Scapegoating the Sex Industry

To:   Peter Holey
From: Richard G. Eramian (Rick)
Subject: Wars against freedom

When you blame sex workers and their clients for real crimes such as
theft, assault, and rape as you did in the Lynn Item, you are employing
the concept of "collective guilt" which is an un-American, totalitarian
concept. For example, the Nazis blamed Jews as a group for crimes such
as theft, fraud, etc. in order to justify the policy of treating everyone of
them as a criminal who is personally responsible for committing those
real crimes.

So, let me help you. Only individuals commit crimes, not groups. For
example, suppose some aggressive cop beats up his wife or worse just
because she no longer will submit to his barking orders. You should not
be punished for that crime just because you belong to the same group as
the guilty party. Now, do you get it?

The only time that crime has been associated with sex between consenting
adults is when it has been illegalized and armed agents were employed to
assault the victims of those laws. Unfortunately, as you well know,
there is no shortage of thugs who would love to be paid to push around
defenseless women.

The reason why sex workers are vulnerable to being abused by some of
their clients is because their rights are not protected by the courts.
They are vulnerable because the law views them as criminals. The law
treats them worse than their worst clients. They are not even allowed to
possess the means of self-defense because the law will punish them more.

You are committing the same crimes as a serial rapist. You believe that
you have the right to control other people's bodies and punish them if
they refuse to submit. Like all rapists, you believe that you have the
right to force your will onto others.

Your claim that you are a humanitarian who is helping his victims is
delusional. Suppose some humanitarians wanted to cure you of your
addiction to violence, power, and control: how would you like to be
helped? Would you like to be treated with respect or would you prefer to
be assaulted by an armed gang, thrown into a cage, and murdered if you
resist? By the way, private rapists also claim that their violent assaults
benefit their victims. Like yourself, their addiction to power and control
has destroyed their common sense as well as their humanity.

The truth is that there are millions of peaceful human beings who do
not pass your tests of purity and are no more inferior to you and
your gang than the Jews were inferior to the police and "good" citizens
of National Socialist Germany. In fact, more than ninety percent of all
those being arrested today in fascist America are 100% innocent of any
real crime. They have not harmed anyone or violated anyone's rights.

All prohibition wars against freedom and all government oppression are
made possible by gun control. For example, it was gun control that
allowed the government in National Socialist Germany to arrest millions
of Jews. In this country, gun control allowed the government to
exterminate many native American Indians. It was gun control that
allowed slavery and the lynchings of colored people. Likewise, it was
gun control that allowed the authorities to transform the "land of the
free" into the world's leading police-prison state by jailing millions
of the poor and powerless. The lower classes are always the main
target of most laws.

In a free society with unrestricted access to guns, the current
illegalization wars being conducted against the poor and powerless would
not be possible. Widespread violations of natural rights are not
possible when the target population is armed. That is the reason why
George Washington (our first President) described an armed population as
"liberty's teeth". That is the reason why the lower classes have been
disarmed. That is the reason why members of the underclass are routinely
stopped and searched, and thrown into prison for just possessing a gun
even though they have a Constitutional right to do so. (In the words of
Thomas Jefferson, "No free man shall be denied the use of arms.")

Of course, the peaceful solution to government violence and oppression
is to restore freedom. Abolish the laws that criminalize peaceful
behavior and honest trade. Acknowledge the simple truth that is wrong to
assault, rob, arrest, or kill peaceful human beings. The police should
only be authorized to arrest real criminals who commit real crimes such
as theft, assault, and disturbing the peace.

Did you know that the Islamic Taleban is in complete agreement with you
regarding the illegalization of prostitution, drugs, guns, and gambling?
Like yourself, they have no respect for individual rights. Please
consider the fact that you have betrayed the principle of individual
liberty, the principle upon which this country was founded. Thank you.



I have known more men
 destroyed by the desire
to have wife and child and
 to keep them in comfort
than I have seen destroyed by
 drink and harlots.

         William Butler Yeats