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Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A director from Microsoft and a former Amazon director have been charged with promoting prostitution after an investigation into Seattle-area sex trafficking, according to a local news report. Investigators say the director of worldwide health for Microsoft submitted over 70 reviews of prostitutes that he had allegedly hired since April 2012, according to the report, while the director of software development at Amazon, who worked on Fire TV, "allegedly hired prostitutes at least 29 times through The Review Board and TheLeague.Net, according to court documents." Both men have pleaded not guilty and are free on $75,000 bail, part of a group of 19 people now facing criminal charges. "These defendants, we allege, were absolutely devoted to the commercial sexual exploitation of vulnerable, powerless immigrant women," King County Prosecutors said in January, adding that the women, who were forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses in Asia, are not being charged.
Last January a Seattle newspaper reported that one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."
Last January a Seattle newspaper reported that one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."
Everyone knows Amazon and Microsoft are in bed together to screw over consumers.
It sounds like these guys committed "patronizing a prostitute", which is a misdemeanor:
http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/defa...
They've been charged with "promoting prostitution"( being a pimp), which a felony:
http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/defa...
Who are the victims? It sounds like all parties consented to each transaction.
Today I learned the term "grows" is a plural nown.
Kriston
Is by the prosecutor and the police. In countries where prostitution is legal, women selecting this as their choice of work of their own free will are the norm and exceptions are so rare that they make the papers. Also, "pimps" basically do not exist. Hence what is going on here is a deranged war on women that find selling sex for money gives them a sound economic basis and on men that are willing to buy that service. All the "trafficking" nonsense and "helpless" bullshit is just the same vile lies used to justify locking up as many people as possible (and most certainly those "rescued" face the same fate and will have the money they earned stolen in addition) over what in any sane country is a matter of a service rendered between consenting adults. The very kind of language used by the "authorities" already shows what this really is.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I'm sure 1% tech millionaires are truly singling out and harming poor innocent helpless immigrants by paying them $1000+ a night. No time to stop the swiftly-rising rising murder rate across the USA this year, we're way too busy 'investigating' high class escorts.
It's also fun that all the prostitutes were let go because they were all really nice ladies. The new rule is that criminals are really victims, especially if you can toss in some racial discrimination as a bonus side story.
To be fair, the Amazon employee was a Prime Now customer and had gotten so used to getting what he wanted in two hours that pumping drinks in to a girl all night in a bar (let alone the traditional three-dates before sex route) was just too damn slow.
The companies are most likely encouraging their employees to use prostitutes, due to the lack of single women in the Seattle area. Given that Vancouver is ~3 hours' drive from Seattle, it might make more sense to encourage them to take a day off to go somewhere that prostitution is legal.
If it weren't for the bad PR, they'd probably just directly lobby for prostitution to be regulated and legalized in WA. Given the souring economy (and the momentum of the marijuana legalization effort), this is likely to occur anyway.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
but it's illegal for adults to enter into a contract for sex?
"the commercial sexual exploitation of vulnerable, powerless immigrant women"
As opposed to the fremium model? Where the first sex is for free and after that you pay and pay and pay?
Look, an immigrant can't get a job and sell her pussy, she is neither vulnerable, or powerless, she's simply jobless. So she CHOOSES to exploit a few men for money in exchange for faking sexual interest. Perhaps she exploits her hands for massage? Why shouldn't it be a weiner massage? If she fingers his ass, how is she different from a nurse treating constipation?
This is sexist crap from feminists liars.
Prostituting oneself is a fundamental individual right. If it is not, then the government prostitutes, I mean politicians, should all be in jail and so should all those, who vote for them or give them money.
You can't handle the truth.
What's the use of having all the money in the world if you can't use it to purchase some world class vagina every once in a while?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
"Can anyone provide any real evidence to disprove these facts?"
I can't disprove that your head is a giant cabbage either, but in this case that would be a pretty good guess.
Something not mentioned in the post. Here's a much better article: http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
So they arrested the clients and let the webmaster unmolested?
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Yes. Unfortunately, most of the recent bills passed to fight actual slavery (including sex slavery) have been used to fight sex work instead.
With legalized prostitution, it is much easier to help actual trafficking victims escape. This is the real harm of conflating trafficking/slavery with sex work.
