EISENHOWER'S WARNING ABOUT THE MILITARY COMPLEX AS IT RELATES TO SEX TRAFFICKING TODAY
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Note Eisenhower said "document" because "they'll claim it never happened". They say you need to know your history in order not to repeat it right?
When I escaped my own time being trafficked - I of course needed help. I had tried to self-medicate my feelings of helplessness with cocaine that I had seen "experts" getting up on TV saying it was "not addictive" and "even Freud used the drug" and really sold it to us in the late 70's and early 80's. People now think I"m kidding when I say that I used to see doctors getting up on TV and saying it was not an "addictive" drug, and "not like heroin" and actually a "great source of energy" again pointing to the work Freud did under the influence of the drug. Being around dealers who were operating with whole truck loads of cocaine - I developed a pretty big problem pretty quickly. So yes I was getting help for my drug issues in Narcotics Anonymous - but nothing to deal with the other stuff.
But I had a very wise sponsor. He took me to meeting of the Holocaust survivors. People who knew well about man's inhumanity to man so I didn't have to first convince them of what I'd seen being true. I got a lot of wonderful advice and healing from very elderly Jewish people that I think saved my life. I tried seeking help from the "traditional" counselors and therapists at the time, but these people lived in a world where the concept of "trafficking" didn't exist. Please remember the word even of "trafficking" did not exist until after the Trafficking Act of 2000 was passed. So here I am running around in the early 1980's and no one is believing me about what's even happening, let alone responding to help.
This is why I took that warehouse I had yes once used as an incall operation and turned it into a "safe house". There was NO WHERE TO GO if you were over 18 years old then. Lois Lee was the first one to understand these kids who were caught up in this, and also sexually attractive, had special needs and could not get help within the traditional juvenile system because they would just be preyed upon by the adults they were in the care of. So she had stepped up to form the first hotline to call if you were under 18 for help when those at the Runaway Hotline just didn't have a clue, and other kids at places like Covenant House were reporting they were being molested by the staff, heck even the Father who ran the place supposedly for 10 years.
But what about if you were over 18 years old? I knew we couldn't go to motels - these guys would literally give out photos of you to the desk clerks to notify them you were there. I had one hotel clerk feel sorry for me when I was running and he showed me. They had pasted a photo of me behind the desk so the clerk could see if I showed up. Then he told me how he was offered $250 to "make a phone call" to let these cops know where I'd run. NOT cops to arrest me for a crime - but to arrest me because I was running from their prostitution operation as we called it then which would be called a "trafficking operation" if it was today. Now I was lucky he liked blonds with big tits because this clerk told me of the photo and the bribe offer. So he asked me if he gave up the $250 cash reward if I'd thank him another way. Which I did. The guy could have let me check in, get comfortable in my room, go to sleep, and I would have been woken up and drug off by these cops to who knows where or what they would have done to me if they got me back then.
Understand who I was running from in my day. I was not running from street pimps. I had been initially pulled in and "turned out" by Richard Pryor's family in the late 1970's. But when things got crazy, I was able to go to the head man in charge and trade some cash for my freedom from them. I had no idea however that in their own way I was being protected by being connected to them from the REAL big bad wolves - men in our own government and law enforcement in what is today called "Iran Contra". Realize this - Oliver North, Newt Gingrich, and the men who were involved in that are still alive. They're still in politics.
When word hit the streets I was no longer "with the family" then the really big dogs moved in on me. Which this machine was like a monster with many legs and faces. If you want an idea what I was living in back then I suggest "Cocaine Cowboys I and II". They talk about openly how they would grease palms of many officials to be bringing in boats and planes full of cocaine, marijuana, etc.
Now the money had to be laundered. So record companies had to be set up. One of the things I was doing for the "family" was just that. I was renting offices in Beverly Hills, installing phones, opening bank accounts, obtaining licenses, all for phony record companies. These companies not only laundered money, but we also gave a "face" of many of the pimps having jobs. This guy was a sound engineer. This guy was a producer. This guy was a dubber. We had woman who needed to have the appearance of a job to cover with probation - we'd hire her as the "receptionist". Back then we'd say we sold 100,000 cassettes of some rapper. Then we'd buy 100,000 blank cassettes and give them away so we have product. Money laundered.
I was asked to do things like find a group of dentists willing to set up a corporation to import cocaine into the country legally. Now what better way for these guys to do this than through a madam and prostitute? These guys weren't going to be caught on tape asking a dentist to sign paperwork to bring cocaine in as an anesthetic for his dental practice. Better yet, I found dentists who didn't even have an office yet who wanted money to open an office who would agree to join this project. I was the one asking the questions - not the CIA or FBI directly. So yes I helped set up paperwork and the whole operation so cocaine could be brought in legally in large amounts by finding the right people willing to get involved.
So when word hit the streets I was no longer with the family - these men approached me as they had approached Alex Adams, dubbed the "Beverly Hills Madam". She was allowed to work as a madam for over 10 years while being their "informant". Meaning she wouldn't be arrested - but she also had to do as they asked. If not, then she'd be arrested. If she was really bad, she'd be found dead hung in her jail cell like the Baton Rouge Madam was (most likely). Or found hung in her mother's back yard like Jeane Palfrey.
Now if we ran - we weren't running from street pimps looking like Bishop Don Juan. As I said, we couldn't go check into a motel because these guys were going to every motel that I'd check into (any motel that had rooms for less than $400 a night in other words). Why would I leave my apartment? I had pulled into my apartment driveway and saw two cops staring at me. They were waiting for me to get out of my car and go into my apartment obviously. That alarmed me so I left. I called my mom and asked her to go to my place and look around for anything strange. She did and called me back asking me "did you leave a pound of cocaine under your bed?" No mom I did not. So these guys had planted cocaine in my apartment. A pound? Wow they really wanted to send me up the river.
Meaning I can't go home. These guys were demanding I work with them and do things I did not want to do. I don't mind finding a bunch of dentists to help them smuggle cocaine into the country. But I would NOT agree to help them find women to sell to men overseas who would never be seen again. I have no problem with the sex industry. If a woman wants to work as an escort, stripper, or porn performer I have no problem with that. I have a problem when it's no longer a job - but something you have no choice to do. When you can't leave or say "no" then that's no longer sex work - that's slavery. These men had wanted me to help them find women who had no family to sell to Saudi's because of oil deals they were working on who liked white girls. When I refused - these men tried to let me know what they could do to me otherwise.
