MONOPOLY? SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?
I believe I'm dealing with a "monopoly". Let me start with Arizona:
Since this information has been released to the press - I'm not breaking any confidences here speaking about Kathleen Mitchell and Prostitutes Anonymous out of Arizona. I received a letter from her from jail asking for help to stop being arrested over and over again for prostitution from Kathleen about 1989. I sent her our "jail step study" program which we send to inmates to let them "work their steps" from jail, along with our 1st edition "Recovery Guide" as a donation. In other words, she didn't pay anything for these items.
She was released about 1990 and asked me "now what?" We had no chapter of "Prostitutes Anonymous" (as we were originally called back then although we changed our name in 1995 to "Sex Workers Anonymous"). Not really having the ability to do street outreach by herself, I suggested she do what I did to start out in Los Angeles back in 1987 - start with the local jail. In 1990, she started a Prostitutes Anonymous meeting in the Durango Jail.
By 1991, she told me that she had gotten a lot of support and founded a residential program named "Dignity". Which was awesome as when I would hear of women anywhere in the country who needed residential placement to get away from their pimp, or traffickers, I would get them down to either Dignity, or other locations we used, depending on how much security the person needed. Here's an article about Kathleen and this work - http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/ex-prostitutes-who-proselytize- 6431069 Notice the article is dated the year 2000 - which is the same year as the passing of the "Trafficking Act of 2000" which gave sex trafficking of American victims federal recognition.
If you don't know what "federal recognition" means think of it this way. If you're a bunch of native Americans, you're just a bunch of native Americans.
But if you want to be a federally recognized tribe to do things like start a reservation or build a casino - then you need "federal recognition". The reason why the film "Deep Throat" was charged with obscenity back in the 1970's, is because the idea of an American woman like Linda Lovelace being "trafficked" didn't exist within our legal, or cultural, system of belief back then.
While I understand there was some talk about "white slavery" and "abolishment" going on up until 1977 in San Francisco, it had died out by 1980 when Linda stepped up to reveal about herself being trafficked in connection with Chuck Traynor, her husband, who forced her to appear in this mob financed film.
Meaning when I stepped up on that first talk show stage in 1987 calling out that this kind of thing was "real" and that our legal, and mental health, system needed to change to recognize these American victims, and launched the first hotline for them to call for help, or anyone who wanted to leave the sex industry for any reason to call for help to do so, along with the first alternative to sentencing option which was our 12 step program, then I was founding the modern day sex trafficking movement.
Kathleen started our Phoenix chapter of "Prostitutes Anonymous", and then a residential program after she achieved her own recovery through our program. I want you to notice in this article how Kathleen had no problem at all using our name in the year 2000 during the time this Trafficking Act was being passed. Meaning there was also no federal money available for this work prior to the year 2000. (I need to also add here I never received one penny from Kathleen, Dignity, Catholic Charities, or anyone from Arizona from the time Kathleen got her first book from us until today.)
If you'd like to hear the way it was in Phoenix in the early 1990's - here is a tape of one of those early members remembering Kathleen. This tape also discusses what happened after Project Rose came into Phoenix which refused any and all participation on our part, as well as any communication with our head office in any way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_TD_X3uOiA As a matter of fact, when Catholic Charities took over Dignity so Kathleen could retire after 20 years of service, it was the same year Project Rose launched in Phoenix. So what this woman is describing is when these groups basically took over what we had started and ran for 20 years.
Now, when Project Rose came to town and Catholic Charities took over Dignity, I had already started the process of getting a woman away from her pimp in Las Vegas. The woman was offered the chance to join our program OR to take six months in jail. Because her pimp didn't want us helping her she opted for jail. I then called the pimp on the phone and had a nice "chat" with the man about how this wasn't a good idea. I then asked him if he would allow us to have this one and tell her it was okay with him to come into our program instead of the Clark County Jail. He agreed and called her to tell her it was okay to come with us.
The judge wanted her in a residential program, not outpatient in Las Vegas. The Mary Magdalene Project was full, but Dignity said they had a bed. I had not worked with Catholic Charities since Kathleen retired, so I wanted to see how things would be under the new regime. I spoke to the judge, the proseutor, and the public defender, as well as the woman's parents, and everyone was on the same page she was to be released to her parents. Then brought to meet for a "debriefing" about what she was about to enter in the way of recovery along with informing her what her pimp and I had discussed about he was willing to let her go. Only as I was waiting for her to arrive at my house after being released, I heard she had been checked into the Dignity Project. I asked the mother if she had at least taken the battery out of the woman's phone so her pimp wouldn't know where she was as I had asked. She said "no" she didn't think it was "important" to not give her pimp a means to trace her as I had instructed. I was also told Dignity allowed to keep the phone, and did not remove her battery either.
I then called the Dignity Project and said I had told the woman I was supposed to meet with her and since she had already left Las Vegas, then I would come down there to speak to her. Catholic Charities told me that would be impossible. I asked why. They said that they couldn't allow me to speak to any of their clients or staff. I asked why. They said they would "lose their funding if they spoke to me". I then asked if they wanted to keep this meeting confidential then which would be fine with me. They said they "could not risk word leaking out they had even met with me or they would lose their funding". Since I had been training their outreach staff, and training the people running our meetings, for 20 years now, I asked what was going to happen to my training of their people. I was told "oh no we can't let you train anyone anymore".
When I asked why I was told "because then it would look like we don't know what we're doing and we can't risk losing donors who think we don't know our job". I mentioned ALL professionals get continuing education and considering I was part of what created this whole program she was now sitting in didn't she think continuing education would be the sign of a true professional? She said "I can't risk anyone hearing that I'm even speaking to you or we're risking our jobs and funding. As a matter of fact, we will no longer be even holding Prostitutes Anonymous meetings here any longer. Nor will we be needing anymore of your 'Recovery Guides'. We need to break off all ties here now.
When I reminded her that she was now in possession of a woman I had negotiated with the court to be there under my word with them and with this woman - I said that statement kind of represented a problem. Especially when I had promised her family she would be supported during her stay there by our program. The woman at Catholic Charities just cut me off at that point, and then refused all future contact. I had no choice then but to notify the court, and the woman's family, that I was not going to be responsible for the outcome of this case being I was now having our program, and it's resources of other local survivors in the Phoenix area, excluded. I would also like to add that she supposedly had the pimp pick her up and leave Dignity about three days later.
Not long after this, I started getting phone calls from women complaining about the "Prostitutes Anonymous meetings". I told them I had been told the meetings had been discontinued. They told me "oh no - they're still going on and still passing the basket too". Which surprised me because our meetings are not supposed to be passing the basket in case newcomers who are still engaged in prostitution put money in the basket which then makes us guilty of a felony of "receiving earnings from a prostitute", not to mention then I have tax liability being that I'm not an incorporated nonprofit with tax exempt status. That money still legally counts as our income I'm responsible for. So I started trying to reach anyone at Catholic Charities to discuss what I was hearing - to get no response.
Not long after this is when Beth Jacobs started contacting our members in Arizona, and other locations online, to inform them I was "pimping" in the active sense, that I was "dangerous", and threatening them if they didn't want to be "shunned out of the trafficking community they needed to break all ties with us completely". These attacks were done to our members, our associates, our partners, professionals we worked with who provided our members with free counseling, treatment programs who gave our members free scholarships for drug treatment, employers who had been giving our members jobs, even locations where we were holding meetings were told that we were "dangerous" and that I was actively involved in trafficking.
I have screen shots from many sources who forwarded these threats and false accusations slandering me, our 12 step program, our radio show, and our hotline. Yes even our radio show featuring interviews from members and survivors she was calling up people ranting on and on according to the caller about how "unprofessional" it was of me to be recording with the sound of my dogs in the background. I guess she didn't get the memo I was receiving no money for that program, nor do I get any salary, grants, or funding, for anything I do including that radio show at www.leavingtheliferadio.com So no I was not "being a professional" because I wasn't being paid!
On top of this, I'm having our older members who had been going to these meetings for years and years at Dignity calling me up to say they're "leaving town". When I asked why they said they were "unwelcome", they had been fired, they couldn't find work, they were being shunned by people within the trafficking community, within the shelters, the drug treatment programs, even at the local university. Basically I was hearing from our older members who had come in through our program and now had double digits years in recovery they couldn't find work and no longer felt welcome.
More disturbing was the calls coming in claiming they were being targeted by the authorities to take their children. I was told Arizona does not need a warrant to have CPS remove their children. I'm getting frantic panicked calls from women telling me they were being hauled in off just walking down the street (like Monica Jones' story), then threatened with their husband being arrested as their pimp, and their children taken away from them, if they don't agree to go to these classes set up through Project Rose. (I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that StreetLight USA was now taking in children and paying for it through the foster care system these women were saying were being taken from them without a warrant, without probable cause - leaving them in a position to hire an attorney or forfeit their children. Something a little hard to do WITHOUT being in prostitution I'd like to add.)
They tell me Beth Jacobs is representing to be their social worker through Mojave Counseling Center. Only I check with the state and find that at that time, 2012-13 Beth wasn't licensed for anything, and neither was the Mojave Counseling Center. Now the Mojave Counseling Center did get shut down for that reason, but regrouped and then did obtain licensing and reopened. But that didn't alter I was hearing these people were being sent to counseling with Beth, and they also all reported being referred to another doctor who was giving them multiple psychiatric medications without running any medical tests to see if these pills were properly warranted. Beth Jacobs also had a Facebook page up for Willow Way for years - but the state of Arizona says she wasn't a nonprofit until 2014.
I invite you to look at the Board of Willow Way now they are a corporation. http://ecorp.azcc.gov/Details/Corp?corpId=%2019222030 On this board also is Aimee Graves https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeegraves, Aimie is the "Director of Children and Family Services, Councilman Steve Kolachik https://www.tucsonaz.gov/ward-6, Donna Haas, a drug and alcohol counselor http://azbbhe.us/ProDetail.asp?ProfID=34791 and Lynn Wallasky from the Green Valley Methodist Church http://www.gvccumc.org/events.html
Project Rose was started by Dominque Roe-Sepowitz which we were excluded from which operated out of the Dignity Project. She is also on the Arizona Human Trafficking Council with the Govenor's Office of Youth, Faith & Family - http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/goyff/meeting-body/arizona-human-trafficking-council-was-established-2014-develop-comprehensive-and This did not stop her however from sending in grant applications we saw showing Project Rose was "utilizing a 12 step program", i.e., OURS to get her money.
