Comments on: Human trafficking, Prop. 35 on Republican women’s agenda http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2012/10/11/human-trafficking-prop-35-on-republian-women%e2%80%99s-agenda/ Ramona's Community Paper Since 1886 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: yesen35 http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2012/10/11/human-trafficking-prop-35-on-republian-women%e2%80%99s-agenda/#comment-449288 yesen35 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:57:26 +0000 http://www.ramonasentinel.com/?p=18212#comment-449288 Bravo Intermountain Republican Women Federated and the Soroptimists for your work to combat human trafficking!!! Yes on Prop 35! Bravo Intermountain Republican Women Federated and the Soroptimists for your work to combat human trafficking!!! Yes on Prop 35!

]]> By: hem http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2012/10/11/human-trafficking-prop-35-on-republian-women%e2%80%99s-agenda/#comment-444147 hem Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:41:46 +0000 http://www.ramonasentinel.com/?p=18212#comment-444147 Interestingly enough, Norma, Prop 35 does not seek to abolish prostitution. It's purpose is to increase the likelihood that human traffickers are prosecuted in California courts. We're talking about the man who, say, tricks vulnerable teens into a relationship and then forces them to sell their bodies for sex; he keeps her captive by using regular beatings, psychological abuse, rape, and control of her money and identification cards. This IS happening all over California; I've spent countless hours building relationships with survivors of sex-trafficking, learning the rules and culture of "the game." One solidly good thing about Prop 35 is that by making the definition of "human trafficking" more precise, it increases the likelihood that actual traffickers will be prosecuted. Currently in California, it is difficult to prosecute slavery. Really. It's hard to believe, but it's true. Of the 50 girls/ladies I worked with last year, I know that 4 of the perpetrators were sentenced to prison time. California hosts 3 of the nations top 13 cities for child commercial sex acts (as seen in the FBI's 2010 TIP report). Let's get the bad guys/gals. Vote YES on Prop 35! Interestingly enough, Norma, Prop 35 does not seek to abolish prostitution. It's purpose is to increase the likelihood that human traffickers are prosecuted in California courts. We're talking about the man who, say, tricks vulnerable teens into a relationship and then forces them to sell their bodies for sex; he keeps her captive by using regular beatings, psychological abuse, rape, and control of her money and identification cards. This IS happening all over California; I've spent countless hours building relationships with survivors of sex-trafficking, learning the rules and culture of "the game."

One solidly good thing about Prop 35 is that by making the definition of "human trafficking" more precise, it increases the likelihood that actual traffickers will be prosecuted. Currently in California, it is difficult to prosecute slavery. Really. It's hard to believe, but it's true. Of the 50 girls/ladies I worked with last year, I know that 4 of the perpetrators were sentenced to prison time.

California hosts 3 of the nations top 13 cities for child commercial sex acts (as seen in the FBI's 2010 TIP report).

Let's get the bad guys/gals. Vote YES on Prop 35!

]]> By: Norma Jean Almodovar http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2012/10/11/human-trafficking-prop-35-on-republian-women%e2%80%99s-agenda/#comment-442441 Norma Jean Almodovar Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:22:00 +0000 http://www.ramonasentinel.com/?p=18212#comment-442441 If you really want to help ALL victims of human trafficking, rather than attempt to persuade adult women that they are victims, decriminalize consenting adult commercial sex. Then there may be sufficient resources to assist those who are victims of human trafficking into domestic servitude, garment manufacturing, agriculture etc. and the more than 8,000 victims of rape in California alone, and over 80,000 reported rapes in the US each year, and the over 12 MILLION victims of intimate partner violence each year in the US. But for most of these 'anti- traffickers' the only victims who count are the poor, illiterate prostitutes who don't know they are victims. Women like me who stubbornly refuse to accept our victimhood because WE ARE NOT VICTIMS other than being victims of societal hypocrisy and police corruption. IN fact, the Ohio State Attorney General's Office report issues in August of this year stated that the number one buyers for sex from juvenile AND adult sex trafficking victims were LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS. So definitely we ought to give law enforcement agents even MORE power to extort and rape prostitutes of all ages so that YOU can feel good about your ideological crusade to abolish all prostitution and pornography, whether or not adult and consenting. If you really want to help ALL victims of human trafficking, rather than attempt to persuade adult women that they are victims, decriminalize consenting adult commercial sex. Then there may be sufficient resources to assist those who are victims of human trafficking into domestic servitude, garment manufacturing, agriculture etc. and the more than 8,000 victims of rape in California alone, and over 80,000 reported rapes in the US each year, and the over 12 MILLION victims of intimate partner violence each year in the US. But for most of these ‘anti- traffickers’ the only victims who count are the poor, illiterate prostitutes who don’t know they are victims. Women like me who stubbornly refuse to accept our victimhood because WE ARE NOT VICTIMS other than being victims of societal hypocrisy and police corruption. IN fact, the Ohio State Attorney General’s Office report issues in August of this year stated that the number one buyers for sex from juvenile AND adult sex trafficking victims were LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS. So definitely we ought to give law enforcement agents even MORE power to extort and rape prostitutes of all ages so that YOU can feel good about your ideological crusade to abolish all prostitution and pornography, whether or not adult and consenting.

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