Posted on 01/15/2008 6:55:08 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Lay a copy of this article on her bed. Don't say a thing. See what she says.
Amen - my 18-year-old college student knows that I’ll be on the couch waiting up for her no matter what time she gets in. It’s both accountability and comfort - she knows I’ll be there, and she knows I’ll know if she’s not there and that she won’t have to wait till morning to be missed. Dads, you’re the first line of defense in this area.
Colonel, USAFR
This makes me really sick.
An Ann Arbor truck stop. If that is the one I am thinking of, it was a prostitution hot spot back in the 1970s when I still lived in A2.
Friends back then kept assuring me that prostitution was a victimless crime and I was uncool because I opposed legalizing it.
I am still uncool and stories like this one are why.
According to the census, there’s about 20 million kids in the 10-14 age group.
100,000 would be about a half a percent of that, or one child slave for every 200 free ones.
You are correct, it’s wise to check facts a bit.
As much as I hate prostitution, I’d rather see it legalized and the women get full protection under the law.
Oh yea, and I’m uber-uncool in that if you’re found to be a pimp or a john for child prostitutes, instant execution.
I’m cranky that way.
Sorry, porn’s porn and it does nobody any good. And no, I’m not goody two-shoes. I’m a former military prosecutor and defense counsel and have seen too much of what porn leads to, both for the offender and the offended.
Colonel, USAFR
Nice catch on the census numbers, that's exactly the kind of analysis I was thinking of.
The fact that pornography plays a role by fueling these evil desires and eventually leads some to act on those desires is just an obvious conclusion. It has nothing to do with trucks other than you are going to find truckers at truck stops. To pretend blaming pornography is like blaming trucks is a disgusting response.
There is a lot of talk on this forum of securing our borders which must be done. But our interstate highway is not safe. It is a lifeline of all kinds of criminal commerce other than that of trafficking illegal aliens. For any policeman to make a stop of a suspicious vehicle on one of our interstates is a very very dangerous undertaking even in so called flyover country. With terroism such a priority at our aiports, criminals of all sorts make their way on the interstates.
Have you considered that mom or dad may in fact themselves have been the user on their kid's PC looking at porn, thinking that their spouse won't look there if they're checking on their spouse?
I agree with one of the previous posters. Public Shaming of these perverts would go a long way to correcting the issue.
And, perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I can't imagine people (huge numbers of people, judging by the article)seeing children openly selling themselves and doing nothing about it.
The way to attack a problem as hideous as this is through hard facts (cited) and legal action. Not through hyperbolic rants like this article. All that does is have good people say "No way it's that bad. I'll make sure my kids don't do this!" and then they move on with their lives.
I'd also ask what these "researchers" did with their research... Take pictures? Call the police? Write down license plates? A quick note to the house of the perp "Who was that you were with last night?" would make for a lot of inconvenient questions from wives. Certainly the truckers would be *very* easy to track - if they're not independents, their companies would be very, very interested in their shenanigans. And the companies employing the independents would be interested, too.
I'm sorry, this article just does not pass the sniff test, IMHO. It's too bad - this is a hideous crime. It deserves real scrutiny and articles like this don't help.
Indeed, the majority of truck drivers are good decent people. I was one!
Criminals are a minority in practically any classification except prison inmates. That said, the minority of truck drivers that are criminals is a larger minority than in many other jobs.
“Nice catch on the census numbers”
Thanks, the internet is Power to the People.
I bet it would have taken Dan Rather’s 1980 staff a week to do what I clicked up!
“which has a GPS tracker for parents to use to keep track of the kids.”
No, it keeps track of where the phone is. The phone could be in a movie multiplex at the mall, while the kid is an hour away and still moving.
The legality of many things which "do nobody any good" is part of living in a free country.
I really was unsure as to the sarcasm. While I was a truck driver I did encounter discrimination and prejudice that caused me to appreciate why discrimination and prejudice can be both a bad thing and understandable.
“Lot Lizards”...nothing new about this except someone writes a news article.
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