Note the Governor's Office of Youth, Faith & Family is partners with Polaris, Shared Hope, the McCain Institute, the Blue Campaign, the National Center for Missing Children, and the Arizona Human Trafficking Council. http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/human-trafficking/outreach This is a list of all of the offices under the Governor - http://azdirect.azdoa.gov/all.aspx
Cindy McCain is with the McCain Institute who created the "No Such Thing" campaign we were also excluded from - http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/sites/default/files/roster_no_contact.pdf She is also a board member of this Governor's Office on Youth, Faith & Family. Two things we also have been excluded from. Not surprised our hotline wasn't included in this joint effort of the McCain Institute, Polaris & Clear Channel either. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/newsroom/press-releases/mccain-institute-polaris-and-clear-channel-outdoor-expand-anti-human-traffi
Wow, The McCain Institute is also involved in issues of "national security" https://www.mccaininstitute.org/programs/national-security Impressive board members too - https://www.mccaininstitute.org/about/board-of-trustees/ Rick Shangraw who is on the board of the ASU Foundation for a New America. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/about/board-of-trustees/rick-shangraw Okay explains the ties from him to Dominique Roe-Sepowitz. Josette Sheeran is with the Asia Society. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/about/board-of-trustees/josette-sheeran
Here is a clip showing Cindy is married to John McCain - http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130408arizona-human-trafficking-task-force-created.html I'd like add the note here that John McCain has testified in Congress against abortion before as a pro-life advocate, was an Arizona senator http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/John_McCain_Abortion.htm and this shows his voting background on the issue of abortion - something that affects young women mostly. http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf
Which might explain this interest in what's happening within the legal/medical system with respect to a young girl who are being trafficked in that pimp's regular m/o is to get their victims pregnant as early into the relationship as possible. The first day even if they can through rape.
(Please note we are not quoted in any of these news articles above about our views on the subject despite the fact we spent 13 years going on to talk shows, tabloid shows, news shows, and even made three documentaries, and had three films made about our work raising awareness to the American public domestic sex trafficking was real and something needed to be done about it to change our legal/medical system. I didn't see the McCain's there when I was doing this! In fact, I created the first safe house for adults in this country I got arrested for because an angry pimp called up the police and claimed I was "running a brothel" two blocks from the police station. You can see my clips verifying this at www.hightechmadam.com. I created this warehouse/safehouse because no one was helping us to escape the trafficking - nor did anyone even care we were in trouble.
NOW? Now they care. Now there's money and politics involved. You know what it reminds me of? When I was new in recovery these women used to come into the NA meetings once a month from AA. They would wait until we got "cleaned up" and "presentable". Then they're come lure women into AA to pair them up with the men in the Alano Clubs and AA meetings to "date". As a result, there wasn't very many women in NA with more than 30 days clean when I was new. When these ladies came for me I said "forget you - if I wasn't good enough for you when I was sitting here sweating, vomiting and twitching from withdrawal and sleeping in my car while turning tricks to eat - then I don't want nothing to do with you. That's what it reminds me of - those ladies who only wanted something to do with us once we were "useful" to them.)
I'd like to reference this article about Cindy McCain speaking about not wanting to "criminalize" these girls. http://tucson.com/news/blogs/police-beat/governor-oks-tougher-law-against-human-trafficking/article_fce7f065-a293-507f-8244-8c3cb6ee098f.html She even says she "wants to separate them out" but "oh no let's not CALL THEM A PROSTITUTE". So excuse me - how does she plan to SEPARATE them from other little girls if she isn't IDENTIFYING THEM? That's one question I got.
She wants to INSTEAD "put them in child welfare agencies". Okay second question - does that mean if you're not a "prostitute" then you go to jail? Isn't that what was done to Latesha Clay? Because she was identified as a "thief" instead of a "prostitute" so she gets NINE YEARS IN PRISON AS AN ADULT, but if she'd been labeled a "prostitute" she could have gone to a program like ours or Children of the Night? http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/01/girl_15_sent_to_prison_for_lur.html
Now can I ask a really dumb question here? Being that out of every single person I've ever spoken to in connection with being involved with the issue of sex trafficking since I first walked into the nightclub which was a front for laundering criminal money when I was about 18 years old, until today where I'm still involved with helping people get out, and considering how many people I've heard their story about sex trafficking, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM who has said not just that our "child welfare system failed them" but that in fact they were trafficked in some way, shape or form, WITH the involvement of not only their parents and/or guardians in charge of their care, but ALSO someone within the system whether this be a teacher, social worker, counselor, priest, minister, etc.
A system NOT following up on any of these kids the way probation can to ENFORCE they get treatment. I've got member after member of our program telling me the person who sold them was a parent, a cop, a teacher, a social worker, a priest, someone in the military, someone in politics (like the Omaha Franklin scandal) - and THIS is who she wants to oversee these kids when even now Rep. Portman has already found kids being trafficked right out of trafficking programs and told us there is "no independent oversight"? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/failures-in-handling-unaccompanied-migrant-minors-have-led-to-trafficking/2016/01/26/c47de164-c138-11e5-9443-7074c3645405_story.html I mean honestly - could THIS BE WHY OUR MEMBERS ARE BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE ROOMS WHERE THESE POLICIES ARE BEING MADE FOR A REASON?
Note the training for this office people receive about what trafficking is and how it operates is provided by the National Trafficking Hotline which was founded by Polaris. http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/human-trafficking/training Polaris whose CEO is Bradley Myles. Bradley is the husband of Katherine Chon. Katherine Chon is the director of the Office of Trafficking in Persons Office who gives grant money to Polaris, i.e., her husband Bradley Myles. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/endtrafficking/about/leadership (Not a bad gig if you can get it - have your Chinese wife hand you a couple of million bucks!) Here is a clip about their marriage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/weddings/on-love-katherine-chon-and-bradley-myles/2013/11/26/7bc83072-5656-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html
International Rescue Committee has an Arizona branch also who has names on their board like JP Morgan - http://www.rescue.org/board-and-overseers They also have received grant money from Katherine Chon.
Here is the Phoenix Council - https://www.phoenix.gov/district2/human-trafficking. Councilman Waring seems to be on this Council. Police Chief Bray is on his instructional video. SAFE is a partner, who is a national partner with these agencies who include Polaris, the Salvation Army, http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/national-partners/ and the National Trafficking Hotline. Please note our hotline is absent. Here is their regional partners - http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/regional-partners/ Founding partners - http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/founding-partners/ and Advisors http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/safe-advisors/
The Phoenix Council is also partners with TRUST http://www.trustaz.org/trust-partners.html Whose partners are Polaris, Shared Hope, StreetlightUSA, and others who have also refused to return any of our phone calls, or answer any of our emails or faxes EVEN when we've tried to reach out to them for help on cases that have come through our hotline needing assistance.
TRUST also partners with the University of which Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is a part of. https://socialwork.asu.edu/ Here's her page there - https://publicservice.asu.edu/content/dominique-roe-sepowitz-0
Please also note we had a woman approach us saying she wanted to "bring back a Sex Workers Anonymous meeting like we used to have before all this came into Arizona". So she got the materials from us to launch a meeting in Phoenix in 2015. This woman was approached by Savannah Sanders, who graduated from the Dignity Project before Catholic Charities ended the Prostitutes Anonymous meetings. Savannah is an open survivor of trafficking so I'm not breaking any confidences here.
However, Savannah then told this woman that if she wanted to "continue with her plan to try and launch a SWA meeting then to realize she wouldn't be able to help anyone if she was dead". Savannah then supposedly gave her a job offer to work with her and her people where she would not "have to live in that kind of fear" if she was working "with them". Oh before I forget, Savannah is TRUST - http://www.stopsextraffickingaz.com/savannah-sanders-s-story.html
Note this is some of their activity - http://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/feds-teaming-up-with-valley-police-to-crack-down-on-pimping-human-sex-trafficking Seems she's working with a christian ministry to "mend the soul" of children who trafficked. http://mendingthesoul.org/professionals-and-consuliting/request-a-speaker/speaker/savannah-sanders/
Another group is Southern Arizona Against Slavery of which Willow Way is a partner. https://saastucson.com/links/ We also see again Jan Brewer, Governor, Streetlight USA, Sold No More and Alert which has a link that goes nowhere. http://traffickingaz.org/
Sold No More is comprised of Grace Community Church and the Red Cross. http://soldnomore.org/leadership/
Always is another who has Phoenix Councilman Daniel Valenzuela on their board http://alwaysaz.org/team/ Their training and statistics come to them via Polaris, Shared Hope, CAST and ATEST is appears. https://saastucson.com/links/
Shared Hope who provided research for the Governor appears with the help of a few people listed on that directory who include the Hickey Family we see once again - http://sharedhope.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DJP_Arizona-Field-Assessment_optimized.pdf and of course Dominique
Roe-Sepowitz.
Streetlight USA appears to have gotten a grant from the Dept. of Housing http://streetlightusa.org/our-history/, served on Governor Brewer's task force, and appears to get tax credit for foster kids. This might explain why they called me up in 2013 asking me to send them referrals to house in their program. I told them I've never met them and I refer all our juvenile calls to Children of the Night as I've known Lois and worked with them since 1979 when they first opened. It appears the local university set down their nutritional program for their residents who would be Dominque Roe-Sepowitz related most likely. Their Board of Directors don't appear to be listed on their site for some strange reason. http://streetlightusa.org/leadership/
(By the way, I've caught Streetlight USA MORE THAN ONCE using the name "Prostitutes Anonymous" in their fund raising, their websites, and other activities. They do NOT have any registered meetings with us so I've gone to them asking they either register the meeting with us and abide by our service structure, and use our literature, or to please remove our name from their use. After usually a couple of emails back and forth over a period of time, they eventually drop use of our name and intellectual property. I've even gotten complaints from people attending so "faux" meetings but whenever I've approached them about this - they refuse to speak to me about it.)
