“Unfortunately, Kamala Harris is just one of many, many politicians to conflate adult, consensual prostitution with horrific, violent, gender-based violence,” said Kaytlin Bailey, host of “The Oldest Profession Podcast” and founder of Old Pros, which advocates for the decriminalization of sex work.
Some advocates on the left see Harris’ approach to Backpage — and to sex work more broadly — as overly punitive. Before the site was shuttered, they say, it primarily served as a place where sex workers safely connected with — and vetted — adult clients for consensual services. They say that Backpage cooperated with authorities to identify sex trafficking and that, by driving the market for consensual sex-related services to more obscure corners of the internet (or back into the streets), the shutdown of the site hampered efforts to investigate underage or coerced prostitution.
I'm sure some people don't want to see this, as right now Kamala is the darling of the left. However, she is not my darling, never has been, nor ever will be. Beyond this, which was just a virtue signaling effort at getting publicity for politicians, she also spent some of her career locking up people for smoking weed, often young black males who are usually targeted and prosecuted more stringently than others. Prosecutors have some discretion on which types of cases they go after, they set the tone and the agenda of the office they represent. All of them go after rapists, serial killers and pedophiles, for good reason. But then some go more for white collar criminals, which is difficult as those people tend to be campaign donors, and some tend to go after whatever will grab headlines...which is what Kamala did.
This case stretched out over about 7 years, cost taxpayers millions and millions and millions of dollars, and for what? The main convictions were for...money laundering, which is what pretty much all politicians, churches, Wall Street, bankers, Big Pharma, Trump, and corporate America does. It's not good, but all the rest of them get a free pass on it, but anything sex related and...OH MY GOD!!! Prosecute, go after them, spend half a billion dollars, it might take pushing 10 years, but get those headlines right? Fucking jackasses.
Sex trafficking is horrible.
What is the main source of human trafficking? Mass displacement, conflict, extreme poverty, lack of access to education and job opportunities, violence and harmful social norms like child marriage are all factors that push individuals into situations of trafficking.
And yes, no doubt there is some promotion of it online. But if you want to end that, you'd have to close down all websites, the entire Internet, end immigration, international travel, tourism and have "monitors" in every home, school, church, bar and business on the planet to try to catch those that are involved in it. That has nothing to do with people, mostly women, advertising sex services on some website wherein they are doing it consensually, exchanging money for a service, and there is no victim.
Does that mean you, I, or anyone should vote for Trump? Fuck no! But those that think Kamala is some wonderful woman fighting for women's rights, freedom, truth, justice and the American way (and all that jingoistic garbage) might want to think again. She's just another opportunistic politician, promoting herself and her career, and not much else. I am for small government, meaning protect the borders from war mongering invaders, protect the environment, safeguard the food we eat and the meds we take, provide the services we pay for (roads, schools, etc) and then...stay out of my life. Stay out of my library, stay out of my computer and stay the fuck out of my bedroom.
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In other political news...
She's got my vote!
(Joking of course.)
A staffer injured himself so badly giving oral sex to a state senator that he ended up in a wheelchair, a lawsuit claims. Chad Condit claims that California state Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil had to push his wheelchair around a casino after he gave her oral sex in a cramped car seat. She continued to make sexual comments as she pushed him around the casino, he claims. Condit has since recovered the use of his legs and is suing Alvarado-Gil for sexual harassment, retaliation and violation of California labor law.
