Someone just tell the TRUTH:

Why have the investigations stopped? What kind of power does BALLARD-PARKER have over good common sense law abiding people? In an article written in June of 2021, a journalism professor from Northeastern University, named Matthew Carroll made very valid points in his article on the crimes and sinful nature of The Exodus Road.  https://gobserver.net/4806/global-diaries/thailand/furor-erupts-over-anti-sex-trafficker-exodus-road/

 

“The red flags started for Allison Weber even before she started work with Exodus Road. At a supper in Thailand with the CEO, Matt Parker, and a few other couples, Parker suggested a tour of the red light district in the city of Pattaya, to show everyone how bad it was.

 

She had no interest in going. She’d visited go-go bars and brothels as part of her other job, which involved helping women in prostitution. It’s not pleasant. “It’s men groping women. It’s intense,” she said. She was surprised a man who ran a nonprofit fighting sex trafficking wanted to do this.

 

Parker pushed the men to go. He said something like: How small a man do you have to be to not go to these places? “My husband was really offended,” she said. “That felt out of line to me.” (This is from the Matthew Carroll article)

 

I want to take a look at who Matt Parker really is, and how he is so similar to Tim Ballard that is goes beyond reason not to believe that Parker has studied Ballard, and he emulates him. Tim Ballard is Matt Parker’s hero. BALLARD-PARKER. So let’s delve a little into the nasty history of Matt Parker. He walks the streets of Pattaya with a Brazen Swagger. He believes that he is there to do good for the lost and dying people in Thailand. However, all he really wants to do is party, and have a good time with “sex slaves.” Ok, he calls them sex slaves, I don’t, but he’s here to have some fun.

 

When you look at the complaints that have been levied against this organization, you must come to a conclusion that this is in their DNA. Matt Parker can say all he wants about how much his organization has changed, however, these are serious accusations and they should not be taken lightly. In my opinion, Matt Parker is a con-man, who is hurting legitimate organizations who are doing good work.

 

According to Matthew Carroll’s article in the Global Observer, “The complaints spanned a broad spectrum — two major complaints focus on questions about the organization’s overall effectiveness in the field and how it handled the alleged sexual assault of a staffer. 

 

Other allegations include:

— the encouragement of sexualized behavior with women in bars and brothels as part of an ongoing “undercover,” 

 

— a number of instances among office workers of sexually inappropriate language, 

 

— the demeaning treatment of staff, 

 

— the size of the salaries paid to the two top employees, who are a married couple, and the methodology the organization uses to count the people it says it rescues.

 

“This is a really toxic organization and it’s harming the anti-trafficking sector as a whole,” said Weber, whose dinner with Parker was in 2014, and who had worked for another anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit for two years prior. “Their behavior is really damaging to that work.”  

 

Kyle Fisk, a spokesman for Exodus Road, slammed the allegations as “baseless.” Exodus Road is helping drive systemic anti-trafficking change in Thailand, by making it more dangerous and less lucrative to be a sex trafficker, he said. (Allegations are baseless??? They have been thoroughly investigated, and they are baseless. Why would these people just randomly attack a superhero like Matt Parker?)

 

“There are certainly plenty of supporters and partners and donors that are engaged in the work of Exodus Road, who certainly believe that this organization is doing valuable and important work,” Fisk said. Exodus Road gets top ratings for fiscal transparency and accountability from GuideStar and Charity Navigator, two rating bureaus, Fisk noted.”

 

These allegations are extremely disturbing. But, they have been dismissed, and forgotten, all the while, Matt Parker continues to live a life of superhero fiction. However, it’s only time before he’s caught red-handed with his pants down. That’s not fiction, that’s truth, the CCTV footage of him in beer bars with girls will eventually surface, and his fictional lifestyle will be on full display for the world to see.

 

Carroll writes, “Sex tourism” is big business in Thailand. Red light districts have thrived for decades, despite a recent Covid-19 slump and more muscular efforts by the government to rein them in. Because of that reputation, Thailand has attracted more than 90 groups, especially from Western countries, that battle the sex trade by helping women and children. That makes for a chaotic, confusing landscape, with organizations scattered across Thailand, using different tactics and strategies. They are often competing for funds from the same sponsors. The effectiveness of the organizations is anyone’s guess. The field lacks desperately needed standards, said multiple people. Basic questions, such as what defines success, are only slowly being addressed. “The system is not broken — it’s just woefully incomplete and you can drive a bus through the holes,” said Duncan Jepson, managing director of Liberty Shared, which works to prevent human trafficking. From the outside, it can be hard to distinguish the legitimate players from the pretenders. Some anti-trafficking groups have won hard-earned reputations from colleagues for helping people escape sex work and learn new professions. Others are labeled dismissively as “cowboys.” 

 

One of those organizations facing criticism is The Exodus Road.

 

The interesting portion of Matthew Carroll’s article is the statement of there not being any standards of what determines success. Matt Parker controls the narrative! Matt Parker knows that if he lies and misleads individuals, he will profit and gain celebrity status from a false narrative, they will open their pocket books and the offering plates at the American Church will overflow with funds for he and Laura. You cannot dismiss these allegations!