Like walking into my apartment to find they had planted a pound of cocaine under my bed. Then tell me I "have" to do it or go to prison on a drug trafficking charge. What - the judge is going to believe me, a hooker, that I don't know anything about that bag of cocaine?
So here I am trying to run and I can't go home. I can't go to a motel. I can't go to my mom's house because that's being staked out also. Where do I go? One of my "johns"? Now in my case I knew a drug dealer who lived on a compound where he also raised rottweilers for guard dogs. He was the only one I could think of that had a place no one could walk in and plant drugs on me and arrest me. How ironic right? But I have to leave there sometime right?
But my point is here I managed to get out. Now I'm looking back and realizing there's going to be others like me who also need a safe way out. Not everyone is going to know a drug dealer who lives on a huge fenced guarded compound to go hide out in for a while. Which believe me was a short lived escape because he started tripping out on drugs and I had to leave there eventually for that reason. So yes I knew that people like me also needed a way to get out without having to go deal with someone on drugs like I had to do.
I had looked around and realized I still had a lease on the warehouse. So I converted it into a safe house. Then when one of my girlfriends called me saying her pimp had just broken her arm and nose in a drug rage and she wanted out of there - I took her to the warehouse. There was plenty of food, a bed, shower, kitchen, a TV, and she could just sleep and heal there. Which was the first safe house for us, as adults, created you can read about at www.hightechmadam.com I have our clip from 1987 here http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-30/news/vw-11791_1_leblanc
The pimp was angry so he called the cops and said I was "running a brothel". They came out and she was on probation and her her PJ's because it was midnight, so they arrested her and came after me. But she testified against her real pimp, and my attorney showed them I was not running anything out of there, and my charges were dropped.
But trust me it was a very difficult explanation trying to explain to the prosecutor and the cops why she was in a "safe house". Remember - the world DID NOT BELIEVE THIS WAS REAL in 1984 when this went down. I point back always to Linda Lovelace - who proves when she tried to talk about her being forced to film "Deep Throat" by her husband with a gun on a mob financed film NO ONE BELIEVED HER. The only laws we had on the books then was "obscenity". So the government did try to sue for obscenity - but since that wasn't what went down they of course lost.
So I opened the first safe house in 1984. I launched the first hotline in 1987. I launched the first program that went to the courts and said we needed to stop being treated like criminals - but instead as people in need of help. Not just women either mind you but PEOPLE. The program I designed worked with men, women and transgenders. It was not a religious program because the victims I saw were Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Catholic, or just plain atheist. Being in need of help wasn't a gender issue. It wasn't a religious issue. It was a PEOPLE issue.
Now granted, Lois had opened up Children of the Night. But she had kids to protect. Meaning she wasn't going to go running around talking about how our country had to change the way it treated this issue in the same manner I could. I was single, had no kids, didn't have a mortgage to sweat every month, so I could take up the campaign trail for us. Which I had to. In order to explain to judges why they needed to court order those found guilty of prostitution, or madaming, or pimping, to our program for help I had to explain how not every one of them was doing so by choice. Some were forced yes by other people. Some were forced because they were HIV positive and the medications then were $10,000 a month and no health insurance company would cover them. Some were disabled and couldn't get a job but had kids to feed. I mean force is force.
Another thing I had to do was tackle the mental health field. To show me what these men could do they brought me to the airport where they were putting women who were drugged into a diplomat's plane. Then told me "knock yourself out - try and stop the plane". Of course airport security thought I was insane. The police hung up on me. I was told by someone at the airport that a diplomat's plane could not be searched nor stopped so I had to stand there and watch that plane take off knowing I could have been on that plane. Anyone could drug me and throw me on that plane and then no one could stop it? Pretty scary stuff. So I started having anxiety attacks.
I went to a counselor who told me the only way to get better was to "talk about what was causing me anxiety". So I did. Then I heard him go into another room where he started calling for a psychiatric emergency team "PET" to come and drag me off for observation. I asked him why he was going to do that to me and he said "because things like that just don't happen so you must be hallucinating". So clearly our mental health system needed reform.
I enrolled in a psychology class and went through their textbooks on prostitution. There wasn't anything except one paragraph making us look like we all needed drug treatment. I went and looked at all the other textbooks clear up to the PhD level. I found there was no degree on this type of subject. Prostitution was divided into either "drug addiction" or "sexual deviance". There wasn't even a category for "prostitution" as a separate subject even. I poured over all the research reports - again only finding the category of either drug addiction or sexual deviance. I could find nothing on the types of things not just I'd gone through, but many had also.
Meaning if any of us opened our mouths to a mental health professional about what we'd just been through - we'd get labeled "crazy" and drug off to the nut ward. Clearly, we had to advance the mental health system if we were going to get these women off drugs. Which was happening in the drug treatment community. These men and women going through what I'd been witnessing all knew if they opened their mouth about this stuff they'd just be laughed at or locked up. So with having to "stuff" it - no they weren't getting clean. Yes they were depressed. But we weren't going to get them help if when they opened their mouth they weren't believed.
So I set out to find who the people were in charge of the training at the time. I mean literally at one point in time the idea of drug and alcohol treatment didn't exist. The same for compulsive gambling or sexual addiction. These were new fields of treatment that didn't exist 60 years ago. People had to create those schools of thought, along with the training and licensing in how to work with these communities. So these people who did this for other subjects I then sought out to create training on how to work with our community. I mean here I was alive, clean from drugs, my anxiety attacks gone, and if I had found a way to get better - then we could start with working from what worked for me. Now I had our program going - we now had other people we could use to show other counselors what was working for US now.
Then came the day when everything changed in 2007. I gave the press conference with Melissa Farley about the idea of creating NCAST. Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking. The report was on how trafficking existed within the "legal" sex industry advertised right in broad daylight. The massage parlors, strip clubs and yes the legal brothels of Nevada. Now I had agreed to set up this NCAST to address trafficking within the legal sex industry. I did NOT agree to "call out to abolish the brothels" nor to outlaw prostitution. That's a whole other enchilada.