As this article titles: The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs. And the results will be just as disastrous, for "perpetrators" and "victims" alike.
http://reason.com/archives/201...
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Looks like the submitter is trying to market the prosecution too with words like "vulnerable...exploited...". If they have sex and receive money, how is that worse than having sex and getting gifts? It's not worse, and if she needs the money you're doing her a favor by giving her money.
As for "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."... again marketing a baddie who is bad to the core. It has nothing to do with the claim against these men.
These men had sex with willing women and rewarded those women for the sex with money (instead of gifts). If you want to empower the women, make prostitution legal so they get more of the money. Giving them 'good reviews' is free speech not pimping.
There's nothing wrong with prostitution, and sex is the healthy interaction between men and women. This feminist crap is the *unhealthy* way to live.
With all that detailed information, it's like I'm practically being told to hate these men and pity these women, because... because we're telling you to. I guess we've reached the point now where you need to have a signed release form for every time you pay for sex, meaning you have to fly out to a place where it's legal to do it, find a place that's on the up-and-up, etc. Or just go without sex if you're too married to your job. I can't wait to see the headlines about the judge in this, once they're inevitably embroiled in a similar fiasco.
You are a huge idiot. Go back to the rock you crawled out from, you moron.
"[he] previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized." I wonder what the government could do to make him and people like him stop (or move out of) prostitution.
"Ed2k" shows me a bunch of excel spreadsheets. "Chan" showed me photos of Jackie chan. Wtf, secret keywords...
I agree that it would be despicable to be knowingly be involved with sex slavery in any way. I'd also like to add some relevant information.
It's true that many women involved in prostitution are being coerced, either in the trafficking scenario or old-fashioned pimping. It's ALSO true that many women involved in prostitution freely decided that they'd like to make $250-$400 per hour. Further, in most (not all) cases it's pretty easy to tell the difference.
>then these guys are despicable because they quite likely realize what's going on
It sounds like these guys were active on some relevant forums, so yes they would have had at least a general idea that coerced prostitution exists. They certainly had plenty of information about which ladies to call if they wanted cheerful service from someone who was happy to have them as a client, without the obvious risks of entering a organized crime facility and stripping naked. People who abduct women, smuggle them across borders, and force them into prostitution are NOT the kind of people you want walking in the room while you're naked and defenseless. Same with garden-variety gangsta thug pimps. A john doesn't want to be in that situation.
Besides the risks of dealing with gangsters, have you ever had a high-end massage or other service provider where you're paying more than $150/hour? The professional is happy to have you as a client and the service you receive is FAR better than the service at Taco Bell, where the employee doesn't really want to be there. High-end escorts vs pimped women are no different. If the lady is keeping the $250 for herself, the john will get much better service than if a pimp is taking the money and she's been forced. For those reasons, informed customers generally wouldn't be at all interested in a lady with a pimp, even if they had no moral compass.
The review (and advertising) boards make it pretty darn easy to find ladies who appreciate their customers and even enjoy their work, and to avoid the pimps.
Why would anyone running a prostitution reviews site host it in the USA? Aren't there any number of countries with reasonably fast internet service where it's legal?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
no one is this stupid.
What do you expect from America? These guys were after all a bunvh of Puritans whose prudish ideas were too mych forbthem to fit in in Britain.
He wouldn't have to re-start so often if he were using a Mac.
John Kennedy, who had a new sexual partner nearly every day after his morning swim in the White House, and a sexual affair with a 19-year oldo WH page 3 days before his assassination in Dallas, was the last public figure whose privacy has been respect4d by the MEDIA. Like, what good is it to work harde and become a public figure if you can't have a fu---ing piece of a--?
The women are powerless victims of evil men. Sounds like the standard feminist bullshit. The idea is that a review on a website can be considered promotion of a prostitute will be the main point of the procedings. The men might argue that the listing itself is promotion and their reviews are not. A person needs to actively browse to the website to see the review so she is already looking to buy sex. Is writing that review the same as actively seeking new customers in other ways? Dont think so.
Do you have evidence outside that that would be her political stance (not personal) on the topic.
Hillary is too much of a political sell out fe be a Feminazi.
Beside in the United States prostitution laws are controlled by each individual state. For the most part doesn't have much political action asking such rules to be pushed on a national level.
Besides her stance on women's rights has been towards less regulation on what a woman can do because they are a woman not more.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."