As for national funding - the Office of Victims of Crime for Arizona list http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/humantrafficking/traffickingmatrix.html SAATURN as one of their recipients. Where we see TRUST again http://arizonaanti-traffickingnetwork.com/partners/ AZMEN is led by ex-sheriff Paul Penzone http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20140228paul-penzone-antitrafficking-drive.html who is filling the gap which was "traditionally headed by womens' groups". The ex-sheriff is supposed to address the needs of women and children who are being sex trafficked. It says in the article "Luis CdeBaca, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons was also a speaker" at this luncheon now being held for Penzone. I didn't know sheriff's had training in issues of child sex trafficking - but okay. Huh?
It also appears the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network and TRUST are providing training in the “Public Safety Professional’s Response to Those that Suffer from Mental Health Issues" https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=546524638831441&id=516748635142375
Which is a nice way of saying "when you cart someone off on a 5150 mental health charge".
By the way, am I reading this clearly? David Vitter is calling for "unaccompanied foreign minor children to be immediately be detained for deportation" on a human trafficking Bill? http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/article/icymi-vitter-bill-would-stop-flow-of-illegal-border-crossings This is the same guy who was in Jeane Palfrey's "Black Book" right?
Okay that starts to explain why Officer Armendariz on the human trafficking task force was stopping people and demanding their identification before his death before he could testify in a corruption hearing. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/a-deputys-death-opens-the-door-onto-a-world-corruption-in-sheriff-joes-mcso-6462478 Because what I'm hearing from staff in Arizona is that illegal aliens can be detained without legal representation because they're not being arrested for one. Second, they can be detained for an undefined amount of time. Unlike if you're arrested. There is no mandatory time they have to appear in front of a judge, or a criminal charge has to be filed against them or they have to be let go. Third, they do not have to receive medical care the same as an American as they have no insurance. Which is what I've been hearing out of jails in CA, AZ and TX - is that illegals are being detained for sometimes over six months without a lawyer, without medical care, and at about $165 a day to the system paid for their care. Now I don't mean to be rude or crass here but have some of you seen what some of these 14 year old Hispanic or Chinese girl looks and are built like?
I know you think of this when you think Hispanic juvenile:
But can I point out here that some of Hispanic illegal aliens are this:
And:
Now I don't think we're going to find these girls are going to be put out to work on an egg farm as Rep. Portman found with a couple of kids when they were responding to complaints children were being trafficked out of these trafficking "safe houses".
Jan Brewer's name came up here a lot. It appears she's fighting Obama at the moment over immigration. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/12/04/brewer-joins-states-fighting-obamas-immigration-action/19918273/ It appears Jan isn't interested in the children becoming citizens nor finding work or even getting a drivers' license.
Meaning if they can't get a job THEN CAN I ASK WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO FOR MONEY? I'd don't know about you - but I remember being 13 years old with the body of an adult when my dad abandoned my mom in a motel with no money and rent coming due. My mom was having a break down so she didn't know how to solve our financial problems. I however did. I put a miniskirt, a halter top, and a pair of high heels and walked into the corner bar. Financial problems solved.
Wow, looks like Jan's in wealthy company opposing Obama. Seems Sheldon Adelson spent $150 million dollars opposing Obama, which would include him NOT wanting to get illegal aliens citizen status. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/03/sheldon-adelson-ended-up-spending-150-million Which by the way isn't limited to Mexicans coming across the border, but also includes the Chinese, and Koreans, https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/online-sex-worker-forum-seized-in-undercover-sex-trafficking-sting-thereviewboard who are being brought into this country and forced into sex trafficking with the threat of being deported back to their country if they don't cooperate with their traffickers.
So I"m sure this kind of money to oppose Obama, and his stance on illegal aliens, that includes Chinese women and their children, has nothing to do with Jan's filing of a lawsuit to fight Obama right?
He also donated to George W. Bush, and tried to counter George Soros. Plus he also donated millions to Newt Gingrich (page 79 of the link above). I remember that name from Iran Contra when I saw women being sold to seal drug and oil deals which I'm known to be quite vocal about witnessing our government's involvement in sex and drug trafficking during. It also says on page 79 NBC named Adelson one of the "top 200 business people of 2014". This is interesting support between McCain and Adelson. http://swampland.time.com/2008/09/23/mccain_and_israel/ Enough to make me ask McCain where he stands on the issue of legalized prostitution in the USA of which Adelson has been supposedly trying to bring about.
Ah here we go - 2008 Sheldon Adelson, or his wife Miriam, gave John McCain campaign contributions http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/18/sheldon-adelsons-foreign-money-and-john Wait a minute, did I read this right on that link above?
Were all those New York Times editorials backing the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform suspect because the Times also owns the International Herald Tribune, which circulates in foreign countries, and because the New York Times Company is part owned by the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim?
Now it appears Catholic Charities in Minnesota received $500,000 from the Dept. of Justice in 2012: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf Granted it's not Arizona - but it's still Catholic Charities.
Arizona International Rescue Committee got a grant also from the DOJ for $300,000 in 2012: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf
Polaris got $350,000 from the DOJ in 2012 http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf
The Office of Victims of Crime Training in 2012 received $677,500 from the DOJ on page 9: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf
Here is a report by USAID on "government funded programs for trafficking" http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACU465.pdf designed to tell us how effective their money spent is.
I found this wording interesting in the report by the way:
Established in 2003, the Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG) to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons coordinates interagency policy, grants, research, and planning issues involving international and domestic trafficking in persons (TIP) and the implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Since 2010, the SPOG Grantmaking Committee has focused significant attention on developing a strategy for supporting a shift towards evidence-based programming among United States government agencies to build the knowledge base on human trafficking and propose solutions to enhance anti-trafficking activities. The term “evidence-based practice” refers to any intervention that can be sourced back to methodologically-sound research demonstrating that it is effective and worthy of application on a large scale.
Can I point out here when they say "evidence based" this means THEY ARE WATCHING? I would like to add that no one knows about the calls coming into our hotline but us. We do not allow any outsiders, researchers, reporters, politicians, into our meetings without our consent. When professor Sharon Oselin studied a meeting of ours at the Mary Magdalene Project over a 10 year period of time, this was a meeting of ours that we weren't advised of even existing let alone she was being allowed to watch, study and interact with these women.
Which presented a flaw in her research for a few reasons. One being our program doesn't work in a vacuum. Our program consists of interaction with other members in other cities and countries. We expose our members to those who work in illegal and legal arenas so they both know there is not much difference between the two. We expose street walkers with pimps to our escorts living in Beverly Hills so they know we are "the same", which is the spiritual principle behind "anonymity" meaning we are the same. We also engage our members in outreach as evidenced by Kathleen being advised when she got out of jail to go back into the jail to do outreach to others. It clearly worked as Kathleen then went on to help others yes, but also seems to have gained a great deal for her own recovery as well in the process. So I'd like to add that what Sharon researched was like studying the trunk on an elephant and calling that researching the elephant. However, I'd also like to point out I'm quite proud of Kathleen who I don't need a study to know our program was effective with her. I'd also like to personally thank her for refusing to get sucked in when Beth Jacobs would call her up with false complaints about me to get her wind up. I never saw her respond to that in any way and I appreciate that.
Now while Katherine Chon is the director of the Office of Trafficking in Persons might I point out that is a sub-office of the Administration for Children & Families. Which is a sub-group of the Dept. of Health & Human Services. Here is a chart of how the HHS is structured. http://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/orgchart/index.html Which has as a part of it the National Institute on Mental Health, as well as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: http://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/offices-centers
Wait a minute - aren't these the agencies that do the research on programs to determine if they're effective or not? It appears they're also in charge of Medicaid and Medicare to determine what services are covered under them, and also the FDA who approves what medications, or devices like the electro-shock cap, are to be used or not used in connection with the mental health population. Also the Office on Civil Rights, and the Office on Legislation.
Oh that explains a lot.
It might explain why there's such a rush to put these children into the mental health system instead of the criminal justice system. I'm sorry but I've been a child trying to accuse my father, the attorney, of child abuse. I know I wouldn't had one leg to stand on if I had (1) been committed to a mental hospital, (2) was seeing a psychiatrist who deemed me mentally ill, (3) had been slapped on a bunch of medications not tested as safe on children with side effects for adults that would scare the hell out of you reading them off the label, (4) and possibly even subjected to this electro-shock the FDA is trying to roll out. Along with that, people who are NOT properly trained in how to tell if a child is telling the truth in a highly emotional state vs. speaking from brainwashing vs. speaking from true mental illness NOT caused by the trafficking itself OR if in fact they're speaking from mental illness and not as a result of trafficking. Some of the things I would teach counselors when I was doing continuing education back in the 1990's.
Now, I was fortunate. My mother worked in the juvenile justice system for 13 years before I told her about my father's abuse. My mother therefore KNEW NOT to do the above to me because it would have rendered my testimony in a court of law pointless. Now I'm not saying my mother didn't get me help. My mother just knew how the system worked, and knew it was protect him if she followed the "traditional route" she saw advocated by the juvenile system of the 1970's.
She was right as I've seen countless children's testimony be thrown out over issues such as hospitalization, medications, a badly trained therapist, poorly trained law enforcement, etc.
So it is important to us as a survivors of this type of system to be incorporated into the the programs', the training, the structure, policy advisement, the press, etc. All of which we have found ourselves excluded from since 2007 entirely. Being my current database of members' numbers 190,000, and I read recently that Polaris has "identified 10,000 survivors", and our blog alone has over 60,000 subscribers, and while they've been around since 2002, we've been around since 1987, I think that entitles us to be included in some fashion.
