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HARRISBURG, Pa. – An appeals court has ruled Pennsylvania State Police botched a prostitution investigation in which troopers gave an informant money to pay for sex four times at a massage parlor, along with a total of $180 for the man's trouble. The Superior Court opinion issued Thursday upheld a Lehigh County judge's ruling that threw out prostitution charges against Sun Cha Chon in suburban Allentown on the grounds that the government had acted outrageously.....

Some of my best friends have worked for ACORN. They are honest, dedicated and moral individuals who appreciated the mission of this group, which has done so much good for some of our poorest citizens. So I take it personally when Congress reduces ACORN to an object lesson about the purported immorality of some community organizers. ACORN isn't perfect. Both its loose organizational supervision and occasional zealotry of its organizers have led to abuses. But Congress has been extremely hypocritical and biased in cutting off federal funds. When two conservative activists posed as a pimp and a prostitute and with...

A self-described “desperate blonde” was arrested after she attempted to trade sex for World Series tickets, police said. Susan Finkelstein, a 43-year-old Philadelphia woman, took out an ad on the website Craigslist declaring her wish for seats at the "Fall Classic." “Desperate Blonde Needs WS Tix,” the title of the ad read, according to police. Police who viewed the ad apparently believed Finkelstein went into foul territory when she described what she’d be willing to do for the tickets. “Diehard Phillies fan – gorgeous tall buxom blonde – in desperate need of two World Series tickets,” the ad went on....

National Public Radio’s Kevin Whitelaw blames “right wing ideologues” for destroying the reputation of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more commonly known by its acronym—ACORN. “By relentlessly focusing on ACORN’s election fraud, mismanagement, embezzlement and other criminal activities, right wing fanatics are overshadowing the significant accomplishments of this great organization,” Whitelaw contends. “They’ve gotten millions enrolled for welfare. They got millions to vote for Obama.” Whitelaw characterized recent revelations that ACORN employees advised applicants on how to set up an illegal prostitution business as “misguided zealotry.” “It’s easy for those who earn an honest living to ridicule...

FBI officials say they have rescued 52 children in a series of raids around the country aimed at under-age prostitution. Authorities say the youngest victim was just 10 years old. The bureau and local police officials also arrested 60 pimps during the three-day enforcement effort in 36 cities. The raids are the latest in a long-running Operation Cross Country aimed at child prostitution rings around the country. Almost 1,600 agents and officers took part in the raids, which led to federal and state charges against a total of 691 suspects. The investigations typically target places where minors are likely to...

It’s been a while since I’ve read an article so bent on convincing readers that sex trafficking is mere figment of the imagination of a bunch of over zealous feminist and religious crusaders, but in the article below we have a prime example of just such a “journalistic” endeavor. Given that Mr. Davies, the intrepid pursuer of journalist truth and excellence who wrote this aspersion, has gone to great length to cast us as Chicken Littles who cry, “The sky is falling!”

The court case filed by an Illinois County Sheriff alleging the Craigslist website abets prostitution was thrown out by a federal judge this week. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart contended that the erotic services portion of the website constituted a "horrific" breach of U.S. law, alleging that the site had facilitated the largest source of prostitution in the country. He also said Craigslist aids underage pimping and human trafficking, ABC News reports. Federal Judge John Grady, however, ruled that the intermediary website cannot be held liable for assisting customers who misuse their service to break the law. "If users routinely...

FLINT, Mich. - Authorities say ads on Craigslist from women looking for "fun" have led to prostitution charges against seven mid-Michigan residents. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton announced charges Thursday against the six women and one man arrested over the summer. He says they face a variety of felonies and misdemeanors, but all are charged with prostitution -- punishable by up to five years in prison and a $500 fine. Leyton and Sheriff Robert Pickell say that in most cases, the women quoted fees for sex as soon as police posing as customers called phone numbers on Craigslist. A 33-year-old...

HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- She doesn't want to be identified, except by her nickname "Sze," and she has a secret past. Her father doesn't know what she did as a 16-year-old, and she hopes he never finds out. But Sze, now 19, wants young girls to hear her story so they never make the same mistake. "My first customer was an ordinary man in his 40s. We skipped the dinner part and went straight to the guest house for sex," Sze recalled. "Actually, I was a bit scared, but I knew this was the only way I could get...

