UPDATE ON THE ASIAN TRAFFICKING RING WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR YEARS NOW AND PRESIDENT XI JINPING
To follow up to - http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1425144/dongguan-police-chiefs-suspended-prostitution-crackdown-following-cctv?page=all in February of 2014.
Seems after the February raids - the economy had a slump. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1466356/crackdown-dongguan-sex-trade-leaves-wider-economy-slump So a lot of the prostitutes were now wondering what they were going to do to pay the rent.
Then came - https://thenanfang.com/npc-member-latest-casualty-of-dongguan-prostitution-crackdown/ in April of 2014 when more corruption arrests came down against men who were part of the Chinese government that had been threatening many of these same prostitutes with getting sentences with the death penalty if they didn't comply with the demands of traffickers according to what victims were telling us.
In May of 2014 http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/trial-of-chinese-hotelier-features-accusations-of-prostitution/?_r=0 the trials began.
We read this recently - http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1909819/chinas-anti-graft-investigation-guangdongs-vice about how the investigation loop was widening.
Is this having an impact? Yes and no. The ring we've been getting calls from victims about who said they were being trafficked here from China - did feel the heat.
However, their response was to start trafficking women from KOREA!!! http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2016/01/07/23376530/king-countys-unprecedented-prostitution-sting-has-shut-down-a-popular-vetting-tool-for-sex-workers So the machine is still operating - just with victims from a different country now because many of the heads of this operation were not arrested yet. This is again why the RICO laws were written in this country to respond to the same issue when we first dealt with this with the Italian mob. The "five families" which has been pretty much dismantled - and now these "ethnic" gangs have moved into the vacuum with the Aryans supposedly in law enforcement protecting them.
Now this was the same ring that was responsible for the shutting down of NINE massage parlors in Wichita, Kansas in 2013 http://cjonline.com/news/business/2014-04-07/woman-involved-sex-trafficking-wichita-massage-parlor-gets-probation according to documents that I have from a victim here in California tying her to these arrests.
Please note from this article it talks about "recruiting women out of San Francisco". I bring that up because Maxine Doogan had yes "tried to decriminalize prostitution" there. Something I had previously supported her for in order to make the prosecution of traffickers easier. Then I learned she had tried to get this same ballot to conceal language that would help Asian trafficking victims to get help to escape.
Which is why I have completely changed my position of previous support of the group SWOP, Sex Workers Outreach Project, under their new leadership, and the allowing of Maxine Doogan to be a public spokeswoman for them.
My understanding of SWOP previously was this was a group that believed sex workers should have the same "rights" and treatment as any other worker in this country. That the sex industry is a profession like any other, and that no human being should be forced to engage in, nor exploited, nor abused, nor treated in any way differently than one would treat a doctor, attorney, teacher, or any other professional.
However, Maxine has supposedly helped to cut the funding to St. James Infirmary from what our members have reported to us, she tried to block wording in a proposition from going on the ballot so people wouldn't know she was trying to cut funding to help trafficking victims in San Francisco who were primarily Asian in massage parlors, http://www.sfexaminer.com/keep-trafficking-out-of-city/ AND she was involved in denouncing the recent Seattle arrests who FREED Asian women who were being FORCED by a criminal operation that was doing things like threatening to kill their family members back home if they did not engage in sex work.
Frankly, considering Maxine's background with her own legal case, I'm shocked by her recent attacks upon our group which only started in 2015 when the show "8 Minutes" came on-air. Now we've read there's a lot of money involved with this Asian sex trade that also carries over into operating here within the USA. We also know the Chinese engage in very "unfair trade practices" in that they will readily engage in very complex and sophisticated "smear" campaigns such as we've seen them do just over CHICKEN. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32964606 A product which PALES in comparison to how much money is involved in the sex trade.
Maxine certainly had exhibited no problem with us at any time prior to the show "8 Minutes" (we've been around since 1987 and not a peep out of her before March of 2015) - and in fact we might have even been able to be of some help to her in her case, and the other women in her case, had they known about our work back when Maxine was originally arrested. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Ex-cop-s-links-to-trial-witnesses-puts-1217086.php Again, something I fault SWOP for not having told her about how we might have helped her, and the other prostitutes, who were saying they were forced to testify against Maxine, by a bad cop.
