Like MOST pedophiles and men who abuse their own daughters, my father chased "respectability", including when he started pursuing becoming a union leader to becoming an attorney. We see this with men like the BTK Killer or Warren Jefferies that they routinely seek the cloak of respectability. Same with Bill Cosby even who took hard stances against profanity with other entertainers.
When I started my therapy over the abuse, I was told to 'tell everyone" as victims as known to keep the secrets until they become toxic and they maybe start abusing drugs. Which I was also coming into recovery in 1985, and told this honesty would keep me clean.
So I told. That year my aunt was also in early sobriety so she'd organized a family lunch. I then told each one of my relatives, including his two sisters and brother, about my father's sexual and physical abuse of me starting when I was 8. They of course SEEMED understanding. One of my aunts admitted she suspected something was wrong. The rest said nothing, and then moved physically away from me the rest of the day. I was then shunned.
Never to really speak to me again. Oh a few years would go by and my aunts would talk to me again - briefly. Only to find some new excuse not to talk to me, or my daughter again. I found myself not even invited to future family get togethers. When a wedding came up, he was invited and I wasn't. Why?
Because these predators not only deny they did anything, but they also always claim the victim is "crazy" - encouraging them to shun the victim. Which he did. As for my own family, I think some of it is guilt they knew something was wrong - but didn't DO anything to help me. It's just easier to ignore me than to deal with the situation.
When these things get down to a case of "he said she said" which most of the time they do, I used to wonder "how do you know who is telling the truth?" After now working with other victims of all kinds of abuse, I now see the "patterns". I've also learned that as a "neurodivergent" as I know now I am - I see "patterns" most people don't see.
What I've learned is that when dealing with a serial killer or a serial predator - the difference with a true predator versus situations where there is a false accusation is IF I truly was as crazy as he was claiming - then why wasn't he then trying to HELP me? I look to their REACTIONS in other words.
IF my father thought my mother was truly as crazy as he claimed - then why didn't he step in to take me from her? If he thought I was as crazy as he was claiming I was when people asked him about what I said about him on TV - why wasn't he reaching out to me to get me any help? Instead he made no attempts to get me therapy or lifted a finger to do one thing to help me because he KNOWS I'm not lying. Instead his narcissism just revealed itself even more by his claims about how "I harmed him with my accusations". Which when I did confront him directly - all I heard about was "how I'd ruined HIS life".
My response is if he hadn't done what he did - then I wouldn't have talked about it on those talk shows. Considering the last time I saw him he was a lawyer and owned a house and had just ripped the state of Idaho off for $300,000, and my mother for child support - I don't see how I "ruined" his life. But I know everyone he knows in Idaho has been told how "crazy" I am, because that's how they keep you from finding out the OTHER side of the story.
Now, this dynamic becomes even more complicated when it comes to programs, people, politicians, etc who are engaging is MASSIVE abuse of MANY victims. ESPECIALLY when you're working within the field of helping victims.
I did enter prostitution with a family of black pimps. However I was never threatened, harmed or coerced by them. I'm not saying they were puppy dogs. I'm not saying they didn't harm other people. I'm not saying I wasn't tricked into getting into bed with them figuratively speaking. Nor am I saying all other pimps aren't dangerous. I'm only speaking about my experiences here. My story was that they recruited me into a very high level of the industry to begin with. So I was at the very top level of this world where Madam's are servicing men of fame, power, and wealth. I have never stood on a street corner in my life despite having "turned many tricks".
When they left California to move to Texas, they left me all of their phones and clients. They had operated out of the nightclub, but they'd closed that when they left the state. So I had to do things differently. I made friends with the other madams in different area codes. I did this because of the rise in violence we saw related to the cocaine epidemic and AIDS, so we Madam's started banding together to deal with these new problems.
One of those Madam's was Elizabeth Adams, known as the Beverly Hills Madam. Her regular clients included men who were members of Massad. I had been getting clients through a local Arab restaurant who were members of the Saudi royal family. Through the Death Row Madam I was seeing top Hollywood Executives. This relationship allowed me to see what was happening all over the county - not just in my area code.
This became a perfect storm of events where I then found myself in the middle of what's now known as Iran Contra. Simply, this is now a proven known fact that Reagan, along with senators like Charlie Wilson, and the then Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton, and many other men who collect public "respectability' about them - imported massive amounts of cocaine by connecting pilots such as Barry Seal to drug lords like Pablo Escobar and then dropped these drug like bombs through forced players like Rick "Freeway" Ross, who in turn used the financially desperate kids of cities like Compton and South Central LA, to set up the sales and distribution of crack cocaine.
The cash was used to finance bringing Sandinista soldiers to an abandoned airport in Mena, Arkansas, to train to fight and operate missile launchers who could bring down Russian helicopters in a cold war to fight communism and the Russians "unofficially". The film "Made in America" is very funny because it was so accurate!
Now the beauty of recruiting the gangs to set up crack houses in their home towns, and even dropping off boxes of guns in front of these kids, is that this served two other agendas - one being the lowering of the property value of these cities so that in time these same men could come in and flip these houses because of getting grants to "redevelop" these areas - picking up property for pennies that now they're selling for millions of dollars. Was it planned? Having been in many of the board rooms, houses and offices where this was discussed - yes I saw it was planned.
Which allowed me to see first how rap was born. I watched pallets of cocaine coming off boats into trucks I drove to a South Central warehouse where it was then cooked and packaged into crack vials. From there they were dropped off at crack houses no different than if we were milk trucks making morning deliveries, and then given to the dealers who in turn had their dealers selling for them like some massive MLM scheme.
Only how did they communicate back in the days of not having cell phones or computers? Simple - rap tapes were made on cassettes and dropped off in the deliveries. If a cop or outsider heard them, it just sounded like gibberish and noise. That's because a pig Latin type language was taught to these black kids when they were also sent to juvenile detention because their mom's were either jailed as a prostitute or drug users. So instructions and news was given to this new sales force through the first rap tapes.
This scheme more than compensated those involved through CRASH grants given to "fight gangs". I SAW kids literally recruited off the streets by these cops who picked up just random kids. They'd take a polaroid and put that kid in the "gang book". Then accused them of being gang members, put them in detention for training as then an actual gang member and then re-recruited them to be a soldier for this scheme by further claiming this was a "war on drugs" where if the kid didn't do as he was told - they'd just violate his probation and put him back into jail. Yes I witnessed this happening with my own eyes.
Now how did the Compton chapter communicate with the Hollywood producers who were crafting this false narrative on the nightly news as the cover story?
Through the Madam's is how. Freebase was first introduced into Hollywood in the purses of our escorts. The same pimp who first came to Rick "Freeway" Ross to recruit him into the scheme, was the same guy who came and talked to each of us madams about how we could increase our income and clientele by also having our ladies sell coke. How else did it jump from Compton to Bel Air?
So I'm meeting top producers, directors, studio heads, etc and while we're talking on the phone to supply entertainment for their parties and business meetings, we're also bringing this mlm into Hollywood. In fact, that's how I met Tony Curtis. He wanted some freebase and not sex, so I made a visit. Then he had me stay for a few months. I left three days before he collapsed because I couldn't stop him using and I didn't want to see him die.
The POWER of recruiting "criminals" to be their foot soldiers is perfect because how do we say no? Who do we call to report this bad behavior trying to involve us if that very devil sitting in front of us has a badge and the power to throw us in prison for life?
The family who owned this nightclub that had been my introduction into this world saw what was up - and they closed the club and took everyone back to Texas. There they opened up black churches and that's a whole other story. But now they're gone, it's just me. I am vulnerable. But they went to Texas to get involved in something entirely different after one of them had killed himself after a three day coke binge.
Things turned south because of Elizabeth Adams. As she's introducing me to her clients, I'm also seeing how powerful they are. Their word against that of say an Arkansas governor would never be believed. Even my own father would say I was "crazy" after all.
Now they know I'm alone. My first recruiter was a Beverly Hills cop. He framed me and arrested me and then offered the record would disappear if I went along with his agenda and "met his friends". His "friends" included a guy making illegal unmarked guns in his garage. Another "friend" was making counterfeit money in his garage. Yet another guy has a warehouse where they're processing huge vats of leaves into cocaine. So yeah I'm being introduced to some very high level criminals.
From there I was introduced to FBI men and CIA men. Who started out just asking me questions. Soon they escalated into giving me assignments : such as having a white girl drive a truck full of drugs into S. Central so it wouldn't be stopped. Again, yes I drove the truck but how do you say no to guys like this knowing what they can do to you just because they have a badge? And who would believe you?
As the requests escalated not just with me, but all the Madam's - we finally balked. Why? Because they were now asking us to help them locate women "no one would miss" to be put on diplomatic planes never to be stopped nor searched or heard from again.
The ruse was a martial arts competition fought to the death held on an island so no one went to jail because there were no laws on this island in the 70s and 80s. So some women were just hired as escorts to work this event and we Madam's were asked to choose women no one would miss to be selected to go. Bruce Lee showed this in Enter the Dragon.
Now, who would believe this? Who would believe we were asked to send our escorts to do audition tapes at the Dating Game? Tapes then sent overseas. If a woman was selected, she'd do the show and win a date into a foreign country. How exciting. Then all her papers showed she left the country. Did she come home? Who asked when her chaperone was Chuck Barris, the producer of the show. Before he died, Chuck made his own confession about this. I could see the pain in his eyes. I also knew -who would believe he was a "CIA assassin"?
For the street pimps - they got offered $25000 a shot to ,"sell" problems. If they wanted rid of a girl, they'd be paid and she'd be drugged and loaded on a diplomatic plane not searched. Soon pimps were threatening their women - you mess with me and I'll sell you bitch". Why not get rid of a problem for $25,000 a pop?