The difference? There's a huge difference between saying you want to set up a treatment program for alcoholics vs. saying you want to bring back Prohibition outlawing alcohol. Alcoholics Anonymous nor Bill Wilson started up a campaign to bring back Prohibition. They created AA to help the alcoholic however. So yes I helped Melissa prepare her report by letting her speak to women we had helped in Nevada who were trafficked in the legal brothels. But no I did not agree to call out to "outlaw prostitution" at this press conference. So when she comes up to me literally as I've got my microphone hooked up on me and the room is full of reporters and she tells me she wants me to state from the microphone that I want to "outlaw prostitution" I told her "no way".
The result? A reporter named Abigail Goldman comes up to me and interviews me. Then she asks me to come in and pose for a photograph to appear with the article she says is going to be on the front page of the Review Journal. I refused. I then asked her "didn't you hear what I said?" Being that many a time to get a victim of trafficking away from a pimp I would sometimes pose as a cleaning lady, or a hair dresser, or a make-up artist, a psychic, another madam, or 100 other disguises I've used to get access to a victim who is being trapped and then get her out of captivity. Now that said, why would I put a photo of myself out there in the paper? Hey pimps here's what I look like? So I told her no but that she was welcome to take a photo of me from the back, or use a graphic, or whatever, but no I would not put a photo of my face in the newspaper, which would then go out over the web.
She then said "Your name and the name Sex Workers Anonymous is blacklisted in our publication. We do not care how many women DIE from not knowing about your group, your hotline, and your work. But your name, and SWA's name, will never appear in the Review Journal, or any other media we control, for the rest of your life."
Now needless to say I thought she was either yanking my chain, or kidding. Here I had just done a press conference where my name has just been printed in papers from here to Brazil and the UK - how can she possibly do this?
Sure enough, I started seeing all kinds of articles about sex trafficking in Nevada which we were not included in the story. Especially about Judge Voy who was now trying to raise $1,000,000 to set up a residential program for juveniles. I went to the Sun, a paper that's not the Review Journal, and spoke to a reporter there. I asked him "Am I blacklisted with your paper?" Of course he laughed and said "of course not". He then interviewed me and tried to print the story. Then he comes back to me and says "I've just been threatened with being fired". But he told me he would use me as a "source" and in fact did on a few stories.
Like he said he would point out how at the end of one year, and with over $875,000 as a budget - Terri Miller from ATLAS was not coming up with ONE single trafficking victim in any of Nevada? Like a story he got printed on how Terri was refusing to distribute information on the legal brothels despite it being her job. http://lasvegassun.com/news/2007/sep/15/hands-tied-on-prostitution/
How that article wound up with Abigail's name on it I don't know. I don't know why she threatened me being she worked with the Sun. But he did get this printed - http://lasvegassun.com/news/2007/may/08/wheres-the-help-promised-for-prostitutes-lawyer-wa/
I didn't mind the Review Journal not printing a story on us until AB67 came to town. I then had our members ringing my phone off the hook saying "you have to do something". The reporter at the Sun, Timothy, was gone. Ed Lawrence, who had printed the story about mayor Oscar Goodman threatening Bob Herbert with a "baseball bat to the head" for the story he wrote on not only us, but validating that sex trafficking was raging in Las Vegas so bad he "found a victim in 15 minutes of randomly looking", was fired. Matt O'Brian who had printed a story on us in City Life - fired. I go down the list and every reporter I knew from 2007 has been fired.
So I went to Tom Ragan who said he'd worked at the Review Journal for 12 years and assured me there "was no black list" and he "would not be fired" for running a story on my name or talking about SWA. He spent two weeks checking out my information, interviewing me, etc. I'd like you to see the story he did print on AB67 - http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/nevada-movement-draws-line-human-trafficking See my name anywhere?
The photographer who took my picture for the article is in Kentucky a few weeks later. She put my picture on her blog. I reached out to her and asked her to take it down and asked what was going on. She said her and Tom were told to not only edit my name out of the article, but to basically write things which weren't true. When they both refused, they were both fired. She said she didn't want to work for such a paper after that and had gone back home. Tom said he talked his way back into his job. I understood. Totally. I'm not worth losing a job over. But he did let me know "I will get your name in this paper somehow". Which he did in August of 2013. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/tv-producers-ogle-strip-joint-reality-show So you know what FCC and Review Journal? Explain how SWA is there in 2007, and again in August of 2013 - but somehow in February of 2013 when both AB67 is being passed AND there are "back door" meetings going on about the legal brothels expanding into downtown Las Vegas I'm not there. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/prostitution-bill-not-nevada-legislatures-agenda
Explain how the ONLY person who was there objecting to the brothel's expansion was US. But I don't see one single mention of our name, about the letter we read to the legislature objecting to AB67, or why the Review Journal claimed there was "no objection" to AB67 when again we had a member of SWA get up and not only read a copy of a letter from us objecting to it and why, but also gave a copy of that letter to every representative there at both hearings. There seemed to be a lot of talk about the people who DIDN'T oppose AB67 - but the group of survivors of Nevada sex trafficking who objected to AB67 - where's our name? http://www.reviewjournal.com/life/religion/interfaith-group-nonprofits-valleywide-back-bill-stop-sex-trafficking
Yes, Eisenhower was a wise man about how the "military industrial complex" operates and how they love to manipulate the media, cover up evidence, and then act innocent. What holocaust right? http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-warns-of-the-military-industrial-complex I mean he cared enough about this warning to put it in his "farewell" address in 1953.
Note Eisenhower said "document" because "they'll claim it never happened". They say you need to know your history in order not to repeat it right?
When I escaped my own time being trafficked - I of course needed help. I had tried to self-medicate my feelings of helplessness with cocaine that I had seen "experts" getting up on TV saying it was "not addictive" and "even Freud used the drug" and really sold it to us in the late 70's and early 80's. People now think I"m kidding when I say that I used to see doctors getting up on TV and saying it was not an "addictive" drug, and "not like heroin" and actually a "great source of energy" again pointing to the work Freud did under the influence of the drug. Being around dealers who were operating with whole truck loads of cocaine - I developed a pretty big problem pretty quickly. So yes I was getting help for my drug issues in Narcotics Anonymous - but nothing to deal with the other stuff.