So following simple logic, if you wanted get get him out of exploiting prostitution...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
More about Seattle:
... wants obedient little workers that never, ever, EVER ask questions."
... people here with weird
neurotic hang-ups.
People here lack ANY social skills... Socially retarded is the word."
Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers.
These are the real reasons for Seattle's terrible traffic.
"The rich control everything in Seattle. Bill Gates
More quotes:
"Now there's Jeff Bezos and his army of autistic sociopaths at Amazon. Their corporate culture is an absolute rejection of all human qualities..."
"Seattle lacks culture due to all the neurotic, arrogant, immature, rule obsessed, passive aggressive, conformists who couldn't socialize or drive to save their lives..."
"Seattle: Hateful people. People who never smile. People here always seem mean. No one ever seems happy here. Lots of bullies here. Lots of
Our Social Dis-ease: Beyond the smiles, the Seattle Freeze is on
Looks like they need a Dash button for their habits
No time to stop the swiftly-rising rising murder rate
For reasons of culture and demographics, at some point dealing with murder in the US becomes "racist." High end prostitution, on the other hand, typically involves a lot of wealthy whites, and thus more profile and less controversy for LEOs.
Read a little closer. These aren't women who chose to be prostitutes rather than being dental hygienists or auto mechanics. They were coerced or forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses. Debts that may have not have even been their own but of their family members. They were neither safe nor secure and it's doubtful they were allowed to keep much of the money.
How much were the Amazon and Microsoft directors aware of this exploitation? Don't know, but apparently the prosecutors think they knew these women didn't have many other options.
The USA can issue arrest warrants for employed Chinese soldiers, but not for serious criminals. The USA isn't a signatory to "Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others" (1949), or "Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children" (2003).
Sex for hire equals social unjustice because obviously emancipated womyn[tm][r][c] would NEVAR hire out for sex. Therefore sex trafficking. And of course it's safe and respectable and the right thing to do to point fingers at any and all males in the vicinity, the higher profile, the better. So if you're looking for that promotion, why, dear special government agent person sir, go find yourself some nice vice violations to go after. Invent some perps and string'em up high in public. Nobody will dare oppose and nobody will dare speak up, because vice, so easy does it. It's social justice through the law, for great justice!
... I'd take the stand with something like the following:
Why yes, dear jury, 20 out of 29 prostitutes I hired were better than expected. The other nine, five were about average and the last four delivered disappointing service. I duly noted this in my reviews. But even the average service got decent tips and the good performers I tipped well. I think it pays to encourage good service.
And so what if they were prostitutes? We're all hiring ourself out to get by, or to do better than merely get by. In fact, in my line of work, making use of prostitution services is almost mandatory.
You see, I don't really have time to woo a woman except with money, and all that gets me is an expensive trophy wife. Those are no good in bed, let me tell you, I tried. This is a general problem when trying to meet women socially. Before you know it they're in it just for the money or that promotion. And if that promotion doesn't come through for some reason, it's sexual harassment suits. So I keep my pants on when on the job. But like any busy man I like and need to blow off some steam now and then. In fact, it's a necessity to keep a happy and productive atmoshphere in the office, too. We all work hard and need to wind down
sometimes.
So I'm too busy to go out, I can't fuck around on the job, and I can't hook someone who'll be interested in me more than my money. And if we're going there anyway, might as well be honest about it. So yes, dear jury, I hire prostitutes for sex. At least I know where they stand, I know they'll be good at it, and they'll know I'm a good customer and tip well.
In fact I already went the extra mile and helped them get more and better quality custom. By posting honest reviews I helped them get better paying clients. What more do you want of me?
Water melon?
reviewing prostitutes is totally normal, and probably more straightforward and sincere than, lets say, reviewing videogames (gamergate, somehow the name came to mind just after hearing the word prostitutes. i wonder how that happened LOL).
its an entirely community driven stuff that happens in some websites. For example, in my country there are sites for that, they review the place, the prostitutes, hell the place sometimes has gps coordinates and stuff so no one gets lost on the way to fucking
disclaimer: not a client, i just read a lot about basically anything
Sounds like someone didn't pay their "protection" fee...
"It would be a shame if word got out, wouldn't it? You seem reasonable so I'm sure we can work something out."