For men like Eddie Nash, who owned the largest disco in LA, a strip club and a porn company - he had his own assassins as we learned with the Wonderland murders, but he could also sell women no one would miss and access to find them in these clubs.
Now I ask you - how would I say no? Who would I call to report this? Who would believe me? I'd be accusing politicians, law enforcement, business owners, celebrities, executives, etc. I'm just a "prostitute" or in other words a "criminal". The head of the Hillside Stranger Task Force then tells me no search warrant can be executed by my word, or that of any "criminal" because prostitution is illegal and therefore we are "criminals".
A point driven home very publicly when Linda Lovelace went onto national talk shows confessing shed been forced to film "Deep Throat", the first Xxx film shown in a mainstream theatre, by her husband pointing a gun at her off camera. She tells us her bruises from her beatings are visible in the film, and they are.
Further, the producers knew this and did nothing because they were mobsters. She pleads her case because her life is ruined by this film all the way up to Edwin Meese, the California Attorney General, who created the Meese Porn Commission just to investigate stories like hers of many women abused on set.
I mean today we see a woman sleeping with 1000 men on camera. I ask you HOW do we know she's doing this of her own free will? Because she's blond? They're the best kind as no one questions if they're being forced by a husband either.
Meese wants to prosecute the producers of this filmed rape, but the closest law he can find is obscenity. So he files obscenity charges against everyone on the film but Linda. Major media goes to town ridiculing them and confusing the issue by saying it's not "obscenity" as it isn't. The cases lose but a MESSAGE was sent to EVERYONE in that world - you have no escape and these predators will never be held responsible. While the film makers celebrated the cases lost - many of us heard the nails on the caskets about what are we going to do about these men?
I wanted to change this. In 1987 I created a hotline that THESE victims could call who had no one else they could call. Only even then I was in my 20s, 27 actually, and I STILL didn't know just how much higher and deeper this whole thing went because we didn't get the internet until 1995.
I wanted to create a way that people like me could avoid jail, and losing our kids, to this system. I saw drug court allow addicts to get treatment, so why not create a 12 step program which would allow us to also get help instead of incarceration?
In the process, I met other survivors who had seen what we'd seen. I asked them to come onto national talk shows with me thinking if America knew what was being done to us then maybe the laws would change. When I did this I had a long talk with Edwin Meese. He explained why prostitution in the USA would NEVER be decriminalized for political and economic reasons.
When he explained it - I understood why realistically they won't ever decriminalize prostitution. George Soros even knew this, and that's why he paid all those women to try to convince prosecutors to just stop arresting anyone for prostitution. Which sounds great AT FIRST - and then you realize without an arrest, there's no investigation being done to see if she's being trafficked.
Leaving only one avenue for us - those of us forced to do things by our own government and law enforcement - that was to be classified as a "victim". Of what? Prostitution? The RICO Act was passed because regular laws about regular criminals didn't apply.
Such it was for us. The RICO Act was designed because no matter how much illegal booze or murders Al Capone was responsible for - he never did it himself. . Now they could arrest the guy they caught with the illegal booze - but Al would have him replaced the next day. That guy was just a cog in a wheel. So the Rico Act was created. This is the same concept with respect to sex trafficking.
As I'm continuing to lobby for this whole situation to change + keep in mind my perspective. We HAD laws against street pimps already. I know this because I was charged with them as my mother was charged with pimping me when we were both arrested in 1984. To shut me down?
Hell no. After they took all my money, plastered the news with me, and now got a three year probation tail on me to hold over my head - was this to make me go legit? Hell no.
I was approached and told I could go back to just the way it was before with Adams as my "partner". She had health problems and agreed to continue under these men's thumb by being an informant and doing whatever they asked her to do for them.
It was made clear to me if I agreed, I'd be offered the same movie and book deal Adams got. She even got a famous actress to play her in the movie. These people controlled Hollywood after all. Then I'd be established as the High Tech Madam so newbies would all want to come work for me just like they did with her. Only I would now be doing what these men told me to do.
But I grew up watching gangster films and I didn't see their "witnesses" treated very well or live long for that matter. I also couldn't get the images out of my mind of that woman loaded onto that plane like a side of beef against her will and no one to save her.
So I said no. Now there is a wheel - so when I said "no" and the Death Row Madam was still on death row, Heidi Fleiss replaced me at Adams' side, and another woman named Jody took over Cheri's territory - and the wheel continued to turn. That's because men like the men who use madams needed us. We didn't have the internet mind you until the mid-1990's. These men aren't going to risk picking someone up off the street and having what happened to Eddie Murphy happen to them. So they needed madams to call to get their needs met. Meaning when I didn't go back to work as a madam, SOMEONE had to take my place. Same for Cheri - someone took over her place.
Of course since I had said "no", this began the attempts on my life. They even tried to kill my attorney. When that failed, they kept trying to plant drugs on me to frame me on a drug charge. They'd framed Rick "Freeway" Ross for life. He later got released but that was a lucky break. That or who knows. My mom always managed to clear the drugs before they could arrest me and I avoided my car and apartment for a long time. I got a job in a law office so they couldn't plant drugs on me at work. They kept trying to frame me clear up to 1986.
Why? Because now they were trying to pass a law to take me by force into quarantine on an island. They said all addicts, prostitutes and gays, but I knew I was on that list. A lot of people who knew about Iran Contra were on that list too.
So first I had to fight this law from passing. I went into any news show I could to fight it and it didn't pass. But we still did have an AIDS crisis. I had studied nlp and alternative medicine since I was a teen and my teachers showed me evidence this virus had been manmade to kill specific populations. How convenient the same communities were the same people who had witnessed Iran Contra.
Meaning they wanted to kill all witnesses. When I decided to start this hotline and program, I also knew we had to dismantle this system preying upon us. I'd seen what they did to the Black Panthers, Malcom x and Martin Luther King who also tried to fight this evil system preying upon us, so I decided to take another route. I reached out to find a white male reporter. We on the streets knew what was up but it wasn't historical fact.
For that you had to get a white male reporter. So we talked to Gary Webb. Who said the only way to expose this was to start at the very bottom. If you've ever seen the film about Gary, you see that it was a madam who first approached him to get him interested in investigating the claims I'd made. Well, that woman in the shadows in that film was me.
Gary set about laying out step by step Iran Contra in his investigative work. That blew up in the 90s and exposed. In fact all hell broke loose once he started running his articles about what he'd found. The USA was convicted of this so this is no "theory". The world court declared us guilty of these illegal war tactics.
Then just as Gary's work was getting past the drug layer to expose not only how the system of social services, detention, the courts, mental health, and so on were rigged against us and how these government grants were being played, including how kids are "sold" through foster care and then how after Iran Contra was exposed showing how they're exploited Americans - they shifted to targeting the illegal aliens.
After all, the American laws didn't even apply to them right? After the conviction of the US in Iran Contra, there was a shift to start doing the same thing that had been done before, only to the undocumented. They were getting away with it at Gitmo - so why not an illegal?
So just as Gary gets past the drug layers to start on the higher layers that would expose the gun trafficking, the sex trafficking, the organ trafficking - JUST as he's built the foundation about the drug trafficking and he's proven it happened -- suddenly he supposedly shoots himself in the head twice with a shotgun. That's after they got him fired so he's broke and then his wife leaves him so they can claim it was a "suicide". NO ONE can shoot themselves in the head TWICE with a shotgun however.
After his death I had tried going to other reporters to see if they'd pick up where he left off. Only to be rebuffed instantly by them saying "I can't print anything about the Clintons or I'll be fired and I don't want to get my head blown off like Gary's was" so any reputable reporter didn't want to touch this story. I can't blame them as the "suicides" started piling up.
But from 1987 on to about 1991 when I got pregnant, I had continued to run the Prostitutes Anonymous program and hotline. For many years we were building a national network of "prostitution courts".
The first ones we did weren't in LA except one. So these are different. These are women forced by poverty, abuse and drugs into prostitution on the streets where they get arrested. AT FIRST, up to the mid 1990s, we were CLEARING out the jails of prostitutes and saving the counties a fortune in the costs to prosecute and incarcerate these women, and the social costs of putting their kids into foster care. Those who had more than a year were losing custody of their kids permanently.
Let me give you an idea what this means - when I was on the LA task force Mayor Bradley had put together to deal with the AIDS crisis, he sent me into the LA womens' jail that had 4400 women inside. Out of those 4400 women, 2200 of them were prostitutes. Out of the 2200 women, EACH of them had more thane one kid who was now in foster care because she's there in jail. When I went to Allentown, they had about 2000 prostitutes in their jail. Out of that 2000, same thing - all of the women had one of more children who had been put into foster care because if they had someone to care for their kids other than them - they wouldn't have been hooking to care for the kids. Now after a year of a child taken from their moms, the termination of their parental rights becomes permanent unless the father steps up. Again, if the father were the kind to step up, she wouldn't have been hooking. So these women were FLOODING our systems with kids by going to jail.
So now we're creating what I THOUGHT was a solution. PA had cleared 90 percent of the LA jails of prostitutes. So we had in Chicago, Phoenix, New York, Allentown, Baltimore, and 11 major cities by 1992. Any woman jailed on a prostitution charge - we're able to have them tell the court they're going to our meetings - and viola! They're out of jail or don't go in.
The savings to the county was in the millions. LA saved millions by releasing prostitutes to us instead of jail. So much the money saved in LA was used to create the first AIDS office. Allentown saved over a million and in 1991 used it to open an office to help kids and seniors. In Toledo in 1992, we'd saved them over $2 million dollars. I saw this happen in each city we had this program - where the women we helped moved into new lives and the money saved went to help other needs in the community. BUT keep in mind this was before all the "for profit" prisons and the federal grants when it used to COST the city/county money to pay to prosecute and incarcerate someone on a prostitution charge. It would COST them to put their kids into foster care.
