On February 2 I made a post concerning sex trafficking at the Super Bowl. This Thursday the attorney general of Texas released a statement on the crackdown on traffickers that occurred surrounding the Super Bowl. Thanks to the raised awareness of human trafficking in the North Texas region, 133 sex trafficking related arrests were made.

Thank you to those of you who acted by signing the petition and raising awareness of this crime.

Yes, this is off the topic of historical geography and the land of the Bible, but the enslavement of human beings is abominable and worth changing the topic for one blogpost.

Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
—Isaiah 1:17

It is not good to be partial to the wicked
and so deprive the innocent of justice.
—Proverbs 18:5

Natalie Grant and Tenth Avenue North PSA for Traffick 911 from Nate Bernard on Vimeo.

Sex trafficking is real and it is happening in the United States today. It is rapidly overtaking drug trafficking as the most lucrative criminal activity in the world. After all, a drug may only be sold once. A human being may be sold day after day and night after night. Trafficking victims live in utter darkness and have no voice. We cannot save them all, but we can rescue some. That is the goal, to defend the defenseless by aiding in the prevention, rescue and restoration of those who are victims of sex trafficking. One step you can take right now is to visit change.org and sign the petition asking the Super Bowl host committee to take a stand against trafficking in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by endorsing the I'm Not Buying It campaign to inform the Dallas-Fort Worth community and Super Bowl fans of sex trafficking at this massive event. To further educate yourself about this crime and what you can do to stop it check out the websites listed below the video clip from the I'm Not Buying It campaign, and click here to view human trafficking statistics compiled by the Polaris Project.

www.ijm.org
www.polarisproject.org
www.state.gov
www.humantrafficking.org
www.notforsalecampaign.org
Not for Sale's Chocolate Campaign
www.freetheslaves.net
love146.org
vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery

Thank you. Grace and peace,
Peter