HOLLYWOOD TRICKS OF THE TRADE - MAGIC MIKE II
I will remind those new to this blog that I'm the founder of this modern day domestic sex trafficking movement before I begin this post. If you check the news clippings at www.hightechmadam.com you will see that I was the first person who stepped up in 1987 - which was 13 YEARS before the Trafficking Act of 2000 was written to tell the public that (1) sex trafficking was real and happening today not something of the past as was believed at the time, (2) I set up the first hotline for adult victims to call for help (second only to the Children of the Night hotline that had been set up for teens in 1979), (3) the first program for people leaving the sex industry, some of who had been trafficked, could find help to move on with their lives to another level, and (4) calling for our country to stop treating these victims like criminals and instead HELP us. So in other words - I'm the Bill Wilson of the alcoholism movement who founded Alcoholics Anonymous. You need to understand this before you can understand where I'm coming from with this post to the blog.
So when celebrities first started jumping on the band wagon and saying in the press "oooh oooh I want to do something to help" I was actually stupid enough to believe them. Please remember this is a movement we're talking about so there's a history here I'm trying to educate you about by writing this blog. BEFORE - you wouldn't get a celebrity to talk about sex trafficking because not only did people not believe it was real - it wasn't popular. I again point you to movies like this one that used to be very popular at one time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uX58tQ7mQ
Which means when celebrities started talking about sex trafficking - it was new at that time. It was new to me to hear them talk about it also. So when I'd hear a celebrity talk about "wanting to get involved to help" I would then get ahold of SAG, find out who their agent was, then I'd send over information on our group, and I'd ask to please speak to this celebrity so I could get them involved in the movement.
You remember, celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, http://movies.ndtv.com/hollywood/sarah-jessica-parker-to-raise-awareness-about-sex-trafficking-597310 or Daryl Hannah, http://www.castla.org/moviesdocumentaries-daryl-hannah-s-human-trafficking-documentary-2006 Kristin Stewart, http://kstewartnews.com/2011/06/27/kristen-helps-fight-human-trafficking-with-donation-to-shoerevolt/ and 100 other celebrities I wound up spinning my wheels trying to make contact with when I would hear them make these public announcements about wanting to actually get involved with doing something about domestic sex trafficking. Wearing a red "x" on your hand IS NOT DOING SOMETHING. Now I'm not singling anyone out here but the reality is the ONLY celebrity who ever actually got involved to help us was Frances Nuyen - a woman who has now been threatened to "back off" helping us by the way currently. Geraldo Rivera was another in the 1980's who helped us get publicity and exposure on his talk shows. To be frank - Hugh Hefner actually ponied up a $1,000,000 donation to Children of the Night. Now that's doing something!
But I kept being thanked politely for my calls and blown off by their people. Then I saw Jada Pinkett-Smith kicking off her "Don't Sell Bodies" campaign. This was before she got the role on Gotham by the way. This campaign was to raise support for Proposition 35. http://dontsellbodies.org/post/32808159312/why-i-support-proposition-35-submitted-by-david So again I'm making the silly mistake of thinking that she'd want to talk to me not only as the founder of the movement itself, not only as the person who announced that sex trafficking did exist within the legal sex industries such as legal brothels and strip clubs as well as on porn sets as I did in our 2007 press conference, but also as the founder of the oldest, and largest, program of adult survivors in the world, Sex Workers Anonymous. In fact, our oldest recovering members all live in California - so I'm thinking they'd love to get involved somehow in a campaign to help victims.
I did get a call from some assistant of Jada's trying to make sure I didn't feel slighted - that was clear. But when I would ask to meet with Jada and speak to her about what WE would like to see happen to help US - I got nowhere. I had just started moving back to Los Angeles then and I had hooked up with an old friend who has been making movies for 30 years. He told me that he was going to help us produce a documentary, edit it, and help us with production. Strangely, the very week he agreed to help us he got fired from his job at Sony he'd been at for 12 straight years - but we didn't think it was connected yet at the time.
So anyway - I'm talking to him about all this website stuff I'm seeing for the "Don't Sell Bodies" campaign and how I can't find any way to speak to Jada directly and my friends laughs. He then starts educating me on how people in Hollywood these days are picked for roles based on their internet ranking. Meaning that the more clicks and hits you get on your name or your website - the more likely you're going to be picked to be in a film.