But then it shifted. In 1987, there was only TWO for profit prisons. By 2000, 86 percent of the prisons in the country were "for profit" ones. All 86 percent of them by that time were now being paid by the federal government money for each day each inmate is incarcerated.
How did this happen? As I'm working with the local officials to clear out their jails, talking to the mayor, talking to city council, etc. - I was alone. After a year and we're seeing all this money we're saving, I'm now seeing this guy next to me I've never met in a very nice suit. He seems to be coming into every city I've been about a year after we get this program going working with the local courts/jails.
So my work was being followed by a lobbyist with the electric company. I don't know his name offhand, but when I asked "who is this guy", they told me he was a lobbyist for "the electric company". When I'd ask what he was talking about - they told me he was approaching the city offering them all kinds of federal grants. Grants to build a new jail - powered on electricity of course. I learned the jail then got contracts from the jails. Contracts that then got sold by Enron I later learned when I got a job with Enron - but that's another story. I say that because Enron routinely hired strippers to work for them selling these electrical contracts, just as big pharma did the same thing to get their opiates sold.
Basically, as I'd just proven we can clear out most of these jails and save them millions of dollars, and save the families who aren't now ripped away from their kids, and then they get all messed up because of being taken from mom - this guy comes in sales pitching how much money is to be made IF THEY OVERCROWD THE JAILS AGAIN.
But to get money to build a new jail - you have to first show you're over crowded and need the new bigger building. But to over crowd them again would mean more kids being taken away from mom and costing money again. So many of these cities were fighting back, and telling me they were fighting back because they knew what would happen now if we went back to the old way.
But when the city politicians balked against undoing the work we had just done - this guy told them of federal grants paying for EVERYTHING. Not just that they'd get paid to build a new jail. More kids back taken away from all these women if they go back to being locked up again? That's ok because we'll give you grants to pay for all of it, including bonuses for each child that gets adopted. So they're told they'll get federal grants to hire and retrain more CPS workers if they agree to this. That if they have to adopt out more kids again, they'll get paid more money for that.
People still balked. What tipped the scales was about 1995 Good old Bill Clinton gets a law passed REQUIRING 35,000 to be in detention DAILY. Why? Because all these brand new for profit prisons have shareholders in corporations like Blackrock, where all these government employees get their pensions from that's why. So now it's clear if you want your pensions then you go along with the program here. And that's EXACTLY what this guy said to these councilmen and supervisors and mayors - if you want to see your pensions protected, then you need to go along with the program.
But still a lot of these people didn't feel good about preying on their community. It's very simple - you make jobs hard to get. Then moms needing to feed the babies need money. You tell them they can't get financial help unless they have a GED which if they had to begin with they wouldn't be in trouble to begin with. They turn to prostitution to feed their kids. Many with no idea how to do this go on street corners. They're picked up right off the street corner without the cops having to spend any money investigating any cases, and arrested fast and easy. Their kids are taken. Charges are added that take them more than a year to fight so their kids are adopted out.
But this isn't enough and we don't have Iran Contra anymore. People outside of LA can't afford cocaine. Plus the gangs were born in LA. Now many gang members expanded outside of LA and went to certain places like Chicago or NY. So the same model as used with the cocaine during Iran Contra won't work.
However, there are biker gangs in areas where there aren't gang members. They don't need to smuggle the coke into town from the planes and boats because meth can be cooked up anywhere. We don't have Hollywood millionaires everywehre - but we do have working class guys who CAN afford meth.
But most moms aren't taking meth. So let's set up alllll these doctors to push out a super addictive opiate on the masses. The strippers were also hired by big pharma, who then went out to recruit doctors into prescribing oxycontin. This drug comes out of a pharmacy - so they don't need gang bangers and they don't need pilots. BECAUSE THE SAME PEOPLE behind the pensions and big pharma and oil and electric power and the prisons - are now wanting to create massive incarceration and they're ALL OVER the USA.
Only what's the FIRST thing women hooked on drugs then do for drug money whether it's meth or opiates? Either stand on a corner or turn to Backpage - Backpage because that's where they used to sell their furniture off of. That or Craigslist - both published by the Village Voice. Craigslist agrees to push all the prostitution ads off to Backpage.
But this endangers Epstein and big pharma. So WRITTEN AGREEMENTS are made to assure the focus isn't on any of THEM. How do you give more assurances? By agreeing to focus most of it on either the illegal aliens or low income who share zip codes. Yes they targeted certain zip codes comprised of mostly lower class people where Epstein's associates didn't live. That's why the pill mills and the meth cookers weren't in high class parts of town.
Who is in the way of this now Iran Contra version two point 0? ME. As this whole thing starts to slowly go into action I get the calls. I get the calls telling me there's this push to start arresting the women again for prostitution and letting them go to jail because they'll get $140 a day for each person who is locked up. I get a call from a woman who they just took her babies because her prostitution record was "putting the kids at risk of being trafficked", so they took her kids into "protective custody" the county is being paid extra to "protect the child". The prisons need to know they're going to be paid for this agenda so before they agree to go back to locking up women for prostitution in droves, Clinton passed this quota of 35,000 bodies and those bodies have to come from somewhere.
Sheriff's and chiefs of police are told to go out and bust a bunch of hookers. They don't have to set up sting operations. They don't have to investigate the case. All they have to do is go and grab women off the streets and bust them for prostitution. Anyone broke enough to be hooking off a street corner can't afford an attorney - so it's open season. Easy to do this to the street walkers* and off Backpage ads. Why Backpage? Because these women aren't working for a madam who screens them. The women advertising on Backpage are novices and just desperate - so they show up when called and BAM - arrested.
Only the members of PA are a fly in the ointment if this very big agenda, and I'm hearing the same thing happening all over the country.
So I went on Geraldo and 20/20 And 60 Minutes pushing PA and that we have to stop treating these people as criminals. I start trying to "shame" these towns into realizing it's wrong to arrest these women who are being forced by a pimp, or a drug habit, or economic desperation, who has kids to feed and no one to help her do it - that they don't need to be locked up. They need to be referred to PA.
After I do these shows, I'm contacted by the same attorney generals of the states where we had created these prostitution courts because we are at odds now with these cities who are wanting to get at these federal grants. I'm trying to clear out the jails while these people want to overcrowd them to make money. If you want to see how they created this step by step you can read up on the Kids for Cash scheme in PA. PA was so money desperate to overcrowd the jails to get at the federal grants, they didn't have enough money on hand to FEED the inmates. So the news hits they had run out of money for food in PA. The guy in charge of the jails all over PA is saying - we didn't factor in food for all these inmates.
Why Pennsylvania? Because for YEARS PA had helped many people get out of prostitution and into good jobs. So I now have PA member's all over the state- so they were the largest group to push back against going back to locking these women up.
Meaning I'm getting calls throughout all these years on the hotline from both new people wanting help, and our existing long term members I've now known for years. I'm hearing from people all over the country and able to piece together a larger picture of the whole than even these individuals can pre-1995 anyway.
But by the time Clinton gets this quota passed into law about 1995 - I've now built up programs all over the USA that's designed to REDUCE the jail population that's already being reduced by addicts and alcoholics who are now also pulling out of the jails by going into treatment. These people are experimenting with the idea of turning on our children directly - as they did with setting up this program in PA. Only the whole "kids for cash" being DESIGNED to just grab any kid they can get their hands on for money gets exposed - which is what led to the focus on the illegals who supposedly don't "have any rights under our laws".
I know when this shift starts to focus on illegals because I've also been friends with Jeanne Palfrey, known as the DC Madam, since 1991 when she first got arrested. One of my outreach methods is to hear about an arrest, and then contact their attorney and offer my hand in support. So her and I became friends back then.
One of her "regulars" was David Vitter, who originally was in Louisiana. Palfrey was also friends with another madam who had Vitter as a regular, and she was found hung in a jail cell. Then one of her escorts, Brandy Britton, used to see Vitter, and she was found hung in her living room after she was arrested. So by the time Palfrey gets arrested, Vitter is very much on our radar. Now when he relocated down to Arizona, and started getting involved with the issue of ID and illegals - I of course had him on my radar. Especially now there's three dead women he knew in his history. That's when I started hearing from Phoenix sheriff's about the focus being shifted upon illegals from men like Detective Armendariz. Why would he call me? Because he'd fallen in love with one of our PA members. A woman who also worked at the local sex trafficking shelter. So I'm getting news most people aren't hearing.
Back to my story, now this quota hits - but I've now established these programs around the county by 1995. So comes the "push back". I was approached again by a film company that wanted to make a movie about my life. In 1995, I'm back living in Los Angeles, so I'm very busy talking to these producers.
Especially after a case we got involved with out of Canada. I had received a call from a mom telling me no one would help her find her daughter. I had my daughter in 1991, and I'd left her father by 1992. So I'm raising a baby now as a single mom and I can't just go to Canada.
She's living in a studio apt and now because of this killer, she's got women camping out all over her floor. Something had to give because everyone was too afraid to even go out on the streets to work.
So Paige went to the powers that be, and gets the money and stuff together to create PACE. We started out as SPACE, but became PACE as the focus went more onto prostitution instead of also on drug addiction. PACE got taken away from Paige, but that's another story.