I say that because this case reads pretty much like what many of our members deal with, including Jeane Palfrey, who was nicknamed the D.C. Madam. Seems a cop had sex with a few sex workers in Seattle, and then turned them "informant" who Maxine says then made false allegations against her which charged her as a pimp in fact. Now I ask you with a COP forcing you to make false allegations against another sex worker - what do you do? Where do you go? Who do you call for help?
We have advertised since day one we are the ONLY hotline (www.sexworkersanonymous.com) I'm aware of anyway for adults who can call us that is NOT connected with law enforcement in any way. What that means is that we don't report anything on anyone who calls us to the police for one (except as legally required such as if they're threatening suicide for example).
Second, it means that if a victim is being threatened by a cop in some fashion, such as being forced to have sex with them, forced to be an informant, or even forced to make false accusations against someone else like Maxine says was being done to her, and they decide their life is in danger - where do you go to be safe? The Salvation Army is not set up for this kind of thing. Nor are most homeless or domestic violence shelters. In fact, our members have reported when they've run to such shelters for safety the cop, sheriff, marshal, etc., has shown up, flashed their badge, and the facility has just handed them over with no questions asked even like "where are you taking this person?"
Jeane Palfrey was reporting to us that men like Randall Tobias, and David Vitter, among others, were part of the men who were coming to her working within our government who were forcing her to continue working as a madam, forcing her escorts to continue working as escorts, and also using them like these informants against Maxine, to pump men for information they wanted, plant information they wanted planted, to create blackmail, and to seal government deals like we've heard about leak out like with our Navy. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-navys-bribery-and-prostitution-scandal-is-even-worse-than-it-looks-2015-4
She did not reveal the names of "johns" but of "traffickers" and her case was not plead out so she could make her "black book" public record where these men couldn't silence those records. Now we had offered to help her go "off the grid" to which she replied she wanted to "prove what was going on in the sex industry" and "how trafficking extends beyond just the prostitutes to the madams as well". How traffickers are not all like Bishop Don Juan - but instead are men like we read about, and I witnessed, with Iran Contra.
My point being that there were women in those massage parlors in San Francisco, and Seattle, that were being forced to be there, and threatened, and exploited, and their money taken from them, where the only way these women could get free was to have these arrests happen. I say that because from 1984 until about 2013 - our program has been able to organize "rescues" of women like that where they, and their family, has been able to get free of the trafficking operation WITHOUT anyone having to be arrested. We've just helped them to "disappear" off the grid as we've done in cases such as the Chris Butler case where he was a private investigator who used to be a cop. He had a lot of resources to find those not cooperating with him, as does men like Rick Rizzolo, who was caught getting information from OC Sheriff Mike Corona while he was in prison.
However, this Asian ring that's connected to the Wichita arrests, and the Seattle arrests, as well as operating in San Francisco, and a few other cities in the USA, has such advanced technology, combined with such corrupt contacts, which again Maxine has witnessed when a cop can sleep with prostitutes, and then force them to make false accusations. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/King-County-authorities-bust-prostitution-6743602.php
How is that? Probably because Maxine was a competitor to this operation which is what we've been seeing. We've been watching as independent sex workers who are advertising on sites like Backpage, Craigslist, The Erotic Review, My Redbook, etc. are being targeted for arrest by any means possible as a measure to shut down the competition TO THESE MASSAGE PARLORS and Asian rings using cops like this Ring cop to accomplish those end goals.
So here is an operation the Seattle police were BRAVE enough to arrest and go after, who not only was trafficking those women in those parlors, but ALSO using corrupted officers just like the one who came after Maxine, to get them arrested using any means possible, just like they did with Maxine, because they are competition to their girls, just like Maxine was.
