Posted on 05/15/2019 3:38:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
When police charged New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with soliciting prostitution, the press said the police rescued sex slaves.
"They were women who were from China, who were forced into sex slavery," said Trevor Noah on "The Daily Show."
We're told this happens all the time.
"Human trafficking is the fastest growing illegal business in the United States," says fashion model Kathy Ireland.
It's bunk, says reporter Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
In the Robert Kraft case, she points out, "They had all these big announcements at first saying they had busted up an international sex trafficking ring, implying these women weren't allowed to leave."
But now prosecutors acknowledge that there was no trafficking. The women were willing sex workers.
The police and the media got it wrong. That's typical. "Ninety-nine percent of the headlines are not true," says Brown in my latest video. "Sex trafficking and prostitution are sort of used interchangeably."
What about the headlines that say police are "rescuing victims"?
"By rescue they (mean) put them in jail and give them a criminal record," says Brown. "The victims are the sex workers ... getting harassed and locked up in cages by the cops."
Politicians tell us that thousands of children are forced into the sex trade.
"Three-hundred thousand American children are at risk!" said Rep. Ann Wagner on the floor of Congress.
That 300,000 number comes from just one study, and that study's lead author, Richard Estes, has disavowed it.
"The National Crimes Against Children Center says, 'Do not cite this study'!" says Brown. It's "total bull."
Widely quoted bull.
On TV, former prosecutor Wendy Murphy shouts, "Three-hundred thousand kids a year are raped, sex trafficked and pimped in this country!"
"If that was the case, cops would be able to find this all the time," responds Brown. "Cops wouldn't have to go through these elaborate stings."
Florida police spent months taking down the spa Robert Kraft visited.
"They had Homeland Security involved," recounts Brown. "They were following these women around in the grocery stores, watching them buy condoms."
I'd think cops would have better things to do with their time.
"If this was really a situation where these women were being forced and sexually assaulted multiple times a day, the cops just let it happen for months on end?" asks Brown.
She covered a case in Seattle where the local sheriff, at a news conference, said he'd rescued sex slaves.
But when Brown spoke to the sheriff later, "he ended up saying, 'Well, you know, maybe they weren't being forced by whatever, but we're all trafficked by something and there was money involved.' Then by the end of the investigation they were like, 'Well, I mean, they were pressured because they didn't know a lot of people and they wanted to make money'."
One former sex worker says the moral panic over prostitution is a "combination of the conservative fetish for going after people for doing 'sex stuff' and the liberal instinct to help a group of people that they can't be bothered to understand."
That includes the celebrities who perpetuate the myth that sex slavery is rampant.
"You can go online and buy a child for sex. It's as easy as ordering a pizza," says Amy Schumer.
"Thousands of children are raped every day!" says comedian Seth Meyers.
Actor Ashton Kutcher even promotes an app that he claims rescues victims. He told Congress, "We have identified over 6,000 trafficking victims this year."
Really? Where are they? Kutcher's representatives did not respond to our repeated emails.
"If Ashton Kutcher is finding all those victims, he's not turning them over to police," said Brown.
Sex slavery is evil. Authorities should do everything they can to stop it. But there is a big difference between slavery and sex work done by consenting adults.
"When we have these exaggerated numbers," says Brown, "it forces people into this crazy emergency moral panic mode that ends up not helping the actual problem that we have."
Periodic crackdowns on prostitution don't help either.
"They want this imaginary world where you take away a safer option for these women," says Brown, and then "the oldest profession, as they call it, will magically stop. But that's not going to happen."
If it turns out to just be a myth, that would be a good thing.
But I still tend to think that the Globalists use sex slaves as both a reward and as blackmail so that they can bend elitists to their will. I think the Clintons are deep into it. But perhaps it’s all an illusion and this stuff doesn’t exist.
Note that celebutards sidestep a very real source of child sex trafficking—keeping children and adult illegals together at the border.
