Uhhhh, guys?
Damn, Bob - you can afford somebody classy and discreet who makes house calls, and you go to a tawdry strip mall instead? The hell?
Uhhhh, not the same Jupiter Spa.
True, but I’m not a guy who swallows coincidences easily.
Heh heh, he said “swallows”.
If that’s what he wanted, he should have gone to San Juan Capistrano.
It’s been 17 years and a lot of locals have boycotted the NFL entirely since the Rams left, but the good people of St. Louis are STILL convinced that the Patriots cheated in Superbowl XXXVI. And personally, I’m happy to be able to use the word schadenfreude in a sentence.
It’s definitely weird that he went to a strip mall for any reason. And I hate the Patriots like most people.
BUUUT…the CBS Evening News led with this story, and the anchor talked about it with the somber tones and gravely serious face of someone describing a torture dungeon being discovered under Kraft’s house or something. “Stunning” and “shocking” were bandied about. Srsly? I’m not able to muster any outrage, personally.
And to hide video comeras in this place? Jesus. Whatever you think of the morality of any of this, is this a good priority for taxpayers to fund?
If they were able to rescue women who were trafficked and forced into prostitution, yes.
Yes, this.
Inflategate was mine
I don’t have hard facts to bring to bear here, but on a recent episode of the Slate feminist podcast “The Waves” (which used to be called “DoubleX” before they changed it so as not to exclude XY transwomen) they made a convincing case that most of the talk of “human trafficking” is just cover for the same old moralistic criminalizing of sex work, and that the vast majority of female sex workers are not enslaved and would benefit more than anything from legalization and licensing.
ETA: Furthermore, if that is what the sting is about, why arrest the johns?
Dude, cigerettes are (regretably) legal, but there is still a 100 billion dollar smuggling industry.
Reportedly the women weren’t allowed to leave the premises and were forced to work and live there.
“Authorities described how the women worked in deplorable conditions, were lured into the sex trade, and averaged 1,500 men a year.
**The victims were forced to live in the spas for days, sometimes months, “for the purpose of sexual servitude,” according to the charges. Many of them came from China on temporary work visas, believing they’d get legitimate jobs in the US, Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey said in a press conference.
“These girls are there all day long, into the evening. They can’t leave and they’re performing sex acts,” he said. “Some of them may tell us they’re OK, but they’re not.”**
These aren’t just women making a choice to go into prostitution and being treated like victims/criminals for bad choices. They’re sex slaves, or at least indentured servants according to law enforcement.
By arresting Johns they are trying to curb the demand, which will hopefully hinder the sex trafficking industry. And it’s not just the criminal charges that will dissuade johns, but the public humiliation and destruction of reputations. Especially for a powerful person like Kraft.
I bow to your mastery.
Billionaire Trump supporter and major GOP donor John Childs is also caught up in this thing:
Indeed. If the facts are as stated, this *was *a case that merited intervention.
That free-choice sexwork is currently being also swept by the whole wave about “trafficking” (which oftentimes is just common pimping under a fancier name), to the point of making voluntary sex workers’ lives harder (e.g. FOSTA/SESTA) is a separate matter.
Indeed – you go for the demand side and shake up a few “respectable gentlemen” so others in their circles think twice, or at least do their due diligence about where do they take their business.
And BTW it has been alluded to before in passing, but notice how the Big News seems to be the involvement of Kraft and Childs and how this may hurt them. Not the pimping operation or the welfare of the women.
Could this be the hooker?
News flash: Rich, fat, old businessman hires hookers. Stop the presses!
Meanwhile, how much was it Chump paid at least one porn star? And how many Russian prostitutes did he pay to piss all over him?
Isn’t that what Kraft got in trouble for?