Then when this Seattle police goes after these animals like police are SUPPOSED TO DO - Maxine ATTACKS THEM? I have documented proof I've been trying to get charges filed against police officers for abusing prostitutes which complaints, calls, emails have been going unanswered, as seems to be a pretty common thing in Los Angeles as reported in this article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/18/2-los-angeles-police-officers-charged-with-repeatedly-raping-women-under-threat-of-arrest/ which I don't think we'd even be hearing about now if not for the neighborhood block leader who finally complained - and Maxine is attacking these officers for moving in to help these women get free?
One of the things groups like COYOTE, and SWOP USED to fight for was so that sex workers in trouble could CALL THE POLICE FOR HELP JUST LIKE ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING IN ANY OTHER JOB, ESPECIALLY IF THEY WERE BEING FORCED TO WORK AS PROSTITUTES.
Now this is what Seattle just did and SWOP'S ATTACKING THEM? WTF? https://twitter.com/mistressmatisse/status/684854614173167616
But at the same time I've not heard one word about 15 year old Latesha Clay, who was the mother of two children, being forced to work as a prostitute because of poverty, having a gun probably to protect herself out there in Michigan's streets, and because of this "No Such Thing" campaign which was pushing to not have juveniles arrested for prostitution - she's tried as an ADULT and now locked up in prison? Only as an adult she should have been offered the "alternative to incarceration" ALL adults are offered which is to attend our program - but she was not because she's a juvenile? http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/10/15-year-old_mom_used_to_lure_m.html
I've not heard a word out of Maxine about Amber Batts, who was also locked up in jail RATHER than being offered our program, which cost her custody of her children, got her divorced, and then all this publicity because she was trying to provide screening and security for other working women up in Alaska country? There was no reason for her to have been put in jail either when she could have asked the judge to attend our program instead, and a member of SWA up there could have stood up with her to take over responsibility so she's still be in her home, with her husband and her kids! I don't remember Maxine approaching either judge in either of these cases to lend her support to them. http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/anchorage-woman-arrested-in-connection-with-alaskan-sex-trafficking-network/26880396
Which by the way I find 5.5 years is INSANE for Amber screening calls to protect sex workers on new appointments vs. the TWO YEARS that Kemp Shiffer received for trafficking teens between California and Nevada using his IRS badge, and cop connections, for TWELVE YEARS before the police were finally able to bring a case against him? http://www.times-standard.com/article/ZZ/20120306/NEWS/120309397
Nor do I remember in her attacks against Katherine Griffin-Townsend, or myself, both ex-sex workers, who now try and help other sex workers AVOID JAIL TIME, say one word of attack against Kevin Brown, Greg Reese, or Relativity Media. http://relativitymedia.com/press/relativity-announces-groundbreaking-multi-year-strategic-partnership-3c-media-china/ Things like Relativity Media might have not shown one single frame of footage about REAL TRAFFICKING VICTIMS IN ASIAN MASSAGE PARLORS because they partnered with a government owned Chinese film company who has stated they want "no films showing Asian prostitution" in other interviews. Who raised money from investors for a "reality series" and then gave us a staged scripted production leading these investors to call Relativity Media "con artists" which Relativity slapped them with a defamation suit to get them to retract the accusations.
Why attack them directly over the way they portrayed sex workers as all "victims" and falsely portrayed real trafficking victims? How about getting them to explain if there was no "rescue" operation clearly as there wasn't - then what were they doing running around Orange County trying to get ahold of teenage prostitutes like "Sweets" exactly to do then? http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-prostitute-squad-20131002-dto-htmlstory.html
I mean what was those meetings FOR then if there was NO RESCUE?
Chris Butler, and OTHER COPS, in California, were arrested just months prior to Kevin Brown's launching of a "rescue" where prostitutes were threatened in their motel rooms, robbed, http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/pdfs_all/COPS%20DAs%20JUDGES%20RAPE%20EXTORT%20PROSTITUTES%20RUN%20PROSTITUTION%20RINGS/Cops_rape_solicit_pimp_prostitutes.pdf, and told they either "worked for them" or they'd be arrested.
