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...panel included Sage, Dr. Shelly Leanne, a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, Francis Bok, an escaped Sudanese slave, Gerald L. Williams '03, who worked this summer on a delegation that bought the freedom of Sudanese slaves, and Wendy Patten, a member of the National Security Council...
...Patten outlined the U.S. procedure on countering slavery as prosecution of traffickers, protection and assistance of victims and prevention of trafficking through various programs...
Television had humanized the defendants, and audiences were both perturbed and moved by their relief at acquittal. "They are suffering," said John Patten, the attorney for Officer Sean Carroll. "This has been terribly difficult for them." Kadiatou Diallo sensed all that. The trial, she says, was for the benefit of the four policemen. "Amadou did not come out here," she says. "It was limited to the people who were on trial. No one came to know who Amadou really was." She does not want people to forget who he was and what happened...
...After Patten finished, several audience members questioned the idea that democracy and capitalism are compatible given Asia's current instability...
...Patten responded that capitalism and democracy were only tools for ultimately creating a free society: "I don't believe capitalism is enough, and I don't believe democracy is enough," he said...