A substantial number of children who are dragged across the Sonoran desert are not related to the adults who are doing the dragging. Those poor kids were bought and paid for to help get the adult illegals into the US.
Keeping them with the adults in custody assures them of sexual abuse in many cases.
Release them into the custody of the adults who brought them, and they absolutely will be trafficked. They are sold into domestic servitude or sex slavery.
Study the Flores case that was ultimately settled by *Janet Reno*.
One of the few things Jeff Sessions said that made sense was that these people should be DNA tested.
I started researching this topic a couple of years ago, after running across an article from a prostitution “abolitionist”. I found the same thing to be true, sex trafficking is vastly inflated. This is done by law enforcement and NGO’s primarily to raise money.
The vast majority of sex workers(males make up about 10% of sex workers) are there voluntarily. Primarily because the money is very good. One article I read was a study of escorts in San Francisco that showed they made an average of $120,000 a year working an average of 25 hours a week.
So when you read about police busting “sex traffickers” it’s usually consenting adults.
What Fueled the Child Sex Abuse Scandal That Never Was?
A wave of scandals about brutal child sex abuse in the 1980s caused widespread panic. But many of the stories, pursued with zeal through the courts, were false and extremely destructive.
By Lizzie Crocker
August 3, 2015...McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach alerted police that their children had confessed to being fondled, sodomized, and forced to participate in pornographic films.
There were reports that McMartin teachers slaughtered animals and babies in front of the children before abusing them.
Five McMartin teachers were ultimately arrested and charged, along with the school’s administrator, Peggy McMartin Buckey, and its 76-year-old founder, Virginia McMartin, with what detectives and child therapists determined was ritualistic satanic abuse.
The school shut down for good in January 1984. But no evidence—no pornography, no semen, no corpses—was ever recovered.
The McMartin case was symptomatic of a nationwide panic about an “epidemic” of child sexual abuse at day-care centers in the ’80s, with other high-profile cases in Minnesota, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Texas all fomenting media hype, legislative changes, and mass hysteria.
It would be a decade before the panic that led to more than 80 convictions proved to be largely unfounded.
The Feminist HATE the idea of legal prostitution. It diminishes their power.
That should tell you something...?
i thought that the whole mcMartin scandal started from 1 disturbed lady who was miffed they would not allow her to use their facility as a “drop off” for her kiddo. That was a wild story!
Yes, sex slavery is overblown in order for gov’t to accumulate more power.
The same was true for the war on drugs which accomplished nothing, but wasted trillions in taxpayer dollars.
What do we have to show for our war on drugs today?
70,000 deaths from opioids.
But even that is being used to accumulate power. Pharmaceutical companies are not to blame. Less than 2% of all opioid deaths come from prescription opioids.
Interesting article...
Its a magical phrase that causes people to shut their brains off and give sympathy... and money.
It's for the CHILDREN!!!
"They had Homeland Security involved," recounts Brown. "They were following these women around in the grocery stores, watching them buy condoms."
I'd think cops would have better things to do with their time.
Police actually committed a felony to install the covert cameras. They phoned in a fake bomb scare to get the occupants to vacate the building so they could install cameras. The police committed a felony in order to catch Robert Kraft on a misdemeanor. These are East German Stasi tactics.
What about the customers who were there only for a massage? They were photographed naked and now their videos are being leaked to the press? Their lives are destroyed!
If the police thought the women were being traficked, why did they allow the massage parlor to operate for 8 months without freeing the sex slaves? Is it because voyeur perverts back in the police department viewing lounge were enjoying the sex videos? Is it ok to secretly video record naked people now, if the ends justify the means?
This, in a nutshell. Somewhere along the line the crime of soliciting prostitution was relabeled "engaging in human trafficking", probably in effort to inflame public opinion towards what had previously been regarded as a low-impact vice crime.
A common feature of totalitarian or fascistic regimes, is “the ends justify the means”, or we are doing it to save the xxxxxx.
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