But I had a very wise sponsor. He took me to meeting of the Holocaust survivors. People who knew well about man's inhumanity to man so I didn't have to first convince them of what I'd seen being true. I got a lot of wonderful advice and healing from very elderly Jewish people that I think saved my life. I tried seeking help from the "traditional" counselors and therapists at the time, but these people lived in a world where the concept of "trafficking" didn't exist. Please remember the word even of "trafficking" did not exist until after the Trafficking Act of 2000 was passed. So here I am running around in the early 1980's and no one is believing me about what's even happening, let alone responding to help.
This is why I took that warehouse I had yes once used as an incall operation and turned it into a "safe house". There was NO WHERE TO GO if you were over 18 years old then. Lois Lee was the first one to understand these kids who were caught up in this, and also sexually attractive, had special needs and could not get help within the traditional juvenile system because they would just be preyed upon by the adults they were in the care of. So she had stepped up to form the first hotline to call if you were under 18 for help when those at the Runaway Hotline just didn't have a clue, and other kids at places like Covenant House were reporting they were being molested by the staff, heck even the Father who ran the place supposedly for 10 years.
But what about if you were over 18 years old? I knew we couldn't go to motels - these guys would literally give out photos of you to the desk clerks to notify them you were there. I had one hotel clerk feel sorry for me when I was running and he showed me. They had pasted a photo of me behind the desk so the clerk could see if I showed up. Then he told me how he was offered $250 to "make a phone call" to let these cops know where I'd run. NOT cops to arrest me for a crime - but to arrest me because I was running from their prostitution operation as we called it then which would be called a "trafficking operation" if it was today. Now I was lucky he liked blonds with big tits because this clerk told me of the photo and the bribe offer. So he asked me if he gave up the $250 cash reward if I'd thank him another way. Which I did. The guy could have let me check in, get comfortable in my room, go to sleep, and I would have been woken up and drug off by these cops to who knows where or what they would have done to me if they got me back then.
Understand who I was running from in my day. I was not running from street pimps. I had been initially pulled in and "turned out" by Richard Pryor's family in the late 1970's. But when things got crazy, I was able to go to the head man in charge and trade some cash for my freedom from them. I had no idea however that in their own way I was being protected by being connected to them from the REAL big bad wolves - men in our own government and law enforcement in what is today called "Iran Contra". Realize this - Oliver North, Newt Gingrich, and the men who were involved in that are still alive. They're still in politics.
When word hit the streets I was no longer "with the family" then the really big dogs moved in on me. Which this machine was like a monster with many legs and faces. If you want an idea what I was living in back then I suggest "Cocaine Cowboys I and II". They talk about openly how they would grease palms of many officials to be bringing in boats and planes full of cocaine, marijuana, etc.
Now the money had to be laundered. So record companies had to be set up. One of the things I was doing for the "family" was just that. I was renting offices in Beverly Hills, installing phones, opening bank accounts, obtaining licenses, all for phony record companies. These companies not only laundered money, but we also gave a "face" of many of the pimps having jobs. This guy was a sound engineer. This guy was a producer. This guy was a dubber. We had woman who needed to have the appearance of a job to cover with probation - we'd hire her as the "receptionist". Back then we'd say we sold 100,000 cassettes of some rapper. Then we'd buy 100,000 blank cassettes and give them away so we have product. Money laundered.
I was asked to do things like find a group of dentists willing to set up a corporation to import cocaine into the country legally. Now what better way for these guys to do this than through a madam and prostitute? These guys weren't going to be caught on tape asking a dentist to sign paperwork to bring cocaine in as an anesthetic for his dental practice. Better yet, I found dentists who didn't even have an office yet who wanted money to open an office who would agree to join this project. I was the one asking the questions - not the CIA or FBI directly. So yes I helped set up paperwork and the whole operation so cocaine could be brought in legally in large amounts by finding the right people willing to get involved.
So when word hit the streets I was no longer with the family - these men approached me as they had approached Alex Adams, dubbed the "Beverly Hills Madam". She was allowed to work as a madam for over 10 years while being their "informant". Meaning she wouldn't be arrested - but she also had to do as they asked. If not, then she'd be arrested. If she was really bad, she'd be found dead hung in her jail cell like the Baton Rouge Madam was (most likely). Or found hung in her mother's back yard like Jeane Palfrey.
Now if we ran - we weren't running from street pimps looking like Bishop Don Juan. As I said, we couldn't go check into a motel because these guys were going to every motel that I'd check into (any motel that had rooms for less than $400 a night in other words). Why would I leave my apartment? I had pulled into my apartment driveway and saw two cops staring at me. They were waiting for me to get out of my car and go into my apartment obviously. That alarmed me so I left. I called my mom and asked her to go to my place and look around for anything strange. She did and called me back asking me "did you leave a pound of cocaine under your bed?" No mom I did not. So these guys had planted cocaine in my apartment. A pound? Wow they really wanted to send me up the river.
Meaning I can't go home. These guys were demanding I work with them and do things I did not want to do. I don't mind finding a bunch of dentists to help them smuggle cocaine into the country. But I would NOT agree to help them find women to sell to men overseas who would never be seen again. I have no problem with the sex industry. If a woman wants to work as an escort, stripper, or porn performer I have no problem with that. I have a problem when it's no longer a job - but something you have no choice to do. When you can't leave or say "no" then that's no longer sex work - that's slavery. These men had wanted me to help them find women who had no family to sell to Saudi's because of oil deals they were working on who liked white girls. When I refused - these men tried to let me know what they could do to me otherwise.
Like walking into my apartment to find they had planted a pound of cocaine under my bed. Then tell me I "have" to do it or go to prison on a drug trafficking charge. What - the judge is going to believe me, a hooker, that I don't know anything about that bag of cocaine?
So here I am trying to run and I can't go home. I can't go to a motel. I can't go to my mom's house because that's being staked out also. Where do I go? One of my "johns"? Now in my case I knew a drug dealer who lived on a compound where he also raised rottweilers for guard dogs. He was the only one I could think of that had a place no one could walk in and plant drugs on me and arrest me. How ironic right? But I have to leave there sometime right?
