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**Ozymandias** · 11-15-20 23:10

Originally Posted by JunkSecond [View Original Post]

I used to be a fully committed Reagan loving Republican indoctrinated into the war on drugs rhetoric through high school. Then I went to college and saw highly functional recreational users of "hard" drugs graduate and go on to successful careers and establish nuclear families. Then I traveled Europe and saw "normal people" mostly college girls engaged in independent commercial sex business. Then I found USASG. Mostly everything I was told or read in the "news" on these topics was a lie.

Make no mistake, junkies, pimps and traffickers exist, and the drug and sex business often run together with drugs and addiction leveraged to control others. However, from what I have seen, that scenario is a small part of the whole. What I don't understand is why 10% of something makes up 90% of the narrative.

The article about the war on sex becoming the next war on drugs with a similar failed outcome in the end is spot on. I just wish that narrative could go mainstream. It will take some serious cash flow to get representatives in power to allow and or support this message.

The war on drugs is very, very far from "ending" or "being won". No matter how the states go, it will remain a Federal crime for a very, very long time.

I got some insight into this last year. A large Asian public-private tobacco company hired my research firm to look into whether they should explore a pivot into cannabis, so we began exploring the potential global marketplace and legal and regulatory environment, sent agents to sit on the ministerial sessions of the UN's drug discussions (a big global effort to get cannabis rescheduled so it can at least be researched for dosage data), talked to UNODC (strongly opposed to cannabis) and the WHO (strongly in favor of cannabis), etc.

What we found was a veritable tangle of treaty arrangements which keep drugs illegal, and a few countries who are kind of the real forces behind criminalizing drugs (the main one being Russia, which is *dead set* against any kind of relaxation of the law.).

Pretty much every "strongman" nation is very opposed to decriminalization, because keeping drug criminalized is one of their main weapons against organized crime. Mexico, for example, fights cannabis decriminalization because they would lose a legal weapon against the cartels.

(Surprisingly, Jamaica is strongly against decriminalization, because they benefit from the financial support of a US-based coalition of churches which considers drugs bad.).

Basically, though, as long as there's organized crime, there will be a resistance to decriminalizing drugs, and this is all codified in a network of treaty agreements between UN members.

And now that pay-for-play is HUMAN TRAFFICKING (tun tun TUN! ) You can bet that a scaffolding of interconnected treaty arrangements is being built, AND that member governments see this as an awesome new tool to fight organized crime, rebel movements, opposition parties, etc.

I would not expect prostitution in the USA to be decriminalized, well. Ever. Not going to happen.

O.

**JunkSecond** · 11-15-20 08:22

Originally Posted by YeOldHornDawg [View Original Post]

Hope you're right, we need the libertarians to be more influential in politics to push us in that direction. I also don't understand how people can't see that decriminalizing an activity will eliminate the violent crime that accompanies it.

Did we still have gang land slayings over bath tub gin once prohibition ended?

I used to be a fully committed Reagan loving Republican indoctrinated into the war on drugs rhetoric through high school. Then I went to college and saw highly functional recreational users of "hard" drugs graduate and go on to successful careers and establish nuclear families. Then I traveled Europe and saw "normal people" mostly college girls engaged in independent commercial sex business. Then I found USASG. Mostly everything I was told or read in the "news" on these topics was a lie.

Make no mistake, junkies, pimps and traffickers exist, and the drug and sex business often run together with drugs and addiction leveraged to control others. However, from what I have seen, that scenario is a small part of the whole. What I don't understand is why 10% of something makes up 90% of the narrative.

The article about the war on sex becoming the next war on drugs with a similar failed outcome in the end is spot on. I just wish that narrative could go mainstream. It will take some serious cash flow to get representatives in power to allow and or support this message.

**Jacky69** · 11-14-20 21:50

Originally Posted by TooHotForYou [View Original Post]

Might be more to this than what we are told. I'm sure the local cops didn't care about this but had to participate when this became a federal issue. Why is the government involved with this? Who is wanted by them that the lady arrested is refusing to give up if we are to speculate?

Gross dog I think.

**YeOldHornDawg** · 11-14-20 13:09

Originally Posted by MrHobbyist [View Original Post]

Just sayin. It took a while, but drugs won the war on drugs, sex will win the war on sex.

Hope you're right, we need the libertarians to be more influential in politics to push us in that direction. I also don't understand how people can't see that decriminalizing an activity will eliminate the violent crime that accompanies it.

Did we still have gang land slayings over bath tub gin once prohibition ended?

**MrHobbyist** · 11-14-20 12:42

Originally Posted by PeterJohnson [View Original Post]

https://reason.com/2015/09/30/the-wa...rafficking-is/

Just sayin. It took a while, but drugs won the war on drugs, sex will win the war on sex.