Prostitution is on the rise in “South Park” in an all-new episode titled, “Butters’ Bottom Bitch,” premiering on Wednesday, October 14 at 10:00 p.m. on Comedy Central. Butters has made it all the way to the 4th grade without ever kissing a girl. All of his friends have been teasing him mercilessly. Butters is determined to catch up with the rest of the boys in his class. Meanwhile, one overly dedicated cop wages war on Prostitution in South Park.

Hundreds of minors flown out to Gulf to dance in bars, provide sex, as Ramzan month of abstinence ends For three days now, 2,000 girls, almost all minors, have left for the Middle East, particularly Dubai, to feed the needs of a population starved of entertainment and sex post the rigours of Ramzan. The girls have been told they are being taken to dance in bars, but it is implicit that they will double up as prostitutes for well-paying clients. Another 1,000 will leave by tomorrow. Sources say there has been an approximate 20 per cent rise in the trafficking...

A Toronto dominatrix and two other sex workers began their legal challenge of Canada's prostitution laws in Ontario Superior Court on Tuesday. Lawyers for dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford and prostitutes Valerie Scott and Amy Lebovitch are arguing in a Toronto courtroom that Canada's current legislation endangers workers in the sex industry. The Criminal Code of Canada prohibits communication for the purpose of prostitution. It also prohibits keeping a common bawdy house for the purpose of prostitution. The women say those laws force them onto the street, where they are exposed to physical and psychological violence. They are calling for prostitution to...

A Michigan man has filed suit against the Lansing office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) seeking damages for “bad business advice.” Rodney Mack, a would-be whorehouse entrepreneur, says that local ACORN representatives “did not adequately advise me of all the risks that I would be exposed to when I set up my ‘performance art’ business. I got the loan from the bank like they said I would and I was able to bring in the undocumented workers. But a business rival stole my money and beat up my ‘hos. I lost everything.” The suit is...

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One of the left’s favorite (and lamest) rhetorical tricks is to simply reprint one of their opponent’s statements, verbatim, and without comment. You see, the statement’s idiocy and offensiveness is self-evident, and will surely shock the conscience of any “right thinking” reader. No rebuttal required. It’s a lazy, sophomoric ploy. I suppose the left has been our self-appointed cultural hall monitor for so long they’ve lost the ability, or the need, to offer up sound counterarguments. There’s a classic example of this dopey tactic up at Media Matters today. The Media Matters post is nothing more than a video clip...

The program operated by the San Francisco district attorney's office targeting customers of prostitutes has ill-defined goals and no way to determine its effectiveness, according to a new audit by the city's budget analyst. Despite being touted as a national model that comes at no cost to taxpayers, the audit said the program didn't cover its expenses in each of the last five years, leading to a $270,000 shortfall. The program has first-time offenders arrested for soliciting a prostitute pay as much as $1,000 for a one-day class taught by sex-trafficking experts, former prostitutes and others in exchange for having...

Perhaps we shouldn't have been completely surprised by the videos we've seen of ACORN workers offering assistance to prostitution rings. I mean, there was Cincinnati . . . Shari Bell, 41, of Walnut Hills was arrested Wednesday night by Cincinnati police, reported WCPO, NewsChannel5's Cincinnati sister station. Bell allegedly approached an undercover officer's car in Evanston and offered him sex for money. Police also said they found a crack pipe in Bell's coat pocket. Bell told police she works for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now at the time of her arrest. And then there was Cleveland: An...

The Obama Administration took another blow to its credibility when it was revealed that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was caught on film advising clients on how to engage in illegal activities. In an undercover operation, conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, posed as a pimp and prostitute seeking ACORN’s assistance in setting up a brothel. O’Keefe says much to his surprise, he wasn’t thrown out of ACOTN offices in Baltimore, New York, San Diego and Washington DC. “Here I was, clownishly dressed like a cartoon version of a pimp, asking for their help with...