Maxine's antics in the media probably do great for filling up her personal appointment book, great for her fund raising, but I'm failing to see how she's on the side of sex workers in any way, shape or form lately. The fact that SWOP is not only standing by, but supporting some of these antics, is beyond blowing my mind. I mean asking sex workers to "vouch they're engaging in illegal sex work" or asking another sex worker to "vouch they're an illegal sex worker" to join the group, then inviting sex workers to come out to meetings in public places where they can be videotaped without the need of a warrant - just absolutely blows my mind with respect to how much information they're collecting on sex workers that could be used in a court of law against them. To further get them charged with conspiracy by having them gather to speak about how to engage in illegal sex work. To take money from identified prostitutes as donations which is technically a felony, and to support legislation, which is also in total violation of her 501c3. Yet she's not getting arrested for some reason.
Hmmm.
You know she was arrested supposedly by prostitutes who were forced to speak against her. This recent case in Los Angeles is another case where the cop supposedly turned the woman into an "informant" after raping her while Internal Affairs did nothing to help her. I mean it's not like any of SWOP's board members are using that position to do research on sex workers for money or anything right like Lindsey? http://www.avac.org/blog/prep-what-it-and-how-sex-workers-can-use-it Or Matthrew? http://www.swopusa.org/about-us/board-of-directors-2/
Katie Hall-Jares seems to also be a researcher on sex workers http://www.swopusa.org/about-us/board-of-directors-2/ for the Dept. of Health. Darrell has been working on "drafting a report for the UN on HIV" for which I'm sure he's paid something in the way of a grant. Andrea Ferguson - researcher on sex workers. Fatemah - researcher. Kate Zen - researcher.
What I'm not seeing on the list of directors however is men or women who are engaging in illegal sex work. Meaning they're putting their butts out there on the line where they can be arrested - but I am seeing them signing up new members who are in very incriminating manners, and then getting grant money from research on said sex workers. Yet the organization itself has not been charged in any way for "receiving earnings from a prostitute".
Now if my mother can be arrested for taking $20 from me for a bucket of chicken I asked her to buy, as did my nail lady for doing my nails, and the hotel desk clerk for taking money for a room from me - then I know well that ANY money received by a "known prostitute" is a felony. Yet this group is not reporting any arrests. Narcotics Anonymous was. So many arrests they had to get a law passed so that cops would stop arresting them at their meetings. Until this law was passed NA meetings had to be "rabbit" meetings moved from day to day to prevent arrest.
I know it's why our group doesn't ask for donations from members, and gives the Recovery Guide, to new members still working in prostitution so that we don't get guilty of this felony pimping, arrested, and then forced to provide information on our members to law enforcement as they've tried to do to us in the past. We just resolved the problem by not taking money.
But SWOP is out here suing prosecutors, raising $1,000's of dollars from active sex workers in cities where it's illegal, asking members to incriminate themselves, give out bank and address information, come to public meetings where they could be photographed, AND suddenly attacking what once they were treating like a sister program that runs the ONLY program in the country which can be used as an "alternative to incarceration" for adults, helps those having problems with corrupt officials, helps those who can't call the cops for help, helps sex workers escape pimps without involving the cops, and helps provide FREE legal assistance WITHOUT having to hold fund raisers because our experience has shown that attorney's who publicly take money from prostitutes wind up often disbarred (check out what happened to Montgomery Sibley for one example, or what happened to the attorney who defended Larry Flynt, etc.).
Again hmm.
If the things Maxine was saying against people like myself and Katherine Griffin-Townsend were true - that's one thing. But they're not. So her behavior, combined with lying about real ex-sex workers, out there trying to help other sex workers avoid time in jail, and to get free of very real pimps and traffickers, while again NOT asking the hard questions like WHY was Relativity Media staging the show "8 Minutes", and WHY was Kevin Brown running around Orange County motels trying to find prostitutes if NOT for a rescue because one didn't exist, and so on and so on.
If she's such a friggin "sex worker advocate" then she should have been THANKING the Seattle police for freeing those victims against some very bad dudes. That ring in Wichita threatened the judge, the arresting officer, and myself, with death threats. Threats I took seriously in light of weird things that happened to me including being poisoned at a lunch meeting with someone in this operation that put me in the emergency room, among a few other very real things they did which also like having a police officer threaten me and slapping one of their victims with TWO fake prostitution charges.