But my point is here I managed to get out. Now I'm looking back and realizing there's going to be others like me who also need a safe way out. Not everyone is going to know a drug dealer who lives on a huge fenced guarded compound to go hide out in for a while. Which believe me was a short lived escape because he started tripping out on drugs and I had to leave there eventually for that reason. So yes I knew that people like me also needed a way to get out without having to go deal with someone on drugs like I had to do.
I had looked around and realized I still had a lease on the warehouse. So I converted it into a safe house. Then when one of my girlfriends called me saying her pimp had just broken her arm and nose in a drug rage and she wanted out of there - I took her to the warehouse. There was plenty of food, a bed, shower, kitchen, a TV, and she could just sleep and heal there. Which was the first safe house for us, as adults, created you can read about at www.hightechmadam.com I have our clip from 1987 here http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-30/news/vw-11791_1_leblanc
The pimp was angry so he called the cops and said I was "running a brothel". They came out and she was on probation and her her PJ's because it was midnight, so they arrested her and came after me. But she testified against her real pimp, and my attorney showed them I was not running anything out of there, and my charges were dropped.
But trust me it was a very difficult explanation trying to explain to the prosecutor and the cops why she was in a "safe house". Remember - the world DID NOT BELIEVE THIS WAS REAL in 1984 when this went down. I point back always to Linda Lovelace - who proves when she tried to talk about her being forced to film "Deep Throat" by her husband with a gun on a mob financed film NO ONE BELIEVED HER. The only laws we had on the books then was "obscenity". So the government did try to sue for obscenity - but since that wasn't what went down they of course lost.
So I opened the first safe house in 1984. I launched the first hotline in 1987. I launched the first program that went to the courts and said we needed to stop being treated like criminals - but instead as people in need of help. Not just women either mind you but PEOPLE. The program I designed worked with men, women and transgenders. It was not a religious program because the victims I saw were Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Catholic, or just plain atheist. Being in need of help wasn't a gender issue. It wasn't a religious issue. It was a PEOPLE issue.
Now granted, Lois had opened up Children of the Night. But she had kids to protect. Meaning she wasn't going to go running around talking about how our country had to change the way it treated this issue in the same manner I could. I was single, had no kids, didn't have a mortgage to sweat every month, so I could take up the campaign trail for us. Which I had to. In order to explain to judges why they needed to court order those found guilty of prostitution, or madaming, or pimping, to our program for help I had to explain how not every one of them was doing so by choice. Some were forced yes by other people. Some were forced because they were HIV positive and the medications then were $10,000 a month and no health insurance company would cover them. Some were disabled and couldn't get a job but had kids to feed. I mean force is force.
Another thing I had to do was tackle the mental health field. To show me what these men could do they brought me to the airport where they were putting women who were drugged into a diplomat's plane. Then told me "knock yourself out - try and stop the plane". Of course airport security thought I was insane. The police hung up on me. I was told by someone at the airport that a diplomat's plane could not be searched nor stopped so I had to stand there and watch that plane take off knowing I could have been on that plane. Anyone could drug me and throw me on that plane and then no one could stop it? Pretty scary stuff. So I started having anxiety attacks.
I went to a counselor who told me the only way to get better was to "talk about what was causing me anxiety". So I did. Then I heard him go into another room where he started calling for a psychiatric emergency team "PET" to come and drag me off for observation. I asked him why he was going to do that to me and he said "because things like that just don't happen so you must be hallucinating". So clearly our mental health system needed reform.
I enrolled in a psychology class and went through their textbooks on prostitution. There wasn't anything except one paragraph making us look like we all needed drug treatment. I went and looked at all the other textbooks clear up to the PhD level. I found there was no degree on this type of subject. Prostitution was divided into either "drug addiction" or "sexual deviance". There wasn't even a category for "prostitution" as a separate subject even. I poured over all the research reports - again only finding the category of either drug addiction or sexual deviance. I could find nothing on the types of things not just I'd gone through, but many had also.
Meaning if any of us opened our mouths to a mental health professional about what we'd just been through - we'd get labeled "crazy" and drug off to the nut ward. Clearly, we had to advance the mental health system if we were going to get these women off drugs. Which was happening in the drug treatment community. These men and women going through what I'd been witnessing all knew if they opened their mouth about this stuff they'd just be laughed at or locked up. So with having to "stuff" it - no they weren't getting clean. Yes they were depressed. But we weren't going to get them help if when they opened their mouth they weren't believed.
So I set out to find who the people were in charge of the training at the time. I mean literally at one point in time the idea of drug and alcohol treatment didn't exist. The same for compulsive gambling or sexual addiction. These were new fields of treatment that didn't exist 60 years ago. People had to create those schools of thought, along with the training and licensing in how to work with these communities. So these people who did this for other subjects I then sought out to create training on how to work with our community. I mean here I was alive, clean from drugs, my anxiety attacks gone, and if I had found a way to get better - then we could start with working from what worked for me. Now I had our program going - we now had other people we could use to show other counselors what was working for US now.
Then came the day when everything changed in 2007. I gave the press conference with Melissa Farley about the idea of creating NCAST. Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking. The report was on how trafficking existed within the "legal" sex industry advertised right in broad daylight. The massage parlors, strip clubs and yes the legal brothels of Nevada. Now I had agreed to set up this NCAST to address trafficking within the legal sex industry. I did NOT agree to "call out to abolish the brothels" nor to outlaw prostitution. That's a whole other enchilada.
The difference? There's a huge difference between saying you want to set up a treatment program for alcoholics vs. saying you want to bring back Prohibition outlawing alcohol. Alcoholics Anonymous nor Bill Wilson started up a campaign to bring back Prohibition. They created AA to help the alcoholic however. So yes I helped Melissa prepare her report by letting her speak to women we had helped in Nevada who were trafficked in the legal brothels. But no I did not agree to call out to "outlaw prostitution" at this press conference. So when she comes up to me literally as I've got my microphone hooked up on me and the room is full of reporters and she tells me she wants me to state from the microphone that I want to "outlaw prostitution" I told her "no way".