He then told me the "inside scoop" was that she wasn't doing a lot of work since Matrix and he believed a lot of this was hype to revitalize her career. Then he showed me how everyone else was using the key words and hashtags of "sex trafficking" to get traffic onto their websites, increasing their "ranking" and thus making it more likely for them to get work. Also pointing out they only start talking about this subject when they're in between films and looking for work. Which I had to agree was true. Daryl talked her way into doing a documentary. Kristin had just finished her last movie about the Runaways and was in between gigs and suffering from bad press about her breakup with Robert Pattinson, and going back over the list I began to see his point. He starts explaining how in Hollywood every is done by formula now and numbers, and how people are living and dying by the numbers on their social ranking and what better way to generate some people googling your name than talking about sex trafficking right?
Then he pointed out the obvious "you seeing her calling you?". No. He then predicted "watch - she'll get some new role soon and probably forget all about this". Which frankly she did get that role in Gotham shortly after and I did see her numbers go up on the sites he showed me. I did see her stop campaigning about sex trafficking while she was filming Gotham. Then when filming with Gotham ended now she's started back up with this CNN show. Notice how a week later the show aired - her ranking has gone down 216 percent by this screen shot below. Sites like "star meter" that show ranking right on the imdb site itself. So yes sex trafficking has been "very very good" for Jada in my Andy Kaufman voice.
As I continued to try and make contact with no success with Jada about this campaign because there are some serious flaws in the wording of this Proposition - I can't help but think he's right. I called a woman I know who works with young prostitutes coming off the streets and asked her what she thought about this Proposition 35. She called it a "publicity campaign". I'm like how? She tells me the whole wording is wrong, it's going to be kicked out (which it was), and that it's all about generating publicity - not about doing anything to create any real solutions. If this proposition was about solutions - they have access to the best legal minds in the world and they could certainly word it better than something they know is just going to get kicked back. So basically I'm hearing the same take on this from two different worlds - that this about publicity not about solutions.
Now Jada says in interviews she got involved in this because of what her daughter was seeing going on in her schools. Well I bet she was. The whole Montana Fishburne case was unfolding at about the same time starting about 2010 when it was hitting the news. For those new to this - Montana is Laurence Fishburne's daughter. Who was in Matrix also by the way. Montana has been "turned out" at about 16 years old by another 16 year old boy named Jeremy Greene or J-Pipe's. Jeremy was also trying his hand at a rap music career as well as his new porn career when he turned 18 years old.
So he's in this whole world where Snoop Dogg is "fascinated by pimping" and his 2003 tour he speaks about in Rolling Stone - where he's now setting up this whole youth football league that's also spreading all over Los Angeles like a virus. So how would she NOT hear about this from her school age children here in Los Angeles because we now have pimps spreading all over our Los Angeles county schools in connection with all of this? Also, she's certainly going to hear about Montana.
But let me just ask you this - does making tougher gun laws STOP anyone from being murdered? Does making tougher drug laws stop people from being addicts? By the very nature of prostitution being illegal in California, and 99.99 percent of the USA, and by pimping being also illegal - then guess what? Criminals are not deterred by the law. Make tougher laws? Is that a solution?
We see cases like this 16 year old in San Luis Obispo that did not roll out of bed a pimp. Because what I'm seeing in the pimp world is the same thing you see in the drug world - you get the grown-ups to get kids to get their access to other kids. Then you see the kids doing the stuff that would get a grown-up locked up for life. Just as drug dealers have kids hold the drugs or transport them. That way they go to juvie court and their life is trashed - but the grown-up just finds another kid.
So if yes Jada wanted to get involved in an actual SOLUTION, especially to tackle WHAT Willow was seeing in a Los Angeles county school system then chasing after a proposition that's just going to be thrown out is a wonderful way to increase your "social ranking" both in the public eye and also for the computer rankings that actors live and die by for jobs BUT IT'S NOT A SOLUTION. In other words it's a great opportunity for her to advance her career - but for us - nothing. Also the CNN documentary was filmed in ATLANTA. I ask you - why not show us what Willow came home to tell her mother about seeing which was in Los Angeles County? Well if this is about advancing her career - then there's no way in hell she's going to show what's going on in Los Angeles to the world then is she? http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/07/14/cnn-jada-pinkett-smith-join-forces-for-special-report-on-sex-trafficking/
More people exploiting us for their gain - while we get nada in the way of something done to actually HELP US. In other words, we're being pimped for someone's career.
Sounds kind of cold and calculating doesn't it? Especially when this modern campaign I've seen since the movement got hijacked seems to want to focus on the African American male as a pimp as their demon "trafficker". Which of course doesn't address that prostitution and sex trafficking are DIFFERENT THINGS. Nor does it address the fact that a PIMP is not a TRAFFICKER. They are DIFFERENT.
