She forgot to check her package at the door.
Posted on 03/31/2006 6:03:17 PM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A proposed law to curb prostitution in the U.S. capital has some homosexual activists worried that the profiling would unfairly target transgendered people.
A coalition of 22 homosexual rights groups has signed a letter of protest against the proposed Omnibus Public Safety Act of 2005, which would allow police to establish “Prostitution Free Zones” in public areas. The group warns it “will increase harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens.”
Program coordinator Darby Hickey, from the homosexual rights group Different Avenues, complained that the program would unfairly target transgendered people. “There’s widespread profiling of transgender women as sex workers,” Hickey, who is transgendered, said, as reported by the Washington Blade. “These measures … have a huge potential for violating people’s rights.”
Hickey’s co-worker, Different Avenues drop-in center coordinator Erika Smith, argued that the law is a way for police to get rid of transgender people. “I think that’s what it’s really, really, really coming down to,” she stated. “I think they are trying to get rid of the transgender community.”
The Omnibus Public Safety Act, introduced last April, besides curbing illegal prostitution, seeks to criminalize gang recruitment and reduce gun violence. A police officer who believes someone within a marked zone is there “for the purpose of engaging in prostitution,” can arrest the individual.
Ugh!!!
"....which would allow police to establish “Prostitution Free Zones” in public areas. The group warns it “will increase harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens.”
Yep, I guess they will be bothered by the Barney Frank types looking for the Free Prostitutes ....
One can only hope.
They are NOT women. They are mutilated males artificially pumped full of female hormones.
I believe so. I don't know when though. MA elected him repeatedly, also Ted Kennedy, who killed a woman in a drunk driving incident.
They'r just going to enforce laws against prostitution-can't tell what they are until you frisk 'em;)
Has Barney Franke spoke about this issue yet?
Wierd. Just plain wierd.
Can anyone tell me how another persons act of prostitution has damaged their own personal lives lately? Unlike smoking,or alcohol abuse, the act of prostitution is usually far more damaging to the person who engages in it.?
Why aint the po-leece out nabbing true felons and catching up with criminal types?
She forgot to check her package at the door.
disgusting...
Upon reading the article, it seems that "Prostitution-Free Zone" is a misnomer. It really seems they are talking about instituting "Presumption of Guilt" zones, where citizens can be arrested without actively committing a crime. When you consider that, well.....I guess most FReepers won't.
"Upon reading the article, it seems that "Prostitution-Free Zone" is a misnomer. It really seems they are talking about instituting "Presumption of Guilt" zones, where citizens can be arrested without actively committing a crime. When you consider that, well.....I guess most FReepers won't."
Agree 100%
I find TG persons to be disgusting.
The new "law" is much worse.
Barney Frank declared, "This will force prostitution rings to work out of basements"!
"... which would allow police to establish “Prostitution Free Zones” in public areas. The group warns it “will increase harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens.”
Taking a page out the Texas playbook of arresting people for public intoxication in bars and applying it to "alledged" prositutes in public places.
Not a societal advancement.
So what's the downside here?
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