Super Bowl Sunday is fast approaching in Tampa Florida. Celebration and excitement presses up against fear and human trafficking. This year there is an extra element of fear, considering the Coronavirus, and how easily it spreads, and how sick it can make a body. But that is not worse than the sickness of the spirit that comes with human trafficking. That's right, the selling of another human being, usually for sex in the aura of the Super Bowl. I could give a health and hygiene lecture about masks, gloves and social distancing, but really, a virus is so much less deadly than the crime of selling a person. Slavery. It is ugly. Perhaps the person being sold gets a cut of the money, but still. It is the sale of a person for the use of another.

The person who buys another person is at risk. They are at risk as criminals. This year they are at even greater than usual risk of disease. And they are at risk just as people. If you buy or sell individuals for whatever length of time and for whatever use, it means that you are agreeing that an individual person is a commodity. That actually puts you in the category of potential commodity. But worse, by degrading another you have degraded yourself into a lower state. The first stated Human Right is "We are all born free and equal." as put forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "Human rights must be made a fact, not an idealistic dream.", L. Ron Hubbard. www.youthforhumanrights.org