When we started this movement women like Jeane Palfrey and myself were trying to tell the world that we need a system that acknowledges that sometimes the traffickers are law enforcement, (like Chris Butler), DEA (like the strip club owners in New Jersey), or CIA (like Iran Contra).
Men who are WHITE. Men who wear suits or uniforms. THAT'S what we need built into the system. We need a place to run not when our trafficker is a street pimp but when our trafficker is someone like those women in that NJ strip club had to deal with when their traffickers were DEA agents. Because you can build 100 "safe houses" - they aren't going to help us if we can't go to them because men like that are looking for us to make sure we don't make it to court to testify against them. Jeane didn't make it to that ethics hearing and I almost didn't make it out alive either. That DEA strip club case - wouldn't have happened without a senator speaking out to "do something" about how those club owners were partying with Colombian drug dealers. Which is why I'm over here waving red flags begging Jada to please please help us bring light to what's going on across this country right now and instead she's joined the war demonizing African American men instead as the problem because it helps her career.
I've been told that our blog postings are very "negative". Well let me tell you something - there's a lot of people being "positive" out there. So positive that no one wants to say the "emperor is not wearing any clothes". Everyone is so worried about their jobs, their reputation, their election, their grant funding, their donations that no one is going to speak out the truth here about this being bullshit. Fine - I don't have any of that so I can say that shit stinks.
Instead of listening to me because what I have to say is "negative" I saw all the celebrities like Gloria Steinem and Diane Von Furstenberg and all the celebrities hitch their wagons to women like Samoly Mam because she was "positive". Only she was FAKE.
I got news for you - real victims are NOT being "positive" because we're still in the war zone LIKE WE ARE NOW. We're still in the war zone when I have a woman in Pasadena, California announce that she wants to quit hooking at 50 years of age now that her son is going off to UCLA and two Pasadena cops, and a Pasadena judge slap her with two phony prostitution charges, threatening her they'll send her back to China if she doesn't go back to prostitutution with a third charge, that will get her the death penalty back in China. And if you read about the arrest of Liang Yaohui - you'd know that threat was very real. That when I try and get her record cleared up - I'm now being threatened by cops. So NEGATIVE is this - it's not even included in Senator John Kerry's Trafficking in Persons report for 2015. In fact, I'm not even invited to the ceremony to release it. Wow. http://www.mediafire.com/view/0cxuj6r3s0ag4ff/senatorkerryletter.pdf
I'm not alone in this crisis we're facing either when I read things like this - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/orange_county_prosecutor_misconduct_judge_goethals_takes_district_attorney.html Which by the way - you think this problem this judge is having is solved because you read that a "report is being done by the UC Irvine professor of law"? Guess what? HE says "no one has asked me to do any report".
California US Attorney Kamala Harris is busy reviewing an illegally made undercover videotape against Planned Parenthood http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/27/group-behind-planned-parenthood-attack-videos-sees-scrutiny-california-attorney-general/ which I will repeat was illegally made and aired - no she'll review that and make a public statement which she should even be watching because it was illegally made and aired (remember the ACORN producer who got fined $100,000 for the same thing?), but she WON'T address the issues this judge is having. http://www.newshounds.us/_pimp_james_o_keefe_to_pay_100_000_to_smeared_acorn_employee_03082013
So Houston we got a serious problem. A problem that someone with Jada's status could actually help us shine some light on. Only I can't get her to even call me - let alone to get involved in the fact that I got people all over California right now saying that when they've tried to go to the police with information on a trafficking ring to help a victim that THEY'RE being threatened by the cops to "back off" also. One man actually kept pushing to help his ex-girlfriend who was being trafficked and now he's got a gag order, a TRO and they even took away his legally owned guns. Jada - are you listening?
No - she's not. When she was on Facebook promoting the CNN Freedom Project show that aired last week and answering questions - I was never responded to when I talked to her. My request she contact me after in case she wanted to talk privately well I'm not hearing the phone ring by her OR her people that say they're working with domestic sex trafficking. I specifically said I had a case I needed help with - but her people aren't getting back to me about that case either. I guess because it's not about street prostitution - it doesn't count.
On this show, she just went to Atlanta to do a show with CNN about sex trafficking. One by the way that focused on children who I hate to sound really cynical here folks but let's call a spade a spade. KIDS GOT HELP ALREADY. If a child is trafficked and then found again - there's a whole social system in place that will take care of that child.
However, when an adult is rescued they get bumkiss. Their rent is still going to come due and they still have to find a roof over their head the next night. And God forbid if their case is like the Snoop Dogg case where they can't file any charges against their trafficker to even get put into witness protection - because then once they're free - they still need to now find a place to sleep that night. Freedom still means now you got to pay rent.
