The Cocoa Plantations America’S Chocolate Secret Forced Child Labor, Rape, Sodomy, Abuse of Children, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Organ Trafficking, Child Sex Slaves: The Chocolate Industries Well Kept Secret/Harkin - Engel Protocol

By Raymond C. Christian

Children working the cocoa plantations for Americas chocolate. Would you ever dream of such abuse happening to five-year-old boys and girls, children being worked worse than animals on the cocoa plantations to get the cocoa bean, the main ingredient in chocolate, to America. The cocoa beans are covered with the blood, sweat, and tears of five-year-old children sold for slave labor to work on the cocoa plantations. Everyone has limited freedoms, even in America. We protect our children. They dont have to work on cocoa plantations like five-year-old children in Africa. What should we do about the children who are being abused?

Laws are in place. The International Labor Organization, Convention laws, and the Convention of the Rights of the Child, these laws are not being enforced. American people want chocolate but are not aware of the abuse taking place on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana, where 60 percent of the cocoa beans in the world are produced on the cocoa plantations. The cocoa plantations on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana are noted as being the worst form of child slavery in the history of the world. Five-year-old children are working one hundred hours a week. Children are sold into slavery and will never have a childhood or education. Children working to get cocoa beans to America so the chocolate industries can produce chocolate while ignoring the laws in place. Five-year-old children are being raped, sodomized, beaten with bike chains, and possibly murdered trying to escape the cocoa plantations? Chocolate is a trillion-dollar industry. Five-year-old children are being used as child sex slaves, in sex trafficking, and organ trafficking? Why, America, why? Please help the children!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504926232

Raymond C. Christian

The author talks briefly about a few of his accomplishments. This is his seventh published book. Major Christian is the recipient of several awards and two lifetime achievement awards. He was the Grand Marshall in 2011, July 4th celebration parade in Illinois. Mr. Christian received a Proclamation from the city of Glenwood, a special acknowledgement from the Mayor of Glenwood, IL for his service to his country and community. Mr. Christian is an honored scholar of which he has received acknowledgements nationally and internationally for his unique way of writing. He received the Diamond Homer Award in 1996, inducted into the Poets Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Prometheus Muse of Fire Award in 2002. Mr. Christian received the Poet Fellow award in 2007 from Noble House in London, England and continues to grace us with his talents by publishing one of his most accomplished books titled, “My Book of Poems for the World.” Mr. Christian asks us to embrace one of his favorite prose titled “America Don’t Forget.” This Prose is about soldiers who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. With all his refined talents Mr. Christian says his most honored accomplishment is being able to serve the people as an ordained Elder. As a trained infantry officer Major Christian said he put on his uniform with pride and went outside the wire on many missions with the soldiers. He takes pride in being able to service the United States of America as a minister in the Afghanistan War. Major Christian says he’s blessed by God to write this book about the Vietnam Veterans. He says, “I remember as a child watching on television the inhumane ways the Vietnam Veterans were being treated and all I could do is ask, why?”

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Contents

The COCOA PLANTATIONS Chocolate for AMERICANS

Cocoa Plantations- Americans (Are Not Aware)

Amendment Xlll Section 1 [Slavery prohibited]

Blue States/Red States

Legal Black Genocide a Match for the Cocoa Plantations

NO FATHER NO MOTHER

Protocol What List

Hear My Prayers Father God

Your Honor Father Your Respect

A Reflection by the Author (Do you recall)

True Life Story What Would You Eat

Introduction of Theory a Conditioning Process

My Theory of Classical Conditional in Human Form

My Analogy of Classical Conditioning

My Leash Theory

Environmental Control

The Channeling Affect African Americans (Blacks)

Affirmative Action

White Convicts are likely to be Hired Before Blacks with No Criminal Record

How Do You See Me

Jobs for White Felons, Blacks continue to struggle

The Children of Israel, Slaves in America and the Cocoa Plantations

The Significance of Forty Years in the Wilderness

Filter Out Process

A Summarization of Willie Lynch

Willie Lynch and the Cocoa Plantations

The Abusers Who are They

Human

Promises Made

Foreseen Intentions the Real Agenda

Slavery the Route Traveled

The Number Grows

Who is underneath those Hoods

A Trillion Dollar Industry

I Sold My Child

Relief

What God Do They Know

Remains of 55 bodies found near former Florida reform school

Love and Hate Becomes a Conflict The Chocolate Industry a Bitter, Sweet Taste

The Whip (Prose)

