WIP: Pizzagate map, a huge collaborative post (pizzagatejournalism)

submitted ago by anonOpenPress

This is a bit different sticky post you might be used to, so follow up closely before replying here. The idea here is to map pizzagate via the best possible articles. We work using replies only. Comments are already divided into categories, each carrying one aspect from child trafficking to child rapes, from parent selling their child to international money transfers, from a single child forced to advertise herself via instagram account to public events, from pedophile busts to legistlation.

There are 25 comments, each posted by a mod. Do not upvote mod comments to keep the categories in order. Instead, see the replies posted by all of us - and post your own stuff as a reply. This post is almost impossible to SHILL, which makes it especially great.

Comment categories for news mentioning CORRUPTION which might INDICATE TRAFFICKING

  • C1 Bribery (officials, either cash, goods or other benefits mentioned in the news)
  • C2 Political/Juridicial/Governmental corruption
  • C3 Educational/Labor/Religion corruption
  • C4 Large scale systematic corruption

Comment categories for news mentioning the CHILDREN

  • T1 Place of Origin (from where the children are going missing and are suspected to be victims of trafficking)
  • T2 Origin harbour (orpheanages, hotels, accomodation, businesses suspected on keeping the children hidden)
  • T3 Origin logistics (routes, truckers, army, criminal organizations etc. suspected on moving the children)
  • T4 Origin officials (documents, officers, embassy staff, intelligence staff, guards, police, local court etc.)
  • T5 Origin ports (harbours, airports, borders, army bases etc. where the childen are before leaving the country)
  • T6 International logistics (shipping and aviation, including private and army transports suspected in involvement)
  • T7 International organizations (any, related to child trafficking. From small players to deep state)
  • T8 Destination ports (harbours, airports, borders, army bases etc. places where the children are suspected to arrive)
  • T9 Destination officials (see above)
  • T10 Destination logistics (see above)
  • T11 Destination storage (see above)
  • T12 Destination (the final location where the child is kept as abused or sold to be abused)

Comment categories for news related to MONEY other than corruption

  • M1 Seller (any cash related news on any individuals or entities suspected on cashing on trafficking victims
  • M2 Laundering (pizzerias (!) and any other businesses handling remarkable amounts of cash)
  • M3 International transfers (organizations, banks, governments and persons suspected on money transfers)
  • M4 Other money (if your finding doesn't fit into any above categore, but is still relevalt info related on cash, this is the place)

Comment categories related to ADVERTISING CHILD SEX (not solely adult prostitution)

  • A1 Social media advertising (instagram, twitter etc. accounts suspected on advertising trafficking victims or related events)
  • A2 Business advertising (any site of any business suspected on advertising trafficking victims)
  • A3 News advertising (newspapers, also local news, suspected on having advertisement on trafficking victims)
  • A4 Other advertisement (flyers, cards, memes etc. for example sick metal band in a pizzeria -stuff)

Comment categories following the GOOD NEWS, LIMITING TRAFFICKING

  • G1 Bust (news related on catching criminals related to trafficking)
  • G2 Plea deal (news related to admitting guilt, not jailed)
  • G3 Convicted (news related to getting the criminals in jail. Sentences)
  • G4 Legistlation (news related on making the world a better place, reducing trafficking)

Other stuff

  • OTHER STUFF is handled in one separate comment thread, similar to a comment thread in any other post on Voat. A thread to discuss for example if there's a new meaningful category missing. Anything related to this main post.

The COLLABORATION - WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO HERE?

  • You are supposed to find news. Reliable news. Well sourced news. The publisher may be biased, alternative, anything - as long as there's a fact, claim or opinion and it's well sourced in the news.
  • Post your link as a reply under all the categories it fits in. A news article mentioning several issues can be linked under several categories, as long as that category is well sourced. Read it through before linking, check what information is really there. Ask for help via posting your link as a discussion, if you're unsure if it fits in here.
  • If unsure, read the last topic below.

VOTING RULES (regarding this sticky post only, needed to block the shills and to keep things in order. Sorry for this special ruling.)

  • DO NOT VOTE ANY OF THE MOD COMMENTS. This is to keep the categories in order. If you see a vote on any of my comments, please give it the opposite vote to reach zero in total.
  • VOTE OTHER PEOPLE'S REPLIES LIKE YOU WISH. If you think the link was good and posted in a right category, give the poster your support. If you find unsourced stuff, bad links not helping us to investigate, vote them down.
  • VOTE DOWN ANY COMMENTS ABOVE THE CATEGORIES. Mistakes happen and someone might post a comment, not a reply. Shills might try that too. Sorry, no chance. Both good and bad comments are to be forced down below the categories. But don't overreact - a bit below zero is just enough.