I know I know these people are all "respectable" and "above reproach" and some have won awards right? Wouldn't harm a fly and we need to just that that all of these people, out of which only two from what I count as claimed survivors, Beth and Savannah, right? Might I bring up this? http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/04/the-somali-sex-slave-ring-that-wasnt
How about a married 63 year old prosecutor who raped 100's of prostitutes while using his office to do so? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3492315/Michigan-prosecutor-charged-hiring-prostitutes.html
So I bring up Eliot Spitzer who was once governor of New York? http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/spitzer-choke-accuser-identified-svetlana-travis-25-article-1.2532341 Who tried to assault her when she rightfully tried to leave?
Now if a "john" who is wealthy and famous would order a hit out on an adult woman fearing she's going to testify against him, as "johns" do sometimes when caught with their hand in the cookie jar, such as Charlie Sheen, http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/04/06/charlie-sheen-put-hit-fiancee-ex-brett-rossi-hitman-hiv-positive/ can we talk about what someone like Officer Armendariz who was on the trafficking task force of Arizona and unstable enough to kill himself might do to some undocumented foreign child they might want to silence?
Am I imagining I've just gotten edged out by a monopoly? Polaris, whose name is intertwined all the way through here, and whose CEO Bradley is married to Katherine, just partnered with Google, Salesforce, and Palantir to "fight trafficking"? http://www.fastcompany.com/3009686/how-google-is-fighting-sex-trafficking-with-big-data
Palantir who is basically the CIA guys. https://www.palantir.com/ Now how does this all tie back to the legal brothels of Nevada and Adelson who owns the Review Journal to tie this all up in a nice neat fat bow? Well it seems Polaris was founded because of a report Katherine co-wrote with Derek Ellerman. http://www.browndailyherald.com/2007/04/26/federal-human-trafficking-bust-implicates-downtown-establishment/
Derek who was a police cadet who "owes his career to Ron Paul". http://thehill.com/capital-living/inside-the-office/193829-inside-the-office-of-rep-reid-ribble-r-wis-derek-ellerman Ron Paul who has Dennis Hof "pimping for him". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMheDNZLgA
Whereby when I gave the press conference in 2007 whereby Melissa Farley told reporters after I told her I would not make such a statement to the press, claimed I had "called out to abolish the brothels" which is not how I feel personally, nor that of our program as a whole either who can "express no opinion on outside issues" but she did it anyway if you look back at my clips on www.hightechmadam.com
It was after this press conference I was approached by a reporter for the Review Journal. She told me that she had to deliver me the message on behalf of the owner. She said "my name and the name of SWA has been blacklisted for life and it does not matter how many women DIE for not knowing about our program but our name will never appear?"
I'm lying or hallucinating right? Okay I have a news clip showing I'm in Las Vegas in 2007. Tom Ragan write a story on all the trafficking programs in Nevada in May of 2013. See our name? http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/nevada-movement-draws-line-human-trafficking
Oh I was interviewed and photographed for the story. Then Tom and the photographer were fired for insisting our name be included. The photographer left and Tom said he would "make sure our name got out there somewhere somehow" to document we were still there in Nevada plugging away.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/tv-producers-ogle-strip-joint-reality-show Now if Tom wasn't forced to omit our name - where did we go in May of 2013? Nowhere. The RJ refused to print our name as promised to me in 2007. Also, you may want to know the RJ was the one who set up Assemblymen Bob Beers on a phony $5.00 ethics charge which got him booted out of office, and some death threats. Then replaced with John Hambrick who there are members of the Nevada legislature such as Chris Edwards, to name one, who say he "bullied" his way into being Speaker of the House. I don't see the RJ doing anything about that. No not that Lance Gilman is a county councilman, on the Nevada Board of Economic Development, and also owner of a legal brothel who advised the NV governor. Not now that Dennis Hof is running for Senate. Not now that Vivid Porn has relocated up into Nevada.
Do you know why we have competition in this country? Has anyone seen anywhere in the RJ a report of a Nevada brothel prostitute contracting HIV? Does anyone know the police, who include Chief Gillispie, who has stepped down because of corruption charges, who have a Reno cop being charged with sexual harassment, that they pick up the test kits for HIV at the brothels? Did you know that there's only one lab in all of Nevada, Quest Diagnostics? When I was having traffickers connected to Greg Munks, who is also on the human trafficking task force in California, try and show me how they had Nevada "rigged" they showed me how they can alter medical results with the push of a button in Nevada, unlike California which has multiple labs. I have the records that show first it was negative, then positive, then negative again. Meaning you can alter HIV results, DNA, paternity, even a murder case. All because of being a monopoly. It's why the only other paper you'll see our name in Nevada is in the paper Ed Pearce writes for. Why the RJ lied and said "no one objected to AB67" even though Aubrey read a letter to the legislature on why we objected strongly to that Bill. Go on - look. The FCC by the way says it's "legal to lie" when I complained. I guess the fact a little thing like the law was involved in the lie doesn't matter to the FCC.
Now the reason why someone who is advising on training, policy, etc., on these issues should include people from our program is simple. We know the game. We know that in this report if they wanted to do away with massage parlor prostitution - they would have attacked massage parlors. No. They attacked Rhode Island decriminalized prostitution WHO WAS THE LEGAL BROTHELS OF NEVADA'S COMPETITION.
Wiped it out and left Nevada intact. Not only left Nevada intact I see no sign law requiring the National Trafficking Hotline Phone #, nor our hotline, nor Children of the Night, or the Runaway Hotline, nor any hotline for that matter being required to be posted up in the brothels despite the fact (1) they have a law on the books if you try and leave the brothel when you first arrived you can be arrested, (2) if you try and leave after 9 pm you can be arrested, (3) if you walk down the street to leave the brothel in some areas you can be arrested, (4) there are no cabs nor buses one can take out of the brothels 24/7 if they want to leave, and (5) if they want to leave they are refused their money which is given to their "manager", i.e., legal pimp who I have YET to see one prosecuted for trafficking. Oh and now thanks to "Truckers Against Trafficking" we can't get volunteer truck drivers to pick them up and take them to safety like we used to. Nope, they call the hotline who says call the cops who then either does nothing because no one can be arrested on the spot, or they take them back to the brothel because they're violating curfew. Once in a blue moon we get a referral and then we can step in.
However, when I tried to speak to the trafficking task force, the police, the attorney general's office, and even the press of Nevada about this woman who wanted to have her pimp prosecuted for trafficking her within the legal brothels of Nevada NO ONE WOULD RETURN OUR CALLS. www.blogtalkradio.com/stopsextrafficktalk/2013/07/08/hear-from-a-nevada-brothel-prostitute
In fact, while I was trying to find someone, anyone to help this woman file charges against her pimp who was threatening to put her children into porn if she didn't go back to work at the brothel owned by the Hell's Angel's she said, Dennis Hof bought the place out, the old owner threatened to kill her and her children if she "continued to speak" (he thinks he spoke to her anyway) on the day the Shady Lady closed escrow with Dennis, and all of this was done with no one returning our calls.
So you see, we don't just have a monopoly going on here with respect to us being shut out of helping to prepare the trainings, helping to shape policy and programs, helping to design campaigns that truly help our community, and through which we have just as much right to be included in as Alcoholics Anonymous has in the treatment of alcoholism, and Narcotics Anonymous, has in the treatment of drug addiction, as we do anyone involved with anything to do with exiting the sex industry for any reason, trafficking or any other reason, but we have a situation where we've being excluded from helping victims who come to us for help now because everyone who is in this field now is terrified of going up against people the likes of which who hold the very highest offices of power in this country. We just being a group of survivors can't compete up against that in any way, shape or form other than to cry "anti-trust" and move forward from there asking for the government to step in and break this up. I certainly don't see anyone else other here with us standing now in competition with anyone to do with their side. Everyone on their side is quite united - including to the point where I can't even get anyone in California to talk to me about the case where a woman was drug out of her home and slapped with two fake prostitution cases while being threatened into returning back to her work as an illegal prostititute "or else" she was going to be deported back to China where they would see to it with their connections she'd get the death penalty. Now seeing these connections are quite real, and seeing that for three years now I've been knocking on doors trying to get someone to speak to me about this case only to be (1) ignored, (2) threatened with arrest for stalking, and (3) threatened with a 5150 insanity charge - well we have a problem now don't we?
I want to say one thing about "evidence of effectiveness of programs" if I might. In all of these Arizona programs, only THREE survivors exist who are involved trying to help others. The first is Kathleen Mitchell who got her early recovery through our program I founded. The second is Savannah Sanders who got her early recovery through the Dignity Project Kathleen founded when we were having regular Prostitutes Anonymous meetings. In fact, she's told me she's been to those meetings. Agree or disagree - they were a part of what made her. Beth Jacobs? She was part of a program back in Minnesota when she got her early recovery. There are newspaper account of her being a part of PRIDE/Breaking Free when they were holding our meetings. She in fact is quoted in one of those news articles about being a part of our program back then when she was new. Meaning I see four survivors in this whole equation right now in Arizona trying to help others - ALL of who got their recovery through the hotline I answer, and the program I designed. Is that enough "evidence" for you that our program needs to be included in this system?
As for Beth's behavior over the last four years smearing me, and our program, to anyone and everyone that will listen. Beth left that program in Minnesota without working our steps according to the interview I heard published. In our program we used to call this "whore mentality" but then cleaned it up to "post-prostitution syndrome" where one acts like they're "back on the corner". She's got herself a sweet position right now there in Arizona it appears getting to be a trainer for the Truckers Against Trafficking, and going off to Washington with the likes of Cindy McCain. She's just "kicking us off her corner" and illustrates what happens to us when like a "dry drunk" in AA, one leaves the streets but doesn't work their steps. I mean you don't think someone like Cindy McCain would risk having people sending me screen shots of her bashing me like that in order to push out our involvement now would you? Which is why frankly we haven't sued Beth for defamation. We think she's just trying to survive the best way she knows how in a system that's pushed us out, and also probably doing someone else's dirty work for them. We're not going to penalize her for a lack of recovery and that's why we have continued to suggest all the more aggressively why Arizona needs to have our program restored to it the way it was designed - in connection with our other members at large across this nation, and into other countries so we can start connecting her to her sisters and brothers worldwide.
Okay this ends the blog post on the monopoly that exists in Arizona. I will continue on in another blog about other states at a later post.