An extraordinary story out of the US that you might have missed. The community organisation ACORN is a body that fights for housing rights and at the same time administers government anti-poverty programmes. It spends many millions of public dollars. Conservatives have never liked it much. One of their theories is that there is no demand too extreme that ACORN will not try to help. And conservatives appear to have proven their point. Two young activists, posing as a pimp and a prostitute went into the Baltimore office and said they wanted help with housing. The prostitute says she needs...

Anti-ACORN Guerilla Art goes viral in Los Angeles. Obama “Hope” poster artist Shepard Fairey’s studio targeted (below). “ACORN Funded Prostitution Zone” tagged on the wall of the Shepard Fairey-owned Studio Number One. Fairey became a household name after designing the Obama “Hope” Poster..

The money quote: “I think that says a little bit about what Mr. O’Keefe thinks that a black and brown organization would go for.” Well, no. It says a lot about what O’Keefe and Giles think the public would go for, and they’ve been proved correct. A sting involving basic tax/mortgage fraud simply wouldn’t have colored the national imagination as vividly as a dorky kid dressed up like Huggy Bear escorting a three-quarters-naked 20-year-old into ACORN offices. Frankly, if not for the horrendous detail about child-sex-slave trafficking, the premise would have made for a killer Anthony Michael Hall vehicle circa...

Original Title in Polish: "W ACORN Radzili, Jak Założyć Dom Publiczny "(TRANSLATION FROM POLISH TO ENGLISH): TEXT: "A young American amateur filmmaker and activist conservative revealed the illegal practices of ACORN, the well-known organizations help the poor and racial minorities. The film shows how an employee advises ACORN hand, how to set up a public brothel. .. . Hidden camera filmed the visit. O'Keefe asked the secrets from the pfficials ... Afera w ACORN: (17-09-09, 11:40) The ACORN affair: White House indignant, joins the criticism (17-09-09, 11:40) Filmmaker James O'Keefe hidden camera filmed their visit to the local branch...

ACORN Prostitution Tour San Diego--More Videos Hannah Giles and James O' Keefe our hero fake pimp and hooker, took their tour from northern California to the south, San Diego on the border with Mexico. Here they met with a Juan Carlos a very creepy, ACORN worker who tried to pick up Hanna and offered to help the pair smuggle in the child prostitutes from El Salvador. You See he smuggles people over the border all the time. In probably the most uncomfortable moment in all of the videos, the Juan Carlos asks Hannah where she lives and how much does...

The journalists at the center of an embarrassing scandal for the grass-roots organization ACORN also paid a visit to the ACORN office in San Diego County. Grass-roots organizing has gotten a black eye on the national stage after undercover videos involving ACORN, a controversial group with a local office, were released that were shot during a series of visits from a hidden-camera crew. At 6 p.m. on Wednesday, a video was broadcast on Fox's "Hannity" that purported to show a San Diego ACORN staffer discussing human trafficking with two people who were undercover. Earlier in the day, local ACORN officials,...

Hannah Giles and James O' Keefe our hero fake pimp and hooker, took their tour from northern California to the south, San Diego on the border with Mexico. Here they met with a really creepy ACORN worker who tried to pick up Hanna and offered to help the pair smuggle in the child prostitutes from El Salvador. You See he smuggles people over the border all the time. In probably the most uncomfortable moment in all of the videos, the ACORN adviser asks Hannah where she lives and how much does she charge for an entire weekend. I am sure...

ACORN must have figured out that the prostitute, pimp videos shot by independent filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles at four ACORN offices — Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Brooklyn, N.Y., and San Bernadino, Calif. which led to the firing of four employees and the launch of a criminal investigation by the Kings County District Attorney's Office.were not doctored. The organization's just issued the following press release: For Immediate Release: September 16, 2009 ACORN Announces Major Steps to Address Issues Raised by Videos In response to recently released videos of frontline ACORN staff, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis made the following announcement Wednesday...

An ACORN worker in San Bernardino, Calif., says she assembled the groundwork for a case of self-defense, then picked up a gun and shot her former husband. The statements by a woman identified as Tresa Kaelke at an ACORN office in California come in a new video released on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com website.

