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Re: [RC] [RC] The Sultan's Slave Trade - Howard Bramhall

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This is the show. The UAE camel jockey story is the first one they cover and lasts about 30 minutes. Please, watch this show if at all possible. Once you see it you will feel differently about doing any type of business with these Sheihks unless the money green demon has overtaken your soul completely.

Looks like tomorrow, either at 10 am (EST) or 8PM (EST). It should be on the west coast HBO at the same time for them.

For other regions and their times log on to hbo.com and check out their schedule of Real Sports. Ignore all of this if you so choose but if you watch it you will no longer turn a blind eye to this vicious dehumanizing activity. We need to cut this cord. Sever all ties with the slave traders. Pull the plug because it's the only way to save these kids. Talk is cheap but action speaks volumes and we need to speak out here.

cya,
Howard


----Original Message Follows----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
To: Howard Bramhall <howard9732@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC] The Sultan's Slave Trade
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:35:55 +0200

Just was talking by AIM with my daughter in New York. She has a friend with a TIVO and wants to know when the program will be on so that Sam can record it.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.alsorat.com
http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com
On Oct 21, 2004, at 5:51 PM, Howard Bramhall wrote:

I forgot to ask if you get HBO out there? You see, this paticular Sports show is not part of the regular news media. HBO is different; it's why I love it so much.

I hope you get a chance to see it like I did. It might even surpise you how they got on film things that the Sultans did not want folks to see. Quite incredible, really.

cya,
Howard (stick with me M'Lady and we just might bring em down)

----Original Message Follows----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
To: Howard Bramhall <howard9732@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC] The Sultan's Slave Trade
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:50:54 +0200

Just a question, Howard. You are a thinking man, despite what many may say <G>, and does it bother you that something this horrific has been only considered to be of interest NOW? Like I pointed out, the news has been out there, it isn't secret. So why does the media in the US produce these things so selectively?

People WANT to believe that things are hunky dory, everyone does, it's a human trait. It's also a human trait to mess up the world enough that things are not hunky dory. The media in the US is "free" in that it can say what it wants, but it is also so utterly managed that you all end up knowing just about the things that "whoever it is" wants you to know about.

Bringing this to the attention of whatever powers that be about 10 years ago could have saved the lives of countless children. The government has known, the UN (who have no regulatory powers) have known, the world media has known. Who figured that the Americans didn't have to know...and why?

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.alsorat.com
http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com
On Oct 21, 2004, at 12:00 AM, Howard Bramhall wrote:

I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not but I do believe Corbelletta is on that Tevis Committee, you know, the ones who accepted their money.

I'm almost sure I have that one right. He's connected and, obviously, it's not because of his religious beliefs. haha.

cya,
Howard (show me the money)

----Original Message Follows----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
To: Howard Bramhall <howard9732@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC] The Sultan's Slave Trade
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:29:35 +0200

Yeah, but it gives assholes like Corbelleta a chance to go on about "that religion" and those people. We are "that religion" and it makes us sick too. Think anyone listens?

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.alsorat.com
http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com
On Oct 20, 2004, at 7:33 PM, Howard Bramhall wrote:

It may be old news to you but, to me, it wasn't. Seeing it on TV like that, knowing they filmed this two months ago while I was going through a series of hurricanes, disturbed me a great deal.

I plan on flaming this one for as long as I can. I'm sick and tired of the hypocrisy. We need to break this cord completely with them. It's the only way they will ever change.

I love ya darlin.

cya,
Howard

----Original Message Follows----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
To: Howard Bramhall <howard9732@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   The Sultan's Slave Trade
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:19:42 +0200

Hmm, Howard. Be interesting to see what can of worms you've opened here. The camel jockey trade may be news over there but we've known about it forever. Along with the orfi marriages of young village girls to visiting Arabs who then leave them high and dry and the virtual slavery of the Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan servants. The Arabs, both Saudi and Gulf, are freaking notorious. But then who's gonna listen to the Egyptians? They come here to play around all summer. The one time that they DON'T come is during Ramadan because no alcohol is served and the casino's are closed to Muslims. During Ramadan they go to Greece, Turkey, and Europe to party.