Since this information has been released to the press - I'm not breaking any confidences here speaking about Kathleen Mitchell and Prostitutes Anonymous out of Arizona. I received a letter from her from jail asking for help to stop being arrested over and over again for prostitution from Kathleen about 1989. I sent her our "jail step study" program which we send to inmates to let them "work their steps" from jail, along with our 1st edition "Recovery Guide" as a donation. In other words, she didn't pay anything for these items.
She was released about 1990 and asked me "now what?" We had no chapter of "Prostitutes Anonymous" (as we were originally called back then although we changed our name in 1995 to "Sex Workers Anonymous"). Not really having the ability to do street outreach by herself, I suggested she do what I did to start out in Los Angeles back in 1987 - start with the local jail. In 1990, she started a Prostitutes Anonymous meeting in the Durango Jail.
By 1991, she told me that she had gotten a lot of support and founded a residential program named "Dignity". Which was awesome as when I would hear of women anywhere in the country who needed residential placement to get away from their pimp, or traffickers, I would get them down to either Dignity, or other locations we used, depending on how much security the person needed. Here's an article about Kathleen and this work - http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/ex-prostitutes-who-proselytize- 6431069 Notice the article is dated the year 2000 - which is the same year as the passing of the "Trafficking Act of 2000" which gave sex trafficking of American victims federal recognition.
If you don't know what "federal recognition" means think of it this way. If you're a bunch of native Americans, you're just a bunch of native Americans.
But if you want to be a federally recognized tribe to do things like start a reservation or build a casino - then you need "federal recognition". The reason why the film "Deep Throat" was charged with obscenity back in the 1970's, is because the idea of an American woman like Linda Lovelace being "trafficked" didn't exist within our legal, or cultural, system of belief back then.
While I understand there was some talk about "white slavery" and "abolishment" going on up until 1977 in San Francisco, it had died out by 1980 when Linda stepped up to reveal about herself being trafficked in connection with Chuck Traynor, her husband, who forced her to appear in this mob financed film.
Meaning when I stepped up on that first talk show stage in 1987 calling out that this kind of thing was "real" and that our legal, and mental health, system needed to change to recognize these American victims, and launched the first hotline for them to call for help, or anyone who wanted to leave the sex industry for any reason to call for help to do so, along with the first alternative to sentencing option which was our 12 step program, then I was founding the modern day sex trafficking movement.
Kathleen started our Phoenix chapter of "Prostitutes Anonymous", and then a residential program after she achieved her own recovery through our program. I want you to notice in this article how Kathleen had no problem at all using our name in the year 2000 during the time this Trafficking Act was being passed. Meaning there was also no federal money available for this work prior to the year 2000. (I need to also add here I never received one penny from Kathleen, Dignity, Catholic Charities, or anyone from Arizona from the time Kathleen got her first book from us until today.)
If you'd like to hear the way it was in Phoenix in the early 1990's - here is a tape of one of those early members remembering Kathleen. This tape also discusses what happened after Project Rose came into Phoenix which refused any and all participation on our part, as well as any communication with our head office in any way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_TD_X3uOiA As a matter of fact, when Catholic Charities took over Dignity so Kathleen could retire after 20 years of service, it was the same year Project Rose launched in Phoenix. So what this woman is describing is when these groups basically took over what we had started and ran for 20 years.
Now, when Project Rose came to town and Catholic Charities took over Dignity, I had already started the process of getting a woman away from her pimp in Las Vegas. The woman was offered the chance to join our program OR to take six months in jail. Because her pimp didn't want us helping her she opted for jail. I then called the pimp on the phone and had a nice "chat" with the man about how this wasn't a good idea. I then asked him if he would allow us to have this one and tell her it was okay with him to come into our program instead of the Clark County Jail. He agreed and called her to tell her it was okay to come with us.
The judge wanted her in a residential program, not outpatient in Las Vegas. The Mary Magdalene Project was full, but Dignity said they had a bed. I had not worked with Catholic Charities since Kathleen retired, so I wanted to see how things would be under the new regime. I spoke to the judge, the proseutor, and the public defender, as well as the woman's parents, and everyone was on the same page she was to be released to her parents. Then brought to meet for a "debriefing" about what she was about to enter in the way of recovery along with informing her what her pimp and I had discussed about he was willing to let her go. Only as I was waiting for her to arrive at my house after being released, I heard she had been checked into the Dignity Project. I asked the mother if she had at least taken the battery out of the woman's phone so her pimp wouldn't know where she was as I had asked. She said "no" she didn't think it was "important" to not give her pimp a means to trace her as I had instructed. I was also told Dignity allowed to keep the phone, and did not remove her battery either.
I then called the Dignity Project and said I had told the woman I was supposed to meet with her and since she had already left Las Vegas, then I would come down there to speak to her. Catholic Charities told me that would be impossible. I asked why. They said that they couldn't allow me to speak to any of their clients or staff. I asked why. They said they would "lose their funding if they spoke to me". I then asked if they wanted to keep this meeting confidential then which would be fine with me. They said they "could not risk word leaking out they had even met with me or they would lose their funding". Since I had been training their outreach staff, and training the people running our meetings, for 20 years now, I asked what was going to happen to my training of their people. I was told "oh no we can't let you train anyone anymore".
When I asked why I was told "because then it would look like we don't know what we're doing and we can't risk losing donors who think we don't know our job". I mentioned ALL professionals get continuing education and considering I was part of what created this whole program she was now sitting in didn't she think continuing education would be the sign of a true professional? She said "I can't risk anyone hearing that I'm even speaking to you or we're risking our jobs and funding. As a matter of fact, we will no longer be even holding Prostitutes Anonymous meetings here any longer. Nor will we be needing anymore of your 'Recovery Guides'. We need to break off all ties here now.
When I reminded her that she was now in possession of a woman I had negotiated with the court to be there under my word with them and with this woman - I said that statement kind of represented a problem. Especially when I had promised her family she would be supported during her stay there by our program. The woman at Catholic Charities just cut me off at that point, and then refused all future contact. I had no choice then but to notify the court, and the woman's family, that I was not going to be responsible for the outcome of this case being I was now having our program, and it's resources of other local survivors in the Phoenix area, excluded. I would also like to add that she supposedly had the pimp pick her up and leave Dignity about three days later.
Not long after this, I started getting phone calls from women complaining about the "Prostitutes Anonymous meetings". I told them I had been told the meetings had been discontinued. They told me "oh no - they're still going on and still passing the basket too". Which surprised me because our meetings are not supposed to be passing the basket in case newcomers who are still engaged in prostitution put money in the basket which then makes us guilty of a felony of "receiving earnings from a prostitute", not to mention then I have tax liability being that I'm not an incorporated nonprofit with tax exempt status. That money still legally counts as our income I'm responsible for. So I started trying to reach anyone at Catholic Charities to discuss what I was hearing - to get no response.
Not long after this is when Beth Jacobs started contacting our members in Arizona, and other locations online, to inform them I was "pimping" in the active sense, that I was "dangerous", and threatening them if they didn't want to be "shunned out of the trafficking community they needed to break all ties with us completely". These attacks were done to our members, our associates, our partners, professionals we worked with who provided our members with free counseling, treatment programs who gave our members free scholarships for drug treatment, employers who had been giving our members jobs, even locations where we were holding meetings were told that we were "dangerous" and that I was actively involved in trafficking.
I have screen shots from many sources who forwarded these threats and false accusations slandering me, our 12 step program, our radio show, and our hotline. Yes even our radio show featuring interviews from members and survivors she was calling up people ranting on and on according to the caller about how "unprofessional" it was of me to be recording with the sound of my dogs in the background. I guess she didn't get the memo I was receiving no money for that program, nor do I get any salary, grants, or funding, for anything I do including that radio show at www.leavingtheliferadio.com So no I was not "being a professional" because I wasn't being paid!
On top of this, I'm having our older members who had been going to these meetings for years and years at Dignity calling me up to say they're "leaving town". When I asked why they said they were "unwelcome", they had been fired, they couldn't find work, they were being shunned by people within the trafficking community, within the shelters, the drug treatment programs, even at the local university. Basically I was hearing from our older members who had come in through our program and now had double digits years in recovery they couldn't find work and no longer felt welcome.
More disturbing was the calls coming in claiming they were being targeted by the authorities to take their children. I was told Arizona does not need a warrant to have CPS remove their children. I'm getting frantic panicked calls from women telling me they were being hauled in off just walking down the street (like Monica Jones' story), then threatened with their husband being arrested as their pimp, and their children taken away from them, if they don't agree to go to these classes set up through Project Rose. (I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that StreetLight USA was now taking in children and paying for it through the foster care system these women were saying were being taken from them without a warrant, without probable cause - leaving them in a position to hire an attorney or forfeit their children. Something a little hard to do WITHOUT being in prostitution I'd like to add.)
They tell me Beth Jacobs is representing to be their social worker through Mojave Counseling Center. Only I check with the state and find that at that time, 2012-13 Beth wasn't licensed for anything, and neither was the Mojave Counseling Center. Now the Mojave Counseling Center did get shut down for that reason, but regrouped and then did obtain licensing and reopened. But that didn't alter I was hearing these people were being sent to counseling with Beth, and they also all reported being referred to another doctor who was giving them multiple psychiatric medications without running any medical tests to see if these pills were properly warranted. Beth Jacobs also had a Facebook page up for Willow Way for years - but the state of Arizona says she wasn't a nonprofit until 2014.
I invite you to look at the Board of Willow Way now they are a corporation. http://ecorp.azcc.gov/Details/Corp?corpId=%2019222030 On this board also is Aimee Graves https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeegraves, Aimie is the "Director of Children and Family Services, Councilman Steve Kolachik https://www.tucsonaz.gov/ward-6, Donna Haas, a drug and alcohol counselor http://azbbhe.us/ProDetail.asp?ProfID=34791 and Lynn Wallasky from the Green Valley Methodist Church http://www.gvccumc.org/events.html
Project Rose was started by Dominque Roe-Sepowitz which we were excluded from which operated out of the Dignity Project. She is also on the Arizona Human Trafficking Council with the Govenor's Office of Youth, Faith & Family - http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/goyff/meeting-body/arizona-human-trafficking-council-was-established-2014-develop-comprehensive-and This did not stop her however from sending in grant applications we saw showing Project Rose was "utilizing a 12 step program", i.e., OURS to get her money.
