When Men Buy And Sell Women

Women and children are increasingly the majority of refugees crossing the river into China. If they can locate a friend or relative’s house, they have a chance at finding a safe haven. But if the ethnic Korean Chinese traffickers find them first, they are abducted and sold, either to men as informal wives or concubines or to karaoke clubs for prostitution. Their price and destination are determined by their age and appearance... Kidnapping and trafficking have become common ways that Chinese men acquire women.

The reason that these women can be victimized is that they are illegal immigrants into China and thus have no legal rights. If found by the Chinese police they are sent back to North Korea and imprisonment or worse.

We in the United States are arguing over a Supreme Court nomination in which the issues are, to be frank, marginal, probably no more extreme than a reversal of Roe v. Wade that would send abortion back to the states. I.e., in the worst case for liberals, they will be able to construct their own abortion laws in their blue-state redoubts instead of relying the U.S. Supreme Court to do it for them.

But on the borders of China and North Korea, in the twilight of the Kim dynasty the issue is life and death. It is about people migrating away from their homes and their relatives into a lawless, stateless existence where they become prey not to the “robber barons of the mountain passes” that liberal hacks conjure out of nothing to stigmatize creative businessmen, but real robber barons robbing, killing, and enslaving vulnerable people desperately searching for simple survival.

We can see, when viewing people in extremis, that government and law are not mere questions of narrative and power. Settled government and the rule of law really do make people safer and, most important of all, protect women from sexual predation.

Can we agree that the first duty of government is to protect women from sexual predation?

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.