REPLY GUIDELINE

  • A good reply includes the date of the event, the most important fact/claim/opinion and the link to the original article.
  • Feel free to add anything else, like what else was in the article, but please keep it short.

UNSURE?

  • Post the article you found as a new discussion into this subverse to ask others if it might fit under this sticky post. Discussions are used for fact-checking and for talks about the reliability of the source. From there, we aim to gather all the most important links under here. This is our main investigation post, and we're happy to help you in your discussions to find out if the article qualifiesunder here.
  • Very rarely, another Voat post fits in here as a link. However, we want to support good citizen journalism, so it's not an automatic block. Always post those first as a discussion and wait for some comments - it might end up here as a valuable add to our investigations. There are great individual investigators for example on /v/pizzagate whose best posts might fit as links under our categories. Feel free to suggest your best post to begin with. Start a new discussion
  • As a new discussion, you can also suggest any other media source. Some of them might be worth adding below, but it's important to find out first
  • VIDEO LINKS and IMAGES must be posted as discussions, including the most important facts/claims/opinions in the post content. Then, these discussions might qualify o be linked here.
  • Ask anything related, starting a new discussion

anonOpenPress ago

C1 Bribery

anonOpenPress ago

C2 Political/Juridicial/Governmental corruption

anonOpenPress ago

C3 Educational/Labor/Religion corruption

anonOpenPress ago

C4 Large scale systematic corruption

anonOpenPress ago

T1 Place of Origin

anonOpenPress ago

2017-03-29 Study on March 2017 claims that in trafficking, U.S.-born adults and children are most likely to be victims of sexual exploitation. Article by Reuters http://news.trust.org/item/20170329164650-240ft/ The original study, 80 page pdf https://polarisproject.org/sites/default/files/Polaris-Typology-of-Modern-Slavery.pdf Discussion /v/pizzagatejournalism/1807547

VieBleu ago

According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine

For the Mexican girls abducted by Los Lenones, the process of breaking them in often begins on Calle Santo Tomas, a filthy narrow street in La Merced, a dangerous and raucous ghetto in Mexico City. Santo Tomas has been a place for low-end prostitution since before Spain's conquest of Mexico in the 16th century. But beginning in the early 90's, it became an important training ground for under-age girls and young women on their way into sexual bondage in the United States. When I first visited Santo Tomas, in late September, I found 150 young women walking a slow-motion parabola among 300 or 400 men.

anonOpenPress ago

T2 Origin harbour

VieBleu ago

According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine

Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, America's largest anti-slavery organization, says that the number (of trafficking vicitims) is at least 10,000 a year. John Miller, the State Department's director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, conceded: ''That figure could be low. What we know is that the number is huge.'' Bales estimates that there are 30,000 to 50,000 sex slaves in captivity in the United States at any given time.

anonOpenPress ago

T3 Origin logistics

VieBleu ago

According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine

Most of the girls on Santo Tomas would have sex with 20 to 30 men a day; they would do this seven days a week usually for weeks but sometimes for months before they were ''ready'' for the United States. If they refused, they would be beaten and sometimes killed. They would be told that if they tried to escape, one of their family members, who usually had no idea where they were, would be beaten or killed.

VieBleu ago

According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine

Some of these young women are actually tricked into paying their own travel expenses -- typically around $3,000 -- as a down payment on what they expect to be bright, prosperous futures, only to find themselves kept prisoner in Mexico before being moved to the United States and sold into sexual bondage there.