The result? A reporter named Abigail Goldman comes up to me and interviews me. Then she asks me to come in and pose for a photograph to appear with the article she says is going to be on the front page of the Review Journal. I refused. I then asked her "didn't you hear what I said?" Being that many a time to get a victim of trafficking away from a pimp I would sometimes pose as a cleaning lady, or a hair dresser, or a make-up artist, a psychic, another madam, or 100 other disguises I've used to get access to a victim who is being trapped and then get her out of captivity. Now that said, why would I put a photo of myself out there in the paper? Hey pimps here's what I look like? So I told her no but that she was welcome to take a photo of me from the back, or use a graphic, or whatever, but no I would not put a photo of my face in the newspaper, which would then go out over the web.
She then said "Your name and the name Sex Workers Anonymous is blacklisted in our publication. We do not care how many women DIE from not knowing about your group, your hotline, and your work. But your name, and SWA's name, will never appear in the Review Journal, or any other media we control, for the rest of your life."
Now needless to say I thought she was either yanking my chain, or kidding. Here I had just done a press conference where my name has just been printed in papers from here to Brazil and the UK - how can she possibly do this?
Sure enough, I started seeing all kinds of articles about sex trafficking in Nevada which we were not included in the story. Especially about Judge Voy who was now trying to raise $1,000,000 to set up a residential program for juveniles. I went to the Sun, a paper that's not the Review Journal, and spoke to a reporter there. I asked him "Am I blacklisted with your paper?" Of course he laughed and said "of course not". He then interviewed me and tried to print the story. Then he comes back to me and says "I've just been threatened with being fired". But he told me he would use me as a "source" and in fact did on a few stories.
Like he said he would point out how at the end of one year, and with over $875,000 as a budget - Terri Miller from ATLAS was not coming up with ONE single trafficking victim in any of Nevada? Like a story he got printed on how Terri was refusing to distribute information on the legal brothels despite it being her job. http://lasvegassun.com/news/2007/sep/15/hands-tied-on-prostitution/
How that article wound up with Abigail's name on it I don't know. I don't know why she threatened me being she worked with the Sun. But he did get this printed - http://lasvegassun.com/news/2007/may/08/wheres-the-help-promised-for-prostitutes-lawyer-wa/
I didn't mind the Review Journal not printing a story on us until AB67 came to town. I then had our members ringing my phone off the hook saying "you have to do something". The reporter at the Sun, Timothy, was gone. Ed Lawrence, who had printed the story about mayor Oscar Goodman threatening Bob Herbert with a "baseball bat to the head" for the story he wrote on not only us, but validating that sex trafficking was raging in Las Vegas so bad he "found a victim in 15 minutes of randomly looking", was fired. Matt O'Brian who had printed a story on us in City Life - fired. I go down the list and every reporter I knew from 2007 has been fired.
So I went to Tom Ragan who said he'd worked at the Review Journal for 12 years and assured me there "was no black list" and he "would not be fired" for running a story on my name or talking about SWA. He spent two weeks checking out my information, interviewing me, etc. I'd like you to see the story he did print on AB67 - http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/nevada-movement-draws-line-human-trafficking See my name anywhere?
The photographer who took my picture for the article is in Kentucky a few weeks later. She put my picture on her blog. I reached out to her and asked her to take it down and asked what was going on. She said her and Tom were told to not only edit my name out of the article, but to basically write things which weren't true. When they both refused, they were both fired. She said she didn't want to work for such a paper after that and had gone back home. Tom said he talked his way back into his job. I understood. Totally. I'm not worth losing a job over. But he did let me know "I will get your name in this paper somehow". Which he did in August of 2013. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/tv-producers-ogle-strip-joint-reality-show So you know what FCC and Review Journal? Explain how SWA is there in 2007, and again in August of 2013 - but somehow in February of 2013 when both AB67 is being passed AND there are "back door" meetings going on about the legal brothels expanding into downtown Las Vegas I'm not there. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-legislature/prostitution-bill-not-nevada-legislatures-agenda
Explain how the ONLY person who was there objecting to the brothel's expansion was US. But I don't see one single mention of our name, about the letter we read to the legislature objecting to AB67, or why the Review Journal claimed there was "no objection" to AB67 when again we had a member of SWA get up and not only read a copy of a letter from us objecting to it and why, but also gave a copy of that letter to every representative there at both hearings. There seemed to be a lot of talk about the people who DIDN'T oppose AB67 - but the group of survivors of Nevada sex trafficking who objected to AB67 - where's our name? http://www.reviewjournal.com/life/religion/interfaith-group-nonprofits-valleywide-back-bill-stop-sex-trafficking
Yes, Eisenhower was a wise man about how the "military industrial complex" operates and how they love to manipulate the media, cover up evidence, and then act innocent. What holocaust right? http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-warns-of-the-military-industrial-complex I mean he cared enough about this warning to put it in his "farewell" address in 1953.
Take a good look at this exhibit of "survivors". Notice anyone missing? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/more-than-a-survivor-more-than-a-story-fundraiser-benefiting-journey-out-tickets-22662315596?utm_term=eventurl_text I GUARANTEE you not one of THESE survivors speak out about how trafficking today in America involves our own teachers, coaches, social workers, police, judges, politicians, and even our CIA. Which is why the one person missing from this exhibit is the person who made it possible. Because I can assure you in 1987, when we launched our hotline and crusade globally - this exhibit would have been not done as it would have been "just a bunch of photos of whores". That's the way the whole world viewed us in 1987 and why I started this movement.
If you read the news clips I have up at www.hightechmadam.com you see that I launched our hotline, program, and this crusade to have trafficking not only recognized, but to demand a system be set up that would allow us to escape these systems of trafficking, and to have treatment available to help us heal from what we'd just suffered that recognized what we were talking about was "real" and not "hallucinations".
Is my having people try to wipe me out of history limited to the Review Journal, and Sheldon Adelson's "prostitution agenda"? Who clearly thinks I made this statement of wanting to "outlaw brothels" that Melissa put in my mouth to those reporters? No she stuck that target on me and then walked away. When she couldn't get me to say what she wanted me to say - she said it anyway to the reporters.