A mom called Paige then asking for help to find her daughter, so she tells her to call me to see what I think. I suggest since I can't help her because I can't really do much being that all the work I do is unpaid for and I'm struggling now with a new baby, that she dress up as a hooker and go out into the red light districts and see if she can't find her daughter herself. Which she did and she did find her daughter with a pimp who had also murdered other prostitutes
So it's about this time we got invited to go onto the Sally Jesse Raphael show to talk about it. After the show was done, producers came down and wanted to make a movie about not just the rescue, but the organization that helped this mom. So while they're having me help them with this movie they're saying is also going to be promoting our PA hotline, things are very busy around me. I did the movie because they'd promised me to promote our hotline at the end of the film. The film aired in 1995, but they had rewritten my character into a social worker and ran another programs' hotline at the end of the film who had nothing to do with the rescue.
At the time I didn't know why. Now looking back, I know it was because if they had named me in the film, and featured it being about PA, there's no way they could have gotten away then with pushing us out of those courts as was about to happen by 1996.
But word had spread anyway the film was about our work through the people who knew about it. So I did start getting these calls from all these attorney generals and US Attorneys once the Sally show aired , and more after the film aired. They wanted to talk to me about the subject of American sex trafficking. Not prostitution. Not pimping. We HAD laws for these things already. Even this girl in Vancouver had been forced to prostitute not just by this pimp alone - but he was also part of a network of pimps. I again point out that the RICO Act is passed because organized crime is structured and operates very different than petty crime of individuals. This girl hadn't been able to walk away from this pimp because of his network behind him.
By now, Bishop Don Juan has had his "birthday" party ever year that's served as a "pimp convention". No different than a convention of dairy farmers - they have their get together and in the process they also form a big network of men who all know each other. Now from 1979 to about 1991 - Margo St. James of COYOTE would hold the "Whore's Ball" on the same night as his pimp convention, and we'd use that night as a way to get women away from those pimps while they were busy.
But about 1991, Margo had relocated to England. Other people continued to host the Whore's Ball - but not with the same agenda we'd had after she left the USA. I had heard she was also being targeted and harassed as to why she left - but I didn't understand then what was going on.
I even remember seeing early pictures of Ice T at these parties before he went on to be an actor on Law and Order. He's been very open about his past, so I can talk about that here. Having dealt with this network - I know these men can pick up a phone in any city in the USA, and now into Canada, and know what's going on there because of this network. My second husband didn't believe me either until we rescued two different women. One was coming out of LA - and by the time we met her at the airport - these men were there with a polaroid of her also looking for her. Same with a woman coming to us from Chicago - there were three men with polaroids looking for her. We disguised them and got them out of the airport - and my husband was rattled seeing this network was very real.
Meaning its very difficult to ESCAPE this network. That's why I also had to talk to the police who helped this mom rescue her daughter - because it wasn't like she could just go up to the guy and take her daughter home. There was a whole operation they had to do to get him arrested so they could then turn the daughter back over to the mom.
Which up to this point, we've not involved ourselves in any way with the prosecution of pimps. But again, with someone in a very dangerous network - its' different.
So I am getting push back to my groups across the USA by 1995. Take Detroit - they used to require anyone on probation for prostitution to attend the meetings up there. Now no one wants to host meetings of prostitutes on their grounds, so we were offered space at all the Catholic Charities and Salvation Armies. So by this time, we are holding all of the meetings on their grounds not thinking of the possible ramifications of accepting that offer at the time. I again had just had a baby, and being this work isn't what I'm paid to do, I had my hands full and just went along with what the groups wanted.
But Detroit suddenly just changes it so now all probationers only have to go on their SECOND YEAR to get released from probation. Well that just dropped our members to ZERO because if we weren't there by the first year, no one REACHES the second year.
What do I mean by that? I mean that prior to us starting these chapters, I had not seen nor heard of any other program, person, system, nothing that had succeeded in helping someone go from prostitution to another career, off drugs, and completely disengaged from that lifestyle UNTIL they found PA. Even the Detroit probation officers are saying to me "I don't understand why they're doing this" and laughing it's going to drop our numbers to 0. Which it did in Detroit. So when no one even goes by the second year - we dropped to zero.
So I'm seeing this slow "push back" by this time. What I mean by this is this is the time when I started seeing weird stuff that took me a while to even understand. What I mean by that is take Detroit. Our numbers had dropped to zero. Detroit is back to packing their jails with prostitutes, and slapping all their kids into foster care. What do I do about it?
I'm contacted by a woman who runs supposedly a radio program in Detroit about addiction. She tells me they feel the same as I do about the addicts, and that we need to "join together to do something about it". We start meeting every day on the internet talking about a plan to present to the local officials and get them to start referring the addicts to NA meetings and the prostitutes to PA meetings.
The whole time I'm talking to her, I'm getting an image of her over a webcam. Only one day, a weird fluke hits and the screen that I was seeing her on dropped. That was the first time I'd ever seen such a filter. The women who was now ACTUALLY in front of me was clearly a using addict. I mean she was skinny and clearly on drugs. Her face was not the face of the woman I had THOUGHT I was talking to. She had told me she was a probation officer in Detroit, and I never thought to verify that. I'd never been catfished by a deep fake before either. She knew the jig was up when I saw her too. I'd never again seen deep fakes like this or filters, so I was taken aback. I then contacted probation to learn there was no such person. I had to ask myself WHY?
I DID find a grant that had been issued to the group she had said she was with. The grant was to "raise awareness of opiate addiction". This was the first time I'd heard of Sheldon Adelson or the Adelson Foundation. See, Sheldon was married to a neurologist. As a neurologist, she studied addicts. I found the Adelson Foundation had also given money to a lot of methadone clinics, so they could study addicts for her research on addicts. But how did this intersect with drug court?
This also is another story - but if you look to NA'S history - when Jimmy Kinnon, the founder, started standing in the way of these men wanting to CHANGE NA to be one that would "partner" with drug programs where the addict is put on prescribed drugs, he balked. When they insisted on the addict not using pot, they'd lose the addicts from treatment. So these people wanted pot to be considered a "legal drug" and therefore "clean", so they'd stay in these federally funded drug programs - Jimmy balked. A large donation came into the office, Jimmy is locked out of his own office, and a man put in his place who isn't even an addict. That man was Bob Stone. If you want to hear how NA was having the same issues with drug courts - you can read Bob Stone's memoir or look into it.
But about 1991, to now, NA is yes having the same problems PA is having. This woman is part of what we saw. She scurried off when I realized she was not who she said she was. And I wasn't the only person in Detroit she was fooling either. I think she was tying me up in these "meetings" with her to stop me from going to the city directly to be honest. Spinning my wheels around to get me just pissed off.
But I'm encouraged by these calls I'm getting from law makers. No one person can get an Act passed - it truly takes a village. Now the USA isn't going to decriminalize prostitution because of even international policies, (the USA will not give foreign aid to anyone who supports prostitution openly - which is why many countries won't descriminalize prostitution either as it will cut off their federal aid so this wanting us locked up in jail isn't limited to the USA), let alone the need to use them as informants and to fill jails and be baby machines for the adoption rackets.
But I say those who are being FORCED and SOLD should not be treated as criminals. So what's going to give? That was our dilemma which I felt was solved by the passing of the Trafficking Act in 2000.
In English, it was explained to me this way - in the Mann Act of 1910, Chinese women are protected by trafficking laws. If discovered they are being trafficked into prostitution over here in Asian massage parlors, as was really bad in 1900's, they are NOT treated like criminals. That's why you don't see any Chinese women jailed for prostitution.
Not just because they aren't on a street corner, but instead in a massage parlor. But because if they are arrested, ICE is supposed to detain them for 72 hours mandatory and question them if they are in fact being trafficked. If they are, they are then offered two choices: either be returned to China or they can receive victim services through the Office of Victim Services. This means they will pay for their housing, food, therapy, medical care, transportation, and even vocational rehabilitation - so they can go get jobs and new lives here. I learned about this when Margo used to do AIDS outreach in the Asian massage parlors with a health inspector. They'd find sometimes every woman in the place was HIV positive. They then were put into this "detention" where they'd be either asked if they wanted to go back to China, or if they wanted to stay. These two got a lot of heat for this, and the health inspector was fired and Margo relocated to the UK.
Now, if an American adult is found in the SAME SITUATION, there's NOTHING. In fact, up to this point, victim services has REFUSED ALL HELP to anyone "known" as a prostitute. We had two laws before the year 2000 - we had one that would arrest you if you sold a sex act for money or prostitution. We had another for pimps - if you took money from a prostitute that was a felony. THAT WAS IT.
SO ALL PROSTITUTES PRE-2000 WERE CRIMINALS. PERIOD. Meaning I was seeing horrible stories of transgenders who were murdered just walking down the street to a store, but because they were working as a prostitute, victim services would refuse to pay for their funerals. In other words, they were being shut out of ANY victim services merely by virtue of their employment. There was no line saying only if they were committing a crime - but by virtue of WHO THEY WERE - A PROSTITUTE - they were a 'criminal'. I again didn't think this was fair. Especially not over a misdemeanor non-violent violation anyway.
So this Trafficking Act was to accomplish one basic thing I was told - if it was determined this American adult was being "trafficked" by a larger criminal network against their will, that they would then be referred to the Office of Victim Services. The way it was explained to me at the time, was I would be a case manager where these people would instead of going to jail on a prostitution charge, they would then be taken into the Salvation Army or Catholic Charities, where a case worker was assigned to provide them with anything they needed to get "rehabilitated" instead of going to jail. Best of all to me meant they wouldn't have a record for prostitution this way.
To fund these services, money was then authorized to pay for these services - which was a great relief to me personally. I say that because OUR MEMBERS were having to pay for cabs, hotels, food, shelter, etc., for anyone who had contacted us for help in this situation, and more and more calls were coming in every year.
