren't likely to be pliable enough to be brainwashed into thinking they are going to be the salvation of the world.
I don't think it's concious version of the "White Man's Burden" and going out to help the poor, backwards Orientals join the civilised world, but that does seem to be part of the driving mindset.
I don't like the sex trade. I think the commodification of people is horrid. Going off on a vigilante raid to kidnap them, and then, "rehabilitate" them, much less training them to be advocates of his agenda, well... No.
That's at least as bad.
Re: The Team
Date: 2007-07-06 04:56 pm (UTC)2. "Because they don't speak to those people's suitability to the "plan" you've put together."
As your the Authority here, and those involved are specific for some tasks, seriously what is your point. You are nothing but aggressive, not surprising considering your profession. Oh, is that a stereo type. Is it also a stereo type to say those in armed forces are more likely to be those with these girls...; I wonder what your motivations relay are here. Simple question. I'm not suggesting anything, just wondering.
3. Snatch and Grab - As your in the services, and I state no one in blood rose will ever be mentioned. First, you know I could never say who is in this team, secondly it makes me question what you actually do, as you really should know I could not answer this question being in the forces yourself.
4. Translator are available at my disposal. Also, they will not be necessary after a period of time and the teachers are starting to learn different Asiatic languages.
5. Supplying the Island, Food I have already answered this question to you, as you know. Either on the Island, or renting near by farms and contracting local farmers. We will also assist them with food production and if floods, this is covered also, to outsource supplies and keep months worth of emergency rations available, just in case.
6. Supplying the Island with labour for the school and these things, not actually being handled by myself but someone in the team. But all is being or has been sourced.
7. Curriculum being designed by a few of he teachers but using a well known boarding school with great grades as a Frame work, and also someone who Advises the French and Spanish Educational System on this.
8. Paying people. Teachers and the team etc. Please look at the site, I will answer new questions, not old. Everyone gets paid from CT.
9. Water, different methods, but there are 3 main sources for this and the Island has it's own fresh water supply, natural spring.