The Chocolate Industry/the Cocoa Plantations

Enclosures of a Vision Statement

A Trillion Dollar Chocolate Mess

Hershey’s Medical School

The Chocolate Industries Plans for the Future

Guilty by Association

Hide and Seek…They Turned Their Head the Other Way

The Chocolate Industry Employs all over the World

Top 10 Highest Chocolate Producing Countries in the World"

They are not Animals they have Human Life and Value

CNN News Covers the Story on the Cocoa Plantations

Renovation Plans a Myth

Explanation of the Framework of Action

Protocol and 2001 Joint Statement

Shocking Evidence a $300 Million Dollar Investment

A New factory WOW!

A Chocolate Industry Employees Wages

The Need for Milk (What makes Chocolate)

Chocolate Investors Waiting to Invest

The Chocolate Industry a Trillion Dollar Empire

Will We Pay the Cost

The Chocolate Industry is not Invisible any longer

Fair Trade

There is Light at the end, He’s there

Framework of Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin-Engel-Protocol

Set Backs by Congress No Renovations (Cocoa Plantations)

Background

My Angels Stand Guard Over Me

Former Senator Thomas Richard Tom Harkin

Abuse

The suffering of these Children is a Reflection on You

Congressman Eliot Engel

The National Confectioners Association

My Statement before CNN Report

CNN Reports: The Dark Side of Chocolate

American Children take their Rights for Granted

Girls on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity of Oklahoma University

Daily Prayers for Good Old Oklahoma

Will They Ever Learn

Big Oklahoma Scandal

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity (SAE) Just When you Thought it was, Over

It’s Easy to Harbor Hatred

A Heavy Price for an Unwarranted Behavior

Unclothed Before the World

They Sneak and Hide Themselves

Without Excuse

Run, Run, Little Black Boy Run

They Never Knew You Lord

God Can Hear My Voice

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Too Young to Know the Lord

Laws in Place for Children Rights

My Daily Word concerning the Children on the Cocoa Plantations

Pt. 1 Bitter Sweet Chocolate

Pt. 2 No Chocolate Treats

Pt. 4 A Trillion Dollar Industry

Pt. 5 Ministers God Is Waiting (A Chocolate Mess)

Pt 6 God or the World

Pt. 7 Jesus Came So You Would Have No Excuse

Statistics Do Not Lie

King David Could Not Resist Her Beauty

God Is Not Pleased

Gods Amazing Grace

The Deliverer Is Sent

Storing up Treasures

My Christian Duty

Chocolate Hidden Secret

What Are You Subject Too

You Support Raping and Abusing Children When you Buy Chocolate

What Changes Can You Make

Our Love for Christ Jesus

A Heavy Price to Pay

Pt. 2 "My Heart is Burdened but My Soul says, Yes Lord

A Future without Hope for Change

Have We Lost It America

Did You Leave Your Chains Behind Black History or Black Imprisonment

They Just Keep Coming A Ram in the Bush

Gods Eyes are Not Closed to the Truth

Pt. 1 He Listens for Repentance

Where are the Children

A Look at the Moral Arc of Justice

Giving Sight through Knowledge

Who Do You Call On

Their Blessings for Illicit Use

Do You Strive to Gain

Tobacco Farms another Child Nightmare

Former Senator Thomas Richard Tom Harkin

To Locate Congressman Eliot Engel

Susan Smith

Ratified Laws; bring no relief for the Children on the Cocoa Plantations

The Good Old Boy

People you should not be afraid to contact

Playing in the Devils Playhouse 666

Sex Trafficking and MurderPeople in high places

The Pope SpeaksPope Francis

Laws to Protect ChildrenConvention on the Rights of the Child

Convention on the Rights of the Child

The Flame of Justice is Still Burning Bright

The Flame of Life

My Final Appeal

Military Aide and Assistance in Afghanistan

Convention 138

Children’s Rights are Ratified

Convention 138 Article 1

Convention 182 (continued)

Convention 29

World Trade Organization ((WTO)