Which is the number one reason why when an adult sex trafficking victim does escape or does get rescued - why she or he will go right back to the sex industry. Because now they're free and now what? That was what happened to me. I got out from under the ring that had been trafficking me and I still had rent due and still had a car payment and now I have all this PTSD to deal with and the physical damage - so now what? I'm going to go to work at McDonald's? I couldn't even get a job at McDonald's back then if I wanted to I was so messed up in the head.
So I'm wondering how Will Smith is dealing with all of this. I like Will Smith. You want positive out of me? I like Will Smith. I have admired him ever since I read that when he got into some financial issues when he was filming the "Prince of Bel-Air" that he rented a small apartment and lived on a budget so he could pay off his debts.
In other words, he's a respectable man. He got married and has kids he cares for instead of running like some playboy. He doesn't beat his wife that I'm aware of. He doesn't do drugs I'm aware of. No one has seen him at some sleezy sex swinger party. I see him in positive roles in films. I don't see him disrespect women. I don't see him glamorizing a criminal or a drug lifestyle. I see him doing something very hard for any African American male in Hollywood to do, and for anyone in Hollywood for that matter. He doesn't take roles just to pay the bills that sent bad messages to kids. He plays heroes for other young kids to emulate. He is truly a role model.
I like him. I admire and respect him. Which is why I was a little shocked when he took the role in "Focus" to be honest. A role where he plays a con man. That's actually out of character for him and why I think think he's trying to tell us something America. His father in the film that taught him the "game" from a generational perspective is white. The woman he uses in the film is white. In fact, just about everyone but his best friend in that film is WHITE. The film also showed how corruption can even be in so called "legitimate" business like the car racing field. Even the other guy that made these bets with him was Asian.
Now I think Will Smith is trying to tell us something.
For one thing - I have seen a very conspicuous ABSENCE of him when it comes to Jada's trafficking work and shows. http://pagesix.com/2015/07/14/jada-pinkett-smith-takes-on-sex-trafficking-for-cnn/
Folks - I'm having a heart attack. I just went to go find links to show that when Jada has been talking about sex trafficking that Will has not been standing behind her on these interviews and shows to prove that. As I was looking for these links - I found out that Jada is in Magic Mike XXL I didn't watch Magic Mike XXL because it's about stripping. Remember, I'm recovering from the sex industry. So I don't go out and watch movies that glamorize strippers - male or female. And please don't hand me that the script says something bad about it. Everyone knows that the "anti-heroes" of gangsters are considered thus because there are films made about them.
Now I'm lost. For one thing, anyone in this fight knows that Atlanta has just about as many strip clubs as Vegas and Florida. That rappers will drop insane amounts of money in these Atlanta strip clubs. I mean didn't I just do a report in 2007 proving that sex trafficking exists in strip clubs? Didn't we see that in this DEA NJ strip club arrest? Didn't Bob Herbert get threatened with a baseball bat to the head because he heard my claims, and then went out to a random strip club in Las Vegas and in 15 minutes found a woman who was there against her will and wrote about that in his NY Post column? That verifying that sex trafficking does exist in strip clubs so angered then mayor Oscar Goodman that's why he threatened Bob that if he ever came back to Vegas he'd meet that baseball bat to the head?
So she's just a show about sex trafficking in Atlanta last week and now I learn she's in a movie glamouring male stripping? Why am I not surprised to also read that and then read Will Smith and her are going to divorce. No I don't think it's because she was just in a film with a bunch of hunky men. I'm lost. How can this woman go out with fangs bared about sex trafficking of our children and then do a film called Magic Mike XXL? What because it's about men it's okay? Really? http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/29253683/after-15-strippers-arrested-in-sex-bust-strip-club-to-reopen-in-sc-town I could put 1000 links just like this up here too.
Jada - I think a lot of people are trying to tell you something besides me that you aren't listening to. Including Will Smith. It's just purely coincidental I guess that you timed this CNN Freedom Project at the same time as the release of "Magic Mike II" right? I'm going to throw up I swear. Well I'm writing this blog to educate you about how a movement works and this is a great lesson in how celebrities will use campaigns like sex trafficking to promote movies about strippers while denouncing sex trafficking. I don't appreciate a movement I almost got murdered 100 times over trying to make happen being exploited by out to PROMOTE YOUR CAREER? Goes to shows pimps can be female too readers.
That's why I admire Will Smith. Thank you. Thank you for standing up for what you believe the best way you can - which sometimes does means "standing down". Willow - thank you for trying to talk to your mother about what's going on in the real world out here.
