In reading the Honest Courtesan some new information has come up on Prop 35 in CA.
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A former Facebook executive wants to outdo Google by linking an anti-whore campaign to an expansion of the number of people condemned to “sex offender” registration: “Facebook’s former chief privacy officer is bankrolling an anti-human trafficking ballot measure that…would toughen penalties for sex trafficking and add those convicted of the crime to the state’s sex offender registry. Most significantly, it also would require all registered offenders to surrender their “Internet identifiers” to law enforcement, including user names and email accounts…Chris Kelly…has contributed $1.6 million to the initiative since December…” The campaign is based largely on lies such as “Every girl sold on the street today is also being sold on the Internet”, a triple-whopper which 1) equates performing a service with chattel slavery; 2) uses passive voice to imply girls do not choose prostitution when in fact over 86% do; and 3) bizarrely defines 25% as “every”.
Read here Link to Honest Courtesan's article
- Sensia
- 09-12-2012, 11:02 AM
- Guest050715-1
- 09-12-2012, 11:12 AM
One of the overwhelming themes of the early 21st century is anti-female rhetoric, ideals and policy. Sex and reproductive health and rights are just the form it's cloaked in.
- JD Barleycorn
- 09-12-2012, 05:31 PM
Look up Senator Harry Reid's comments on prostitution.