Note the Governor's Office of Youth, Faith & Family is partners with Polaris, Shared Hope, the McCain Institute, the Blue Campaign, the National Center for Missing Children, and the Arizona Human Trafficking Council. http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/human-trafficking/outreach This is a list of all of the offices under the Governor - http://azdirect.azdoa.gov/all.aspx
Cindy McCain is with the McCain Institute who created the "No Such Thing" campaign we were also excluded from - http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/sites/default/files/roster_no_contact.pdf She is also a board member of this Governor's Office on Youth, Faith & Family. Two things we also have been excluded from. Not surprised our hotline wasn't included in this joint effort of the McCain Institute, Polaris & Clear Channel either. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/newsroom/press-releases/mccain-institute-polaris-and-clear-channel-outdoor-expand-anti-human-traffi
Wow, The McCain Institute is also involved in issues of "national security" https://www.mccaininstitute.org/programs/national-security Impressive board members too - https://www.mccaininstitute.org/about/board-of-trustees/ Rick Shangraw who is on the board of the ASU Foundation for a New America. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/about/board-of-trustees/rick-shangraw Okay explains the ties from him to Dominique Roe-Sepowitz. Josette Sheeran is with the Asia Society. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/about/board-of-trustees/josette-sheeran
Here is a clip showing Cindy is married to John McCain - http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130408arizona-human-trafficking-task-force-created.html I'd like add the note here that John McCain has testified in Congress against abortion before as a pro-life advocate, was an Arizona senator http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/John_McCain_Abortion.htm and this shows his voting background on the issue of abortion - something that affects young women mostly. http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf
Which might explain this interest in what's happening within the legal/medical system with respect to a young girl who are being trafficked in that pimp's regular m/o is to get their victims pregnant as early into the relationship as possible. The first day even if they can through rape.
(Please note we are not quoted in any of these news articles above about our views on the subject despite the fact we spent 13 years going on to talk shows, tabloid shows, news shows, and even made three documentaries, and had three films made about our work raising awareness to the American public domestic sex trafficking was real and something needed to be done about it to change our legal/medical system. I didn't see the McCain's there when I was doing this! In fact, I created the first safe house for adults in this country I got arrested for because an angry pimp called up the police and claimed I was "running a brothel" two blocks from the police station. You can see my clips verifying this at www.hightechmadam.com. I created this warehouse/safehouse because no one was helping us to escape the trafficking - nor did anyone even care we were in trouble.
NOW? Now they care. Now there's money and politics involved. You know what it reminds me of? When I was new in recovery these women used to come into the NA meetings once a month from AA. They would wait until we got "cleaned up" and "presentable". Then they're come lure women into AA to pair them up with the men in the Alano Clubs and AA meetings to "date". As a result, there wasn't very many women in NA with more than 30 days clean when I was new. When these ladies came for me I said "forget you - if I wasn't good enough for you when I was sitting here sweating, vomiting and twitching from withdrawal and sleeping in my car while turning tricks to eat - then I don't want nothing to do with you. That's what it reminds me of - those ladies who only wanted something to do with us once we were "useful" to them.)
I'd like to reference this article about Cindy McCain speaking about not wanting to "criminalize" these girls. http://tucson.com/news/blogs/police-beat/governor-oks-tougher-law-against-human-trafficking/article_fce7f065-a293-507f-8244-8c3cb6ee098f.html She even says she "wants to separate them out" but "oh no let's not CALL THEM A PROSTITUTE". So excuse me - how does she plan to SEPARATE them from other little girls if she isn't IDENTIFYING THEM? That's one question I got.
She wants to INSTEAD "put them in child welfare agencies". Okay second question - does that mean if you're not a "prostitute" then you go to jail? Isn't that what was done to Latesha Clay? Because she was identified as a "thief" instead of a "prostitute" so she gets NINE YEARS IN PRISON AS AN ADULT, but if she'd been labeled a "prostitute" she could have gone to a program like ours or Children of the Night? http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/01/girl_15_sent_to_prison_for_lur.html
Now can I ask a really dumb question here? Being that out of every single person I've ever spoken to in connection with being involved with the issue of sex trafficking since I first walked into the nightclub which was a front for laundering criminal money when I was about 18 years old, until today where I'm still involved with helping people get out, and considering how many people I've heard their story about sex trafficking, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM who has said not just that our "child welfare system failed them" but that in fact they were trafficked in some way, shape or form, WITH the involvement of not only their parents and/or guardians in charge of their care, but ALSO someone within the system whether this be a teacher, social worker, counselor, priest, minister, etc.
A system NOT following up on any of these kids the way probation can to ENFORCE they get treatment. I've got member after member of our program telling me the person who sold them was a parent, a cop, a teacher, a social worker, a priest, someone in the military, someone in politics (like the Omaha Franklin scandal) - and THIS is who she wants to oversee these kids when even now Rep. Portman has already found kids being trafficked right out of trafficking programs and told us there is "no independent oversight"? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/failures-in-handling-unaccompanied-migrant-minors-have-led-to-trafficking/2016/01/26/c47de164-c138-11e5-9443-7074c3645405_story.html I mean honestly - could THIS BE WHY OUR MEMBERS ARE BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE ROOMS WHERE THESE POLICIES ARE BEING MADE FOR A REASON?
Note the training for this office people receive about what trafficking is and how it operates is provided by the National Trafficking Hotline which was founded by Polaris. http://endsextrafficking.az.gov/human-trafficking/training Polaris whose CEO is Bradley Myles. Bradley is the husband of Katherine Chon. Katherine Chon is the director of the Office of Trafficking in Persons Office who gives grant money to Polaris, i.e., her husband Bradley Myles. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/endtrafficking/about/leadership (Not a bad gig if you can get it - have your Chinese wife hand you a couple of million bucks!) Here is a clip about their marriage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/weddings/on-love-katherine-chon-and-bradley-myles/2013/11/26/7bc83072-5656-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html
International Rescue Committee has an Arizona branch also who has names on their board like JP Morgan - http://www.rescue.org/board-and-overseers They also have received grant money from Katherine Chon.
Here is the Phoenix Council - https://www.phoenix.gov/district2/human-trafficking. Councilman Waring seems to be on this Council. Police Chief Bray is on his instructional video. SAFE is a partner, who is a national partner with these agencies who include Polaris, the Salvation Army, http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/national-partners/ and the National Trafficking Hotline. Please note our hotline is absent. Here is their regional partners - http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/regional-partners/ Founding partners - http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/founding-partners/ and Advisors http://www.safeactionproject.org/partners/safe-advisors/
The Phoenix Council is also partners with TRUST http://www.trustaz.org/trust-partners.html Whose partners are Polaris, Shared Hope, StreetlightUSA, and others who have also refused to return any of our phone calls, or answer any of our emails or faxes EVEN when we've tried to reach out to them for help on cases that have come through our hotline needing assistance.
TRUST also partners with the University of which Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is a part of. https://socialwork.asu.edu/ Here's her page there - https://publicservice.asu.edu/content/dominique-roe-sepowitz-0
Please also note we had a woman approach us saying she wanted to "bring back a Sex Workers Anonymous meeting like we used to have before all this came into Arizona". So she got the materials from us to launch a meeting in Phoenix in 2015. This woman was approached by Savannah Sanders, who graduated from the Dignity Project before Catholic Charities ended the Prostitutes Anonymous meetings. Savannah is an open survivor of trafficking so I'm not breaking any confidences here.
However, Savannah then told this woman that if she wanted to "continue with her plan to try and launch a SWA meeting then to realize she wouldn't be able to help anyone if she was dead". Savannah then supposedly gave her a job offer to work with her and her people where she would not "have to live in that kind of fear" if she was working "with them". Oh before I forget, Savannah is TRUST - http://www.stopsextraffickingaz.com/savannah-sanders-s-story.html
Note this is some of their activity - http://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/feds-teaming-up-with-valley-police-to-crack-down-on-pimping-human-sex-trafficking Seems she's working with a christian ministry to "mend the soul" of children who trafficked. http://mendingthesoul.org/professionals-and-consuliting/request-a-speaker/speaker/savannah-sanders/
Another group is Southern Arizona Against Slavery of which Willow Way is a partner. https://saastucson.com/links/ We also see again Jan Brewer, Governor, Streetlight USA, Sold No More and Alert which has a link that goes nowhere. http://traffickingaz.org/
Sold No More is comprised of Grace Community Church and the Red Cross. http://soldnomore.org/leadership/
Always is another who has Phoenix Councilman Daniel Valenzuela on their board http://alwaysaz.org/team/ Their training and statistics come to them via Polaris, Shared Hope, CAST and ATEST is appears. https://saastucson.com/links/
Shared Hope who provided research for the Governor appears with the help of a few people listed on that directory who include the Hickey Family we see once again - http://sharedhope.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DJP_Arizona-Field-Assessment_optimized.pdf and of course Dominique
Roe-Sepowitz.
Streetlight USA appears to have gotten a grant from the Dept. of Housing http://streetlightusa.org/our-history/, served on Governor Brewer's task force, and appears to get tax credit for foster kids. This might explain why they called me up in 2013 asking me to send them referrals to house in their program. I told them I've never met them and I refer all our juvenile calls to Children of the Night as I've known Lois and worked with them since 1979 when they first opened. It appears the local university set down their nutritional program for their residents who would be Dominque Roe-Sepowitz related most likely. Their Board of Directors don't appear to be listed on their site for some strange reason. http://streetlightusa.org/leadership/
(By the way, I've caught Streetlight USA MORE THAN ONCE using the name "Prostitutes Anonymous" in their fund raising, their websites, and other activities. They do NOT have any registered meetings with us so I've gone to them asking they either register the meeting with us and abide by our service structure, and use our literature, or to please remove our name from their use. After usually a couple of emails back and forth over a period of time, they eventually drop use of our name and intellectual property. I've even gotten complaints from people attending so "faux" meetings but whenever I've approached them about this - they refuse to speak to me about it.)