I myself had expended over $500,000 in paying for help for PA members, and many of our members were also shelling money out of their pockets to help others get on their feet. Mind you, I'm now 35 years old and we have no internet - so I really had no idea what was about to come yet. So I celebrated this as a win. I was then told if someone called me in this situation, that we should refer them to the Office of Victim Services and we would work together to help them.
So 2000 is when this "victim" status was made legal. Things were basically quiet until 2003-2004. I call the "Hell Year" because what happened was so stressful on me personally I literally had a stroke. First, let me start with 2004 was the year Snoop Dogg had done a national tour I call the "pimp revival tour". He would go into town and bring any girl on the RV who wanted to meet him. Then he'd said he wanted them to "turn a trick" and pay him because he wanted to be their "pimp for a day".
No ID's were checked. The "tricks" were NFL players, so they were 300 pound muscled men who were drunk/loaded at the time. This girl is on an RV - so the only way out of there is narrow. I don't know if I could say no. After she was released from the RV, REAL pimps from that town were waiting to scoop them up like fish on a barrel. I know because I'm getting frantic calls about the situation. The tour was sponsored by Playboy.
At this time, I had been approached by MTV to do a documentary on PA. So I'm talking to their producers and arranging for them to go out to our various chapters of PA and do this documentary. I didn't realize at the time it was to keep tabs on how I was dealing with the Snoop situation, but that's what was going down.
At the same time this had started up, I get a call from a senator. He tells me Snoop was just in Vegas, and a daughter of a friend of his was trapped by a local pimp who has a very long violent record - asking me if I will go and rescue this woman. I countered shouldn't he be calling Metro or something instead of me? I explained to him that the year before EVERYONE who was a PA member had been fired, and thus shut out of all of the Salvation Army's, the Catholic Charities, their social worker offices, etc. So I didn't have the same resources to call upon either.
That's when I had it explained to me "we don't want another OJ case" and that while he wants to help this ONE woman, they aren't going to touch Snoop because of the ramifications. I told him I didn't like the idea of kidnapping some woman away from this guy WITHOUT having police backup, and he assured me we would "work together off the record".
Whatever the situation - we did find this woman naked and chained to the toilet in an empty apartment. We got her to safety and she responded by sending me photos of her and the baby once it was born. That was gratifying. She's also the kind of case I see where I say "if they could call 911 or a hotline, they WOULD". Meaning to my definition, the kind of person who is being trafficked who needs outside help are those who are BLOCKED by either real chains, or imaginary chains of fear, to pick up a phone and call for help. There's also the problem of WHO would she call? UNLESS the cop is going to arrest the guy who put her there, nothing is going to happen. Now if there's a deal that's been signed NOT to prosecute that guy - guess what happens? THAT'S the kind of thing I've been dealing with - I'm getting calls or called about cases where we can't just call 911 for help for one reason or another.
Now at that time is when MTV is doing this documentary on us. When I said something to the MTV producer asking if they wanted to see a real case we were working on - LITERALLY the next day everyone who was even in that dept who even knew about the PA project with me was fired. The space my show was to air in to announce MTV was now going to work to fight sex trafficking was moved to I think Sweden - some country where it snows! So they were fighting sex trafficking - just not in the USA!
Keep in mind, the year before, in 2003, George W. Bush came in and declared ALL of the money to help American victims was to be handled by the "faith based communities".
When I asked what that meant, I was told the Salvation Army would be in charge of passing out the funds, and since we were "working in partnership anyway" this was supposed to be a cooperative project. I was told that since many of these women are also from Mexico, or Columbia, or some country other than China, they also had to coordinate with ICE on all cases.
But nothing happened right away after this 2003 modification of the Trafficking Act giving the church control over this money. Finally a few years later, people are starting to demand SOMETHING be done.
To make themselves look legit, I was asked by a person at the main office of the Salvation Army if I would help them form the first prototypes of the task forces that were now going to be formed with this money who would be now deciding who was a "victim" vs a "criminal". I'm still trying to figure out why they fired everyone and they're not telling me. But they're now saying they need my help. I'm thinking I'll get in charge of this task force and fix things .
Only what I didn't know at the time was that a large group of people graduated out of Stanford in 2003. To give you an idea what I mean by this, Kathryn Chon and Bradley Myles both came out of Stanford that year. I don't know if they were married then. But Kathryn then went to NY and started attacking RI's decriminalization that Margo St. James and I had won back in 1979. I had believed back then, and for many years, that decriminalization would stop these women from being incarcerated on prostitution charges. Margo is somewhere in the UK, and I don't know how to reach her. Her sister told me she wanted nothing more to do with prostitution activism because she had been "attacked so badly by the marijuana lobby that she just wanted to be left alone". Okay I got it.
Without Margo to help me, Chon gets prostitution put back illegal in RI. The Catholic Church then had set up a court based on maritime law where the ONLY cases they heard was of Chinese women arrested on NOW "sex trafficking" charges. Chon, receiving a grant/donation from Dennis Hof, through her assistant, Derek, used these arrests in RI to get prostitution recriminalized.
I warned them the serial killing would resume, and it did. But this was used to also get everyone all up in arms about the "trafficking of Asian women" who then were put into this new "trafficking court" set up by the Catholic Church.
Since I didn't speak Mandarin, I would only get calls here and then, but the people who operated this court made it VERY clear to me they wanted nothing to do with PA - instead they would only work with this putting the women into yoga classes through this sex trafficking program I'd never heard of and no one with them would talk to me. Of course I would hear NONE of them ever left prostitution. I did hear the prettiest ones were then recruited for local escort services however. Things got bad in NY for these women. Now I understand another group came onto the picture and got this "stranglehold" over Asian sex workers that was happening released about 2017.
But I digress - by this point in time, our PA members had gone from fresh off the streets to now having degrees, and being employed in jobs where they could help others like themselves. So we now were populated in our membership with social workers, therapists, police officers, even judges and senators. All private and anonymous - or so I thought at the time mind you. I only say this because I didn't know about the PRISM program, and others, spying on us illegally, but that's another story.
2003 was also the year the National Trafficking Hotline was started by Polaris. Polaris just happened to be founded by Bradley Myles, who was married to Chon. I don't know when they got married - but they were married when Chon gave Myles a $500,000 grant to start Polaris, and the hotline. When they first started, we were on friendly terms and I would speak to their people all the time who listed us as a resource for the hotline on their website. We STARTED OUT having a friendly relationship - until 2004. Not Bradley or Chon who would NEVER speak to me. People working at the hotline would talk to me, and we got along fine - at first anyway.
But what happened about 2003-2004 I call a "reset" because I've now seen this many times when a large plan is being put into operation, and whoever is pulling the strings doesn't want anyone balking, or knowing too much, or arguing in any way. Two things happened at once - because by now many of our members had also gone on to form their own programs.
Norma Hotaling for example had started out in PA, and then created SAGE in San Francisco. While she had PA meetings for residents, she had her now professional day job and her volunteer work with PA by running SAGE as 12 step programs don't offer material things like housing. She had become very ill with breast cancer and died in 2008.
But this year, some kind of scandal or smearing campaign went into effect against EVERY SINGLE SURVIVOR who was running a program now locally by this time. I knew because I'd get the calls. If not for me getting the calls, it would have seemed to be an isolated incident.
Now I don't know the exact year this "agreement" was made to protect Epstein, but from what I can tell, this smearing of survivors was to discredit them so if anyone were to come forward with a victim of the Epstein network - they wouldn't be taken seriously.
I say that because that's also when we started getting them. I started hearing calls along this vein of victims. I don't want to go into details, but that's why I believe this was all going into play to set the stage so victims of the Epstein network, not just him as an individual, but the NETWORK itself, would be not taken seriously. Because in order not to arrest ANYONE in the network connected to Epstein, that means a lot of cases aren't being prosecuted. Which means a lot of victims have to be headed off at the pass by being discredited so if they were to go to the press, they'd not be believed. Just as they called Victoria a liar at first.
The attacks were pretty common - in most cases they were accused of taking a large donation and not putting it into the program. They were accused of embezzling or tax evasion or something along those lines. I sat down and made a list of everyone being under attack like this that year, and they were each targeted to a survivor founded and led sex trafficking program. Then of course it was spread that programs "couldn't be safely headed up by a survivor" because of these attacks. As a result, these programs folded. Some of the women were incarcerated. Some for a long time. It served the purpose of destroying every survivor led program in the country within a year, except ours.
I now found I was only dealing with government or law enforcement agencies, except for Children of the Night. With all the survivor led groups gone - that's all that was left. Some felt this was because of the new laws popping up making it easier for child victims to press charges because of the new statutory limits being changed. Since we don't work with children, I didn't understand at the time. But basically, the cops don't generally like the idea of talking to an ex-madam they don't know.
I was left with this because suddenly all hell broke loose in one week - where I got calls from literally all over the country where our members were telling me they'd just been fired for no reason. Didn't matter if they were a social worker, or a guard or a probation officer - they were fired. No reason given. Any employee of the Salvation Army or Catholic Charities, or a jail, or anything and everyone who was in any way even knew PA or myself existed - was fired. One or two who had kept their relationship to us on the private were spared, but anyone who even knew my name was fired.
I had warned these agencies they now didn't have any staff, and since most of this work was done as service work - how were they going to replace us? They responded by writing grants to get federal money to hire new workers to replace us. We were all replaced by young kids fresh out of college, no survivors or ex-sex workers in the bunch, and of course these kids had no real idea what they'd just walked into or who the hell I was. I had also stopped doing national TV shows by 1992 to protect my daughter.
But along comes the Salvation Army telling me this was all 'coincidence" and I was going to be put in charge of a national trafficking program, and I was to create the new prototypes of these new task forces - so maybe it was just coincidence that EVERYONE I knew was fired in one week.
