Guest Post by John Stossel
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“The National Crimes Against Children Center says, ‘Do not cite this study’!”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.”
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So where is John’s call for a fully legal market? Its fine to bash the criminals in our government for wasting everyone’s time, but stick your neck out a bit John. THAT is what being a libertarian (as he claims to be – but truly isn’t) is all about.
Do people still call themselves Libertarian? I thought that died when it became obvious that, like Communism, it’s an attractive theory but with an unfortunate denial of human nature, and when that obese guy in a diaper danced on stage at their convention. There’s a reason it’s referred to as Lolbertarisnism.
Denial of nature?!? Since government will always have corruption (due to human nature) , which government will be able to screw over more people and sell more power , a bloated red team/blue team gov or a small constitutional one? You are a product of our conditioning system where freedom just means the freedom for someone to fuck you over.
Real Libertarianism just hasn’t been tried!
It’s been tried , but then that pesky 10th amendment had to be taken care of at gunpoint.
unfortunately,neuday is correct–libertarians have turned into a joke–
I’m in a panic because I can’t find where it’s being trafficked!
eharmony
ewhoremoney
Sex traffic… in those places?
I’d rather face a firing squad after a last meal of tire rubber.
And I’d have to fight’em for my last meal… they’d still be chewing on it after catching the last car they chased.
it was sarcasm, sheesh
(Sheeeit, talk’n ’bout hi maintainance? I don’t beats my Ho’s when dey comes home with no jack aftuh woirkin’ the truck stop all nite)
“Dem was good sarcasms, Ho. Really, really good sarcasms.
I laughed, O.K.? A lot… really. Dem was MY upthumbs!”
“Now gitchore fat heifer ass down to da Chik-Feel- Aye and make some niggas happy!”
Pffft. Yeah, dey’s great sarcasms once it was explained to you.
.. an bring me home sum chikin’, heuh?
All pussy is for sale in the US. AmeriKan women marry for money, not for love.
Even if they do marry for love, it soon turns to money.
Dude, they marry for the love of money.
bullshit, once they wise up they marry for money. prior to that they marry for love. marriage is if you have kids, they need both parents, otherwise shack up.
so, get pre nups or think of it as the screwing you get for the screwing you got. chose better women…and…there are 2 sides to every story…
You don’t know women like I know women. Hyenas think other hyenas are nice, they aren’t
choose better women…average women i see is insipid and braindead. you must go out beyond the breakers, staying in the shallows nets shallow specimens of both sexes. is your wife a hyena?
is your wife a hyena?
Ah, shit, the vaunted mygirl blade unsheathed. I guess I asked for it. Peace, mygirl.
and peace be with you as well my brother…
Damn, Dutchman, be my wingman!
Genius.
You just say “… maybe, my love turns into money”, and you can’t shake’r off your leg.
My losses mounted in direct proportion to the vaginas I mounted.
Didn’t lose much, eh?
If I could mount vaggies on my trophy wall, it would have a couple of worthless specimens, not worth showing the fellas. DDung and Wipper might think they’re cool, though.
heh…
No. I’m sure they dripped all over the walls before they dried.
your vaginas were mounted willingly or were drugs involved? What were these vaggies made of? Portnoy availed himself of a pound of liver…
Yes, DDung, we’re all ears..
Beyond K.O.’d, permanently comatose.
Think Dahmer, cept I like ’em rifled first by nematodes.
Then I dig’em up
Think Bundy, Dahmer liked boys. Interesting that you reference genitalia when writing about women, it would appear you only think of women for sex/ objects and not as people. what do you mount with? Your dick. Is that how you see yourself?
It’s your shadow, Mistico, your gold braided General Penetralia, who keeps you thundering at my genitalia. Is he jealous?
I see myself slurping your Venus from a half-shell.
Dahmer like eating. Bundy liked screams.
You?
Bundy had a taste for rare flesh, he’d eat them and add some necrophilia to boot. Where are you going with this? You want to slurp Mistico’s half shell? Do men have half shells? you know, sometimes you are weirder than snail shit. I can appreciate that.
slipperier too
Deys mostly axe’d me to git when dey wuz done be’in eat’n, afore I cood git mount’d
“You can go online and buy a child for sex. It’s as easy as ordering a pizza,” says Amy Schumer.
Interesting turn of phrase.
HSF, I wonder how many picked up on that.
Ok…the numbers in sex trafficking is exaggerated
The busting of prostitutes doesn’t help either
So, this begs the question; How many trafficked kids is too many?
What “Clean” job awaits the hooker? (average hooker)?
I don’t comprehend articles like this.
So, this begs the question; How many trafficked kids is too many?
Just because it’s fashionable does not mean it is right; stop claiming that a situation begs the question, dammit! You’re better than that.
podesta and alefantis beg to differ re child sex slaves. ditto clintons and haiti. pizzagate is not a conspiracy theory. stossel is full of shit. spirit cooking is not benign.
Prompts the question, moron.
who are you calling a moron?