Women found breaking the law said it so it must be true...What would you do if an "organized crime boss" demanded something from you? This isn't Juarez, America has the rule of law
need only submit their application.
What happened is that they said they hired women and they exercised their free speech and talked about it in internet. Well they work for the internet companies and rather than talking to their friends, they blabbered on internet. Now that has been used against them.
Washington DC should be a cordoned crime zone if standards applied to these two gentleman would be applied the nation's capital.
Funny thing is that women are against the legalization of prostitution, but man are generally cool with that... In every economic model, if something is made illegal it usually results in increased prices.
Having spent some time living in Thailand, I can tell you that things are much more complicated than your assumption. Girls are sold to brothels by parents, and the girls feel some weird family commitment to send money back home! Societally, the whole system is so fsckd up that you actually see more anti sex trafficking ads in the us than Bangkok!
I'm no Puritan, but things are getting pretty messed up, and something needs to be done to stop it.
Why is prostitution illegal at all?
One of the most common lines is "prostitution exploits women" -- if that's the case, then why are prostitutes arrested? Wouldn't they then be the victims? At least in the EU that seems to be emerging model, with Sweden and now France making accepting money for sex not illegal, but paying money for sex illegal. But that's very recent, and not generally reflective of long standing practices and criminal law.
A more enduring answer seems to be that it's merely reflective of anti-sex morality, the same mindset that used to criminalize pornography, birth control and made sodomy and adultery actual crimes. Although most all of those things have mostly stopped being illegal, as society on balance has become accepting of sex as recreation -- sodomy and adultery laws have mostly been overturned or aren't enforced anymore, singles bars, Craigslist/Tinder/Grindr, etc. And also, in not the not so distant past, society was more tolerant of prostitution -- brothels operated more openly -- despite a generally stronger social prohibition on sex outside of marriage.
I think prostitution remains illegal -- with the public justification shifting in spite of general acceptance of sex outside of wedlock -- because women don't like prostitution. Despite the general changes in attitude about sex outside of marriage, women still see sexuality as a significant bargaining chip in social relations with men. Legalized prostitution thus represents a threat to women's bargaining status in relationships.
If men can buy sex whenever they want it for only money, women lose a significant bargaining advantage in relationships with men. Their sexuality no longer represents a scarce good or service and they can no longer structure their relationship demands around controlling access to sex. Which seems really ironic, since women often loudly decry being seen as "sex objects" and want to be valued for their intelligence or other personality traits, yet it seems as in spite of that, women continue to see their sexuality as primary tool in attracting and maintaining mail interest in relationships.
You would think that *women* would want prostitution legal, though, because it would in theory act as a kind of filter for men they wish to engage in more substantive relationships with. It would, in theory, make the pool of men they encounter to more likely be interested in non-sexual aspects of a relationship, reducing the effort needed to filter men who falsify their intentions in order to gain sex.
Don't worry, Drumpf will stop all immigration, except for prostitutes.
Officer Collins: [addressing military brass] You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square...
You have nailed it with logic. I bet your explanation would be down-voted by women, without any logical reason.
Mothers have always been advising their daughters that more affluent man is better. Even if marriage falls apart in the future, rich man is preferred to poor one due to better economical consequences.
In a similar way, very soon fathers will be advising their sons, that marriage is not something they need to be involved, at all. Having a girlfriend - yes. Having children - yes. Marriage - no.
To be precise, economic models show that, in the USA, if prostitution would be legal, it would be economically detrimental to a more affluent party to get into the marriage contract.
You missed the point. The point is that there is an enormous depth of dislike for what Seattle has become. Only a few of those commenting are being completely logical. If they were logical, they would move away from Seattle.
Can you find other web sites and articles about people who dislike their city? I'd like to see them.
Consider the U.S. metropolitan area centered on Portland, Oregon:
Portland has become unlivable. There are traffic jams all day. The air is poisonous. Things About Portland That Suck
Intel has been emitting fluoride for years without state knowledge, permit. Quote: "When Intel applied for D1X approval, the company considered its fluoride emissions insignificant and did not include those. It was only when the company applied for the new DEQ permit required by greenhouse gas regulations that it requested a 6.4-tons-per-year fluoride emission limit. " 6.4-tons-per-year!!!