The problem was they had asked me to go after "traffickers" - not "pimps". The problem with that is that I wasn't seeing any "trafficking" happening that didn't involve someone with a badge, on a bench, etc.
So in the talks about my new project, I told them if they wanted me to actually create these new systems, I needed to know what they were going to do about the problem of "immunity" afforded most people in these government and law enforcement jobs.
I was asked if I could "prove" my allegations.
I also needed a translator as now the focus had shifted sharply to focus on illegals. My "go between" during this time was Melissa Farley. She'd published books before on prostitution, so I believed she was a researcher. To launch these brand new historic programs, she had to prepare a report she told me on how trafficking operated in Nevada, as well as the types of cases we encountered.
So I had STUPIDLY opened up the doors to have everyone talk to her because I believed it was to create this historic new change supposedly coming where people who were like I was - could have someone to report what was happening to them and they'd be protected. Now Melissa had laid it on thick. Yes I was very distracted with my mother dying in ICU for nine months that year. My daughter was sick and requiring 24/7 attention also. Melissa Farley was also blowing smoke up my skirts saying Gloria Steinhem was very much behind me, and I was going to meet her soon, and she was going to be a part of this new program, and blah blah blah.
But when I told the Salvation Army I couldn't accept the job unless they could assure me they'd prosecute the traffickers I'd be going after, who were men who hid behind government immunity and that we needed to know we had judges who would prosecute - the response was "can you prove these allegations?"
I countered I could. I was told if I COULD prove what I was saying about who was behind sex trafficking in the USA, and that helping these victims would lead to these types of cases coming up in the courts, that my request to have them NOT processed by law enforcement would proceed. I say that because by this time cases like Celeste Guap's in Oakland was EVERYWHERE. Meaning I was told local authorities were involved in every network, and now my survivor led contacts had been eliminated.
BUT I had known who was behind a national sex trafficking network because they'd been trying to "recruit me to come out of retirement" for about a year by then. So I KNEW EXACTLY who was involved because they wanted me to come work for them.
Men like Chris Butler, who was a private investigator who had been a sheriff for 20 years who now owned an escort service and couple of massage parlors - and he was in this network of sheriffs that spanned the country - all trying to pressure me to "come to work for them". I'm dancing around them thinking the same thing "who can I call for help" against all these guys with badges? Chris had not been exposed yet - so I knew if he came down to "he said she said" no one would believe me over him. I mean he'd just been on the Dr. Phil show and promoted as this great "private investigator". I'm not going up against that kind of clout - no sir no way.
So I agreed to work to put together a very large press conference. At this press conference, I was told the results of the report Melissa had made on Nevada sex trafficking would be released. That they would announce my heading up this new task force, and they would start off these new programs by taking the victims to the Salvation Army for questioning INSTEAD of detained by the police at the police station as was the protocol before this.
I was also offered an office to do this inside of the juvenile social services office so I could also work closely with them on the juvenile cases. So I had been led to believe through a lot of theater that we were able to make a very historic change where women like I once was, would be getting a way to get out and protected, and not treated as criminals. Melissa had been even telling me Gloria Steinhem was supposed to meet us at this press conference to make sure I'd agree to go and do this. (Of course I later learned it was all lies.)
While this was also going on, at the same time, Dennis Hof had wanted to open another legal brothel where the Mob Museum is today. I had asked him if the prostitutes would be given health insurance and the ability to file claims for unemployment and disability if they were to contract something like HIV/AIDS during their employment, and find themselves out of a job.
He refused. I said UNTIL they showed me these women were protected if harmed on the job and made permanently disabled, or had to take time off work due to getting an illness on the job, then I couldn't support this. I also wanted to know they'd have pensions because I was seeing many of us winding up on SSI for life, which was shifting the burden of their overhead onto taxpayers and forcing these women to live in poverty. So I also wanted to see pensions offered - and until then, I couldn't support this.
I also talked to the mayor about this because I knew if Vegas opened a brothel there, pimps would drag their victims to Vegas, and if they couldn't get the license or pass the medical - that was going to flood Vegas with pimps and victims.
So I had also applied for a grant for $30,000 to open up a crisis drop in center downtown. The mayor, Oscar Goodman, had taken my grant and given it to the homeless shelter. I told him if they opened up this brothel, these women would not go to the homeless shelter, and I needed to know SOMETHING was going to provide a safety net for them. He balled up and refused - so I agreed to do an interview with Bob Herbert, and continued not to support this happening.
This interview with Herbert prompted Goodman to then threaten Bob with a "baseball bat to the head" for the interview with me he published. President Obama then made a crack about Las Vegas that supported my position we needed to provide better protection for the brothel prostitutes here in Nevada, and then Goodman demanded an apology - so all hell was breaking loose there at the same time.
I was also talking to Palfrey. I had never had proof of what was happening to me, and neither did any of the other madams because phones were just different then and we didn't have tiny cameras or other ways to gather evidence. She however had her cell phone records. She had decided to move to Germany, and once there, she was going to take her records and start talking about this network of men in our government who were trafficking people - and us having no one to call for help, and even if believed, they were given immunity. No one would believe her without proof. The names she'd given me were the highest power in the country. She'd told me this "handler" from the FBI had been forcing her escorts to help them "negotiate contracts" with the Navy. Now I ask you, how is she supposed to say no? She'd got the 1991 arrest for madaming - so NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE THIS WITHOUT PROOF.
Only as she was at the airport to leave the USA, she gets arrested. She could have taken a plea deal and gone back to doing as they told her to do, but she was determined to expose this system once and for all happening to us - so she kept going forward with her trial. Larry Flynt had told her he was giving her a million dollars for proving who was in her phone records - so we were making plans to take that money and make documentaries about the subject. Besides, she told me she was worried if she didn't do this, she'd "end up like Brandy" and be "suicided".
So in 2007, Operation Dollhouse started off with a bang - they had caught two San Mateo sheriffs red handed bringing drugs into a house full of trafficking victims from China. The Chinese like to keep their victims trapped in a house so they aren't seen on the street and can't escape - so that was a safe bet the house would be full when the raid/arrests happened.
As the 24 victims, one a juvenile pregnant girl, was then taken to the Salvation Army for questioning by the ICE agent that was mandatory to do by law, I was supposed to meet a translator there to question them. Then we were to give the press conference announcing I was heading up all these new projects.
Only a call went out from San Mateo to make the case, and me "disappear". On top of that, the ICE guy didn't show up to make the mandatory hold. (It was later learned he was Joohon David Lee who was later arrested for sex trafficking and bribery people got suspicious when he didn't hold those women as he was supposed to).
Suddenly the victims were handed back to the pimps, the two sheriffs released with no charges filed, and all this slight of hand happened where I opened the paper to read Terri Miller was now in my job. Terri was a school teacher from Pahrump who had ABSOLUTELY ZERO experience in these areas.
But the day after this press conference, I had all my power cut off. I went downstairs to call for help, and my car was trashed. I had a severe leg infection at this time and was still recovering from the stroke I'd had in 2003, so my daughter offered to go across the street to call for help.
As she crossed the street, she was mowed over by an SUV in broad daylight in the middle of a cross walk. Luckily, she survived with only a broken back and a bad bump on her head. So as they were putting her in a back brace, I couldn't really fight what was coming next - which included opening up the newspaper to see Melissa had told these reporters to say things that I never said that I didn't agree with.
See right before I went up to the microphone to give this press conference I THOUGHT to announce we had completed this report and I was now taking over NCAST, AND the Southern Nevada Sex Trafficking Task Force - Melissa pulls me to the side and asks me "you have to say that you think all prostitution is rape". I looked at her like she was insane and told her I'd never say anything that would discredit my honesty like this.
Next thing I know, she's asking me to let Chong Kim read a poem. Who was she and why? I had no idea. Melissa claimed she was a survivor and it meant a lot to her to read the poem. Being nice, I let her read the poem. I had no idea what Melissa had planned if I had not agreed to say "all prostitution is rape".
I also had no idea that for America to enter other countries who have no weapons of mass destruction, the ONLY legal way for us to set up bases there was on a "humanitarian basis" and that sex trafficking was about to be used as just such an excuse to set up bases in countries like Cambodia. Why would I know such things? Melissa knew then I wasn't going to lie for her, so the wheels set in motion to have me pushed out of the way and replaced by people who would or did as they were told - such as Terri Miller.
See Metro had given $275,000 to the Salvation Army to release those women and drop the case. The deal was then made task forces would ONLY take cases "referred by Metro". I joked "well that means 0 cases will be handled" which was prophetic. A reporter with the Sun told me to "not worry as in a year when they have 0 cases to show for the $875,000 they just got to do something, we'll publish a story on it".
Little did I know that the printing press for this newspaper was owned by Sheldon Adelson who told them if they published that story, they'd have no printing press - so that reporter was fired and they got the press back.
The "report" that was supposed to be published by Melissa? All of the dates to speak at local churches she'd set up for me to do to talk about the report were canceled.
A SECOND news report a month later announced Shared Hope was releasing a report on "sex trafficking in Nevada", and a film was released that had edited out any references to me. The report Shared Hope released was IDENTICAL to mine, word for word, only my name replaced with theirs. I called people who had been quoted asking if they'd ever spoken to Shared Hope - and they all said no.
So here we have a report funded by taxpayers to make a report that's now LYING. At the events I'd been scheduled to speak at, I showed up to the first one only to have security tell me I was banned from the premises. Why? Good question.
I called some people who had attended who knew me and said they had got up and TOLD MY STORIES OF MY CASES AS IF THEY WERE THEIR STORIES word for word - and made off with a lot of donations. I called after each event and Shared Hope raised about $3,000,000 telling my stories and showing a false report to the attendees.