When you speak about laws needing to be passed and bills that need to be ratified in order to make adequate changes for the wrongs being done to children? My thinking is this should not take a long time for our judicial system to incorporate laws, rules and regulations needed to bring about a change for children unable to make decisions. I have uncovered many laws of which you shall be reading throughout this book which reveal, violation, after violation after violation. Concerning the rights of these children who are working on the Cocoa Plantations on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana, little girls and boys five years of age working over 100 hours a week to get the cocoa bean or cocoa pod to America in order for the Chocolate Industries will be able to produce chocolate. United States Former Senator Thomas Richard "Tom Harkin and United States Congressman Eliot Engel along with Susan Smith and the Chocolate Industry as a whole are all named in this book to make you aware of what is not being done to help innocent children on the Cocoa Plantations.. A promise was made in 2001 to make changes to the Cocoa Plantations it is now 2015 and children are still suffering. The Harkin-Engel Protocol is what they named the law that was to bring into abolishment the raping, sodomizing, beating, sex trafficking, organ trafficking and murdering of these innocent children on the Cocoa Plantations. Laws were being set as far back as 1973 Convention 138 of which you will read about later in the book. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), International Labor Organization (ILO), and the ratified Conventions will be listed later in this book but just to give you a little insight on the wrong being done to these children on the Cocoa Plantation in Africa and Ghana I present to you Convention 182. I am doing this in order that you have an understanding that meetings in high places are taking place but nothing is being done to give these children on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana any relief.

"Although the apple may fall from its branch and roll a little further from the tree. It is still a part of the tree it has fallen from. My concern and question to you is just because it has rolled a little further from the tree than the rest of the apples that fell. Should I show more or less concern that the worms will have a greater chance of infecting the one apple that rolled away from the tree?

In my expression of concern what is being said here is that although these children on the Cocoa Plantations are not my biological children. Although they do not have the privileges other children in America have they are still considered to be children. Unable to take care and feed their self or live a life style other children in America are able to live. It should not only be my concern but the concerns of all those in politics, government officials, child protective screening agencies, child monitoring sites, the National Confectioners Association, and other organization involved in the protection of children to bring the abusers of these children to justice. So the question here is not how did the apple get eaten by the worms? The question is who allowed the apple to be eaten by the worms? Who allowed this situation on the Cocoa Plantations to get so far out of hand that maggots are now wiggling all over the world? Convention 182 begins to inform us about the rights of which I will present to you Articles within Convention 182 to help give you a better understanding much later in the book. I am delaying the majority of the laws that apply to these children on the Cocoa Plantations because I did not want you to become too consumed in reading the book and forget about the laws you have read that does apply. You will have a much better understanding of what is taking place with the children on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana as you read this book. For the purpose of laws and conventions I now present you with other laws that apply will be mentions in the middle and end of this book:

Convention 182

Convention 182 concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor, adopted by the conference at its eighty-seventh session, Geneva, 17 June 1999.

The General Conference of the International Labor Organization having been convened at Geneva by the governing body of the International Labor Office, and having met in its 87th Session on 1 June 1999.

Considering the need to adopt new instruments for the prohibition of elimination of the worst forms of child labour, as the main priority for national and international action, including international cooperation and assistance, to complement the Convention and the Recommendation concerning minimum age for admission to employment 1973, which remain fundamental instruments on child labor?

Considering that the effective elimination of the worst forms of child labour requires immediate and comprehensive action. Taking into account the importance of free basic education and the need to remove the children concerned from all such work and to provide for their rehabilitation and social integration while addressing the needs of their families?

Recalling the resolution concerning the elimination of child labour adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 83rd Session in 1996, recognizing that child labour is to a great extent caused by poverty and that the long term solution lies in sustained economic growth leading to social progress, in particular poverty alleviation and universal education.

Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989 and recalling the International Labor Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its follow-up adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 86th Session in 1998.

Recalling that some of the worst forms of child labour are covered by other international instruments in particular the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 and the United Nations Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 1956.

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to child labour, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session and having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention: adopts this seventeenth day of June of the year one hundred and ninety-nine the following Convention, which may be cited as the WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOUR CONVENTION,1999.