But sometimes all you can do is "stand down". It's why you didn't see me standing around at any of the Samoly Mam functions either. Nor with Chong Kim or Ben Hillier either at any of their functions. http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/01/bill-hillar-inspiration-for-film-taken-arrested-by-fbi-47382.html Ben got arrested. Samoly Mam stepped down. Jada makes another film.
Register your statement that mixed messages are NOT okay - don't go see Magic Mike II. Don't google it or tweet about it either. Just don't go.
(copyright 2015 J. Williams all rights reserved)
So when celebrities first started jumping on the band wagon and saying in the press "oooh oooh I want to do something to help" I was actually stupid enough to believe them. Please remember this is a movement we're talking about so there's a history here I'm trying to educate you about by writing this blog. BEFORE - you wouldn't get a celebrity to talk about sex trafficking because not only did people not believe it was real - it wasn't popular. I again point you to movies like this one that used to be very popular at one time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uX58tQ7mQ
Which means when celebrities started talking about sex trafficking - it was new at that time. It was new to me to hear them talk about it also. So when I'd hear a celebrity talk about "wanting to get involved to help" I would then get ahold of SAG, find out who their agent was, then I'd send over information on our group, and I'd ask to please speak to this celebrity so I could get them involved in the movement.
You remember, celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, http://movies.ndtv.com/hollywood/sarah-jessica-parker-to-raise-awareness-about-sex-trafficking-597310 or Daryl Hannah, http://www.castla.org/moviesdocumentaries-daryl-hannah-s-human-trafficking-documentary-2006 Kristin Stewart, http://kstewartnews.com/2011/06/27/kristen-helps-fight-human-trafficking-with-donation-to-shoerevolt/ and 100 other celebrities I wound up spinning my wheels trying to make contact with when I would hear them make these public announcements about wanting to actually get involved with doing something about domestic sex trafficking. Wearing a red "x" on your hand IS NOT DOING SOMETHING. Now I'm not singling anyone out here but the reality is the ONLY celebrity who ever actually got involved to help us was Frances Nuyen - a woman who has now been threatened to "back off" helping us by the way currently. Geraldo Rivera was another in the 1980's who helped us get publicity and exposure on his talk shows. To be frank - Hugh Hefner actually ponied up a $1,000,000 donation to Children of the Night. Now that's doing something!
But I kept being thanked politely for my calls and blown off by their people. Then I saw Jada Pinkett-Smith kicking off her "Don't Sell Bodies" campaign. This was before she got the role on Gotham by the way. This campaign was to raise support for Proposition 35. http://dontsellbodies.org/post/32808159312/why-i-support-proposition-35-submitted-by-david So again I'm making the silly mistake of thinking that she'd want to talk to me not only as the founder of the movement itself, not only as the person who announced that sex trafficking did exist within the legal sex industries such as legal brothels and strip clubs as well as on porn sets as I did in our 2007 press conference, but also as the founder of the oldest, and largest, program of adult survivors in the world, Sex Workers Anonymous. In fact, our oldest recovering members all live in California - so I'm thinking they'd love to get involved somehow in a campaign to help victims.
I did get a call from some assistant of Jada's trying to make sure I didn't feel slighted - that was clear. But when I would ask to meet with Jada and speak to her about what WE would like to see happen to help US - I got nowhere. I had just started moving back to Los Angeles then and I had hooked up with an old friend who has been making movies for 30 years. He told me that he was going to help us produce a documentary, edit it, and help us with production. Strangely, the very week he agreed to help us he got fired from his job at Sony he'd been at for 12 straight years - but we didn't think it was connected yet at the time.
So anyway - I'm talking to him about all this website stuff I'm seeing for the "Don't Sell Bodies" campaign and how I can't find any way to speak to Jada directly and my friends laughs. He then starts educating me on how people in Hollywood these days are picked for roles based on their internet ranking. Meaning that the more clicks and hits you get on your name or your website - the more likely you're going to be picked to be in a film.
He then told me the "inside scoop" was that she wasn't doing a lot of work since Matrix and he believed a lot of this was hype to revitalize her career. Then he showed me how everyone else was using the key words and hashtags of "sex trafficking" to get traffic onto their websites, increasing their "ranking" and thus making it more likely for them to get work. Also pointing out they only start talking about this subject when they're in between films and looking for work. Which I had to agree was true. Daryl talked her way into doing a documentary. Kristin had just finished her last movie about the Runaways and was in between gigs and suffering from bad press about her breakup with Robert Pattinson, and going back over the list I began to see his point. He starts explaining how in Hollywood every is done by formula now and numbers, and how people are living and dying by the numbers on their social ranking and what better way to generate some people googling your name than talking about sex trafficking right?