Oversight: As the Senate votes to de-fund Acorn, add pimping, tax evasion and human trafficking to voter fraud paid for with taxpayer dollars and you have an organized criminal enterprise. It's time to investigate.After Acorn workers were caught on tape in three cities allegedly abetting what they believed was a fraudulent-mortgage and sex-trafficking scheme, the Senate has voted overwhelmingly to strip the group of funding in the Transportation/Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed by an 83-to-7 margin and marked the third time this year that Republicans have tried to block...

34 men and women have been arrested in an undercover prostitution sting called "Operation Hot Date." Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says undercover detectives talked to women who advertised themselves on Craigslist from Thursday through Saturday, September 10-12.

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When we last saw our fake pimp and hooker, they were in Brooklyn, with the usual scenario, trying to find out how ACORN would deal with people looking for a home mortgage so they can open open up a brothel using under-aged girls. Today's stop is San Bernardino, California. In this Acorn office we find out the woman who runs the office is also a poll dancer who may turn tricks on the side. ACORN's is supposedly non political but acording to Teresa, the woman on the tape helping the pair, she speaks with Congressman and Senators every day because...

THE radical activist group ACORN is the E.F. Hutton of prostitution. It stands ready to provide discreet advice on setting up a brothel and engaging in other associated acts of criminality. When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen. This has been established by an audacious video-sting operation undertaken by guerrilla conservative documentarian James O'Keefe, 25, and his sidekick Hannah Giles, 20. O'Keefe posed as a pimp and Giles as a prostitute seeking help getting a mortgage for a brothel. In cities around the country, workers for ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- happily obliged.

The "ACORN supports prostitution and the exploitation of women" has been all over the news for the past week. Now, in yet another instance of this ACORN scandal, video from New York City essentially shows an ACORN official promoting prostitution, marking the third time that this has occurred in three separate cities. One time could be attributed to a rouge employee. Twice could be attributed to coincidence. But three times? It exhibits a culture of corruption and immorality that exists within the ACORN organization, which has been one of Obama's chief organizing forces in the election and the aftermath.

In his book, Joys of Yiddish Leo Rosten defined Chutzpah as "A boy, having just been convicted of murdering his parents, begs the judge for leniency because he is an orphan. A modern example may be ACORN, the corrupt community organizing group. Remember those 14 states where ACORN is being investigated for voter fraud, that did not deter the government from giving the community organizing group. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) called for a probe of the Democrat's favorite voting fraud group. Admittedly his call for an investigation was shocking because of the fraud testimony indicated a relationship with the Obama...

Yes, we should judge Barack Obama by the company that he keeps: New Videos Show A 3rd ACORN Office Offering Advice On Prostitution Ring 84rules September 14, 2009

Now, I guess, we know what a community organizer does, because today we learned, an ACORN Brothel Grows in Brooklyn. When we last saw our fake pimp and hooker, they were in our nation's capitol trying to find out how ACORN would deal with people looking for a home mortgage so they can open open up a brothel using under-aged girls. Now scandal surrounding Jerrold Nadler's favorite activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office were caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute....

Police say that DNA material found at hotel after killing matches that of Cesar Gomez,34. A man arrested and charged with murdering a prostitute at a Garden Grove hotel is a gang member who has been deported to Mexico three times in the last decade, Garden Grove police said at a press conference this morning. Cesar Gomez, 34,of El Monte,is scheduled to be arraigned on a murder charge Monday at West Justice Center. He is accused of strangling Ashley Lilly, 24, of Inglewood, to death at the Crowne Plaza Anaheim Resort on Harbor Boulevard some time late Aug. 20 or...

A Brownsville man, who called himself Don Juan, and his girlfriend have pleaded guilty to smuggling undocumented immigrants into the United States to prostitute them. Juan Luis Coronado, 37, aka Juan Hernandez, and Lee Ann Zieger, aka as Lee Ann Motilla, 40, entered the guilty pleas Wednesday, the same day their trial was scheduled to begin. Coronado pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to import a minor for prostitution purposes. Zieger, also of Brownsville, pleaded guilty to two counts of harboring aliens for prostitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The two will be sentenced Dec. 8. Coronado remained in...