Article 1 of the Conventions

Summarization by the Author

Makes each member of the Convention responsible to take action and to do everything possible to eliminate the worst forms of child labor immediately

Article 2 of the Convention

Summarization by the Author

Clearly states that all persons under the age of 18 are to be referred to in Convention terminology as considered to be a Child

Article 3 of the Convention

Summarization by the Author

It is duly noted the Convention is stating "The Worst forms of child labor consist of:

1. Any form of slavery in practice which is a part of the selling and or child trafficking, a child cannot be used for debt bondage, a child cannot be forced to be used in illegal or war activities:

2. Children cannot be used to participate in prostitution or any sexual and obscene activities:

3. International treaties dictate that children cannot be used in abnormal activities, such as drug trafficking:

4. The child’s safety for any reason should not be jeopardized under any circumstance that may have a conflict concerning the child’s health or safety:

The further you read into this book the more you will see the horrible, insensitive and non-moralistic situations taking place with these five year old children sold to the Cocoa Plantation owners, destined to never see their parents again and to work as slaves for the rest of their life. What the International Labor Organization and Conventions call for is a cease to all child abuse immediately. There should be sanctions places on the owners not only of the Cocoa Plantations but also on the Chocolate Industries throughout the world. The laws I have read are distinct and enforceable without question and should bare the weight of such judgment as stipulated. When those who are in position to help such as senators, congressmen and congresswomen, government officials, chocolate associations, chocolate industries, the National Confectioners Association, political leaders and politicians act as though such a crime as raping, sodomizing, the sale of children into slavery, sex trafficking of children, false adoption papers of these children, organ trafficking of these children which is nothing more than murdering them for their organs. The abuse of these children does not have a place in a civil society such are the United States of America but the United States stands back knowing what is taking place on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana allowing such behavior to exists. I have listed Convention 182 which clearly shows the violations of these innocent children and nothing is being done about it. Article 1, Article 2, and Article 3 are concise and clear as to what should and should not be taking place with these children on the Cocoa Plantations. But still the urgent need to make the corrections has not occurred. You will find laws and Conventions mentioned throughout this book. I will give you more of Convention 182, as it relates to Article 4, Article 5, Article 6 and Article 7 later in the book to gault your memory in order that you are able to refer back to the cruelty of these children.

Although there is an ending to this book I must state I have already started book Two (sequel) on The Cocoa Plantations

Introduction

The scorching heat of the sun is something five year old American children will never feel. The hot penetrating rays of the sun beaming down on their unblemished skin will never be the concern of an American child. A five year old child in America would not be able to begin to understand how five year old girls and boys in Africa have to live. These children are working 100 hundred hours a week on the Cocoa Plantations on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana.

Before I began this horrifying true story based on what is taking place on the Cocoa Plantations and the disheartening and disgusting facts taking place on the Ivory Coast of Africa. It is important that I first enlighten you as to where cocoa comes from.

Cocoa comes mainly from the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana there are five other areas, Indonesia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Brazil and Ecuador. Only the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana are the largest of the overall global cocoa production. Many of you think cocoa is the powder you put in your milk to make hot chocolate which is true but there is a process. The cocoa bean is what is first picked from the cocoa trees and then shipped to the United States of America and other parts of the world. The production of the cocoa starts when the cocoa bean or pod which reaches the cocoa factories in America. America is where it is produced. When the cocoa bean or pod reaches America it is then combined with other products before it becomes cocoa, chocolate ice cream, candy bars, chocolate kisses, chocolate candies, chocolate cake, and all the products chocolate is combined with which also includes the chocolate candy many schools sponsor for fun raisers. Before it is produced into chocolate, cocoa originates from cocoa beans or pods that grow on trees on the Ivory Coast of African and Ghana. These trees are as high as 40 feet tall. Just recently Cocoa Plantations have also been discovered in the United States of America. So far in two states Hawaii and Florida. For most of you who are already aware as to what product comes from cocoa just think about all of that delicious chocolate you see in just about every store you go to shop. Just think about it chocolate is a heavy market and high in demand throughout the world. It’s in every candy store, convenient story, grocery store, food mart, corner store, gas station, supermarket, Walmart, Target, K-Mart, shopping centers, let’s just face it chocolate is all over the world. Chocolate in American stores can be found in the everyday quick stop at the nearby Dollar Store to the most eloquent of stores, Tiffany’s.

There are a few company’s making big money in the Chocolate Industry one of the major leading company’s makes a whopping 60 billion dollars a year, and the second leading company makes a whopping 30 billion dollars a year put the two together and you’ve got 90 million dollars in assets a year. Just between the monies made from the top two chocolate company’s I am certain a more in-depth investigation could be done to correct things on the Cocoa Plantations.