Just a lot here not computing.
Seems after the February raids - the economy had a slump. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1466356/crackdown-dongguan-sex-trade-leaves-wider-economy-slump So a lot of the prostitutes were now wondering what they were going to do to pay the rent.
Then came - https://thenanfang.com/npc-member-latest-casualty-of-dongguan-prostitution-crackdown/ in April of 2014 when more corruption arrests came down against men who were part of the Chinese government that had been threatening many of these same prostitutes with getting sentences with the death penalty if they didn't comply with the demands of traffickers according to what victims were telling us.
In May of 2014 http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/trial-of-chinese-hotelier-features-accusations-of-prostitution/?_r=0 the trials began.
We read this recently - http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1909819/chinas-anti-graft-investigation-guangdongs-vice about how the investigation loop was widening.
Is this having an impact? Yes and no. The ring we've been getting calls from victims about who said they were being trafficked here from China - did feel the heat.
However, their response was to start trafficking women from KOREA!!! http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2016/01/07/23376530/king-countys-unprecedented-prostitution-sting-has-shut-down-a-popular-vetting-tool-for-sex-workers So the machine is still operating - just with victims from a different country now because many of the heads of this operation were not arrested yet. This is again why the RICO laws were written in this country to respond to the same issue when we first dealt with this with the Italian mob. The "five families" which has been pretty much dismantled - and now these "ethnic" gangs have moved into the vacuum with the Aryans supposedly in law enforcement protecting them.
Now this was the same ring that was responsible for the shutting down of NINE massage parlors in Wichita, Kansas in 2013 http://cjonline.com/news/business/2014-04-07/woman-involved-sex-trafficking-wichita-massage-parlor-gets-probation according to documents that I have from a victim here in California tying her to these arrests.
Please note from this article it talks about "recruiting women out of San Francisco". I bring that up because Maxine Doogan had yes "tried to decriminalize prostitution" there. Something I had previously supported her for in order to make the prosecution of traffickers easier. Then I learned she had tried to get this same ballot to conceal language that would help Asian trafficking victims to get help to escape.
Which is why I have completely changed my position of previous support of the group SWOP, Sex Workers Outreach Project, under their new leadership, and the allowing of Maxine Doogan to be a public spokeswoman for them.
My understanding of SWOP previously was this was a group that believed sex workers should have the same "rights" and treatment as any other worker in this country. That the sex industry is a profession like any other, and that no human being should be forced to engage in, nor exploited, nor abused, nor treated in any way differently than one would treat a doctor, attorney, teacher, or any other professional.
However, Maxine has supposedly helped to cut the funding to St. James Infirmary from what our members have reported to us, she tried to block wording in a proposition from going on the ballot so people wouldn't know she was trying to cut funding to help trafficking victims in San Francisco who were primarily Asian in massage parlors, http://www.sfexaminer.com/keep-trafficking-out-of-city/ AND she was involved in denouncing the recent Seattle arrests who FREED Asian women who were being FORCED by a criminal operation that was doing things like threatening to kill their family members back home if they did not engage in sex work.
Frankly, considering Maxine's background with her own legal case, I'm shocked by her recent attacks upon our group which only started in 2015 when the show "8 Minutes" came on-air. Now we've read there's a lot of money involved with this Asian sex trade that also carries over into operating here within the USA. We also know the Chinese engage in very "unfair trade practices" in that they will readily engage in very complex and sophisticated "smear" campaigns such as we've seen them do just over CHICKEN. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32964606 A product which PALES in comparison to how much money is involved in the sex trade.
Maxine certainly had exhibited no problem with us at any time prior to the show "8 Minutes" (we've been around since 1987 and not a peep out of her before March of 2015) - and in fact we might have even been able to be of some help to her in her case, and the other women in her case, had they known about our work back when Maxine was originally arrested. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Ex-cop-s-links-to-trial-witnesses-puts-1217086.php Again, something I fault SWOP for not having told her about how we might have helped her, and the other prostitutes, who were saying they were forced to testify against Maxine, by a bad cop.