I issued a statement to the press after that I was breaking all ties with Melissa and would no longer help her if she was going to lie like that to support her own agenda. So she and Nicholas Kristof then went on to get Samoly Mam to mouth the lies for them. When I tried to tell people she wasn't a survivor herself and was lying - she spread more lies through Survivors Connect that I was "pimping". When I hit her with threat of filing a defamation case for the screen shot a survivor sent me of her telling people I was actively pimping - the forum this was on was literally dismantled in 30 minutes. Some people believed me Samoly was lying enough to start checking her out and she was exposed as a fraud yes - but there's really not much talk about the people she says "approached her and told her if she lied she could make a lot of money in America" who manipulated her into it.
You can see by the way that Kathleen Mitchell was there that day with me along with Brenda Myers-Powell. Melissa had asked me to bring them to "show solidarity" with the report as "being true". So I agreed. I had no idea what I was agreeing to obviously. If you go back and look at older interviews with Kathleen - you see she has no problem speaking about her connection to "Prostitutes Anonymous" as our group was called until the name change in 1995. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/ex-prostitutes-who-proselytize-6431069
However, when she got an award - they don't seem to mention us in any way. http://www.globalcenturion.org/normahotalingawards/2013-nha-recipients/ How did I hear about this award? I got a call from some of our members in San Francisco who aren't in their 20's and remember the history of this movement. They remember Norma Hotaling didn't get clean until 1989 - which was two years after we launched our hotline, and we had two alternative sentencing and diversion programs running then for prostitutes by 1989 (one in Los Angeles and the other in Allentown, PA).
They also remember Norma contacted me for help when she started setting up SAGE, and her "john school". These were people who had been going to "Prostitutes Anonymous" meetings she had set up in San Francisco who found the more she was going after grant money and awards - the less time she was spending with the very women who needed her. So they'd call us up for the help they weren't getting.
Anyway, these members wanted me to write something about it because what we are witnessing here is a rewriting of history right in front of our eyes. Kathleen Mitchell did not roll out of bed one day and start Dignity. Everything I'm saying here she's said before herself to the press - which is she wrote us from jail after the millionth arrest (her words) and wanted help. We sent her, at our own expense mind you, our "jail step study program" which is clearly quite effective because she got out of jail and continued to write us (remember this was about 1989 before the internet and cell phones). We advised her to bring a Prostitutes Anonymous meeting into the Durango Jail which then expanded out into Phoenix and expanded into the Dignity Program where Kathleen set up and they ran Prostitutes Anonymous meetings there for YEARS.
Here's a quote about it in the book "Somebody's Daughter".
Now am I whining I "didn't get an award". No. Did I ask for it? Have I written these people asking to get an award? Nope. This is my reward www.leavingtheliferadio.com Those interviews where people speak about how we've helped them is my reward. Samoly Mam got lots of awards. So what? She was also a fake and didn't help anyone leave prostitution nor escape trafficking. I however created a program that Kathleen was able to reach out to for help and GET IT. I'm proud of Kathleen receiving an award for her work. I'm THRILLED Kathleen got an award.
But I have members up in San Francisco, and Phoenix, and all over the world who see history being rewritten here and us being written out.
Why? I've taken a look at the trainings I can get my hands on anyway about what people are being taught sex trafficking is. Now granted what they are teaching is true. However, it's not COMPLETE. It's a distortion and a way to cover up the truth in plain sight. Do you know why I sent a letter to the producers of "8 Minutes" to get that show off the air? Because it was misleading people into thinking that "independent" prostitution is trafficking. It's not. It's independent prostitution that's being done WITHOUT the house getting 1/2 of the money like what happens in the brothels of Nevada. When they show a woman advertising her sexual services on Backpage showing up at a hotel and offering to work as a prostitute - that's a prostitute. That's not a trafficking victim.
Nor do you help trafficking victims escape by calling up ads on Backpage. You know why? The minute you try and run off with that victim if you do - they come and find out where you live and work and they come after you to get her back. Something not shown in that show that was very misleading. Because if you call up an ad on Backpage and ask a woman to leave with you in "8 Minutes", and then you leave with her without her pimp or traffickers coming after you to get her back - THEN THAT'S NOT TRAFFICKING. What that is in "independent" prostitution of which the traffickers in this country want a piece of.
I want you to realize how much control the mob lost of women once the internet was born. Once cameras came in a phone. Once a woman could set up a website, or run an ad on Backpage. In other words, the attack on Backpage is NOT an attack on trafficking. The attack on Backpage is being done to push sex workers back under the control of a brothel or madam. Follow my logic here - if you know you put up an ad on Backpage for your services as a prostitute that you're just going to get yourself arrested then what are you going to do?
YOU'RE GOING TO GET SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT or you're going to go work for an agency, or a massage parlor, or as strip club. Read up on Eliot Spitzer if you don't understand what I mean by this. I want you to note he didn't call Backpage - he called a service. He called a service to avoid getting arrested and exposed. http://sexworkersanonymousmeeting.blogspot.com/2016/04/eliot-spitzer-trafficker.html
I have said for 30 years that the men I ran from to escape being trafficker were who? Cops and CIA. Who has Polaris just partnered with? Palantir. Who is that? http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/14/how-big-data-is-being-used-in-the-fight-against-human-trafficking
Now if you were trying to shut me up that the way to help women escape trafficking is we have to set up a system where they can be free of the fear these men - how do you do that? Well building up a "founder of the movement" who is now dead and can't speak like a Norma Hotaling is a great way to do it. Or did anyone else notice Melissa Farley got an award on the same page and year as Kathleen. So no I'm not surprised my name wasn't mentioned.
The problem is that this isn't about me - but about "Prostitutes Anonymous" and "Sex Workers Anonymous". It's about the fact that while Kathleen is getting awards and Brenda Myers-Powell are making documentaries - the very program that spawned them is being rewritten into obscurity. Am I the only one who remembers the Jews were led into the gas chamber by other Jews who did it because it served them? Well Kathleen, Brenda, I'm happy for you that you're getting recognition for yourselves - but the problem is that there are still a lot of others out there who still need us who can't come to you.
Brenda - that 14 year old being pimped out by cops couldn't come to you because you took a job working for the cops. http://wgntv.com/2015/10/15/fbi-investigating-2-veteran-chicago-cops-for-sex-trafficking-underage-girl/ So you know what Brenda - she couldn't come to you for help and while you were getting all that press you go and made your documentary - you weren't promoting our hotline where she could have gotten help sooner either.
