The Oldest Crime (Legalizied prostitution has nothing to do with Conservative Politics)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | January 9, 2006 | COLETTE DE TROY and MARY MCPHAIL

[presidio9]

I think you are missing my point entirely:

The web is chock full of desperate lunatics struggling to legitimatize libertarianism BECAUSE sane people don't take you guys seriously.

[logician2u]

Nope... won't be needing those either in our libertarian utopia.

Should the American people all of a sudden develop a fondness for the freedom the nation was founded on, there are a whole slew of jobs that could be in a state of oversupply.

What about truant officers? Game wardens? Tea tasters? I think we still have them, although Ronald Reagan tried to eliminate the Tea Tasting Board.

No, for the sake of a strong economy, if nothing else, we need to keep prostitution illegal and keep our kids in government schools where they can learn to respect the wishes of the majority and to grovel properly.

[presidio9]

Uh, Reagan expanded the DEA significantly. He hated big government, but he was still in touch with reality.

[logician2u]

. . he was still in touch with reality.

Until when, would you say? 1986?

[presidio9]

Now I get it. With libertarians, it's all about the pre-presidential Reagan.

Newsflash: The pre-presidential Reagan was often a jerk.

[MRMEAN]

The web is chock full of desperate lunatics struggling to legitimatize libertarianism BECAUSE sane people don't take you guys seriously.

So...is WFBJr one of your "desperate lunatics"? How old are you? You seem to have not the slightest inkling of intellectual history of the right. If there had been no libertarians, there would not have been anything like the modern conservative movement. Just what do you think are "conservative" principles? The government enforcing your goody-goody notions of morality on everyone else? Neo-con big government corporatism? You are just a vacuumed-craniumed name-caller.

[presidio9]

The libertarians that you speak of did not take things to your extremes. Case-in-point Ronald Reagan's drug war.

[MRMEAN]

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

[grey_whiskers]

And (attractive) women on welfare would be legally forced into prostitution: pimped by the Goverment, so to speak. This is on the verge of happening in Germany, for instance.

Already happened. See here

[grey_whiskers]

who's the victim?

Everyone involved. And the John's spouse.

[Nam Vet]

Pay site. Email me for the rest of this article.

Who needs to read it? Just post all the pertinent pics.

Nam Vet

[presidio9]

So I take it that you think Goldwater was referring specifically to legalized prostitution here?

[Mojave]

Uh, Reagan expanded the DEA significantly.

Into the memory hole with such facts!

[presidio9]

Come on dude, you barged into this thread so you could post your goofy and impertinent Goldwater quote. Which was of course, just to perfect for me to pass up. Please tell us: Do you personally think Barry Goldwater was talking about prostitution when he said that? What do we know about Goldwater and his feelings about prostitution?

[Havoc]

I thought "conservatives" were against "regulation".. rofl.
Wait, maybe that's just the treason lobby that's anti regulation because they don't want business constrained from illegal or immoral activities.. One tends to get confused on these matters..

[Lorianne]

Dutch police target sex worker smuggling

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060116-035305-4556r

Goes to show that legalizing and regulating the sex industry does not stop trafficking, sex slavery and other social ills associated with prostitution.

[presidio9]

Post 134 was meant for you. Still waiting to hear why you picked Goldwater to make a point about prostitution.