Try not to feel the urgency-I DARE YOU

The other day, I had niggling curiosity about some of the details of the 911 attack so I put on my favorite P.I. music and hopped onto the internet for a little digging. What I found was quite shocking…and strangely motivating. Let me explain.

I remember that shocking September morning in vivid detail, but in the flurry of media coverage, there were things I missed somehow until three days ago that have particular interest as they compare to my current undertaking.

I found out that the final report of missing and dead was 2,996 and the estimated immediate cost of the attack was placed at 100 billion dollars (and they even admit to not factoring every last thing into that number)

WOW! and then I saw how much we estimate the US has spent SO FAR to deliver that retribution we demanded…

more than 2 trillion dollars…let me pick myself up off the floor before I remind you that this number could also be represented as 2million phenomenally large wads of 1 million dollars.

Now for the shock and awe part of this little presentation.

If we double the number of victims of the 911 attack we get a number close to how many innocent men, women, and children from around the world are abducted, tricked, and violently brought into the ranks of slavery EVERY DAY…and it happens 365 days a year.

By extrapolation, we should be spending 4 trillion dollars a day to end this catastrophic emergency.

I think we should start small though with this run. Let’s raise 1 dollar for each of the estimated 27 million modern slaves to go toward their liberation and begin the healing. 27 Million dollars will be great, but still only a fraction of what it will take to see this trade in humans come to an end.

Together we WILL change the world and start a trend of allocating much needed resources to recognizing the problem instead of closing our eyes (speaking of our society in general), to fund the much needed research, to send the awesome ground troops who do the actual rescue, and enable those whose compassionate hearts are attuned to the work of rehabilitation.

Yes - It really is This urgent!