Oregon warns home gardeners, Portland leaders lash out at state pollution response. Quote: "Regulators have known for years that Portland has high levels of the heavy metal cadmium in the air, but didn't know until 2015 what the likely sources were." Another quote: "The department's own air monitoring found arsenic levels were 159 times higher than the state's safety goal in Southeast Portland and cadmium levels were 49 times higher."
Portland pollution: How does it affect you? Quote: "Tests detected cadmium and arsenic near Bullseye Glass in Southeast Portland and Uroboros Glass in North Portland. Superheating the metals, which are used to add color to glass, can send small particles up smokestacks and into surrounding air." The next paragraph: "The state also found that another carcinogen, hexavalent chromium, was used by the two plants."
Portland, Oregon is no longer a livable city in other ways. Portland city management is allowing the construction of large buildings with no parking! One story: New Portland apartment buildings with no parking have neighbors worried about congested streets.
Clearly the worldwide sexual health related issues were his favourite subject while working for Microsoft.
Without more than your unsupported assertion, why would any sensible person accept these charges as facts?
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Men being used as sex slaves to fuck women who want to pay. I think it would become a sport. Televised. Which "cock" gets the most? Tune in Tuesday at 9.
I'd be one of the first contestants.
And of course, the spying captcha thing is "erected".
Women found breaking the law said it so it must be true...What would you do if an "organized crime boss" demanded something from you? This isn't Juarez, America has the rule of law
Despite having the "rule of law", organized crime still exists in the US and manages to blackmail, bully, and coerce people into doing all kinds of things. But again if you read the article, you'll find that these are Asian crime bosses and presumably the prostitutes are brought here from Asia. Not hard to imagine that crossing their pimps could lead to severe consequences for the prostitutes themselves or for their family back home.
I'm sure one reason they don't go to the authorities is one you just implied, - they're just whores, who is going to believe them? I'd bet their pimps drill that one into them.
They're not from here, they don't realize they can go to the police for help.
Obviously this is a publicity grab for law enforcement. Why would you come down hard on the buyers and fail to do the same on the sellers? Funny how drug charges don't work that way at all. They murder the sellers and usually charge the buyers with minor crimes.
Can you find other web sites and articles about people who dislike their city? I'd like to see them.
Both New York City and San Francisco come to mind.... especially SF.
Portland has become unlivable. There are traffic jams all day. The air is poisonous.
Works for Los Angeles!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"The article about fluoride emissions is short on information."
These are the chemicals Intel emits, listed on page 28 of the report linked below: Vinyl acetate, Ethyl benzene, Xylenes (mixed), Sulfuric acid, Nitric acid, Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride, Perchloroethylene {Tetrachloroethene}, and Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
The Portland metropolitan area doesn't have good news reporting. The Oregonian newspaper is poorly managed, in my opinion. The only Oregonian reporter for technology issues is Mike Rogoway. He apparently has almost no technical knowledge.
This Oregonian article gives some information: Intel secures air quality permit, two years after fluoride gaffe derailed it. Intel emitting poisonous compounds was not a "gaffe", it was extremely destructive dishonesty.
That article links to an Intel Health Risk Report (PDF file), but I don't see anything showing the amounts of the chemicals emitted.
It seems to me that Intel has handled its business in an extremely destructive and self-destructive manner. Intel's plants should not be allowed to emit poisons.
Apparently there is a continuing intention to avoid rather than resolve the many issues. Intel is by far the biggest employer in the area. Avoiding effective disclosure and avoiding actually fixing the emission problems seems to be helped by government incompetence and possibly government corruption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
For hire.
They told us legalizing marijuana would lead to increased crime, and here it is!
(In observance of Poe's Law, I probably should state explicitly here that I'm making fun of the people who believe this.)
It's easy to distract attention from the main point. Cities can be unhealthy, much more unhealthy than is commonly discussed.
Apparently the air quality in Portland, Oregon is far worse than the city or state governments are willing to investigate. The traffic is now jammed most of the day; 4 years ago, it was jammed during rush hours.
What does "content" mean? I'm guessing that many Chinese Factory workers would say they are "content".
Stop the presses! Rich executives hiring prostitutes? So,about those immigrant prostitutes - assuming Seattle is a 'Sanctuary City' why didn't they go to police and turn in their captors? I thought sanctuary cities would allow illegals protection under the law? Stricter border enforcement makes it harder to import sex slaves - open borders lead to increased human trafficking.
