[rhema]

COURTNEY SEALE, 28 | Seale has more than 60 arrests for larceny, drugs, assault and prostitution. The third photo shows her jaw, broken in a beating, wired shut. She currently has a warrant out for her arrest in Washington. She couldn’t be reached for this story.

[conservative cat]

The important thing is prostitution and drugs. Not that I am condoning prostitution, but I bet Heidi Fleiss's girls didn't look like that.

[SteveMcKing]

This isn't news to conservatives. In fact, it's "told-ya-so" material to show your liberal pals who think every vice is harmless and should be legal.

[Jabba the Nutt]

I just wish people wouldn't abuse the term "victimless crime". It's a legal term, meaning there is no reporting victim. In assault, robbery or fraud, there is someone whose rights were violated and there is a violator. There is a victim of a crime. In contraband, whether drugs, guns, African art or foie gras, both buyer and seller want to take part in the transaction, therefore there is no victim to report a crime. Prostitution falls into this category, both the prostitute and john want the transaction to take place.

This doesn't mean, that taking drugs, alcohol, streetwalking is harmless. People hurt themselves with these things as they hurt themselves in many other ways. Depending on your philosophy, people are victims or perpetrators of their addictions.

[motexva]

The fact is, the ones who work the chicken ranches in Nevada are in good shape, not strung out, not diseased and do pretty well for themselves. If it was regulated you wouldn't see a lot of these problems. Of course, even if every state had a district like the county in NV, you would still see illegal acts of prostitution because you will always have people willing to sell it and others willing to buy, and all the moralizing in the world won't change that.

If you all want to waste your tax money prosecuting this stuff, have fun. I wish I could get a refund on mine because it's as big a waste as the welfare state. Neverending demand, neverending supply and you will never see the penalties become unduly harsh because the people passing the legislation also enjoy the vice itself.

All this applies to the drug war as well, another never ending, never won moralistic crusade with a large set of corrupt lobbyists and civil servants who depend on the crusade for their livlihood.

I'm sure the pictures are sad. These doxies want to destroy themselves, it's their business, not mine.

[FreedomCalls]

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

So much for the liberal-tarian "victimless crime" mouthwash.

Interesting article - what a good man to put this together, and note the councilwoman who is developing a treatment center WITHOUT TAX DOLLARS****.

Wouldn't it be great if religious organizations did something like this? (Maybe they do, I'm not the most informed person in the world.)

Let me know if you want (back)on/off this pinglist.

[narses]

Ping.

[narses]

Ping.

[bigsigh]

It never ceases to astonish me the ignorance on these issues. We outlaw something that creates and underground economy and culture and then we wonder why drug users and gangsters are involved. The we say see, I told you we needed that law. Amazing!

[goldstategop]

The reason women get beaten, raped and worse is precisely cause prostitution is illegal. I've never understood the logic that says if you exchange money for sex, you're committing a crime. If the transaction takes place in private, who's harmed? Its none of the government's business who people sleep with and other laws can take care of unsightly aspects such a streetwalking. Prostitution laws can never be fairly enforced since their target is of the most basic human drives. Unless we want to make every one a sexless eunuch, you're never going to rid the world of its second oldest profession. There will always be an on-going demand for sex, regardless of whether its paid for or not.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Dat Ho in the photo didn't bring in her fair share of money and I couldn't add another set of spinners on my wheels.:)

[Urbane_Guerilla]

Amazing how some conservatives want brutal force to interfere with an adult person's self-destruction. And their cheap and degrading use of pathos to get the government to use the force is reprehensible. Why would any decent human being publish these photos on the internet? It just shows what callous disregard they have for other human beings. These photos are as vicious and selfish as child porn.

Christians in particular on this board are always eager to show their smallness, the shriveled soul of the pharisee. Their hearts always go out to the easy, praiseworthy, costless show of Christian love, but so rarely to the sinner the love of whom made Jesus worthy of being called a savior.

The images shown on this thread are Christian pornography ... the love of looking at the suffering of sinners, so one can exhibit superiority.

The police will not help these sinners by arresting them. And the Christians will not help them by sneering at them, the way liberals sneer at others to demonstrate their supposed superiority.

Like liberals, many Christians on this board just want to talk the talk, smug and warmed by their trite sense that the call for government brute force vindicates their moral correctness.

Jesus preached a hard thing. The lazy Christians prove that every day.

[Casloy]

This isn't about prostitution, this is about drugs. Street prostitutes this cop is arresting are almost universally drug addicts who came to prostitution out of a need for quick money. Thinking you can convince these women to not be prostitutes is like thinking you can fix a violent alcoholic by sending him to anger management classes.