Origin logistics - extrapolate hundreds of thousand of women and children being moved north from south america as well.

anonOpenPress ago

T4 Origin officials

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T5 Origin ports

anonOpenPress ago

2017-05-06 according to a victim interviewed by New York Post, "Tenancingo [two hours from Mexico City] is the world capital of sex trafficking", "All of the houses are newly built and everyone seems to drive new cars. They have an Easter parade where the pimps march down the main street showing off their prostitutes." source

anonOpenPress ago

T6 International logistics

anonOpenPress ago

2017-05-06 Route from Mexico City to New York, crossing the border in Texas according to a victim interviewed by New York Post, "The coyotes left us stranded for days in Laredo until we could arrange for a van to take us to New York", "Alfredo paid a “coyote” $3,500 per person to get us across in a series of vans", "We arrived in Queens in February 2010" source

VieBleu ago

According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine "The United States has become a major importer of sex slaves. Last year, the C.I.A. estimated that between 18,000 and 20,000 people are trafficked annually into the United States."

anonOpenPress ago

T7 International organizations

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T8 Destination ports

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T9 Destination officials

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T10 Destination logistics

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T11 Destination harbour

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T12 Destination

anonOpenPress ago

between 1998 and 2007, Virginia Tong Leong School of Martial Arts, 696 Lonnie Burke Road, Madison, VA 22727 The alleged criminal activity involved two minor female victims who had contact with Deputy Sheriff Bruce A. Harvey while he worked as a karate instructor. source 1: Press Release Point source 2: Tong Leon locations Important: The School is not charged, only its former instructor Harvey who was arrested much later, on May 2017.

anonOpenPress ago

2017-03-29 March 2017 study caims that sexual exploitation is taking place in hotel rooms and private parties described in the report as escort services. There were also cases of personal sexual servitude where gang members hold someone basically in captivity in their house for purposes of their own sexual pleasure. Article by Reuters http://news.trust.org/item/20170329164650-240ft/ Discussion /v/pizzagatejournalism/1807547

anonOpenPress ago

M1 Seller

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M2 money laundering

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M3 International money transfers

anonOpenPress ago

2017-05-06 On route from Mexico City to New York, crossing the border in Texas, according to a victim interviewed by New York Post: "Alfredo paid a “coyote” $3,500 per person to get us across in a series of vans" source

anonOpenPress ago

M4 other money

VieBleu ago

2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine claims that victims are sold in cyberauctions for at least $300.000 https://archive.is/f8j1R Discussion /v/pizzagatejournalism/1787241

VieBleu ago

According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine

Most of the girls on Santo Tomas would have sex with 20 to 30 men a day; they would do this seven days a week usually for weeks but sometimes for months before they were ''ready'' for the United States...Working at the brutalizing pace of 20 men per day, a girl could earn her captors as much as $2,000 a week. In the U.S., that same girl could bring in perhaps $30,000 per week.

anonOpenPress ago

A1 Social media advertising

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A2 Business advertising

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A3 News advertising

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A4 Other advertisement

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G1 Bust

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2017-05-03 Madison County, VI. Deputy Sheriff Bruce A. Harvey, 40, of Reva, Virginia, has been charged with two counts of transporting minors across state lines with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and two counts of interstate travel with minors with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The alleged criminal conduct occurred between 1998 and 2007. source: Press Release Point

anonOpenPress ago

2017-04-07 LA, Norwalk, escort service "Bombshells". 1 suspect Omar Sanchez MH/37 rape, trafficking, weapons. At least one underaged victim. Police report https://local.nixle.com/alert/5901141/?sub_id=1000000145 Local news 2017-04-12 http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/2017/04/12/man-accused-running-human-trafficking-prostitution-ring-norwalk-escort-service/

anonOpenPress ago

2017-04-06 Pasadena, San Gabriel, motel, child trafficking ring, 3 suspects James Thomas Gordley, 27, Tyrone Douglas Stevenson, 18, and a 17-year-old boy http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20170406/police-bust-alleged-child-trafficking-ring-at-san-gabriel-motel-3-girls-rescued-3-suspects-jailed

anonOpenPress ago

G2 Plea deal

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G3 Convicted

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G4 Legistlation

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OTHER STUFF

VieBleu ago

The real DAMAGE done to these children - is physical, pyschological, spiritual. It is beyond horrifying, but must be faced. According to 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine

All the girls I spoke to said that their captors were both psychologically and physically abusive. Andrea told me that she and the other children she was held with were frequently beaten to keep them off-balance and obedient. Sometimes they were videotaped while being forced to have sex with adults or one another. Often, she said, she was asked to play roles: the therapist's patient or the obedient daughter. Her cell of sex traffickers offered three age ranges of sex partners -- toddler to age 4, 5 to 12 and teens -- as well as what she called a ''damage group.''''In the damage group they can hit you or do anything they wanted,'' she explained. ''Though sex always hurts when you are little, so it's always violent, everything was much more painful once you were placed in the damage group.