I say that because this case reads pretty much like what many of our members deal with, including Jeane Palfrey, who was nicknamed the D.C. Madam. Seems a cop had sex with a few sex workers in Seattle, and then turned them "informant" who Maxine says then made false allegations against her which charged her as a pimp in fact. Now I ask you with a COP forcing you to make false allegations against another sex worker - what do you do? Where do you go? Who do you call for help?
We have advertised since day one we are the ONLY hotline (www.sexworkersanonymous.com) I'm aware of anyway for adults who can call us that is NOT connected with law enforcement in any way. What that means is that we don't report anything on anyone who calls us to the police for one (except as legally required such as if they're threatening suicide for example).
Second, it means that if a victim is being threatened by a cop in some fashion, such as being forced to have sex with them, forced to be an informant, or even forced to make false accusations against someone else like Maxine says was being done to her, and they decide their life is in danger - where do you go to be safe? The Salvation Army is not set up for this kind of thing. Nor are most homeless or domestic violence shelters. In fact, our members have reported when they've run to such shelters for safety the cop, sheriff, marshal, etc., has shown up, flashed their badge, and the facility has just handed them over with no questions asked even like "where are you taking this person?"
Jeane Palfrey was reporting to us that men like Randall Tobias, and David Vitter, among others, were part of the men who were coming to her working within our government who were forcing her to continue working as a madam, forcing her escorts to continue working as escorts, and also using them like these informants against Maxine, to pump men for information they wanted, plant information they wanted planted, to create blackmail, and to seal government deals like we've heard about leak out like with our Navy. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-navys-bribery-and-prostitution-scandal-is-even-worse-than-it-looks-2015-4
She did not reveal the names of "johns" but of "traffickers" and her case was not plead out so she could make her "black book" public record where these men couldn't silence those records. Now we had offered to help her go "off the grid" to which she replied she wanted to "prove what was going on in the sex industry" and "how trafficking extends beyond just the prostitutes to the madams as well". How traffickers are not all like Bishop Don Juan - but instead are men like we read about, and I witnessed, with Iran Contra.
My point being that there were women in those massage parlors in San Francisco, and Seattle, that were being forced to be there, and threatened, and exploited, and their money taken from them, where the only way these women could get free was to have these arrests happen. I say that because from 1984 until about 2013 - our program has been able to organize "rescues" of women like that where they, and their family, has been able to get free of the trafficking operation WITHOUT anyone having to be arrested. We've just helped them to "disappear" off the grid as we've done in cases such as the Chris Butler case where he was a private investigator who used to be a cop. He had a lot of resources to find those not cooperating with him, as does men like Rick Rizzolo, who was caught getting information from OC Sheriff Mike Corona while he was in prison.
However, this Asian ring that's connected to the Wichita arrests, and the Seattle arrests, as well as operating in San Francisco, and a few other cities in the USA, has such advanced technology, combined with such corrupt contacts, which again Maxine has witnessed when a cop can sleep with prostitutes, and then force them to make false accusations. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/King-County-authorities-bust-prostitution-6743602.php
How is that? Probably because Maxine was a competitor to this operation which is what we've been seeing. We've been watching as independent sex workers who are advertising on sites like Backpage, Craigslist, The Erotic Review, My Redbook, etc. are being targeted for arrest by any means possible as a measure to shut down the competition TO THESE MASSAGE PARLORS and Asian rings using cops like this Ring cop to accomplish those end goals.
So here is an operation the Seattle police were BRAVE enough to arrest and go after, who not only was trafficking those women in those parlors, but ALSO using corrupted officers just like the one who came after Maxine, to get them arrested using any means possible, just like they did with Maxine, because they are competition to their girls, just like Maxine was.
Then when this Seattle police goes after these animals like police are SUPPOSED TO DO - Maxine ATTACKS THEM? I have documented proof I've been trying to get charges filed against police officers for abusing prostitutes which complaints, calls, emails have been going unanswered, as seems to be a pretty common thing in Los Angeles as reported in this article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/18/2-los-angeles-police-officers-charged-with-repeatedly-raping-women-under-threat-of-arrest/ which I don't think we'd even be hearing about now if not for the neighborhood block leader who finally complained - and Maxine is attacking these officers for moving in to help these women get free?