Not a bad gig if you don't mind lying I guess. I then called Shared Hope and asked if for all that money if they'd help me with the very real cases I was dealing with in Nevada - like the woman who had been chained to the toilet I had taken care of out of my own wallet. They just told me "we don't provide direct services in the USA" and hung up. So Nevada gives them at least $3 million and gets ZIP back.
Using this report and the reputation they stole from me, Shared Hope then went on to get the SESTA\FOSTA law passed. But they got Trump to approve it by creating a lot of FAKE media they had put on TV. Such as "8 Minutes" a "reality series" claiming to be a sex trafficking rescue that didn't happen. The "victims" they were "saving" were hired actors. But not a lot of people knew this - especially when CNN did an hour on "the truth behind 8 minutes" who also hired ACTORS to portray REAL people and just lie lie lie. Not illegal since 2008 by the way to put completely false media on air.
In turn, this fake series with actors is part of what led to the shutdown of Backpage, (the Backpage defense lawyers never presented to the jury this show was completed staged for example), and even more prostitutes being pushed out onto the streets where they can easily be arrested. Again, you push women into street prostitution is what THEY WANT - because then they can go back to stuffing those jails and taking those kids. Hey on average they're getting $40K a kid - good racket going if you got the stomach for it.
Melissa then got very busy promoting Chong Kim to take my place. She got her a movie called Eden made. Trucked her all over the place having her speak about her "experiences as a trafficking victim". Only thing is as I got to know her and ask what happened, I got told a story of her being trafficked in the Nevada legal brothels. Now I moved to Vegas in 1996 specifically to help women who were escaping pimps out of those brothels. So I'd been in and out of them MANY TIMES between 1996 and now 2007. I'd never seen her face once, and I NEVER forget a face. The more I asked her about her story, the more the story fell apart.
Then came the cherry on the sundae. I'd had my tires slashed the day after this press conference. Chong plays nice and tells me she knows some nice people who will give me a donation to get my tires replaced if I give her an estimate. I go along stupidly and do that. She gets the money, only I never see a dime of it. She did call me from the mall and I get to hear a cash register as she's using my donation to buy herself something. I then called the donors to let them know I hadn't received the money. Chong says I'm "crazy and lying". These poor people don't know what to believe. So once again to cover someone's ass, I'm called "crazy".
But Melissa knew Chong wouldn't hold up and eventually be exposed as a fraud, that's why she then hops on a plane with Nicholas Kristof and they fly off to find Samoly Mam. Melissa pairs her with the press person from Facebook, who does a very good job at now booking her to speak at all the events I would have been booked to speak at - IF I'd agreed to tell stories like Mam did.
She walked off with a lot of donations too. Money meant to help AMERICAN victims. I have no idea where that money went, so I started knocking on more reporters doors until I found some who agreed to investigate her. They exposed Mam as a fraud on the front page of Newsweek - and it didn't do a damn thing to stop this machine.
Now we have grants coming out of the Office of Victim Services, and going to the police directly who then partner with local churches who are using this money to "raise awareness" to great outcry mind you. Art exhibits and films that are only focusing on street prostitution or human trafficking - all dancing around the issue of sex trafficking in the USA itself - only goes so far.
I had wondered why Melissa had taken reporters into the hallway to speak to them privately at the press conference. She evidently was telling them to quote me as saying the things I'd never say anyway. I could get them corrected - but the damage was done. She supported this by all of a sudden I've got videos and websites popping up all over the internet CLAIMING that I put them up - all attacking prostitution and claiming I want it all banned and outlawed.
Which of course is now attacking my relationships with those still in sex work, or groups such as SWOP. Now luckily at the time these people knew me and knew my phone number. So they called me asking "wtf?" I countered I had nothing to do with this, and hit these sites with cease and desist letters).
Because people knew me at the time, I was able to get them to understand I didn't say these things, and I never put those things online. Even fake articles started appearing claiming interviews I never gave. Melissa of course went on the offensive and attacked me from behind the scenes.
I was set to appear at a training for police in Chicago I'd given for years by that time. At least 400 people told me they were going to meet me at the event. Again, I'm doing all of this out of my own pocket and not making a dime. I'd bought my tickets and reserved my hotel and two days before the event, I get a call from a doctor who was running the St. James Infirmary asking me not to come.
I have ADHD, and I'm "neurodivergent" I've learned. Meaning I don't have a filter, and I say what's on my mind even if impolite. She offered to take me to lunch when she was back in California, and I countered why would I want to go to lunch with her when not only did she not defend me, but I'm now out the $2000 I've spent out of my own pocket to have attended this event.
Only to later hear people think I DID attend the event. Why? How? Because pimps get very angry when they think I"m connected with one of theirs leaving them, I've received a lot of death threats. So I don't publish my photos online, and since the internet started in 1995, I haven't done any TV appearances, nor let my photo be taken, because I don't want a gun in my back.
This leaves the door open for what I look like. I then heard from people talking about how "nice it was to meet you". I hadn't gone - so who did they meet? I asked if they were sure this woman introduced herself as me - and they said yes. So I'm now not only dealing with all these false stories on the internet and interviews making it appear I'm saying things I'd never say, but now I've got an actual imposter to deal with.
Let me get back to the point I started with - and that's how ANY victim of abuse, rape, sex trafficking, etc., who goes up against the predator or culprit who is doing this routinely and uses the cover of "respectability" to make people turn on the victim, not believe them, etc., knows what it's like when they're confronted and have to defend themselves.
They ALL say "she's crazy". Fighting words for many of us survivors. Since people who know me and talk to me can tell I'm NOT "crazy" they have to create the impression in others I am by these fake articles and imposters so people WILL think that's me. I say this because after Operation Dollhouse and breaking away from Melissa Farley, I have dealt with a ALOT of people covering their own tracks by saying "she's just crazy".
Like I did with my father, and my ex-husband, I know people WILL learn with time I'm not "crazy" and these people are just covering their backs. I say this because good reputable investigative reporters who knew me followed the story of Operation Dollhouse demanding answers.
By them now believing "oh she's just crazy" and demanding answers, a very hasty cover job was slapped together no one believed at the time. This prompted these reporters to keep digging. George Knapp kept digging and in 2017, published a series of articles dating back what started there. I say that because when I got pushed "off stage" so to speak - someone had to replace me because there was literally millions now on the line to be handed out so SOMEONE had to become the new "poster child". Chris Baughman, a Metro officer, was now put center stage and of course HIS focus was on street pimps. I'm not saying the man wasn't a legitimate hero for fighting street pimps.
BUT WE HAD LAWS ALREADY IN 1984 TO FIGHT STREET PIMPS. My argument, and what we evolved into, was to supposedly fight SEX TRAFFICKING. The difference between a guy who robs a gas station and the five Italian families is that one is a "criminal" and the other "organized crime". So the problem I have with the SHIFTING of time, energy, money, resources, etc., that's supposed to be fighting SEX TRAFFICKING being instead used to fight STREET PIMPS - is my objection. The police ALREADY get money to deal with pimps. We have a system already in place to DEAL WITH PIMPS. What I spent most of my life trying to get accomplished, was to create a system where someone who was being targeted by a NETWORK OF TRAFFICKERS, who by the very definition of who they are, means the victims CAN'T GO TO THE POLICE.
I point to the victim of Epstein as my example. BEFORE HE WAS CHARGED THERE WAS AN ACTUAL AGREEMENT TO PROTECT EPSTEIN AND EVERYONE IN HIS NETWORK. ONLY WHERE DID THAT LEAVE ALL OF THE VICTIMS? It left them with NOT being able to call 911 for help. That's where. Why call the National Trafficking Hotline then who got another $20 million dollars their first year in operation from the government when all they do is refer the victim back to the local police - who then STAND DOWN?
THAT'S MY PROBLEM. I'm sorry but you can show me 20 street pimps you just got off the streets and I'm not impressed because that was your job in 1984. That's still your job as law enforcement. I was trying to create a system where the victim of ORGANIZED SEX TRAFFICKING IN THE USA COULD GET PROTECTION.
I MYSELF have been targeted by US based sex traffickers - both in 1984 and again in 2003. Why? Because when I was talking to the Salvation Army about US based sex trafficking, I had been targeted by a group of sheriffs who were involved in this, which is how I knew that those two San Mateo sheriffs were going to be at that house that day is how. So when they took those Chinese women back to the house and handed them back to those pimps - it also told me I had no protection either.
So they DID FINALLY charge EPSTEIN. Yahoo! Only problem was that a fund was set up and ONLY A SELECT FEW VICTIMS were invited to sue and get compensation.
All of the press, the case, EVERYTHING was trying to keep the focus on EPSTEIN ALONE. How?
Let's give out some grants all over the country to some churches. Then you get those churches to engage in very LOUD campaigns to go out on the streets and hand out underwear and soap and tell them "Jesus loves them" and make a big noise about helping these women get off the streets.
Well, THOSE women aren't in the NETWORK that EPSTEIN'S victims were in. Men who have NOT been prosecuted or exposed to the media yet. EPSTEIN WAS A SACRIFICIAL LAMB. All of the focus has been on him - and they tried desperately to not focus any attention on the victim of Prince Andrew- who of course they now also claim is a "suicide".
Why kill her if it's already been admitted by Prince Andrew what happened and that he was involved? BECAUSE LIKE ORGANIZED CRIME, THEY'RE PROTECTING THE SYSTEM ITSELF THAT INVOLVES WAY MORE PEOPLE.
Which is why when the sex worker groups kept defending me as "not crazy", things changed when Robin Few died. She started SWOP. When she died, no one really took up the mantle to keep it going.