 

We should all admit, and we should all understand that Matt and Laura Parker are in this for financial gain. Matt has admitted that he’s an entrepreneur. For Matt, Laura and Tim Ballard, this is all about building a business and making money. But, let’s say there’s a small portion of BALLARD-PARKER that is sincere. The business model is an ineffective strategy. Once again I will resort to the work of Matthew Carroll to explain the dysfunctional strategy of The Exodus Road.

 

 

 

            “Critics say Exodus Road uses an investigative strategy called “search and rescue” that is not effective in the long term at helping people who have been sex trafficked or work in the sex world. It works like this: Undercover operatives find evidence of the human trafficking of underage children or women held against their will. The evidence is turned over to police for a “rescue mission,” according to its website. It’s a variant of what’s more commonly called “raid and rescue.” Whatever Exodus Road calls it, detractors say tactics such as these, which are used by some other organizations too, are generally ineffective and are falling out of favor.

 Five years ago, these types of investigations were more common. But after criticism and research into the risks and benefits, people are speaking out and calling for higher professional standards. “That’s a big change now,” said Julia Macher, director of Freedom Collaborative at Liberty Shared. But it’s still popular with the public. It’s even a movie plot. In “Taken,” actor Liam Neeson smashes down doors and shoots bad guys while rescuing his daughter, kidnapped by sex traffickers. The 2008 movie was box office gold and led to two sequels. The simple theme resonates — save the girl, with the help of brute force. The movies “give people the impression that in order to do an intervention you need your own personal SWAT team to break people out,” said Annie Dieselberg, the founder and CEO of NightLight Bangkok, which specializes in aiding women who are prostitutes, especially foreigners. That may be true in a tiny percent of the cases, but it’s definitely not the norm, she said. Most women in sex work range from older teens to their 40s, who feel that prostitution is their best or only option. They are there voluntarily. Are there some women and children kept in locked rooms? Yes, but they are rare. (But, this is where most of the money is going.) The problem with raid and rescue is that without extensive aftercare to help sex workers learn new ways of living, with marketable job skills, most people “rescued” this way quickly return to sex work, said Dieselberg. The aftercare groups work much differently. No doors get busted down. Often, a woman in the sex trade calls an aftercare group and the group takes them away. That’s about it. “It is not a dramatic rescue,” Dieselberg said. The lack of drama makes it a tough pitch for donors.(AND HERE’S THE REALL REASON BALLARD-PARKER OPERATE LIKE THEY DO. IT’S ALL ABOUT FAME AND $$$$ THE MONEY.) It goes something like this: We need money to help a woman heal for several years, to rediscover her identity, to restore her relationship with her family, and to build goals and dreams. It’s heartfelt, but not exciting. So funding often is simply not there, said Dieselberg, whose organization helps with long-term help, such as job training. When asked about its aftercare programs, Fisk of Exodus Road said the organization uses social workers and crisis care workers. They are launching a safe house and transition home in Thailand for adult survivors, which will open in the late fall. He declined to offer the names of any aftercare programs Exodus Road works with. “These baseless allegations against the Exodus Road certainly have the opportunity to be viewed negatively and we’re going to choose to protect our staff and partners from any of that negative publicity,” Fisk said. Fisk made it clear the organization was not fighting common prostitution. “We fight human trafficking,” he said in an email. “Our teams are not looking for women and men who are in prostitution by choice, but rather those who cannot walk away from their situations due to ‘force, abduction, fraud, or coercion’ (which legally qualifies them as human trafficking victims).” (The Parker’s attack small business owners because they are the easy targets. They are doing absolutely nothing to prevent, or stop the real issue of Human Trafficking.)

 

There are legitimate questions that need to be answered. There are good organizations that are doing their best to help people. However, as long as BALLARD-PARKER can run scams, and mislead individuals in order to fill their own pockets, human trafficking victims will continue to suffer. In the same article written by Matthew Carroll, he quotes; “Lauren Pinkston, who has studied and written about faith-based, anti-trafficking organizations, said more transparency is needed by Exodus Road and many other nonprofits in the field before their numbers can be trusted. Many “rescued” women often end up back in the sex trade because they lack needed aftercare. How are those women counted? How much money, she wondered, would be spent rescuing the same women again?” 

 

Unfortunately the Parker’s don’t care. Unfortunately Tim Ballard doesn’t care. Team BALLARD-PARKER is fueled by a hubris desire to make as much profit as possible. They are scamming good hearted church people. They are disrespecting foreign governments and their leaders. If they cared, they would actually try and help individuals who are really being trafficked, and they would focus more on creating programs that are beneficial for local villages and families. They would pour more money into aftercare programs and allow trained police officers to do their jobs. Unfortunately, BALLARD-PARKER just desires press clippings, TV cameras, photo ops, and of course the MONEY!!!$$$$$