Then he pointed out the obvious "you seeing her calling you?". No. He then predicted "watch - she'll get some new role soon and probably forget all about this". Which frankly she did get that role in Gotham shortly after and I did see her numbers go up on the sites he showed me. I did see her stop campaigning about sex trafficking while she was filming Gotham. Then when filming with Gotham ended now she's started back up with this CNN show. Notice how a week later the show aired - her ranking has gone down 216 percent by this screen shot below. Sites like "star meter" that show ranking right on the imdb site itself. So yes sex trafficking has been "very very good" for Jada in my Andy Kaufman voice.
As I continued to try and make contact with no success with Jada about this campaign because there are some serious flaws in the wording of this Proposition - I can't help but think he's right. I called a woman I know who works with young prostitutes coming off the streets and asked her what she thought about this Proposition 35. She called it a "publicity campaign". I'm like how? She tells me the whole wording is wrong, it's going to be kicked out (which it was), and that it's all about generating publicity - not about doing anything to create any real solutions. If this proposition was about solutions - they have access to the best legal minds in the world and they could certainly word it better than something they know is just going to get kicked back. So basically I'm hearing the same take on this from two different worlds - that this about publicity not about solutions.
Now Jada says in interviews she got involved in this because of what her daughter was seeing going on in her schools. Well I bet she was. The whole Montana Fishburne case was unfolding at about the same time starting about 2010 when it was hitting the news. For those new to this - Montana is Laurence Fishburne's daughter. Who was in Matrix also by the way. Montana has been "turned out" at about 16 years old by another 16 year old boy named Jeremy Greene or J-Pipe's. Jeremy was also trying his hand at a rap music career as well as his new porn career when he turned 18 years old.
So he's in this whole world where Snoop Dogg is "fascinated by pimping" and his 2003 tour he speaks about in Rolling Stone - where he's now setting up this whole youth football league that's also spreading all over Los Angeles like a virus. So how would she NOT hear about this from her school age children here in Los Angeles because we now have pimps spreading all over our Los Angeles county schools in connection with all of this? Also, she's certainly going to hear about Montana.
But let me just ask you this - does making tougher gun laws STOP anyone from being murdered? Does making tougher drug laws stop people from being addicts? By the very nature of prostitution being illegal in California, and 99.99 percent of the USA, and by pimping being also illegal - then guess what? Criminals are not deterred by the law. Make tougher laws? Is that a solution?
We see cases like this 16 year old in San Luis Obispo that did not roll out of bed a pimp. Because what I'm seeing in the pimp world is the same thing you see in the drug world - you get the grown-ups to get kids to get their access to other kids. Then you see the kids doing the stuff that would get a grown-up locked up for life. Just as drug dealers have kids hold the drugs or transport them. That way they go to juvie court and their life is trashed - but the grown-up just finds another kid.
So if yes Jada wanted to get involved in an actual SOLUTION, especially to tackle WHAT Willow was seeing in a Los Angeles county school system then chasing after a proposition that's just going to be thrown out is a wonderful way to increase your "social ranking" both in the public eye and also for the computer rankings that actors live and die by for jobs BUT IT'S NOT A SOLUTION. In other words it's a great opportunity for her to advance her career - but for us - nothing. Also the CNN documentary was filmed in ATLANTA. I ask you - why not show us what Willow came home to tell her mother about seeing which was in Los Angeles County? Well if this is about advancing her career - then there's no way in hell she's going to show what's going on in Los Angeles to the world then is she? http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/07/14/cnn-jada-pinkett-smith-join-forces-for-special-report-on-sex-trafficking/
More people exploiting us for their gain - while we get nada in the way of something done to actually HELP US. In other words, we're being pimped for someone's career.
Sounds kind of cold and calculating doesn't it? Especially when this modern campaign I've seen since the movement got hijacked seems to want to focus on the African American male as a pimp as their demon "trafficker". Which of course doesn't address that prostitution and sex trafficking are DIFFERENT THINGS. Nor does it address the fact that a PIMP is not a TRAFFICKER. They are DIFFERENT.
When we started this movement women like Jeane Palfrey and myself were trying to tell the world that we need a system that acknowledges that sometimes the traffickers are law enforcement, (like Chris Butler), DEA (like the strip club owners in New Jersey), or CIA (like Iran Contra).