One of the things groups like COYOTE, and SWOP USED to fight for was so that sex workers in trouble could CALL THE POLICE FOR HELP JUST LIKE ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING IN ANY OTHER JOB, ESPECIALLY IF THEY WERE BEING FORCED TO WORK AS PROSTITUTES.
Now this is what Seattle just did and SWOP'S ATTACKING THEM? WTF? https://twitter.com/mistressmatisse/status/684854614173167616
But at the same time I've not heard one word about 15 year old Latesha Clay, who was the mother of two children, being forced to work as a prostitute because of poverty, having a gun probably to protect herself out there in Michigan's streets, and because of this "No Such Thing" campaign which was pushing to not have juveniles arrested for prostitution - she's tried as an ADULT and now locked up in prison? Only as an adult she should have been offered the "alternative to incarceration" ALL adults are offered which is to attend our program - but she was not because she's a juvenile? http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/10/15-year-old_mom_used_to_lure_m.html
I've not heard a word out of Maxine about Amber Batts, who was also locked up in jail RATHER than being offered our program, which cost her custody of her children, got her divorced, and then all this publicity because she was trying to provide screening and security for other working women up in Alaska country? There was no reason for her to have been put in jail either when she could have asked the judge to attend our program instead, and a member of SWA up there could have stood up with her to take over responsibility so she's still be in her home, with her husband and her kids! I don't remember Maxine approaching either judge in either of these cases to lend her support to them. http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/anchorage-woman-arrested-in-connection-with-alaskan-sex-trafficking-network/26880396
Which by the way I find 5.5 years is INSANE for Amber screening calls to protect sex workers on new appointments vs. the TWO YEARS that Kemp Shiffer received for trafficking teens between California and Nevada using his IRS badge, and cop connections, for TWELVE YEARS before the police were finally able to bring a case against him? http://www.times-standard.com/article/ZZ/20120306/NEWS/120309397
Nor do I remember in her attacks against Katherine Griffin-Townsend, or myself, both ex-sex workers, who now try and help other sex workers AVOID JAIL TIME, say one word of attack against Kevin Brown, Greg Reese, or Relativity Media. http://relativitymedia.com/press/relativity-announces-groundbreaking-multi-year-strategic-partnership-3c-media-china/ Things like Relativity Media might have not shown one single frame of footage about REAL TRAFFICKING VICTIMS IN ASIAN MASSAGE PARLORS because they partnered with a government owned Chinese film company who has stated they want "no films showing Asian prostitution" in other interviews. Who raised money from investors for a "reality series" and then gave us a staged scripted production leading these investors to call Relativity Media "con artists" which Relativity slapped them with a defamation suit to get them to retract the accusations.
Why attack them directly over the way they portrayed sex workers as all "victims" and falsely portrayed real trafficking victims? How about getting them to explain if there was no "rescue" operation clearly as there wasn't - then what were they doing running around Orange County trying to get ahold of teenage prostitutes like "Sweets" exactly to do then? http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-prostitute-squad-20131002-dto-htmlstory.html
I mean what was those meetings FOR then if there was NO RESCUE?
Chris Butler, and OTHER COPS, in California, were arrested just months prior to Kevin Brown's launching of a "rescue" where prostitutes were threatened in their motel rooms, robbed, http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/pdfs_all/COPS%20DAs%20JUDGES%20RAPE%20EXTORT%20PROSTITUTES%20RUN%20PROSTITUTION%20RINGS/Cops_rape_solicit_pimp_prostitutes.pdf, and told they either "worked for them" or they'd be arrested.
