Kohl-Welles, McGinn Crafting Legislation to Force Escort Ad ID Checks

Worked their way that far down the “to-do” list, have they?

Please raise your hand if you think Jeanne Kohl-Welles is smart enough to create a legally defensible definition of an “escort ad” tailored at already-illegal prostitution.

This is certainly a team that knows how too turn ideas into reality.

How much tax money does it take to craft emotionally
appealing but ultimately meaningless legislation?   I
would really like to know.

It isn’t meaningless to McGinn if it rids him of a hostile newspaper. This is payback done in such a way to appeal to our region’s nanny mentality.

Notice how good a job Kohl-Welles did on keeping her MJ legislation from becoming so watered down it was worse than the status quo  /sarcasm

Expect no less from a proposed bill that tries and end-run around the Constitution, For The Children. Ironically, it does nothing substantive For The Children. When are we going to use that wasted enforcement money on shelters for teens? Hmmm?

The target is the newspaper, not the scum placing the ads.

The hostile newspaper he needs to get rid of is not the Weekly. That rag is self-destructing.

If you close this, there will still be others like http://www.classivox.com

While the village voice is making millions on this crime, they are not alone. This has been an issue for over 10 years with internet marketing of the exploitation of children.In fact, in 1996 the US Government introduced a law that would have protected children from these types of crimes. Bt the time it passed through both the house of representatives and congress, the law no longer provided protection to the children. Instead it provided civil and criminal immunity to the online companies that engage in this crime. Since 1996 companies are not held liable for their involvement in crimes like prostitution or sexual exploitation of women and children.Asking or demanding backpage.com remove sex ads from their site will do little or nothing in regards to ending this crime. The village voice or another of the hundreds of companies out there will just begin posting these ads under other names and URLs.The only way to end this crime and expose these criminals is to demand that congress amend the law that granted protection to these companies in the first place.http://goo.gl/6WpaI

Here is a new and radical-for-Seattle-people idea: Leran to mind your own goddamned business.

Stop
indulging your silly and selectively hypocritical outrage at the idea that
women trying to feed, shelter, clothe and care for themselves and their
families are surviving in this cruel economy thanks to the donations of horny
men.

Stop
concerning yourself with whether grown, adult, of-legal-age-to-consent men and
women are voluntarily exchanging sex for money.

Stop
sputtering in rage at the fact that women are being saved from having to cram
themselves and their family members into sleazy, frightening and dangerously
unsafe shelters, thanks to the financial contributions of their customers.

Learn
to get a grip and accept the fact that there are women who are grateful to have
a roof over their head, clothes on their back, food in their stomachs, coffee
and cigarettes and the occasional medical care when they need it — and that
all of this is made possible by the $40-to-$60 contributions they receive in
exchange for 10-20 minutes’ work in performing oral sex.

If
you truly want to crack down on underage prostitution and the sexual abuse of
minors (and we all should want that, and most of us generally do — including
most men who pay for sexual services)…

… then, here is your solution.

Stop
wasting time, energy and taxpayers’ money on chasing, arresting, prosecuting
and criminalizing grown, of-legal-age-to-consent sexual providers and sexual
customers.

Instead, adopt the safe, sensible, enlightened and low-key approaches adopted
in other, more-enlightened countries around the world:

*
Decriminalize the purchase of sexual services by people over the age of 18.

*
Decriminalize the sale of sexual services by people over the age of 18.

*
Set aside a particular area of town (almost certainly one zoned primarily for
commercial or industrial use, not a residential area) to be a dedicated
full-time red-light district.

*
Require women wishing to work “The Zone” to purchase an individual
license good for 3 months at a time.

*
In return for issuing the license, require women to supply proof of legal age
along with fingerprints and DNA samples. The fingerprints and DNA can be
cross-checked against databases containing fingerprints and DNA samples from
convicted criminals (to verify age) and families of missing children (to
determine if women applying for the licenses have ever been reported as missing
or kidnapped).

* Focus on arresting and prosecuting pimps, abusive /
violent customers and sexual predators to the fullest extent of the law.       

*
Use the funds collected from issuance of licenses to fund programs to perform
regular health checks of working girls and/or assist underage sex workers to
exit the sex trade and receive training in life skills, non-sexual employment
and becoming independent and self-sufficient.

Of course, all of this would save time, save money and make sense… meaning, of course, that in Holier-and-Purer-Than-Thou Seattle, it absolutely positively cannot be done.

*
Use the funds collected from issuance of licenses to fund programs to perform
regular health checks of working girls and/or assist underage sex workers to
exit the sex trade and receive training in life skills, non-sexual employment
and becoming independent and self-sufficient.

Of course, all of this would save time, save money and make sense… meaning, of course, that in Holier-and-Purer-Than-Thou Seattle, it absolutely positively cannot be done.

Your solution is too sensible to be implemented. But blaming “Holier-and-Purer-Than-Thou Seattle” is way off base; where in the U.S. does the same puritanical ethical code not hold sway? Well, maybe a few counties in Nevada, but even there legal prostitution is under pressure and shrinking.

Tony Ortega, Village Voice editor, in an effort to protect prostitution ad revenue, belittles anti-child trafficking activists and tries to manipulate statistics on child sex trafficking to create an illusion that this is a minor problem.  See here: http://villagevoicepimp.com/tony-ortega-2/

So-called “child sex trafficking” is indeed a minor problem. It virtually does not exist. The lies of the hysterical “child sex traffickers are everywhere, Backpage must be shut down” LIARS have been exposed and debunked.

NEW RESEARCH DEMOLISHES THE STEREOTYPE OF THE UNDERAGED SEX WORKER — AND SPARKS AN OUTBREAK OF DENIAL AMONG CHILD-SEX-TRAFFICKING ALARMISTS NATIONWIDE.

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2011-11-03/news/commercial-sexual-exploitation-of-children-john-jay-college-ric-curtis-meredith-dank-underage-prostitution-sex-trafficking-minors/