Kathleen - you got your award in 2013 - when AB67 was being passed and WE needed press to try and defeat the brothel expansion (which we luckily were able to achieve anyway thanks to God's help) and also AB67. If during your press for your award you had mentioned us - we might have been able to get some press on why those of us in Nevada wanted to see that Bill defeated. Thanks you Kathleen - it passed. Meaning any cop now has the right to detain a woman "without a case pending" for an "indefinite" amount of time without charging her, without her getting a phone call, and with her having no right to demand an attorney.
What does that mean? In 1984 the police would hold me for 71 hours because the law said they had to either charge me in 72 hours with a crime or let me go. So they could hold me for 71 hours without a phone call, without an attorney, without letting anyone know where I was, and they did things during those 71 hours you don't want to know because no one knew where I was because I wasn't booked - but they had least had to let me go after 71 hours. Thanks to you allowing these people not to give us some press Kathleen Nevada cops can now hold a woman for as long as they want now without charging her.
I want you to notice something here http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/a-deputys-death-opens-the-door-onto-a-world-corruption-in-sheriff-joes-mcso-6462478 This officer died in 2014. But the videos of him stopping people in Arizona and demanding their ID cards was done in 2013. He was found dead before he could testify so we don't know if he killed himself or if he was murdered. But note Officer Armendariz was on the "human trafficking task force". Which by the way Cindy McCain wants men like this to be entrusted with juveniles who are trafficking victims. That idea should make your head spin around a few times - SHE WANTS TO WHAT?
But Kathleen, I have women right now telling me about some pretty awful things going on down there by men like him in the task forces. Things you're not hearing about because we can't get any press. So congratulations on your award Kathleen. Now I can use that write-up to show people how the modern trafficking is making sure you don't call the only hotline right now in the country that you can call when you can't call the cops. Because right now if you call Polaris - that goes right back to the CIA.
So any of you out there who need to escape sex trafficking that's got men like Chris Butler, Kemp Shiffer, or men like Oliver North connected to what happened to you - we are the only hotline I'm aware of you can call for help today which the press is doing just what Eisenhower warned - trying to make sure no evidence of their crimes comes to light so they can deny it. The fact this is happening to us is your proof we're the ones you can trust.
See how it operates in today's America right out in plain sight. See how they SEEM to be about fighting trafficking while cutting off your escape route at the same time. Oh of course I'm against sex trafficking - I gave Kathleen an award. Wow. Hiding in plain sight.
ANY group or person who is telling you they want to help you leave who does not acknowledge our program is someone you must consider carefully. Anyone who wants to help an alcoholic will send them to Alcoholics Anonymous and gladly incorporate in Bill Wilson. Anyone telling you they want to treat your alcoholism WITHOUT AA or Bill Wilson - needs to be viewed carefully about what their agenda is. Maybe they don't think AA is right for you - but they won't act like they don't exist. Anyone who doesn't know who were are doesn't know this work because we've been here since 1987. Now would you trust a doctor who has never been to medical school? Would you trust a lawyer who has never cracked open a textbook?
The sign of someone who cares about their work cares to get training from the best in the field or at least the most experienced. If our program produced Kathleen Mitchell - it must work. So anyone who then in turn tells you they want to help you but then doesn't mention our name - you must consider their motives carefully.
Not everyone is so easily fooled by the way. I read an article about one of Cindy McCain's talks on human trafficking where then senator Gallardo said he "didn't believe her". That if she meant what she was saying she would "have the people who work in this field with her" and there was a "lack of their voices in the room". Right on now board of supervisor Gallardo. I know making that statement obviously didn't help your career as you're not a senator anymore - but one knows you aren't so easily fooled and you will speak your mind. Bravo for integrity Mr. Gallardo!
Yes there is an absolute "absence of voices" in this discussion. This problem has been here for years. I've been going on TV for what 30 years now? I didn't see Cindy McCain stepping up about this problem back in the 1980's. NOW suddenly this is something she's touring the country about? Oh she has Beth Jacobs with her so that's a survivor right? Only this is a woman who has spent the last four years threatening any and all survivors of Sex Workers Anonymous right off line to further make it appear we don't exist. We don't have a choice. The minute one of us saying anything about SWA - Beth Jacobs is on them threatening them about why they need to distance themselves from us. Yep just like I had the CIA using me to do their dirty work for them back in the 1980's also. So Cindy and John McCain can sit back and say "I don't know anything about that".
You two don't know that Beth was saying to clients of Project Rose she was a licensed social worker when she was not, and working for a counseling center that wasn't licensed? That when these women were drug to a church and told they had to enter Project Rose or they'd go to jail - meaning they had to enter a program for which they got funding - you didn't know Beth was who they were being coerced into seeing? http://traffickingandprostitutionservices.blogspot.com/2015/07/beth-jacobs-willow-way.html Well certainly you know Beth Jacobs was a part of this program http://www.vice.com/read/in-arizona-project-rose-is-arresting-sex-workers-to-save-them
And then you wonder Cindy why we think maybe you aren't doing this out of our best interests? Like when you say you want to put juveniles in the hands of men on the trafficking task force like Officer Armendariz?
Cindy, you have Beth running around with you as your "token survivor" because I don't believe you. I learned a long time ago when I was being abused by my parents, or raped by my best friend, or trafficked by a man who said he loved me - that actions speak louder to me than words.
If anyone is wondering why Cindy is campaigning so hard in Arizona right now - were you aware that Arizona does NOT need a warrant to remove a child from the home? Does anyone know that there are protests being organized there now about what is happening to their children there? https://www.facebook.com/OpExposeCPS.AZ/?fref=nf
So Kathleen take your award - and I want people to notice the names absent from the group who gave this to her. If they REALLY wanted to reward a TRUE revolutionary then don't you think they would have honored the woman who made Kathleen possible? But no - they're also honoring Melissa Farley who brought us Samoly Mam and Chong Kim also.
So yes readers Eisenhower knew how these guys operate. Cover up the truth and deny deny deny. Take his words to heart "document document document". And make back-ups otherwise you'd be surprised at what these people can make disappear.
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