Unfortunately due to the insensitive nature and working conditions of how cocoa is prepared before it is imported to America leaves a distasteful taste in my mouth.

The horror stories have been validated over and over again through CNN, magazine articles and others who have researched the abuse there. Many of the issues taking place on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana in order for America and other countries to have chocolate will leave you with your mouth wide open. I am quite certain you will say the same thing I did when I first learned about the Cocoa Plantations, and that was, Oh my God these children need my help. It was not like they ever received any fair treatment when it came to care, health, education, food, shelter, dental care, etc.

I would like for you to slowly draw a picture in your mind of five year old boys and girls in slavery working over 100 hours a week on the Cocoa Plantations. Five year old babies (boys and girls) trained to climb 40 feet high trees. They are taught at the age of 5 years old how to swing a machete. What civilized Industry is going to put children to work? These Cocoa Plantations hire these under aged five year old boys and girls without any pay or benefits to cut the cocoa pods from the trees. America is number one on the list when it comes to the top ten countries heavily invested in chocolate. America just like any other country does not have an excuse that legally allows the abuse taking place with these children on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana. I will list the top ten countries later in this book. Many issues can be bought to closure with a joint effort by every country involved if they would do their part to end this nightmare of chocolate for 2,000,000 children enslaved on the Cocoa Plantations on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana. You will find much more intensifying concerns throughout the book. Keep in mind these changes that must take place does not just involve the abuse of children on the Cocoa Plantations but it also involves sex trafficking of these minor children when they are no longer useful to work at the Cocoa Plantations. What character of men or women would actually work in these hidden remote areas throughout African and Ghana that enslave children? What kind of mind set do individuals that, beat rape and sodomize children have? I don’t like being repetitive but I am prayerful you will realize that buying children, kidnapping children and enslaving children, and putting children who are under age to work is against the law. And working five year old boys and girls 100 hours a week is unheard of. The ages of these children are considered to be underaged and are in violation of International Labor Organization laws. When it sinks into your mind that these helpless children need relief you will find that the Calvary arrived too late, the damage done to these children will be irreparable. What’s even worse is that political officials in Washington, DC did not see fit to immediately rescue these children after acknowledging the Cocoa Plantations is the worst form of forced child labor and slavery in the world. Instead they gave the Chocolate Industries until the year 2020 to adhere to the laws of illegal child labor and child abuse. Although it is possible that change may occur in the year 2020 the question is to what degree will change occur? Please keep in mind the bill was passed in 2001 which means it will be nineteen more years of abuse these children have to endure. How many people in Washington, DC are in position to do something to implement immediate change but nothing has been done? How are these politicians able at the end of the day to go home to their family and have dinner with their wife and children and not have any remorse as to what is taking place with these children on the Cocoa Plantations? What low minded individual sits back and allows these hateful acts to happen to children. What kind of person indulges in abusive activities against defenseless children? To be frank and to the point the answer is someone who does not have a conscience.

Is chocolate detrimental to the existence of America, it is a trillion dollar industry? Why aren’t American politicians pro-active when it comes to these African children? Why are they sitting on their hands and twiddling their fingers knowingly accepting the abuse these children are going through. Why are these politicians turning their head and looking the other way? We must do something to implement change with the abuse taking place against these children. It is only for the sake of their survival that these five year old children working on the Cocoa Plantations ask no questions. They do try to escape and are reminded daily through continual beatings and abuse that they do not have anyone willing to speak up for them. An eye opening tragedy and quite obvious problems concerning these children is that nobody knows of their existence. Who has the birth certificate of these children? Who has the records showing from what parent the child was taken or purchased from? What record is there to show of the child ever being taken to the Cocoa Plantation? What record is there to show if the child ever left the Cocoa Plantations? An even bigger question concerning what I have not found in my research is when a child falls from a 40 foot tree and breaks his or her neck in the process of trying to cut a cocoa pod or accidentally slips from the tree and falls to his or her death is the death reported and how is the body disposed of? Is there a marked grave with the child’s name and date of birth on it that is a good question? Are there any records of the child’s existence? Or since there is no record of the child ever existing and there is no one there to ask questions of the child’s whereabouts is the child given a proper burial or is it just fed to the alligators or disposed of in other ways?