Did you actually read the article or just look at the pictures? The article makes it quite plain that the webmaster (Sigurd Zitars) was arrested..
More about Amazon: Inside Amazon's Warehouse
Quoting: "On June 2, a warehouse employee contacted OSHA to report the heat index hit 102 degrees in the warehouse and 15 workers collapsed. The employee also complained that workers who had to go home due to heat symptoms received disciplinary points."
Another quote: "When the heat index ranges from 100 to 114 degrees, Amazon 'typically' gives hourly breaks of at least five minutes and shifts heavier work to cooler times of the day, Forney said."
"On July 25, a security guard at the Amazon warehouse called OSHA and said the temperature exceeded 110 degrees. The guard reported seeing two pregnant women taken to nurses and that Amazon would not open garage doors to help air circulation."
"One employee said it's now like 'working in a convection oven while blow-drying your hair.' They said they received extra break time when it was hot, but production rates were not reduced.
"Ambulances responded to multiple medical assistance calls at the Amazon warehouse during hot days in May. So Amazon paid Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have ambulances and paramedics stationed at its two adjacent warehouses during five days of excessive heat in June and July."
"Another 15 people were transported from the Amazon warehouse to hospitals for further treatment, according to Cetronia, but none was in critical condition."
Amazon's response seems to me to be sophisticated lying. The response avoided all the issues:
' "The safety and welfare of our employees is our No. 1 priority at Amazon, and as the general manager, I take that responsibility seriously," Mortimer said. "We go to great lengths to ensure a safe work environment, with activities that include free water, snacks, extra fans and cooled air during the summer. I am grateful to work with such a fantastic group of employees from our community, and we partner with them every day to make sure our facility is a great place to work." '
"Works for Los Angeles!"
I'm glad I no longer live in the L.A. area. (Orange County)
Read a little closer. These aren't women who chose to be prostitutes rather than being dental hygienists or auto mechanics. They were coerced or forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses. Debts that may have not have even been their own but of their family members. They were neither safe nor secure and it's doubtful they were allowed to keep much of the money.
So, if a restaurant owner hires temporary foreign workers, forces them to work long hours, takes their passports, makes them rent a room in his boarding house at an exorbitant cost (so their paycheck on the books looks normal); the right thing for law enforcement to do is to charge the people eating at the restaurant??
Just legalise Prostitution like the rest of the enlightened world, then there is no longer exploitation, gang control, blackmail and a whole host of other criminal activity just disappears. Prostitution has been legal here in New Zealand for several years and we have non of those problems, the biggest problem is complaints about brothels being setup in residential areas.
"Go to the police for help." Hilarious!
Legalize it
Will now people writing restaurant reviews be prosecuted for "aiding human trafficking" ?
Moved away from Portland after many years. The traffic there is slow all day, causing the pollution to be much higher. Portland city managers have been allowing developers to build large apartment buildings with NO parking. In many areas it is difficult to find a place to park.
No surprise that one of its top executives has been revealed as such. All Microsoft employees knew exactly what they were getting into when they decided to join Microsoft.
Sounds like something Tom Childers might say.
I have asked this question many times and never really gotten a satisfactory answer:
If a woman's right to abortion is based upon privacy and her right to do with her body as she pleases, what's the argument against a woman that chooses to use her body to have sex for money? I'm not necessarily a supporter of prostitution, but if it were legal, it could be regulated and taxed. Prostitutes might be eligible for health care, and most importantly, it would be harder for pimps to threaten them. My problem with the "no" crowd is that they don't offer much to say "yes" to. For the prostitute who has sex to pay for her drugs, making her drugs illegal means making them more expensive and potentially more out of her reach necessitating more prostitution. For the prostitutes who are paying off their debt to come to America, walling off our country from all but those who come from Western Europe (vwp look it up) will cause desperate people to do desperate things to get here.
Imo, it's a waste of our taxpayer resources to go after men who pay for sex. It is a better use of our resources to address the desperate circumstances in our society that make a life of prostitution seem like a reasonable adaptation.
The war on the sex trade is like the war on drugs - a pointless waste of money. Legalize prostitution.
"Last January a Seattle newspaper reported that one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized.""
cool so just legalize prostitution then?
None of this would be a problem if prostitution was just legalized. There's no need for such puritanical laws to still exist.