Tuesday, January 31, 2006

From the Kunsan base newspaper:

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 amends the military manual for courts-martial, making the punishment for using a prostitute the same as that for being a prostitute...

Under the new act, any servicemember convicted of patronizing a prostitute can receive a dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and one year of confinement...

Whether people realize it or not, most women involved in prostitution are there against their will, he said, and supporting that industry – even by going to a strip club or bar that allows prostitution – supports the worldwide human trafficking industry. “If you spend money there, you’re giving money to the traffickers, and traffickers are criminals,” he said.

What the hell kind of cracked logic is this? It's the same logic as the ONDCP ads that tell you if you buy a joint from the kid down the road who grows a couple plants you're supporting terrorists. Wha? (And we'll ignore that those opium poppies that make the terr'rists their livings are also sold by tons to our government and medical research companies to make, umm, MEDICINE)...

Visiting a strip club that looks the other way when a girl gets a little closer than Kosher supports human-trafficking pimps? Wha? (And we'll ignore that in a lot of Europe and parts of Nevada, prostitution is entirely legal and a choice grown women make for their lives--nope, all prostitutes have been sold into slavery now).

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