What are the odds of a 5 year old American child having to live under such conditions of having to work 100 hours a week or be trained to work with a machete?

The answer is zero percent; it’s just not going to happen? I am by no means trying to negate the problems we have here in America with missing children and runaways there is a lot of kidnapping taking place right here in America. Many police officers give up looking because the child cannot be found in America, could these missing children be in other countries? We have our problems in America as stated earlier but nothing compares to the abuse and forced child labor and slavery taking place on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana.

A five year old American child will never have to worry about working a fifteen to twenty hour work day. A five year old American child’s skin will never be burned from the intense heat of the sun because a five year old would not be allowed to work. A five year old American child is considered to be a baby and dependent on the parents. They will never be forced to work anywhere it would be considered to be inhumane and child neglect in America. But take the five year old African child on the Cocoa Plantations and the adverse conditions they work under there is nothing humane about the treatment they receive and there is nothing legal, moral or ethical by which these children are existing.

American children five years old will never have to worry about how to survive in the blistering heat of the sun. It is unlikely that a five year old baby in American will ever have to endure such conditions. America has child labor laws which are enforced immediately and by the time the White House, Senate and Congress are flooded with complaints from the children’s parents you can bet that situation would be cleared up quickly, that is if the child was American. American children will never have burns and welts on their backs because the perspiration on their skin has dried up from working outside in the elements. The only hot sun a five year old American child will feel is the heat from the sun while out on a family gathering or maybe playing outside during school recess. An American child five years old would not be in question today concerning forced child labor. But as for the five year old children on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana working on the Cocoa Plantations sun up to sun down American politicians turn their head as though forced child labor and child abuse is acceptable. These children moans and cries for relief go unheard, empty and void of nothing. They have no one to complain to in the isolated areas of the Cocoa Plantations were some of these children were sold into slavery for as little as fourteen dollars. They are forced to work a life time in slavery for the purchase of their blood. Their little bodies are made to endure the abuse that takes place on the Cocoa Plantations. They teach themselves to adjust to the needs of the overseers by watching others learned behavior, it is important for their survival. These children (babies) are not old enough to understand this kind of cruelty taking place in their life. To a five year old child (baby) there is no right or wrong way of life. The mind conditioning they are being taught on the Cocoa Plantations will become their doctrine for life on how to survive. Whether it is to rob still or kill it becomes a learned behavior for these five year old children (babies) and their existence. Children working under intense heat, fed (corn mush) for a meal and living under guard in abnormal living conditions. What are these little ones to do? What are the odds of this kind of treatment that is taking place on the Cocoa Plantations with five year old African boys and girls will ever happen to an American child? Let me answer that for you quickly, the odds are zero percent. It would not be heard of because there is no five year old child in America who will be forced to work one hundred hours a week. Let me be even more realistic a five year old in America will never understand such extreme measures and would not be subjected to such cruelty. Did you say AMBER ALERT yes we send out an AMBER ALERT if we think a child of ours is in trouble I guess the five year old children on the Cocoa Plantations are not worthy of statewide concern. Did you get the memo AMBER ALERT for what? The politicians are not concerned and neither is the people running the chocolate industries in America. These five year old children are in Africa not America so what government official cares about what happens to them?

Double Edged Sword

Let me introduce you to a scenario of the doubled edged sword. A doubled edged sword cuts both ways and if you pay close attention you will find it to be sarcastically quite hilarious. What I am referring to here is the so-called pretentious attempts the politicians in America have made to make corrections on ending the forced child labor and child abuse on the Cocoa Plantations, are you laughing yet? With laws already passed the violations taking place concerning these under aged children on the Cocoa Plantations are clear and concise. There is nothing facetious about five year old children being sold or five year old African boys and girls working over one hundred hours a week. These bogus attempts of pretending to make things better for these children are only presented to pacify those in the hierarchy involving the trillion dollar chocolate business. The profit in the chocolate industry is just as valuable and just as big as the drug cartel, big business. Trillions of dollars have already been made off the backs of these five year old children, slaves if you may have it. These political open forums of debate is a show front window designed to overt and neglect making things look to appear to be trying to get corrected. It is all a delusion of fixtures designed to put political figures in position of servicing more propaganda, more delays and more appeals. They say let’s amend this law and change that law to make themselves look concerned but the real motive is to…Delay! Delay! Delay! I wonder whose overseas bank accounts are getting fat. In all actuality these politicians intentions are to do nothing other than to stall for another twenty years, while the rapes and abuse of these children continue. The diorama is all laid out before you there is no other side to search for. America has been turning its head for quite some time now.