Maxine's antics in the media probably do great for filling up her personal appointment book, great for her fund raising, but I'm failing to see how she's on the side of sex workers in any way, shape or form lately. The fact that SWOP is not only standing by, but supporting some of these antics, is beyond blowing my mind. I mean asking sex workers to "vouch they're engaging in illegal sex work" or asking another sex worker to "vouch they're an illegal sex worker" to join the group, then inviting sex workers to come out to meetings in public places where they can be videotaped without the need of a warrant - just absolutely blows my mind with respect to how much information they're collecting on sex workers that could be used in a court of law against them. To further get them charged with conspiracy by having them gather to speak about how to engage in illegal sex work. To take money from identified prostitutes as donations which is technically a felony, and to support legislation, which is also in total violation of her 501c3. Yet she's not getting arrested for some reason.
Hmmm.
You know she was arrested supposedly by prostitutes who were forced to speak against her. This recent case in Los Angeles is another case where the cop supposedly turned the woman into an "informant" after raping her while Internal Affairs did nothing to help her. I mean it's not like any of SWOP's board members are using that position to do research on sex workers for money or anything right like Lindsey? http://www.avac.org/blog/prep-what-it-and-how-sex-workers-can-use-it Or Matthrew? http://www.swopusa.org/about-us/board-of-directors-2/
Katie Hall-Jares seems to also be a researcher on sex workers http://www.swopusa.org/about-us/board-of-directors-2/ for the Dept. of Health. Darrell has been working on "drafting a report for the UN on HIV" for which I'm sure he's paid something in the way of a grant. Andrea Ferguson - researcher on sex workers. Fatemah - researcher. Kate Zen - researcher.
What I'm not seeing on the list of directors however is men or women who are engaging in illegal sex work. Meaning they're putting their butts out there on the line where they can be arrested - but I am seeing them signing up new members who are in very incriminating manners, and then getting grant money from research on said sex workers. Yet the organization itself has not been charged in any way for "receiving earnings from a prostitute".
Now if my mother can be arrested for taking $20 from me for a bucket of chicken I asked her to buy, as did my nail lady for doing my nails, and the hotel desk clerk for taking money for a room from me - then I know well that ANY money received by a "known prostitute" is a felony. Yet this group is not reporting any arrests. Narcotics Anonymous was. So many arrests they had to get a law passed so that cops would stop arresting them at their meetings. Until this law was passed NA meetings had to be "rabbit" meetings moved from day to day to prevent arrest.
I know it's why our group doesn't ask for donations from members, and gives the Recovery Guide, to new members still working in prostitution so that we don't get guilty of this felony pimping, arrested, and then forced to provide information on our members to law enforcement as they've tried to do to us in the past. We just resolved the problem by not taking money.
But SWOP is out here suing prosecutors, raising $1,000's of dollars from active sex workers in cities where it's illegal, asking members to incriminate themselves, give out bank and address information, come to public meetings where they could be photographed, AND suddenly attacking what once they were treating like a sister program that runs the ONLY program in the country which can be used as an "alternative to incarceration" for adults, helps those having problems with corrupt officials, helps those who can't call the cops for help, helps sex workers escape pimps without involving the cops, and helps provide FREE legal assistance WITHOUT having to hold fund raisers because our experience has shown that attorney's who publicly take money from prostitutes wind up often disbarred (check out what happened to Montgomery Sibley for one example, or what happened to the attorney who defended Larry Flynt, etc.).
Again hmm.
If the things Maxine was saying against people like myself and Katherine Griffin-Townsend were true - that's one thing. But they're not. So her behavior, combined with lying about real ex-sex workers, out there trying to help other sex workers avoid time in jail, and to get free of very real pimps and traffickers, while again NOT asking the hard questions like WHY was Relativity Media staging the show "8 Minutes", and WHY was Kevin Brown running around Orange County motels trying to find prostitutes if NOT for a rescue because one didn't exist, and so on and so on.
If she's such a friggin "sex worker advocate" then she should have been THANKING the Seattle police for freeing those victims against some very bad dudes. That ring in Wichita threatened the judge, the arresting officer, and myself, with death threats. Threats I took seriously in light of weird things that happened to me including being poisoned at a lunch meeting with someone in this operation that put me in the emergency room, among a few other very real things they did which also like having a police officer threaten me and slapping one of their victims with TWO fake prostitution charges.
Just a lot here not computing.
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