Men who are WHITE. Men who wear suits or uniforms. THAT'S what we need built into the system. We need a place to run not when our trafficker is a street pimp but when our trafficker is someone like those women in that NJ strip club had to deal with when their traffickers were DEA agents. Because you can build 100 "safe houses" - they aren't going to help us if we can't go to them because men like that are looking for us to make sure we don't make it to court to testify against them. Jeane didn't make it to that ethics hearing and I almost didn't make it out alive either. That DEA strip club case - wouldn't have happened without a senator speaking out to "do something" about how those club owners were partying with Colombian drug dealers. Which is why I'm over here waving red flags begging Jada to please please help us bring light to what's going on across this country right now and instead she's joined the war demonizing African American men instead as the problem because it helps her career.
I've been told that our blog postings are very "negative". Well let me tell you something - there's a lot of people being "positive" out there. So positive that no one wants to say the "emperor is not wearing any clothes". Everyone is so worried about their jobs, their reputation, their election, their grant funding, their donations that no one is going to speak out the truth here about this being bullshit. Fine - I don't have any of that so I can say that shit stinks.
Instead of listening to me because what I have to say is "negative" I saw all the celebrities like Gloria Steinem and Diane Von Furstenberg and all the celebrities hitch their wagons to women like Samoly Mam because she was "positive". Only she was FAKE.
I got news for you - real victims are NOT being "positive" because we're still in the war zone LIKE WE ARE NOW. We're still in the war zone when I have a woman in Pasadena, California announce that she wants to quit hooking at 50 years of age now that her son is going off to UCLA and two Pasadena cops, and a Pasadena judge slap her with two phony prostitution charges, threatening her they'll send her back to China if she doesn't go back to prostitutution with a third charge, that will get her the death penalty back in China. And if you read about the arrest of Liang Yaohui - you'd know that threat was very real. That when I try and get her record cleared up - I'm now being threatened by cops. So NEGATIVE is this - it's not even included in Senator John Kerry's Trafficking in Persons report for 2015. In fact, I'm not even invited to the ceremony to release it. Wow. http://www.mediafire.com/view/0cxuj6r3s0ag4ff/senatorkerryletter.pdf
I'm not alone in this crisis we're facing either when I read things like this - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/orange_county_prosecutor_misconduct_judge_goethals_takes_district_attorney.html Which by the way - you think this problem this judge is having is solved because you read that a "report is being done by the UC Irvine professor of law"? Guess what? HE says "no one has asked me to do any report".
California US Attorney Kamala Harris is busy reviewing an illegally made undercover videotape against Planned Parenthood http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/27/group-behind-planned-parenthood-attack-videos-sees-scrutiny-california-attorney-general/ which I will repeat was illegally made and aired - no she'll review that and make a public statement which she should even be watching because it was illegally made and aired (remember the ACORN producer who got fined $100,000 for the same thing?), but she WON'T address the issues this judge is having. http://www.newshounds.us/_pimp_james_o_keefe_to_pay_100_000_to_smeared_acorn_employee_03082013
So Houston we got a serious problem. A problem that someone with Jada's status could actually help us shine some light on. Only I can't get her to even call me - let alone to get involved in the fact that I got people all over California right now saying that when they've tried to go to the police with information on a trafficking ring to help a victim that THEY'RE being threatened by the cops to "back off" also. One man actually kept pushing to help his ex-girlfriend who was being trafficked and now he's got a gag order, a TRO and they even took away his legally owned guns. Jada - are you listening?
No - she's not. When she was on Facebook promoting the CNN Freedom Project show that aired last week and answering questions - I was never responded to when I talked to her. My request she contact me after in case she wanted to talk privately well I'm not hearing the phone ring by her OR her people that say they're working with domestic sex trafficking. I specifically said I had a case I needed help with - but her people aren't getting back to me about that case either. I guess because it's not about street prostitution - it doesn't count.
On this show, she just went to Atlanta to do a show with CNN about sex trafficking. One by the way that focused on children who I hate to sound really cynical here folks but let's call a spade a spade. KIDS GOT HELP ALREADY. If a child is trafficked and then found again - there's a whole social system in place that will take care of that child.
However, when an adult is rescued they get bumkiss. Their rent is still going to come due and they still have to find a roof over their head the next night. And God forbid if their case is like the Snoop Dogg case where they can't file any charges against their trafficker to even get put into witness protection - because then once they're free - they still need to now find a place to sleep that night. Freedom still means now you got to pay rent.
Which is the number one reason why when an adult sex trafficking victim does escape or does get rescued - why she or he will go right back to the sex industry. Because now they're free and now what? That was what happened to me. I got out from under the ring that had been trafficking me and I still had rent due and still had a car payment and now I have all this PTSD to deal with and the physical damage - so now what? I'm going to go to work at McDonald's? I couldn't even get a job at McDonald's back then if I wanted to I was so messed up in the head.