Everyone is familiar with the old cliché If it is not broken don’t fix it. There are International laws of which I will disclose in the body of this book which gives American politicians the right to help these children once again they know the laws exist but nothing has been done. Now that American people have heard the truth about how cocoa is brought to America from the blood and sweat of children do you still want to continue buying chocolate? The truth about this book concerning the Cocoa Plantations is quite graphic when you think about the five year old children and the horror they live with daily. There is a need for open forums to discuss the changes that need to be implemented to help these children. Issues concerning the lack of support of these children and why need to be brought to the green carpet. The brutality and abuse of these five year old boys and girls need to stop. American’s can help with that change by merely doing what is right. As for me I just don’t buy chocolate.

This is a book that everyone in AMERICA and those with children should read. You should want to know how five year old boys and girls are sold into slavery for as little as $14.00 dollars on the Cocoa Plantations. Just because the chocolate industry is a big money maker and everyone wants chocolate. America and other countries want their chocolate regardless of the cost. And it doesn’t make a difference as to what five year old child in Africa pays the price with their life as long as Americans and American children can have their chocolate. I will try not to be too graphic concerning what is taking place with these five year old boys and girls on the Cocoa Plantations. If I am able to go another route I will try to not be so vague in my description of what is happening to them without any parents around to protect them. I will try to spare you the mental picture but I will not hide the facts.

A scab has been opened in the United States of America and if something is not done about the Cocoa Plantations it which will implicate many people, Politicians, CEO’s and Founders in America and other countries, nationally and internationally. This will open up the doors as to why very little has been done to destroy this beast of burden, slavery, rape, murder and abuse on the Cocoa Plantations.

What have the politicians done to inforce the laws being violated to bring about a change on the Cocoa Plantations? Change that would involve the conditions under which these children are living, nutritional conditions concerning their diet, their healthcare, their lack of education and lack of wages these children are not receiving? American politicians have put policies and laws in place that are not being adhered to so who’s at fault? Americans have done more in foreign countries to protect countries not able to protect themselves yet American politicians sit back and watch the abuse of these innocent children and do nothing that would show some form of concern by at least trying to make some form of significant changes on the Cocoa Plantations yet nothing is done.

Let me revert back to history for a brief moment and take a look at what American soldiers throughout history have been sent out to do all over the world. American soldiers go to other countries, on what is called (Peace Keeping Missions). We have sent soldiers out in some of the worst of wars, Vietnam being one of the worst wars ever. In the Vietnam War 58,220 soldiers were not able to return home they were either (KIA or MIA). It is now 2014 and there is still a very strong probability that (MIA’s) are still captive in the concentration camps of Vietnam. The 58,220 soldiers killed in Vietnam were shocking and to this day we still mourn for the lives that were lost. I will not compare the 2 million children in slavery on the Cocoa Plantations to soldiers who have returned home from fighting a war but the numbers do not lie. The not so funny thing about these lives lost is that these children did not volunteer to go to war but they are being treated worse than (POW’s) or should I say (MIA’s) on the Ivory Coast of Africa and Ghana.

I do believe I mentioned the year 2014 there is not too much more that need to be said concerning slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1862 implemented in 1863 and slavery continued in Texas until 1865 this is how Juneteenth came about in America. The abolishment of slavery, although slavery was considered to be inhumane was never totally abolished. Though slavery was supposedly abolished in America with the connection of African Americans being taken from Africa, the connection of slavery continues to be persistent with the Ivory Coast of Africa being the location of which the original slaves were taken. In fact slavery was never abolished and has been well in practice through the years. The 13th Amendment confirms it yes, slavery It Still Exists Today. Is America adopting the Pontius Pilate syndrome that is a good question if you follow me carefully? You know when something is not right and you should do something about it but all you do is relieve yourself by washing your hands or turning your head the other way as though you did not see it. Has America Turned its head because American’s would much rather have chocolate, then save an innocent five year old child’s life? The problem is not going anywhere just because you turned away, as you can see it is just getting worst. How do you turn your head on five year old children or should I say five year old babies and expect to have a quiet and peaceful life? The horrifying treatment of children is happening right in our face America on our watch and we are not doing anything about it. Turning your face away is not going to make the problem non-existent neither does it negate the fact of these children needing our help?