Two more ACORN officials were fired Friday after a second video surfaced showing staffers in the community organizers' Washington office offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute acquire illegal home loans that would help them set up a brothel. The firings came less than 24 hours after another pair of ACORN officials from the group's Baltimore office were canned for instructing the "pimp" and "prostitute" how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador that pair said they wanted to import to work as child prostitutes....

Lila Rose must be smiling at this! Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe just rolled ACORN! First, the two get the goods in Baltimore and then wait for ACORN headquarters to respond by saying that the whole thing was just an "isolated" incident. But, what ACORN didn't know was that after they left Baltimore, these two went to the ACORN offices in Washington D.C. and got more video! A Second Set Of Videos Exposing ACORN! 84rules September 11, 2009

This video features clips of a recent undercover investigation involving ACORN employees in Baltimore. The ACORN employee offers tax advice to the “prostitute” to report that she is in the “performing arts”. This tax advice may astonish you; this is a MUST WATCH video! Video: ACORN Baltimore Prostitution Investigation

I thought I'd heard every possible charge about corruption at ACORN, a feisty, union-backed activist group that became infamous last year when it was investigated for voter registration fraud in 15 states. Just yesterday, 11 ACORN workers were accused by Florida prosecutors of falsifying information on some 900 voter registration forms. But this morning brings a Fox News report that ACORN officials in Baltimore offered to help get a housing loan and falsify tax documents for a proposed house of prostitution that would employ underage girls from El Salvador. ... In helping Mr. O'Keefe set up his supposed brothel, ACORN...

ACORN engages in voter fraud and Obama invites them to shape national policy. ACORN engages in embezzlement schemes and Obama invites them to help with the national census next year. Now that ACORN is shown to be engaged in child prostitution rings, what will Obama offer them next? Control of America’s public schools? VIDEO: ACORN Aids And Abets Child Sex Trade 84rules September 10, 2009

I think a lot of people are missing something here, I hoped I could bring focus to it more. This girl Kenya is trying to buy a house. That gets lost in the child prostitution part(and for good reason) but what it does is expose a part of the mortgage crisis that us conservatives have talked about for a while. ACORN couldn't do what it's doing without all the help it gets from government. Not just the 501c3 status, but also all the laws on the books that make way for politically correct loans. Now let's say this all actually...

ACORN was busted trying to help cover up underage prostitution. The "pimp" was undercover to demonstrate the amount of corruption ACORN perpetrates with our tax dollars. http://www.andimright.com/?p=810 http://www.examiner.com/x-14881-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m9d10-ACORN-aids-underage-prostitution

In a story on FoxNews Radio, truth broker Glen Beck is revealing how ACORN assists people in tax evasion in the process of helping them to buy houses. Beyond that; assisting in prostitution and condoning child labor in the illegal sex trade along with illegal immigration. Beck plans on playing an undercover video made by two people who were fed up with the corruption displayed by ACORN in their institutionalized voter registration fraud, their intimidation of voters. The corrupt manner in which members of congress are protecting ACORN ought to bring clearly to light just about every member of the...

VIDEO: BIGGOVERNMENT.COM, Andrew Breitbart's new site that launched today, has released the investigation Glenn Beck has been referring to all week when he said, "You will see by the end of the week that people will go to jail."

Sex Trade Ring Busted in Houston, Ex-Police Officer and 5 Others Charged August 26, 2009 HOUSTON — A sex trade ring in which young girls were allegedly pistol-whipped and forced from their homes into sexual slavery was broken up in Houston this week and several suspects are in custody. Five people, including a former Houston police officer, were arrested in the largest sex trafficking case in Texas' southern district, MyFOXHouston.com reported. A sixth remains on the run. John Butler, 47, William Hornbeak, 34, Jamine Lake, 27, Andre McDaniels, 39, and Kristen Land, 28, all of Houston, as well as Tulsa,...

* Man paid prostitute for sex * She gave birth to his baby * He is refusing to pay child support A MAN who paid a woman for sex is resisting child support requests after the prostitute had his baby. The married Melbourne man argues the child is potentially a breach of the Trade Practices Act. He told a federal magistrate he shouldn't have to pay for the inadvertent offspring given the circumstances of the conception, the Herald Sun reports. The accidental dad - who can be referred to only by the pseudonym Mr Lilley - told magistrate Grant Riethmuller...