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date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:32:01 -0800,
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morning." "Almost despotic powers" had
been put into the hands of the "Registrar General," and these were
some of the results. The "marked money" that had caught the victim
would now be sanctimoniously taken away from her and restored to the
Secret Service Fund. The woman would be fined or imprisoned, and the
other inmates of the house put through trial as accused of being
"common prostitutes" and inmates of an unlicensed brothel, and if the
Registrar General so decided, the house from which they came declared
in the Government Gazette as a licensed house of prostitution. The
keepers of licensed brothels, slave-dealers, procurers and such
characters hung around the court room to help these women pay their
fines, and so get them under bonds to work off these fines by
prostitution. Sometimes the women sold their children instead of
themselves. If boys, for "adoption," as it is called; a form of
slavery which is permitted in Hong Kong. If girls, into domestic
slavery or worse, probably with the thought that they could buy them
back soon, but if the mother herself went the daughter would be sure
to be caught by kidnapers, or fall into prostitution anyway, as the
only means she would have of getting along without her mother's
protection. Mr. Lister said before the Commission: "I became
suspicious of the whole system of convictions against houses for
Chinese. I was certain that the informers could not be depended on
for one moment. My inspector employed his own boatmen as informers.
I became convinced that _I could lock up the whole Chinese female
population by this machinery_." Married men were often knowingly hired
on Government money to commit adultery with native women, then the
money would be taken away from the woman and she could not even have
that toward her fine, while the man would
date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:03:13 GMT
author: Dave Onex
Re: Sending HTML so that it shows up properly
Hey man - you forgot your medication this morning....
"Dave Onex" wrote in message
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> morning." "Almost despotic powers" had
> been put into the hands of the "Registrar General," and these were
> some of the results. The "marked money" that had caught the victim
> would now be sanctimoniously taken away from her and restored to the
> Secret Service Fund. The woman would be fined or imprisoned, and the
> other inmates of the house put through trial as accused of being
> "common prostitutes" and inmates of an unlicensed brothel, and if the
> Registrar General so decided, the house from which they came declared
> in the Government Gazette as a licensed house of prostitution. The
> keepers of licensed brothels, slave-dealers, procurers and such
> characters hung around the court room to help these women pay their
> fines, and so get them under bonds to work off these fines by
> prostitution. Sometimes the women sold their children instead of
> themselves. If boys, for "adoption," as it is called; a form of
> slavery which is permitted in Hong Kong. If girls, into domestic
> slavery or worse, probably with the thought that they could buy them
> back soon, but if the mother herself went the daughter would be sure
> to be caught by kidnapers, or fall into prostitution anyway, as the
> only means she would have of getting along without her mother's
> protection. Mr. Lister said before the Commission: "I became
> suspicious of the whole system of convictions against houses for
> Chinese. I was certain that the informers could not be depended on
> for one moment. My inspector employed his own boatmen as informers.
> I became convinced that _I could lock up the whole Chinese female
> population by this machinery_." Married men were often knowingly hired
> on Government money to commit adultery with native women, then the
> money would be taken away from the woman and she could not even have
> that toward her fine, while the man would
>
>
date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:55:08 -0800
author: Dave Onex
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