Describing this guy as being "Arrested in Human Trafficking Sting" carries a different connotation than "Arrested in Prostitution Sting." While both are technically true, the former suggests that he was on the supply side and not the demand side. It's an unusual way to describe the events, given current language usage.
Maybe it is a better way to describe such an operation, because it clearly outlines sex workers as victims instead of criminals, and because (you're absolutely right) very many sex workers are being trafficked to one degree or another.
Still, trying to reduce demand with such a sting by punishing the customers of "the world's oldest profession" is an ill-conceived solution. There are more victims of human trafficking because sex work is illegal. Sex work being illegal makes it more dangerous for everyone involved, prevents sex workers and their clients from reporting crimes (whether those are property or violent crimes), transfers much more of the value of the work away from the worker and over to the "owner" (to put it in Marxist terms), limits sex worker access to healthcare (because they don't have employer subsidized insurance), reduces the tax base, and creates a sense of "higher crime" in places where these operations take place. For what? Because it's "icky"?
If you (not you, but the generic "you") really want to have an impact on human trafficking, as well as many other kinds of crime which are endemic to black markets, you should be in favor of legalizing sex work. Part of the reason marijuana is being widely legalized in the US and elsewhere is because in and of itself, it does not infringe on human or animal rights, and except for its being illegal, it does not present a public health or safety concern.
In short: If it's not hurting anyone, it mustn't be illegal. If it is illegal, it's still not hurting anyone. The black market that rises and the response to it do things which hurt people. More crime, real crime, requires more police. And more - as well as more military - tools and weapons to prosecute crime. Those tools and weapons, fear of them, and fear of the additional crime, are too often used against fully law-abiding people.
Sex work being illegal hurts everyone, including people who think its icky.
Lol wtf is this shitty kind of thinking? The waiter who served you at the restaurant you last ate could be a victim of human trafficking too.
If he knew they were trafficked, then sure, arrest him and charge him. Otherwise, he’s no more guilty of anything immoral than you were eating at the last restaurant you went to
No, the apologist who tried to diminish the corruption of the rightwing asshole is correct. You were calling out a piece of shit for being a hypocrite when we all already know that they’re hypocrites. /s
I didn't say it was immoral. I'm advocating legalizing it all to eliminate the black market for it. When drugs and prostitution are legalized, there's more transparency and oversight, reducing opportunities for bad actors.
Wow this almost makes it sound as if people are suddenly being paid a living wage! Which they fucking aren’t. These hospitality employers are still paying people minimum wage and in a city like Brighton where the average 1 bed flat costs £1000pcm or more before bills and food etc minimum wage isn’t enough.
Oh wow, sick pay and a meal, pretty much everyone in this country gets some form of sick pay due to the law and I’d take being paid a living wage over a shitty unhealthy pub meal for free any day!
I think this article is aimed at Americans who generally have a shitter deal than we do here when in a minimum wage job. But yea, still not good enough.
It probably depends on how much you trust the people handling them - scratches don't just happen, nor apparently can you trust people to report them, nor return the same DVD as what you sent them, etc. In an ideal world.... well anyway, we don't live in that.
The good thing about this is that people maybe start questioning if a product for some reason gets “better” because their favorite actor says so - because he got money for doing so.
Imho, he doesn’t need to warn his fans, they are not affected by this at all. Maybe the toothpaste is even a bit cheaper compared to the one that actually paid a (probably very pricey) Hollywood star for their ad. He’s the victim, not his fans.
Uvalde county overwhelmingly re elected Abbott and the GOP, even after their children were slaughtered and these people did nothing, they voted them back in. After a while you lose your sympathy for these people and realize they’re morons voting for their own destruction
I know what you mean, but we absolutely do, we have to hold our politicians accountable and the press is just one of those ways. I know they’re probably not changing minds but this is part of transparency.
As a Hungarian I’m both immensely proud of the great scientists and inventors the country provided to the world and at the same time, ashamed of the horrible politicians we’re plaguing this planet with. But for the time being, I’m quite excited. If anyone is a bit more physics savvy, I would be curious to know what processes we can learn more of now (probably down to an ELI5 level, but I know the very basics of nuclear physics, I guess).
She was drunk and got angry that the kicked her out of the park, so assaulted an old woman. Bitch deserves more than just 8.5 years. I prefer that her citizenship is revoked as well.
Well that’s gross. I’m not comfortable with giving the government the power to revoke a person’s citizenship; sounds ripe for abuse, but I get the outrage
Revoking citizenship is illegal under the Geneva convention and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Signatory countries aren’t allowed to intentionally make a person stateless. It is actually a big problem that has been abused several times throughout history. Nazi’s revoking Jewish citizenship is a prime example. More recently, we have the Uyghur Muslims in China.