As for national funding - the Office of Victims of Crime for Arizona list http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/humantrafficking/traffickingmatrix.html SAATURN as one of their recipients. Where we see TRUST again http://arizonaanti-traffickingnetwork.com/partners/ AZMEN is led by ex-sheriff Paul Penzone http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20140228paul-penzone-antitrafficking-drive.html who is filling the gap which was "traditionally headed by womens' groups". The ex-sheriff is supposed to address the needs of women and children who are being sex trafficked. It says in the article "Luis CdeBaca, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons was also a speaker" at this luncheon now being held for Penzone. I didn't know sheriff's had training in issues of child sex trafficking - but okay. Huh?
It also appears the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network and TRUST are providing training in the “Public Safety Professional’s Response to Those that Suffer from Mental Health Issues" https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=546524638831441&id=516748635142375
Which is a nice way of saying "when you cart someone off on a 5150 mental health charge".
By the way, am I reading this clearly? David Vitter is calling for "unaccompanied foreign minor children to be immediately be detained for deportation" on a human trafficking Bill? http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/article/icymi-vitter-bill-would-stop-flow-of-illegal-border-crossings This is the same guy who was in Jeane Palfrey's "Black Book" right?
Okay that starts to explain why Officer Armendariz on the human trafficking task force was stopping people and demanding their identification before his death before he could testify in a corruption hearing. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/a-deputys-death-opens-the-door-onto-a-world-corruption-in-sheriff-joes-mcso-6462478 Because what I'm hearing from staff in Arizona is that illegal aliens can be detained without legal representation because they're not being arrested for one. Second, they can be detained for an undefined amount of time. Unlike if you're arrested. There is no mandatory time they have to appear in front of a judge, or a criminal charge has to be filed against them or they have to be let go. Third, they do not have to receive medical care the same as an American as they have no insurance. Which is what I've been hearing out of jails in CA, AZ and TX - is that illegals are being detained for sometimes over six months without a lawyer, without medical care, and at about $165 a day to the system paid for their care. Now I don't mean to be rude or crass here but have some of you seen what some of these 14 year old Hispanic or Chinese girl looks and are built like?
I know you think of this when you think Hispanic juvenile:
But can I point out here that some of Hispanic illegal aliens are this:
Now I don't think we're going to find these girls are going to be put out to work on an egg farm as Rep. Portman found with a couple of kids when they were responding to complaints children were being trafficked out of these trafficking "safe houses".
Jan Brewer's name came up here a lot. It appears she's fighting Obama at the moment over immigration. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/12/04/brewer-joins-states-fighting-obamas-immigration-action/19918273/ It appears Jan isn't interested in the children becoming citizens nor finding work or even getting a drivers' license.
Meaning if they can't get a job THEN CAN I ASK WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO FOR MONEY? I'd don't know about you - but I remember being 13 years old with the body of an adult when my dad abandoned my mom in a motel with no money and rent coming due. My mom was having a break down so she didn't know how to solve our financial problems. I however did. I put a miniskirt, a halter top, and a pair of high heels and walked into the corner bar. Financial problems solved.
Wow, looks like Jan's in wealthy company opposing Obama. Seems Sheldon Adelson spent $150 million dollars opposing Obama, which would include him NOT wanting to get illegal aliens citizen status. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/03/sheldon-adelson-ended-up-spending-150-million Which by the way isn't limited to Mexicans coming across the border, but also includes the Chinese, and Koreans, https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/online-sex-worker-forum-seized-in-undercover-sex-trafficking-sting-thereviewboard who are being brought into this country and forced into sex trafficking with the threat of being deported back to their country if they don't cooperate with their traffickers.
So I"m sure this kind of money to oppose Obama, and his stance on illegal aliens, that includes Chinese women and their children, has nothing to do with Jan's filing of a lawsuit to fight Obama right?
He also donated to George W. Bush, and tried to counter George Soros. Plus he also donated millions to Newt Gingrich (page 79 of the link above). I remember that name from Iran Contra when I saw women being sold to seal drug and oil deals which I'm known to be quite vocal about witnessing our government's involvement in sex and drug trafficking during. It also says on page 79 NBC named Adelson one of the "top 200 business people of 2014". This is interesting support between McCain and Adelson. http://swampland.time.com/2008/09/23/mccain_and_israel/ Enough to make me ask McCain where he stands on the issue of legalized prostitution in the USA of which Adelson has been supposedly trying to bring about.
Ah here we go - 2008 Sheldon Adelson, or his wife Miriam, gave John McCain campaign contributions http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/18/sheldon-adelsons-foreign-money-and-john Wait a minute, did I read this right on that link above?
Were all those New York Times editorials backing the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform suspect because the Times also owns the International Herald Tribune, which circulates in foreign countries, and because the New York Times Company is part owned by the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim?
Now it appears Catholic Charities in Minnesota received $500,000 from the Dept. of Justice in 2012: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf Granted it's not Arizona - but it's still Catholic Charities.
Arizona International Rescue Committee got a grant also from the DOJ for $300,000 in 2012: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf
Polaris got $350,000 from the DOJ in 2012 http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf
The Office of Victims of Crime Training in 2012 received $677,500 from the DOJ on page 9: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229068.pdf
Here is a report by USAID on "government funded programs for trafficking" http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACU465.pdf designed to tell us how effective their money spent is.
I found this wording interesting in the report by the way:
Established in 2003, the Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG) to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons coordinates interagency policy, grants, research, and planning issues involving international and domestic trafficking in persons (TIP) and the implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Since 2010, the SPOG Grantmaking Committee has focused significant attention on developing a strategy for supporting a shift towards evidence-based programming among United States government agencies to build the knowledge base on human trafficking and propose solutions to enhance anti-trafficking activities. The term “evidence-based practice” refers to any intervention that can be sourced back to methodologically-sound research demonstrating that it is effective and worthy of application on a large scale.
Can I point out here when they say "evidence based" this means THEY ARE WATCHING? I would like to add that no one knows about the calls coming into our hotline but us. We do not allow any outsiders, researchers, reporters, politicians, into our meetings without our consent. When professor Sharon Oselin studied a meeting of ours at the Mary Magdalene Project over a 10 year period of time, this was a meeting of ours that we weren't advised of even existing let alone she was being allowed to watch, study and interact with these women.
Which presented a flaw in her research for a few reasons. One being our program doesn't work in a vacuum. Our program consists of interaction with other members in other cities and countries. We expose our members to those who work in illegal and legal arenas so they both know there is not much difference between the two. We expose street walkers with pimps to our escorts living in Beverly Hills so they know we are "the same", which is the spiritual principle behind "anonymity" meaning we are the same. We also engage our members in outreach as evidenced by Kathleen being advised when she got out of jail to go back into the jail to do outreach to others. It clearly worked as Kathleen then went on to help others yes, but also seems to have gained a great deal for her own recovery as well in the process. So I'd like to add that what Sharon researched was like studying the trunk on an elephant and calling that researching the elephant. However, I'd also like to point out I'm quite proud of Kathleen who I don't need a study to know our program was effective with her. I'd also like to personally thank her for refusing to get sucked in when Beth Jacobs would call her up with false complaints about me to get her wind up. I never saw her respond to that in any way and I appreciate that.
Now while Katherine Chon is the director of the Office of Trafficking in Persons might I point out that is a sub-office of the Administration for Children & Families. Which is a sub-group of the Dept. of Health & Human Services. Here is a chart of how the HHS is structured. http://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/orgchart/index.html Which has as a part of it the National Institute on Mental Health, as well as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: http://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/offices-centers
Wait a minute - aren't these the agencies that do the research on programs to determine if they're effective or not? It appears they're also in charge of Medicaid and Medicare to determine what services are covered under them, and also the FDA who approves what medications, or devices like the electro-shock cap, are to be used or not used in connection with the mental health population. Also the Office on Civil Rights, and the Office on Legislation.
Oh that explains a lot.
It might explain why there's such a rush to put these children into the mental health system instead of the criminal justice system. I'm sorry but I've been a child trying to accuse my father, the attorney, of child abuse. I know I wouldn't had one leg to stand on if I had (1) been committed to a mental hospital, (2) was seeing a psychiatrist who deemed me mentally ill, (3) had been slapped on a bunch of medications not tested as safe on children with side effects for adults that would scare the hell out of you reading them off the label, (4) and possibly even subjected to this electro-shock the FDA is trying to roll out. Along with that, people who are NOT properly trained in how to tell if a child is telling the truth in a highly emotional state vs. speaking from brainwashing vs. speaking from true mental illness NOT caused by the trafficking itself OR if in fact they're speaking from mental illness and not as a result of trafficking. Some of the things I would teach counselors when I was doing continuing education back in the 1990's.
Now, I was fortunate. My mother worked in the juvenile justice system for 13 years before I told her about my father's abuse. My mother therefore KNEW NOT to do the above to me because it would have rendered my testimony in a court of law pointless. Now I'm not saying my mother didn't get me help. My mother just knew how the system worked, and knew it was protect him if she followed the "traditional route" she saw advocated by the juvenile system of the 1970's.
She was right as I've seen countless children's testimony be thrown out over issues such as hospitalization, medications, a badly trained therapist, poorly trained law enforcement, etc.
So it is important to us as a survivors of this type of system to be incorporated into the the programs', the training, the structure, policy advisement, the press, etc. All of which we have found ourselves excluded from since 2007 entirely. Being my current database of members' numbers 190,000, and I read recently that Polaris has "identified 10,000 survivors", and our blog alone has over 60,000 subscribers, and while they've been around since 2002, we've been around since 1987, I think that entitles us to be included in some fashion.