Guilty by association, is a legal term I will discuss later within the chapters of this book. Make no mistake if you are not a part of the solution to help change this issue then you are a part of the problem. Many times I have put forth this question, What would you do if these where your children? Well believe it or not they are all of our children. We live in the United States of America, the greatest country on earth, a country that stands for justice. There is a solution to the abuse these children are suffering from. The question is how much longer it will take for everyone to get from point A to point B so the abuse of these children can stop? These five year old boys and girls are being whipped like slaves, beaten, sodomized and raped. Their blood cries out from the ground Where is thy brother, where is thy sister are you not your brothers and your sisters keeper? Why, my dear Lord why, would a country you have blessed with so many resources stand back and watch not just the captivity of the physical body of these children but also the captivity of their mind? What progress can be made if everything remains stagnated? We already know what is documented by other researchers and writers concerning the Cocoa Plantations it stated over and over again these children on the Cocoa Plantations are a part of the worst form of slavery since human existence. Do you want chocolate in America so bad that you are willing to allow a child’s life to be taken? (Matthew 6: 22-23) "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore our eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Historians and theorist have searched many years trying to find a solution to hatred. Not just abroad but also in the United States. There is no need to dig any further this is one memo that has circulated quickly and it goes like this as long as it is not our children suffering in America continue to turn your head as though nothing happened or nothing is wrong.

When you turn your head and look the other way things began to happen. Situations which are not of the norm had begun to develop into what is considered to be an oversight. What is an oversight when unusual events present themselves? Just because the good old United States of America government refuses to step in and do something about this matter on the Cocoa Plantations. I am certain and I do not want to sound like some biblical nerd but the Holy Bible does speak of diverse happenings throughout the world and yes that does include America. The bible speaks of things happening in areas you never dreamed of such tragedies happening. Here is the NEWS HEADLINER, tragedies taking place throughout the United States, children killing children. It wasn’t too long ago that one of the worst massacres in U.S. history that hit a quiet town in Littleton, Colorado. It was in April of 1999 when Columbine High School was under attack by a disarrayed student who killed 13 other students and one teacher. In Newton, Connecticut on Dec 14, 2012 twenty elementary children and six adult staff were fatally shot to death while in class. It was really sad to hear.

Americans stepped up to the plate as usual to find a different solution to see what could be done different in order that this kind of tragedy does not happy again. The same could be done for the little five year old boys and girls on the Cocoa Plantations. Step in and do something, oh well I guess the little African children don’t count? I can remember hosting my radio show during the time this tragedy happened. The outbreak of cries, coverage and support that sweep through the United States was not something unexpected. In America we fight for the rights of our children, I was proud to see that but what happened to the rights of these five year old children on the Cocoa Plantations. I must admit that other countries are extremely poor and do not have the power of political diplomacy as America. I was in shock and so was everyone else as we all watched in wonder as to what would cause someone to lose their mind and go into a classroom and murder 20 children and 8 adult teachers? Once again babies who did not have the slightest inkling on how to defend their self or even cry out for help. This was such a cowardly act and what was even worse was this massacre took place on December 14th, ten days before Christmas. What heartless person could go out and intentionally destroy families, people’s lives for no reason at all? I couldn’t help but think about the presents parents had already went out and purchased. Along with all of the shopping they had done with their child not realizing when their child went to school they would never see it alive again. Travel plans being made for the holidays to visit with grandparents, going to the mall to get a picture with Santa Clause. I am certain many families already had their Christmas trees up. Only by the days end of December 14, 2012 there would be no joy, no laughter of children being greeted by their parents. No stops at Mac Donald’s or Burger King on the way home. America would be held in awe and at a standstill concerning this tragedy, this massacre. Twenty children in elementary school would not survive this nightmare; there was no mother or father to protect them from the reality of what was getting ready to take place. Their innocent blood would be wasted inside of the very same classroom that was to begin their life. Unbeknownst to the children when they left home that morning to go to school they would never see their parents again. And the parents would never hold their five year old babies in their arms again. These are tragedies that continue to sweep the nation with no real explanation as to why these shooters at different times