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She shuddered when she saw headlines last year saying “bombing in a Cancun hotspot.” It “was some divey little bar in a (non-touristy) neighborhood so bad that locals won’t even park their cars there,” she says. “Cancun is pretty safe for tourists. If you had a war going on in Los Angeles, you wouldn’t say, ‘Oh, don’t go to New York.’ “
Kelly McLaughlin, a Canadian in Cancun who writes the blog cancuncanuck.com, says the real violence is “thousands of kilometers away. … Crime happens, sure, just like in Miami or New York or Los Angeles. Bring your common sense, be aware of your surroundings and your belongings. Don’t buy drugs, don’t solicit prostitutes. Millions of tourists visit the Mexican Caribbean every year, and the worst thing that happens to (most of) them is a sunburn or a hangover.”

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The measure, filed jointly by Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, and Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, calls for a clarification of the definitions of sex and labor trafficking. It would remove the need to prove force or coercion for those selling children for sex, require an offender convicted of sex trafficking to register as a sex offender, and increase penalties for compelling prostitution of a child.
“I think one of the things we realized is the federal laws were stronger in regards to trafficking of a child than the state” laws, Van de Putte said.
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The report looked at six components of state law, including the criminalization of children forced into prostitution, protective provisions for child victims and the penalties for traffickers and facilitators, according to a Shared Hope International news release.

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Rick and his father, a Navy veteran, got their pawn licenses together 23 years ago, after operating a second-hand store. He’d been featured in newspaper and television stories over the years, and noticed a surge in business after the publicity. “So I figured if I had a reality show, it would really drive business.”
And?
“It’s working!” he says, with a hearty laugh. The popularity prompted an expansion of the showroom last year and the addition of a souvenir section, where visitors can buy “Pawn Stars” T-shirts, magnets and the like. When they have time, the Harrisons autograph souvenirs and chat with fans.
“Pawn Stars” contains elements of other popular reality shows mixed in with the drama associated with a family business. “I’m ‘Antiques Roadshow,’ ‘Pimp My Ride,’ ‘American Choppers.’ I’ve got the whole bike family dynamic,” he says, adding that he’s more down to earth than other shows regarding the value he puts on items people bring to the shop.

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And now Catholic Culture.org – the TSA of Catholic Journalism – has finally had it “up to here”  with the Vatican newspaper after it published excerpts from the new book called “Light of the World”.  Book snippets that revealed Pope Benedict’s evolving belief that  HIV infected male prostitutes who choose to use condoms perhaps demonstrates a morality superior to those infecting somebody with the deadly virus unprotected, has Lawler and Mirus fit to be tied and insisting that heads should role.
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Most Catholics I know saw no huge controversy in the Pope’s statements  – after all Pope Benedict XVI was talking about homosexual prostitutes infected with HIV – which we argue is not a large segment of the Catholic population.   Most folks without the help of Catholic Culture understood the Pope was not talking about teenagers at Catholic schools in the United States. Philip Lawler then asks “Why didn’t the Vatican publisher warn Pope Benedict that his statement was bound to be distorted? Why didn’t the Pope himself recognize that r …

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Although we catch a glimpse into this world of sex through the eyes of a high priced call turned mistress, the book raises questions about exploitation and abuse which are often overlooked.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published an op-ed piece with an eye-catching title “The Pimps Slaves” where he argues:
…whatever one thinks of legalizing prostitution, lets face reality: The big problem out there is the teenage girls who are battered by their pimps, who will have to meet their quotas tonight and every night, who are locked in car trunks or in basements, who have guns shoved in their mouths if they hint of quitting. If the Spitzer affair causes us to lose sight of that, then the biggest loser will be those innumerable girls, far more typical than Kristen, for whom selling sex isnt a choice but a nightmare.

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If Spitzer’s Sex Scandal Was Riveting, a New Memoir Shows the Nightmare of Prostitution
Submitted by editor on October 6, 2010 – 03:30
The tendency of powerful men to cheat and the public’s prurient fascination are constants of American culture. If Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal riveted the media, it was because the public wanted all the juicy details. The same was true for the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair.
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”…whatever one thinks of legalizing prostitution, let’s face reality: The big problem out there is the teenage girls who are battered by their pimps, who will have to meet their quotas tonight and every night, who are locked in car trunks or in basements, who have guns shoved in their mouths if they hint of quitting. If the Spitzer affair causes us to lose sight of that, then the biggest loser will be those innumerable girls, far more typical than “Kristen,” for whom selling sex isn’t a choice but a nightmare.”

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Arizona is a state that has been ravaged by illegal aliens committing criminal acts and has seen a rise in almost all violent crimes; murder, burglary, illegal drugs, human trafficking, prostitution, car theft and home invasions to name a few. Phoenix is now the kidnapping capital of America. Not a title any state wants to bear.
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Comments » 42 June 20, 2010 7:31 a.m. Suggest removal Reply to this post ScrewDriver writes: Dear Mr. Fryar, WHY don’t you channel your energy into CLEANING UP YOUR OWN BACKYARD FIRST, that being, Brown County government? Are you afraid you might lose business at your chain of convenience stores? Sure you are so you do not speak out. You could start by demanding that your friend and county judge AUDIT the books of the county with an outside independent CPA firm. Are you not aware that the county auditor is under investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s office… financial issues (who would have guessed with no o …

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… I think it is a good thing to have done it,” he says now. “Mind you, I think the attack on me in the Senate was one consequence of that, so you shouldn’t deceive yourself into thinking that it’s all an easy road. Some people get very upset about such things.”
Some people, indeed – Liberal senator Bill Heffernan in particular. In 2002, Heffernan used the protection of parliamentary privilege to unleash an extraordinary attack on Kirby and van Vloten, quoting from a fabricated document to accuse the justice of using Commonwealth cars to pick up male prostitutes in Sydney. The senator was forced to resign his parliamentary secretary’s post when the fraud was exposed and he publicly apologised – not before Kirby and van Vloten had endured a week of public humiliation.

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To further ensure they wont be disciplined by their department, some police officers target groups they perceive as less trustworthy. Among the victims of the 11 complaints against SAPD officers were a mentally ill woman, a teenager, a prostitute, a transgendered woman, and a woman in possession of marijuana. Even if the officers are caught, victims may feel intimidated or mistrustful of police and therefore less likely to issue a complaint. The INCITE report points out that while the victim of such misconduct may also legitimately be charged with a crime, an officer is often trained to provide expert testimony. Who are they gonna believe? asked Maher. The cop or the dancer from the strip club?
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6/26/2009 During a traffic stop, when officer Gregory Mickel learns the female passenger has prior prostitution arrests, he orders the male driver to leave the vehicle while he has sex with the female. When the woman later calls SAPD claiming Mickel raped her, he makes himself the responding officer and attempts to close out the case and cancel medical care for the victim.

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A proposal by City Councilwoman Jennifer Ramos to create prostitution-free corridors in San Antonio seemed silly at first blush.
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After hearing about efforts in other cities to target certain areas as prostitution-free corridors, Ramos asked if something similar could be done here.
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The civil injunctions law enforcement officers use to combat gang activity wouldn’t work for legal reasons, he said. The law targets organized criminal activity involving three or more people. Generally speaking, he said, “prostitutes work alone.”
But McManus suggested a more viable alternative: asking judges to order those convicted of prostitution and related crimes to steer clear of the area where they’d been arrested as a “condition of release.” Over time, McManus said, that could have an impact on areas such as the Roosevelt and South Presa corridors, where 71 of the city’s 257 prostitution arrests this year have taken place.

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