**EricKnight** · 10-30-20 07:33

Originally Posted by Ozymandias [View Original Post]

It's amazing what you can do just by controlling the language.

Check out the following two sentences:

"I think prostitution should be legalized. ".

"I think human trafficking should be legalized. ".

That word switch, prostitution / human trafficking, sure makes a difference in the conversation!

It doesn't even have anything to do with borders anymore; once a fee is paid to insert a penis into a mouth, vagina, or anus, it's "human trafficking".

What was it called in Orwell's "1984"? The Ministry of Truth?

O.

Its just a play on words to make something sound more scary. Being the fact that prostitution is is world's oldest profession. Kinda makes is seem like a legit job. But when you say Human Trafficking now that sounds all dirty.

**Ozymandias** · 10-22-20 11:22

Originally Posted by SkyWookie [View Original Post]

The term "human trafficking" is the new catch phrase that law enforcement likes to use. They are probably more interested in finding out who is bringing the girls into the USA To work. I'm sure it's happening in cities all over the country. I mean websites taken down (craigslist, backpage) epstein taken down, yeah they don't care about this one girl, they are just using her to move up the chain.

It's amazing what you can do just by controlling the language.

Check out the following two sentences:

"I think prostitution should be legalized. ".

"I think human trafficking should be legalized. ".

That word switch, prostitution / human trafficking, sure makes a difference in the conversation!

It doesn't even have anything to do with borders anymore; once a fee is paid to insert a penis into a mouth, vagina, or anus, it's "human trafficking".

What was it called in Orwell's "1984"? The Ministry of Truth?

O.

**SkyWookie** · 10-22-20 08:58

Originally Posted by TooHotForYou [View Original Post]

Might be more to this than what we are told. I'm sure the local cops didn't care about this but had to participate when this became a federal issue. Why is the government involved with this? Who is wanted by them that the lady arrested is refusing to give up if we are to speculate?

The term "human trafficking" is the new catch phrase that law enforcement likes to use. They are probably more interested in finding out who is bringing the girls into the USA To work. I'm sure it's happening in cities all over the country. I mean websites taken down (craigslist, backpage) epstein taken down, yeah they don't care about this one girl, they are just using her to move up the chain.

**TooHotForYou** · 10-21-20 23:16

Originally Posted by TheWiseacre [View Original Post]

https://thecitizen.com/2020/10/11/ma...tution-arrest/

A Peachtree City woman has been charged with prostitution and masturbation for hire stemming from incidents at a massage business in the Peachtree Crossing Shopping Center on Ga. Highway 54.

Zhang, 32, was charged with one count of prostitution and two counts of masturbation for hire, both misdemeanors, according to Fayette County Jail records.

Peachtree City Police Department spokesman Brad Williams said a trained undercover officer from another jurisdiction entered the Peach Massage store on Sept. 30, and during the massage had his genitals briefly caressed but without any solicitation made by Zhang.

The undercover officer returned to the store on Oct. 6, again having his genitals briefly caressed during the massage, along with receiving a solicitation, Williams said.

Police obtained search warrants and Zhang was subsequently arrested, Williams noted, adding that the prostitution charge stemmed from the solicitation.

Police, in conjunction with federal Homeland Security, began the investigation of the business in February, but had put it on hold in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

As for the status of the investigation, Williams said it is ongoing.

Imagine your police department having time to actually carry out something like this. Imagine the feds getting involved or even having resources devoted to it.

Might be more to this than what we are told. I'm sure the local cops didn't care about this but had to participate when this became a federal issue. Why is the government involved with this? Who is wanted by them that the lady arrested is refusing to give up if we are to speculate?

**The Wiseacre** · 10-21-20 16:55

https://thecitizen.com/2020/10/11/ma...tution-arrest/

A Peachtree City woman has been charged with prostitution and masturbation for hire stemming from incidents at a massage business in the Peachtree Crossing Shopping Center on Ga. Highway 54.

Zhang, 32, was charged with one count of prostitution and two counts of masturbation for hire, both misdemeanors, according to Fayette County Jail records.

Peachtree City Police Department spokesman Brad Williams said a trained undercover officer from another jurisdiction entered the Peach Massage store on Sept. 30, and during the massage had his genitals briefly caressed but without any solicitation made by Zhang.

The undercover officer returned to the store on Oct. 6, again having his genitals briefly caressed during the massage, along with receiving a solicitation, Williams said.

Police obtained search warrants and Zhang was subsequently arrested, Williams noted, adding that the prostitution charge stemmed from the solicitation.

Police, in conjunction with federal Homeland Security, began the investigation of the business in February, but had put it on hold in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

As for the status of the investigation, Williams said it is ongoing.

Imagine your police department having time to actually carry out something like this. Imagine the feds getting involved or even having resources devoted to it.