Then suddenly out of nowhere, ALL THIS MONEY comes flowing into the group through grants - and once again, anyone who knew me personally was shut out and cleaned out of the house - and people put in who had no idea who I was. They were told if they wanted the grant money, they were not to speak to me "as she's crazy". I had some good friends tell me they were called into meetings and told "don't talk to that crazy bitch". I had reporters and bloggers who threatened to smear me all over the internet, who were then called into offices and told to stand down - because if they had done this - I'd have sued AND WON.
But now time has passed since 2008 and the Epstein case broke and even 2017 when Knapp's articles led to Ocean Fleming and Ray Sharpe being released from prison, so I wasn't "crazy" when I said that Alisha Grundy was being forced to lie by Chris Baughman, who was in partnership with Mally Mall, who now has been convicted of sex trafficking - and his law office defending Mall was Oscar Goodman's son's firm. Nor the bogus fake warrant falsely accusing me of stealing my own furniture was signed by a judge who was involved with Baughman and Goodman as shown by Melanie Goodman Tobiaason's signature on that warrant.
Sure I can over turn that warrant now she's dead, but all of this happened back in 2017. It's now 2025 and a lot has happened. There's young women out there right now in the arena of "fighting sex trafficking" who now have no idea who I am. If they ask anyone about me, they hear "oh don't talk to her, she's crazy" and they listen because they don't know ANY of this history. Which I've learned works very well since I've learned about Cointelpro and how intelligence agencies operate who covers for men like Epstein and Prince Andrew and Iran Contra before that story came out DECADES later.
Why am I writing about any of this? Because the dangers to me of agencies and offices that ONLY hire non-survivors to populate them, concern me because UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN THERE, you don't know that every victim shares the experience that until their abuser either confesses, or is convicted, THEY LIE AND DEFEND THEMSELVES BY SAYING YOU'RE LYING, CRAZY, MAKING IT UP, and whatever else they can grasp to discredit you.
I've seen interviews by pedophiles who say they INTENTIONALLY target the "loners who have no friends" to defend them. They DELIBERATELY pick the ugly ones, or the fat ones, or the disabled ones, or those with no friends - so that IF ACCUSED the victim IS NOT BELIEVED. That's why they become priests, doctors, lawyers, politicians - so THE VICTIM WILL NOT BE BELIEVED.
I'm not talking about a one time incident, I'm talking about a PREDATOR WHO DOES THIS YEAR AFTER YEAR BECAUSE IT'S THEIR JOB OR THEIR NATURE to do this. That means they know a day when they are accused or confronted. So of course they're going to insert their defense into the game and MAKE SURE NO ONE TALKS TO THE VICTIM.
"Oh she's just looking for a payday". When Linda Lovelace was trying to talk about what happened to her, her husband did the typical "oh she's just jealous that I've moved on with a prettier woman" as he did by grabbing onto Marilyn Chambers next. Of course he didn't abuse her and pointed that out "if I was this monster why is Marilyn not bruised?"
IT'S CLASSIC.
We survivors KNOW THIS. I'm bringing this up because I had an interaction with someone recently attached to the Diddy case. She was called onto the news to talk about the case as a "human trafficking expert". I wondered what her credentials were. So I saw that she's "taken training at Homeland Security's Blue Campaign" and classes at the DOJ, and of course all of her trainings have been with NON-SURVIVORS by NON-SURVIVORS and she's a NON-SURVIVOR.
I just wanted to talk to her to see if I could talk to her about the TENTACLES of the Diddy case that's part of the NETWORK that is WHY the victims were afraid to "just call the police" - as the police were seen by them as part of the network.
Now Court TV doesn't want me talking about this I'm sure and that's why they asked HER to be their "expert". But when I spoke to her, if she's supposed to be caring about us victims/survivors, I would think she'd at least treat me with some respect. Respect because without me, she wouldn't even have a job. In fact, those who actually do good jobs are fired.
I say that because when 22 Attorney General's were fired by George W. Bush for "no reason", I noticed every one on that list was one who helped to get the Trafficking Act passed in 2000 - and who fought him wanting to turn that money over to the church because WE KNEW IT WOULD MEAN WE'D GET NONE OF THAT MONEY TO HELP US as a result - which is what happened.
But this "expert" just ripped my throat out.
I've never met her. Never talked to her on the phone. But since I know elements of this case I have not seen talked about yet in the press, or the court, or anywhere, I wanted to see if she even knew about it - and I simply suggested we might talk on the phone as "associates in the same field" and gave her my number.
She responded by telling me she was going to not speak to me and she wanted me to not speak to her again and greeted me with such anger and hostility - that if she would treat another human being she doesn't even know this way, I already know this is a woman who has no idea how to speak to a trafficking victim that will do anything but alert to them to keep their mouth shut to this person.
Because that's the thing about abuse - it would STOP if not for being supported by those around them who just don't want to hear it. So they send out messages or cues to the victims that shut them down so this person can say "I didn't know anything about that" and they can go on their way. Just as my mom ignored my dad, and just as many victims say the moms knew about it or the wives knew about it, and did nothing. IT'S THE SYSTEM that protects the abuser.
Now I know the lawyers on the Diddy case want to keep the focus on Diddy. But as a "sex trafficking expert" being called upon to comment on the case by Court TV, yes I thought the woman might like to open a dialogue with me about how his case intersects many other cases THAT COME FROM THE SAME SOURCE. Especially now a cop is accused also.
But I've learned in this Epstein case, when the deal was made not to prosecute a whole group behind that case, everyone was told "don't talk to them" and keep their eyes only on what they're TOLD to focus on. Because then they become part of the SYSTEM that protects these predators. Who can be women too - which is why I'm trying not to use gender words here.
I've been hearing "she's crazy" since I first told someone what my dad was doing to me. I heard it with my ex-husband. I know that WITH TIME anyone who KNOWS us will see I'm not and come around and things will be fine. But when these SYSTEMS who don't know you are just told "oh she's crazy" and they DON'T KNOW and they DON'T BOTHER TO FIND OUT - that's what hurts.
Because I also know if they treat me like this, they'll treat ANY other victim like this, and I know what that's like - and it wounds my heart to know there are still victims out there WHO CAN'T call 911 and just get help because their particular abuser is just too big.
In those cases, all you can do is get away. Sometimes we don't prosecute the ones who harmed us because we know it would prevent us from getting to safety. We know we won't be protected if we do so. So all we can do is protect ourselves. Much like was the case when people saw what was going on with Hitler. But those people continued to go back and rescue others EVEN WHEN THEY WERE TOLD NOTHING WAS WRONG.
That's me too. This is what scares me about law makers writing laws well meaning to help sex trafficking victims, but not understanding that for YEARS Epstein AND HIS ASSOCIATES had a non-prosecution agreement. Many of those other people STILL haven't been prosecuted. What about the women who were trafficked by pimps who caught them off of Snoop's RV tour? Those pimps will NEVER be prosecuted because then Snoop would have to be also prosecuted, and that's not going to happen obviously.
Leaving the victims to be told - oh we will help you if you're trafficked BUT if these same victims CAN'T PROSECUTE their traffickers because of how powerful they are, and deals were made so they literally can't, or no one is listening to them because everyone says "oh she's crazy", then HOW is this person supposed to get the benefit of that law? I've already been physically threatened with harm if I were to go to any of these hearings while they write these laws - because then they have all these loopholes that guarantee the victims are NEVER going to be able to prosecute their traffickers because they're now lowly street pimps. A system isn't very good is only the small minnows are caught and all the whales are let go their way.
Look, I had a rat problem not long ago. I knew I had to get rid of the rats, but it doesn't mean I'd burn down the whole house.
I believe in law enforcement. I've known many awesome, courageous cops. Look at Serpico and all he's suffered just trying to be an honest cop! I want to be able to call the cops if someone is breaking into my house or stealing my car. Many fine men and women are law enforcement. Many have died trying to do their job or protect another person.
I think we have great politicians, and attorneys, and reporters. I've had my life literally saved once by a very courageous reporter. I applaud all the people who saw the Trafficking Act written and passed.
I believe in America and our system of government. I think we need all of these offices and people. I'm not trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. I'm not trying to sound like I'm saying all police are bad people.
What I am saying is that our founders knew these SAME problems. Our founders were just a few farmers basically trying to go up against the power of England. Even they knew they couldn't fight England alone, and appealed to the French for money and supplies.
But more than that, they wrote a system for us that PROTECTS us from the bad people, the corrupt, the exploiters. One of those components is a free press. We lost a free press a long time ago - BUT we were left with a free internet. We're in danger of losing that also when we have people outlawing Tiktok. Without a free press - we're sitting ducks!
Until I KNOW I can call someone, anyone, about how I'm being victimized by someone with a badge, or power, we're in trouble. That's why Edward Snowden had to flee the USA. Look at what is happening to Julian Assange.
Right now, I'm able to post this online. But if these bad people can get my account shut down, then we have lost all forms of free press and guess what happens next?
I've had MANY experiences where it was the power of the press and free speech that protected me from being murdered, and probably just written off as "another suicide".
If any of you have seen "Concussion", then you know we have another problem in the police and the medical examiner are not separate offices. The man shown in that film, Dr. Omalu, went on to become a medical examiner in just that position. He tried to rally people to separate these offices as he reported he'd been told too many times to falsify reports on police murders to cover that up. He refused. He's a "neurodivergent" just as I am, which means we have no filter. We're the social justice warriors. So we're ODD - and that's why we speak up when we see these injustices and we try and CHANGE things. When he couldn't get this separation done, he protested by quitting.
It's become a joke how many "suicides" we have. I agree we need to separate these offices, and a free press. We need to start LISTENING even when everyone says "they're crazy".
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