Francis, the Merciful and Jeffrey Sachs-Moving the Goalpost in Human Trafficking
“Humanity’s special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts.”
Together Francis, the Merciful, and his UN sidekick, Jeffrey Unsustainable Sachs concocted the Vatican’s support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Francis endorsed the 17 UN Sustainable Development commandments believing they were the gateway to heaven on earth. Included in the sustainable manifesto was goal 8.7, which promised the eradication of global human trafficking.
In the United Nations, promises are made, promises broken. Goals set; goals moved. The Vatican and the UN were hoping that people wouldn’t be paying attention to the goals they set, especially the one involving human trafficking (8.7). After all, no one should hold them accountable for failing to fulfill their promise.
The Merciful often chastises the world for its “globalization of indifference.” Catchy phrase? It’s especially ironic coming from one so indifferent to the suffering victims of clergy sex abuse. Nevertheless, The Merciful One promised that his pet project of ending human trafficking would meet its goal in 2020. Finally, with the implementation of the UN’s SDGs, the globalization of indifference would end, so the United Nations argues to the world.
Much energy and media attention was given to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and its 5 conferences on Human Trafficking. Jeffrey Sachs spoke as an expert on human trafficking. Indeed, Sachs spoke at over 30 Vatican conferences in the last 8 years, primarily advocating for the importance of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-an office which he oversees at the UN.
2014- Francis Declares Human Trafficking will be eradicated by 2020.
On December 2, 2014, Francis personally pontificated on the crisis of human trafficking. Along with inter faith religious leaders, they crafted a joint declaration to eradicate modern slavery by 2020, calling it a crime against humanity. This document declared that the Vatican established its goalpost of ending human trafficking by 2020 (see below).
On April 17-21, 2015, in a prominent speech, Jeffrey Sachs promised a Vatican audience that if the UN SDGs were passed by the General Assembly, then human trafficking would end in 2020! Clearly, the Vatican and UN embraced the same human trafficking timeline of 2020! In 5 years, many would see the phenomenon of the end of human trafficking in 2020. Sachs promised that if the UN SDGs were passed the scourge of human trafficking would be eradicated. This miracles of miracles was pronounced at the Holy See, no less.
In his opening sentence, Sachs couples the upcoming vote and passage of the Sustainable Development Goals with the elimination of Human Trafficking by 2020. 2020 is the human trafficking carrot dangling in front of the UN member states to pressure them to vote for the UN SDGs. Giving the goal a measurable and specific timeline assures an expectation of success, or so it seemed. Watch here as Sachs speaks with such confidence and certitude.
On September 25, 2015, Pope Francis spoke at the UN General Assembly. Not surprising, he mentioned human trafficking twice in his speech. Additionally, the SDGs passed and adopted by consensus vote of the 193 member states. At that moment, the clock started ticking toward 2020-the great moment when the world would celebrate the ending of human slavery. Right? Isn’t that what Jeff Sachs and Francis, the Merciful promised at the Vatican!
Tick tock…
Then on Dec. 13, 2016, Jeffrey Sachs in an interview with Reuters in Rome announced that the world has the chance to eliminate human trafficking in the year of 2025! What happened to the goal of 2020? Welcome to the world of movable goalposts. While the world is watching the game, the globalists move the goalposts.
Sachs has been playing the promise game for a long time. William Easterly, a prominent Sachs critic, attacks both Sachs’ promises and solutions over ending global poverty:
“No doubt such promises satisfy the urgent desires of altruistic people in rich countries that something be done to alleviate the grinding misery of the billions who live in poverty around the world. Alas, upon closer inspection, it turns out to be one big Potemkin village. These grandiose but unreal visions sadly crowd out better alternatives to give real help to real poor people.”
“The new proposals to end world poverty are, for one thing, not new. They are recycled ideas from earlier decades that have already failed.”
On April 7, 2016, nearly a year after the passage of the UN SDGs, the Holy See convened a major conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The theme of conference was “Ending Human Trafficking by 2030: The Role of Global Partnerships in Eradicating Modern Slavery."
What happened to the Vatican goal of eradicating modern slavery in 2020?
No word, no announcement, no explanation was given by the Vatican as to the reason why its publicly stated goal had been changed and moved forward another 10 years!
Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the observer of the Holy See to the UN moderated the Human Trafficking conference and read a special letter from Pope Francis to the attendees of the event, in which he urged speakers and attendees to focus on the most vulnerable victims of the scourge of modern slavery and human trafficking. He never uttered a word about the aforementioned extension of the 2020 eradication goal to 2030.
The UN conference ended with an intervention from Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican. At Pope Francis’ behest, Sorondo had organized and promoted all the Vatican Human Trafficking Conferences, notably ones with the stated goal of eradicating human trafficking in 2020. Curiously, Sorondo never mentioned the 10 year postponement of the human trafficking goal.
Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences Bishop Sanchez Sorondo speaking at the Vatican Event at the UN Ending Human Trafficking in 2030.
Surely, he was acutely aware of the promises publicly made by the Vatican to numerous international experts, judges and victims that human trafficking would end in 2020.
What happened to the trafficking eradication goal of 2020? It’s sinisterly simple. The globalists and Vatican used the 2020 timeline to force passage of the SDGs. Once the UN member states signed on and passed the Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, the 2020 goal was dropped and abandoned. No need for it anymore. With a sleight of hand, they moved the goalpost to 2030. This is classic globalist switch and bait, as the UN elites exploit tragedies, like poverty and trafficking to force radical transformation absent the original concern of trafficking.
So now that the Human Trafficking goalpost has been quietly extended from 2020 from 2030 without explanation, is there any realistic expectation that human trafficking will be eradicated by then?
Not a chance.
Welcome to the world of the elite globalists at the United Nations. They promise Utopia and never deliver. They promise Nirvana and fail miserably. Sachs and the UN are like the barkers at the circus, ‘step right up and get your ticket, to the Greatest Show on Earth.’ One is always left betrayed and befuddled.
There’s only one thing worse than a conniving UN bureaucrat; it’s a Pope who plays along with the hoax. None of this should be a surprise.
Francis is deaf to the cry of the sex abuse victims, although apparently not to the ‘cry of Mother Earth.’ Papal foot dragging, silence, and cover ups over the scourge of clergy sex abuse is routine under this pontificate. The Merciful One owes his allegiance, not to his flock, but to his global masters. They exploit the poor by saying they want to end poverty, yet end up impoverishing more. They feign concern for human trafficking, yet advocate for open borders which foster more human slavery. Human trafficking victims, like the poor, serve as convenient prop to promote the agenda of the global new world order.
Apparently, Francis learned nothing about human trafficking from his 5 papal sponsored conferences. His ignorance about the protection offered by border walls against human trafficking defies credulity. Recall that Francis called Trump’s border wall “unchristian” and “cruel.” Only a fool or a globalist would promote open borders, since the net result is a huge spike in human trafficking and human misery.
As a result, Francis and his globalist guru, Jeffrey Sachs, won’t be eradicating trafficking in 2030, or any time soon.
Get ready to move that goalpost, again.
Francis, the Merciful forgot the wise admonition of Winston Churchill, “The UN was set up not to get us to heaven but only to save us from Hell.”
Isn’t a Pope supposed to get us to heaven?
This article was first published at The Remnant on April 26, 2021.
Elizabeth Yore is a child protection attorney who has investigated international child trafficking cases. Her website is: YoreChildren.com