The person who down-thumbed my suggestion that ‘begs the question’ is incorrect usage.
the downvoter is a closet sex trafficker…
It does seem like that. Who else would worry about tripping an alarm.
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So it’s not sex trafficking if they get paid for it? That’s some convoluted logic right there.
this idiotic article attempts to brush away the very real world of sex and human trafficking. Guess Stossel had to ignore the open borders. Guess he didn’t want to discuss the reality of what happens to women and children along the route..rape trees escaped his notice. He seems to have not noticed the massage parlors, lots and lots of those around, many asian women, think they’re all volunteers?
Any human being with an active conscience would stand against the trafficking of children for any purpose. But child sex trafficking? Our legislators should unified, acting urgently against all its sources – as a TRUE humanitarian crisis in this country. Without any constituent (or celebrity) having to poke at them to notice the problem and address its human horrors. But many have participated, and perpetuated these monstrosities in the shadows most rarely notice.
Alabama decided today to consider giving an abortion doctor “life in jail” for ending new life.
Surly child sex traffickers, ruining countess lives, should be stoned to death in a deep pit by old women. Very slowly, like their victims. I’d upthumb that Sharia Law.
I read somewhere that a dead whale feeds many ocean creatures for a long time until there is nothing left at all. Likewise, the USA is in decay and the bottom feeders are cashing in on the final vices, prostitution and drug addiction. Where did the USA go wrong? Who knows, maybe televangelists and the hypocrite speaking in tongues fakers can do some explaining.
They are perfectly willing to come out of the woodwork to confess their hypocrisy. But then, who knows the definition of shame nowadays? TV shows provide a conduit for shameless cretins who proclaim that god is dead to widespread applause from a country that is willing to pay lip-service to virtue while aborting and prostituting its young. We would condemn such a country to all hell if it wasn’t us.
Here we go marching into the maws of Sheol, confident in our salvation while denying the power of god to consign us to eternal damnation for our infamy and perversity. Crimes from A to Z, abortion, extortion, theft, murder, torture, incarceration, humiliation, it’s all written in the book of life where our names, good white names that deserved better, have been obliterated.
The masseuses and money changers go before us. The heroes of the Stonewall Rebellion shall condemn us. No matter, we shall still have immortality; our lives documented forever on Facebook and Twitter. MAGA, baby, Make Americans Glorious Always.
God is dead. there is no moral code. If it feels good, do it. When the moral compass is lost or perverted you witness what we have today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqw_Zo49IPY
Mygirl,
This comment reminds me of a movie. A great movie.
God Is Not Dead.
Reminds me of a discussion in a classroom where the professor harangues a student for his belief in God. “How can you believe in something that you have no proof even exists?” the student thinks about it for a minute then says; “well, I’d rather believe in God and be proved right when I die then not believe and be proved wrong.”
It can’t be all THAT bad. You make it sound like our toughest, meanest, most respected NFL players are pimping 11 year old drag queens on national TV!
Ghastly, isn’t it.:large
“We’re told this happens all the time: it’s bunk…”
Bullshit. Even in my little corner of whitebread Vermont, they’re trafficking Asian sex workers.
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2019/02/26/patriots-owners-bust-calls-to-mind-vermonts-asian-sex-trafficking
“I’d think cops would have better things to do with their time.”
“We’re all trafficked by something..”
This Stossel guy is a real creep. He has always sent off extreme Creep vibes. I can easily imagine he buys companionship and probably thinks the other party is getting a bargain.
They throw out that 300K number because they heard it somewhere else. It’s a “nice, round, shocking number.”
No one does any research. The media is a bunch or parrots and I’m gonna include Stossel here, as well. So he is going to file 13 the whole story because he thinks that number is baloney?
I think something else is going on with this case and money, a lot of it, was involved. Or maybe the judge had things to hide that a powerful someone found out about? But I trust no one to tell the truth anymore.
Child trafficking is definitely a problem. Just ask over the road truckers. How about all those kids coming up from the border with men who are not their fathers, or worse, alone.
How many kids are runaways, never to be seen again? Particularly from the foster system which is a problem of it’s own.
300K sounds like a bogus number because we really don’t know what the number is. What ever it is, it is a tragic number.
yup
Girls ’round here say ‘uh huh’ and ‘oooh, that’s right.”
Hell, had to come back and edit because this is the next song in the mix.
Am revisiting a lot of country music because my cousin and I are working on a piece for Flat Stucky’s arrival at the Vietnam Wall later this summer. We haven’t “performed” anywhere outside church or family reunions n years, but we think we got one more good one in us.
For the “forgotten” soldiers. Unknown soldiers, my ass. They are forgotten.
I ordered the music for this one. I can’t play along with a guitar chord, I was classically trained as a pianist so I have to have music. It is a real impairment.
Glad you are here on top of things MC.
300 thousand is a bit like six million.
Ha, I was thinking that but I wasn’t gonna go there. I was hoping someone else would pick that up.
O, MG – it’s so Hitlerian.