I know I know these people are all "respectable" and "above reproach" and some have won awards right? Wouldn't harm a fly and we need to just that that all of these people, out of which only two from what I count as claimed survivors, Beth and Savannah, right? Might I bring up this? http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/04/the-somali-sex-slave-ring-that-wasnt
How about a married 63 year old prosecutor who raped 100's of prostitutes while using his office to do so? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3492315/Michigan-prosecutor-charged-hiring-prostitutes.html
So I bring up Eliot Spitzer who was once governor of New York? http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/spitzer-choke-accuser-identified-svetlana-travis-25-article-1.2532341 Who tried to assault her when she rightfully tried to leave?
Now if a "john" who is wealthy and famous would order a hit out on an adult woman fearing she's going to testify against him, as "johns" do sometimes when caught with their hand in the cookie jar, such as Charlie Sheen, http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/04/06/charlie-sheen-put-hit-fiancee-ex-brett-rossi-hitman-hiv-positive/ can we talk about what someone like Officer Armendariz who was on the trafficking task force of Arizona and unstable enough to kill himself might do to some undocumented foreign child they might want to silence?
Am I imagining I've just gotten edged out by a monopoly? Polaris, whose name is intertwined all the way through here, and whose CEO Bradley is married to Katherine, just partnered with Google, Salesforce, and Palantir to "fight trafficking"? http://www.fastcompany.com/3009686/how-google-is-fighting-sex-trafficking-with-big-data
Palantir who is basically the CIA guys. https://www.palantir.com/ Now how does this all tie back to the legal brothels of Nevada and Adelson who owns the Review Journal to tie this all up in a nice neat fat bow? Well it seems Polaris was founded because of a report Katherine co-wrote with Derek Ellerman. http://www.browndailyherald.com/2007/04/26/federal-human-trafficking-bust-implicates-downtown-establishment/
Derek who was a police cadet who "owes his career to Ron Paul". http://thehill.com/capital-living/inside-the-office/193829-inside-the-office-of-rep-reid-ribble-r-wis-derek-ellerman Ron Paul who has Dennis Hof "pimping for him". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMheDNZLgA
Whereby when I gave the press conference in 2007 whereby Melissa Farley told reporters after I told her I would not make such a statement to the press, claimed I had "called out to abolish the brothels" which is not how I feel personally, nor that of our program as a whole either who can "express no opinion on outside issues" but she did it anyway if you look back at my clips on www.hightechmadam.com
It was after this press conference I was approached by a reporter for the Review Journal. She told me that she had to deliver me the message on behalf of the owner. She said "my name and the name of SWA has been blacklisted for life and it does not matter how many women DIE for not knowing about our program but our name will never appear?"
I'm lying or hallucinating right? Okay I have a news clip showing I'm in Las Vegas in 2007. Tom Ragan write a story on all the trafficking programs in Nevada in May of 2013. See our name? http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/nevada-movement-draws-line-human-trafficking
Oh I was interviewed and photographed for the story. Then Tom and the photographer were fired for insisting our name be included. The photographer left and Tom said he would "make sure our name got out there somewhere somehow" to document we were still there in Nevada plugging away.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/tv-producers-ogle-strip-joint-reality-show Now if Tom wasn't forced to omit our name - where did we go in May of 2013? Nowhere. The RJ refused to print our name as promised to me in 2007. Also, you may want to know the RJ was the one who set up Assemblymen Bob Beers on a phony $5.00 ethics charge which got him booted out of office, and some death threats. Then replaced with John Hambrick who there are members of the Nevada legislature such as Chris Edwards, to name one, who say he "bullied" his way into being Speaker of the House. I don't see the RJ doing anything about that. No not that Lance Gilman is a county councilman, on the Nevada Board of Economic Development, and also owner of a legal brothel who advised the NV governor. Not now that Dennis Hof is running for Senate. Not now that Vivid Porn has relocated up into Nevada.
Do you know why we have competition in this country? Has anyone seen anywhere in the RJ a report of a Nevada brothel prostitute contracting HIV? Does anyone know the police, who include Chief Gillispie, who has stepped down because of corruption charges, who have a Reno cop being charged with sexual harassment, that they pick up the test kits for HIV at the brothels? Did you know that there's only one lab in all of Nevada, Quest Diagnostics? When I was having traffickers connected to Greg Munks, who is also on the human trafficking task force in California, try and show me how they had Nevada "rigged" they showed me how they can alter medical results with the push of a button in Nevada, unlike California which has multiple labs. I have the records that show first it was negative, then positive, then negative again. Meaning you can alter HIV results, DNA, paternity, even a murder case. All because of being a monopoly. It's why the only other paper you'll see our name in Nevada is in the paper Ed Pearce writes for. Why the RJ lied and said "no one objected to AB67" even though Aubrey read a letter to the legislature on why we objected strongly to that Bill. Go on - look. The FCC by the way says it's "legal to lie" when I complained. I guess the fact a little thing like the law was involved in the lie doesn't matter to the FCC.
Now the reason why someone who is advising on training, policy, etc., on these issues should include people from our program is simple. We know the game. We know that in this report if they wanted to do away with massage parlor prostitution - they would have attacked massage parlors. No. They attacked Rhode Island decriminalized prostitution WHO WAS THE LEGAL BROTHELS OF NEVADA'S COMPETITION.
Wiped it out and left Nevada intact. Not only left Nevada intact I see no sign law requiring the National Trafficking Hotline Phone #, nor our hotline, nor Children of the Night, or the Runaway Hotline, nor any hotline for that matter being required to be posted up in the brothels despite the fact (1) they have a law on the books if you try and leave the brothel when you first arrived you can be arrested, (2) if you try and leave after 9 pm you can be arrested, (3) if you walk down the street to leave the brothel in some areas you can be arrested, (4) there are no cabs nor buses one can take out of the brothels 24/7 if they want to leave, and (5) if they want to leave they are refused their money which is given to their "manager", i.e., legal pimp who I have YET to see one prosecuted for trafficking. Oh and now thanks to "Truckers Against Trafficking" we can't get volunteer truck drivers to pick them up and take them to safety like we used to. Nope, they call the hotline who says call the cops who then either does nothing because no one can be arrested on the spot, or they take them back to the brothel because they're violating curfew. Once in a blue moon we get a referral and then we can step in.
However, when I tried to speak to the trafficking task force, the police, the attorney general's office, and even the press of Nevada about this woman who wanted to have her pimp prosecuted for trafficking her within the legal brothels of Nevada NO ONE WOULD RETURN OUR CALLS. www.blogtalkradio.com/stopsextrafficktalk/2013/07/08/hear-from-a-nevada-brothel-prostitute
In fact, while I was trying to find someone, anyone to help this woman file charges against her pimp who was threatening to put her children into porn if she didn't go back to work at the brothel owned by the Hell's Angel's she said, Dennis Hof bought the place out, the old owner threatened to kill her and her children if she "continued to speak" (he thinks he spoke to her anyway) on the day the Shady Lady closed escrow with Dennis, and all of this was done with no one returning our calls.
So you see, we don't just have a monopoly going on here with respect to us being shut out of helping to prepare the trainings, helping to shape policy and programs, helping to design campaigns that truly help our community, and through which we have just as much right to be included in as Alcoholics Anonymous has in the treatment of alcoholism, and Narcotics Anonymous, has in the treatment of drug addiction, as we do anyone involved with anything to do with exiting the sex industry for any reason, trafficking or any other reason, but we have a situation where we've being excluded from helping victims who come to us for help now because everyone who is in this field now is terrified of going up against people the likes of which who hold the very highest offices of power in this country. We just being a group of survivors can't compete up against that in any way, shape or form other than to cry "anti-trust" and move forward from there asking for the government to step in and break this up. I certainly don't see anyone else other here with us standing now in competition with anyone to do with their side. Everyone on their side is quite united - including to the point where I can't even get anyone in California to talk to me about the case where a woman was drug out of her home and slapped with two fake prostitution cases while being threatened into returning back to her work as an illegal prostititute "or else" she was going to be deported back to China where they would see to it with their connections she'd get the death penalty. Now seeing these connections are quite real, and seeing that for three years now I've been knocking on doors trying to get someone to speak to me about this case only to be (1) ignored, (2) threatened with arrest for stalking, and (3) threatened with a 5150 insanity charge - well we have a problem now don't we?
I want to say one thing about "evidence of effectiveness of programs" if I might. In all of these Arizona programs, only THREE survivors exist who are involved trying to help others. The first is Kathleen Mitchell who got her early recovery through our program I founded. The second is Savannah Sanders who got her early recovery through the Dignity Project Kathleen founded when we were having regular Prostitutes Anonymous meetings. In fact, she's told me she's been to those meetings. Agree or disagree - they were a part of what made her. Beth Jacobs? She was part of a program back in Minnesota when she got her early recovery. There are newspaper account of her being a part of PRIDE/Breaking Free when they were holding our meetings. She in fact is quoted in one of those news articles about being a part of our program back then when she was new. Meaning I see four survivors in this whole equation right now in Arizona trying to help others - ALL of who got their recovery through the hotline I answer, and the program I designed. Is that enough "evidence" for you that our program needs to be included in this system?
As for Beth's behavior over the last four years smearing me, and our program, to anyone and everyone that will listen. Beth left that program in Minnesota without working our steps according to the interview I heard published. In our program we used to call this "whore mentality" but then cleaned it up to "post-prostitution syndrome" where one acts like they're "back on the corner". She's got herself a sweet position right now there in Arizona it appears getting to be a trainer for the Truckers Against Trafficking, and going off to Washington with the likes of Cindy McCain. She's just "kicking us off her corner" and illustrates what happens to us when like a "dry drunk" in AA, one leaves the streets but doesn't work their steps. I mean you don't think someone like Cindy McCain would risk having people sending me screen shots of her bashing me like that in order to push out our involvement now would you? Which is why frankly we haven't sued Beth for defamation. We think she's just trying to survive the best way she knows how in a system that's pushed us out, and also probably doing someone else's dirty work for them. We're not going to penalize her for a lack of recovery and that's why we have continued to suggest all the more aggressively why Arizona needs to have our program restored to it the way it was designed - in connection with our other members at large across this nation, and into other countries so we can start connecting her to her sisters and brothers worldwide.
Okay this ends the blog post on the monopoly that exists in Arizona. I will continue on in another blog about other states at a later post.
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