The issue with revoking citizenship as a punishment is that it only pushes the burden of citizenship onto another country. It also removes any kinds of legal protections that a citizen may have had. Imagine if a country only allows citizens a right to an attorney. All that country would need to do to remove your legal council is strip your citizenship. Even if you later manage to get the citizenship back, you’ve still lost your original court case because you were forced to go through it without a lawyer.
I’m sure it was really something far more reasonable, like she was feeling scared or disrespected or thought the coach matched a profile or found that the coach had a suspicious amount of money on their being or…
According to prosecutors, Pazienza attacked Gustern after storming out of a nearby park, where she and her fiance had been eating meals from a food cart.
This is speculation, but sounds like maybe she got in an argument or was angry about something and was storming off somewhere. NYC is crowded and if you’re angry, trying to get somewhere, and not composed (getting into the mindset here, not what I really think) then “this old bitch in my way fuckin’ move arrrggg!” shove
Obviously, there’s nothing right about it and most of the time people behave themselves, even when they’re angry. Sometimes, though, they don’t. This isn’t a justification in any sense - more of a speculation in furtherance of an attempt at comprehension.
Her fiance perspective is that there was an argument and the suspect storms off and murders someone. Like, maybe now is a good time to see you’re engaged to a monster.
In such a dense environment, even the very small proportion of the general population that's deeply mentally ill and violent can be very visible and do a lot of damage, and we don't really have any good tools to deal with them except for waiting for them to attack someone.
I live in NJ, been to NYC quite a bit. I saw “event planner from Long Island” and was confused as that doesn’t sound like the kind of NYC crazy person I’ve come to expect (at least the physically violent kind) but once someone mentioned she was intoxicated it clicked for me.
She has history of bullying her classmate. Some comments in nyc subreddit suggesting her father is a mafia - being cesspool contractor has something to do about it? I don’t see the connection anyway but if that’s the case, that could explain a bit.
Lauren Pazienza spent the night of March 10 gallery-hopping with her fiancé in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood in celebration of 100 days until their wedding, her fiancé told authorities, according to a court document.
Pazienza had “several glasses of wine” during the evening before the pair stopped at a food cart for something to eat, according to the document filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The pair went to Chelsea Park to eat their meal, but before they were done, an employee told them they would have to leave because the park was closing, the document said. Chelsea Park closes at 11 p.m.
“The defendant became angry, started shouting and cursing at the park employee, threw her food onto her fiancé, and stormed out of the park,” according to prosecutors.
Meanwhile, Pazienza “stormed” down the street and spotted Barbara Maier Gustern, prosecutors said.
Gustern, “in what turned out to be her dying words” before she lost consciousness, told a friend that a woman with dark hair “ran across the straight,” directly toward her, called her a b---- and pushed her as hard she “had ever been hit in her life” toward a metal fence, prosecutors said.
Gustern, according to a witness, “fell in an arc, falling directly on her head,” according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Pazienza “turned around and walked away, leaving Ms. Gustern prone on the sidewalk, bleeding from the head,” prosecutors said.
Pazienza called her fiancé after the assault, he told authorities. When they reconnected, she picked a physical fight with him, accusing him of ruining her night, prosecutors said. He insisted the two head home, but security video from the area showed that Pazienza stayed in the area long enough to watch the ambulance arrive for Gustern.
She later told her fiancé what she had done, he told authorities. When he asked her why she would do such a thing, she said the woman "might have said something” to her.
Lauren Pazienza spent the night of March 10 gallery-hopping with her fiancé in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood in celebration of 100 days until their wedding
honestly, this is just piece of shit person, living off someone else’s money, running around contributing nothing to society. fuck her
One of those three was Yar Har Fiddle Dee Dee! But it’s ok, nuance isnt for everyone and only 1/3 of comments being like that isnt a representative sample apparently
Lmao, you know nothing about me beyond your interactions with me on the internet. The fact you’re taking your leave now means you’ve failed as a troll because I’m self assured enough in myself to not be thrown off by your lame attempts at upsetting me. Your profile literally brags about how you waste people’s time and you’re a troll.
So which one of us is pathetic for having too much time to waste on the internet? I’d wager it’s the person who literally dedicates their free time to trying to upset others and waste their time, instead of, you know, having real conversations with people.
Jesus Christ do you have any idea how much of a fucking loser you come off as because of this? At least I’m okay with having free time to waste instead of trying to pretend I’m better than others when they have free time to waste, too.
Fucking pussy. Run away then. It’s kind of funny how bad you are at this. I guess it’s true anyone who has to call themselves a King is no true King.
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