Old news, Howie.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.alsorat.com
http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com
On Oct 20, 2004, at 7:01 PM, Howard Bramhall wrote:


Last night, during the commercial breaks of the Red Sox magical comeback against the Yankees, I flipped around my cabel channels and came upon an HBO show titled ?Real Sports? with Bryant Gumble. The story they were discussing was about Camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates. These jockeys are young boys, aged 4 to 9, and they all weigh less than 50 lbs.

I never went back to the baseball game until everything Bryant?s crew had to say and film about this disgusting practice was concluded. Watching it made me upset, angry, and I felt betrayed. Betrayed by my own country for doing business with these people, those Almighty Sultans of Swing, and even betrayed by some endurance riders who go over there and might (I emphasize the might part) know that this kind of crap is going on, just down the road from the endurance barn, in the area where the camels are kept.

I went on the HBO Internet site to see if I could get some of what this is all about written in their own words, since I?m so upset about all of this, I don?t think I can write clearly about what I watched on television last night. This is what they say about this part of the show:

Desert RacersCamel racing, the oldest and most venerated sport in the Middle East, is a draw for some of the region's wealthiest sheiks, whose stables compete for grandiose prizes. Hidden behind lavish spectacles, however, is a disturbing reality. The tiny jockeys who compete in these races are victims of a horrible slave trade, all young boys who have been kidnapped or sold into slavery as mere infants. In addition to enduring inhumane living conditions and beatings, the boys are intentionally starved to keep their weight down. Weak from undernourishment, some are maimed or killed while trying to pilot the 1500-pound camels. Using hidden cameras, REAL SPORTS travels to the United Arab Emirates for a special expanded report on the perilous lives of camel jockeys and the pitiless human traffickers that exploit them. Correspondent Bernard Goldberg interviews John Miller, a State Department ambassador at large, to determine whether the U.S. government is doing enough to stop the practice in this tense political climate. Correspondent: Bernard Goldberg.

All I can say, is ya?ll need to watch this show. It should replay again this week on HBO. If you don?t have HBO go to a friends house who does and watch it.

We?re talking slavery, pedophilia, beatings and starvation of these young boys. They have some absurd rule that the jockey?s must be young boys who weigh less than 50 lbs, so, they starve them. Literally, bread and water.

There is a direct Sultan of Swing connection here, including the endurance King of Kings, ole Mr. Mohammed. Next time one of you International endurance riders go over there you may want to ask him about all of this. Or, better yet, refuse to participate in anything that they sponsor until they come to grips with the rest of the civilized world and realize this is incredibly upsetting to anyone who has a sense of human decency inside their soul.

I realize that this is some sort of clash of civilizations and that their world, one where money and power, together, control everything and they, these Sultans, literally can do anything in that world (theirs) that they wish. We must let them know this is unacceptable and that if it continues we will cut the cord completely. This cord never should have been there in the first place. Otherwise, if we do not, we are as guilty of the crimes committed as they.

Tevis, start with getting rid of their sponsorship. Do it now and tell them why you are doing this.

International endurance riders: Stop going over there. Tell them why, do it now, and, get your fellow competitors to join with you in this cause. Aussies, I?m counting on you, also.

Backyard endurance riders, like myself (I?m not even worthy of that title), seek and find the top riders at the next endurance ride you attend. Have the nerve, the courage, to bring up this subject if the person you are speaking with has participated over there in the UAE. Let them know that you know about all of this and you want to know what they think about what is going on. This will take courage on your part. Watch that HBO show and you will find the nerve to go up to someone like my gal, Val, or anyone else who rides over there, and talk about the camel jockey young boy slave trade.

Man?s inhumanity to man, yes, it is in our sport and we need to get it out now!!!!

Cya,
Howard (and, please, discuss this one openly on here; do not pretend it does not exist or say it?s not endurance related)

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