So I came upon this item:
http://archive.is/NNTn9
Summarization: A vehement denunciation of Proposition K, a bill that SF was asked to vote on in 2008. The measure that was written by the Erotic Service Providers Union that essentially would: Direct "San Francisco Police Department and the District Attorney’s office to refuse to enforce the State of California’s prostitution laws. These sections include the laws used to investigate and prosecute traffickers and those involved in exploiting children. Non-enforcement of these laws would put all of us at risk, and send an invitation out to pimps, traffickers, and johns." In other words, it would have been open season on women and children. The pimps and traffickers would have won the day.
This legislation has an interesting history. It started in 1994, when the "San Francisco Board of Supervisors established a Task Force on Prostitution, which recommended in a 1996 report that the City decriminalize prostitution." Here's the link for for this fact.
http://archive.is/QsT49
It was this report that was responsible for removing massage parlors from being under police control and putting them under the jurisdiction of Public Health. Yeah, that's why there are so many and why the police don't do anything about them. I'm thrilled about that--not.
Re: Proposition K, there was an outcry as proven by the ton of blogs and articles urging the measure to be defeated. The whole notion of "erotic workers" wanting this is ridiculous. If someone really were a victim of human trafficking, does one suppose the pimps, traffickers, and handlers really sat down and asked the women, children, and boys they were raping what they wanted? Yeah, I think not. The thing that really confused me was who was pushing this proposition? I kept reading article after article that there was some kind of "war" going on in the democratic ranks. They kept referring to this "other" democratic party that supported it since the mayor did not. I plowed through the press coverage and was unable to locate what nutcase thought this would be a good idea. So I kept going until I hit pay dirt.
http://archive.is/6fi3b
This article begins by saying: "In 2006 the Council of Europe reported worldwide sex trafficking had reached “‘epidemic proportions’ over the past decade,” according to the Associated Press." It goes onto say: "It is widely acknowledged that legalized prostitution exacerbates the problem." I keep reading on and there it is!!!
The Family Research Council reported yesterday:
Believe it or not, one of the few groups to endorse Proposition K (apart from the Erotic Service Providers Union) is the San Francisco Democratic Party – of which Nancy Pelosi is a member…
It's really frightening. This has been going on a long time and is an insidious, festering cancer. With help from the think tanks, they'll weaken and eventually come up with some half-witted excuse that will delude the masses into letting human traffickers have their way with no interference from the law. Now that our eyes our wide open, keep digging and get these vipers out of office. I hope Nancy Pelosi stays on our radar since she definitely reveals herself to be an active, viable member of this cabal.
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contrarianism ago
Here's an article from the sfgate on the topic.
ReadThatAlready ago
Great find; a good summation of the issue. Supporters of decriminalization include "Harvey Milk Democratic Club, La Raza Centro Legal." Pelosi has talked about Milk emotionally and Feinstein was there when it happened and of course Pelosi loves La Raza. Notice the article says passage would deny funds which are used to catalogue the RACES involved in trafficking. In other words it's mostly a Mexican, Asian, or Black problem and they don't want people to know this. That would be something La Raza would want to keep under wraps for sure. I was looking at the Milk incident and I found this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone%E2%80%93Milk_assassinations http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/pelosi-wells-up-while-recalling-political-murders/?_r=0 I noticed Jim Jones and "people's temple" happened around the same time and they are mentioned in wikileaks. Looks like some cables from the incident. A few messages going back and forth about survivors from the people's temple. I wonder if there is anything about Harvey Milk in wikileaks. Might be worth looking into. I know Jim Jones was a communist bi-sexual inter-racial sexual advocate that was a democrat fund raiser and community organizer for the party. I saw a PBS special about it that was very good. From Wiki "On November 18, news broke of the mass deaths of members of Peoples Temple in Jonestown. Prior to the group's move to Guyana, Peoples Temple had been based in San Francisco, so most of the dead were recent Bay Area residents, including Leo Ryan, the United States Congressman who was murdered in the incident. The city was plunged into mourning, and the issue of White's vacant Board of Supervisors seat was pushed aside for several days." It was a hard time for the city I guess.
contrarianism ago
Jim Jones was a front man for the CIA to run mind control experiments on large groups of people. It's also been said that many were killed outright, not suicided, fwiw.