So I'm wondering how Will Smith is dealing with all of this. I like Will Smith. You want positive out of me? I like Will Smith. I have admired him ever since I read that when he got into some financial issues when he was filming the "Prince of Bel-Air" that he rented a small apartment and lived on a budget so he could pay off his debts.
In other words, he's a respectable man. He got married and has kids he cares for instead of running like some playboy. He doesn't beat his wife that I'm aware of. He doesn't do drugs I'm aware of. No one has seen him at some sleezy sex swinger party. I see him in positive roles in films. I don't see him disrespect women. I don't see him glamorizing a criminal or a drug lifestyle. I see him doing something very hard for any African American male in Hollywood to do, and for anyone in Hollywood for that matter. He doesn't take roles just to pay the bills that sent bad messages to kids. He plays heroes for other young kids to emulate. He is truly a role model.
I like him. I admire and respect him. Which is why I was a little shocked when he took the role in "Focus" to be honest. A role where he plays a con man. That's actually out of character for him and why I think think he's trying to tell us something America. His father in the film that taught him the "game" from a generational perspective is white. The woman he uses in the film is white. In fact, just about everyone but his best friend in that film is WHITE. The film also showed how corruption can even be in so called "legitimate" business like the car racing field. Even the other guy that made these bets with him was Asian.
Now I think Will Smith is trying to tell us something.
For one thing - I have seen a very conspicuous ABSENCE of him when it comes to Jada's trafficking work and shows. http://pagesix.com/2015/07/14/jada-pinkett-smith-takes-on-sex-trafficking-for-cnn/
Folks - I'm having a heart attack. I just went to go find links to show that when Jada has been talking about sex trafficking that Will has not been standing behind her on these interviews and shows to prove that. As I was looking for these links - I found out that Jada is in Magic Mike XXL I didn't watch Magic Mike XXL because it's about stripping. Remember, I'm recovering from the sex industry. So I don't go out and watch movies that glamorize strippers - male or female. And please don't hand me that the script says something bad about it. Everyone knows that the "anti-heroes" of gangsters are considered thus because there are films made about them.
Now I'm lost. For one thing, anyone in this fight knows that Atlanta has just about as many strip clubs as Vegas and Florida. That rappers will drop insane amounts of money in these Atlanta strip clubs. I mean didn't I just do a report in 2007 proving that sex trafficking exists in strip clubs? Didn't we see that in this DEA NJ strip club arrest? Didn't Bob Herbert get threatened with a baseball bat to the head because he heard my claims, and then went out to a random strip club in Las Vegas and in 15 minutes found a woman who was there against her will and wrote about that in his NY Post column? That verifying that sex trafficking does exist in strip clubs so angered then mayor Oscar Goodman that's why he threatened Bob that if he ever came back to Vegas he'd meet that baseball bat to the head?
So she's just a show about sex trafficking in Atlanta last week and now I learn she's in a movie glamouring male stripping? Why am I not surprised to also read that and then read Will Smith and her are going to divorce. No I don't think it's because she was just in a film with a bunch of hunky men. I'm lost. How can this woman go out with fangs bared about sex trafficking of our children and then do a film called Magic Mike XXL? What because it's about men it's okay? Really? http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/29253683/after-15-strippers-arrested-in-sex-bust-strip-club-to-reopen-in-sc-town I could put 1000 links just like this up here too.
Jada - I think a lot of people are trying to tell you something besides me that you aren't listening to. Including Will Smith. It's just purely coincidental I guess that you timed this CNN Freedom Project at the same time as the release of "Magic Mike II" right? I'm going to throw up I swear. Well I'm writing this blog to educate you about how a movement works and this is a great lesson in how celebrities will use campaigns like sex trafficking to promote movies about strippers while denouncing sex trafficking. I don't appreciate a movement I almost got murdered 100 times over trying to make happen being exploited by out to PROMOTE YOUR CAREER? Goes to shows pimps can be female too readers.
That's why I admire Will Smith. Thank you. Thank you for standing up for what you believe the best way you can - which sometimes does means "standing down". Willow - thank you for trying to talk to your mother about what's going on in the real world out here.
But sometimes all you can do is "stand down". It's why you didn't see me standing around at any of the Samoly Mam functions either. Nor with Chong Kim or Ben Hillier either at any of their functions. http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/01/bill-hillar-inspiration-for-film-taken-arrested-by-fbi-47382.html Ben got arrested. Samoly Mam stepped down. Jada makes another film.
Register your statement that mixed messages are NOT okay - don't go see Magic Mike II. Don't google it or tweet about it either. Just don't go.
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