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Feminist activists are masculinized females
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158978/
The feminist movement purports to improve conditions for women, and yet only a minority of women in modern societies self-identify as feminists.
Classic case of she aint getting laid, so noone else is allowed to get laid either
life in the anti-sex states
Oakland Will Now Force Landlords to Evict Sex Workers
Oakland can now force landlords to evict sex workers from their homes under new changes to an existing Oakland law.
At the recommendation of Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to expand The Nuisance Eviction Ordinance which requires landlords to evict certain tenants over allegations of drug dealing or weapons crimes, and gives the City Attorney's Office the power to order such evictions.
But the City Council is has now expanded its eviction powers to include "prostitution-related crimes," gambling, and the possession of certain ammunition. If the city orders an eviction, the landlord must pay for it — and can be cited by the city for maintaining a nuisance if he or she does not move to evict the tenant.
Troubling as it is, the law does not specify whether a tenant must be convicted or merely accused of a prostitution-related offense, stripping Oaklanders of due process. City officials rely on police records to determine which tenants to evict, meaning a tenant may have been arrested for a prostitution-related crime but never convicted. In a letter to the City Council regarding the amendments to the ordinance, Parker acknowledged that, previously, her office would have to seek a court order to demand that a landlord evict a tenant. The amended ordinance eliminates court oversight.
http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/23/oakland-will-now-force-landlords-to-evict-sex-workers
Oakland Will Now Force Landlords to Evict Sex Workers
Oakland can now force landlords to evict sex workers from their homes under new changes to an existing Oakland law.
At the recommendation of Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to expand The Nuisance Eviction Ordinance which requires landlords to evict certain tenants over allegations of drug dealing or weapons crimes, and gives the City Attorney's Office the power to order such evictions.
But the City Council is has now expanded its eviction powers to include "prostitution-related crimes," gambling, and the possession of certain ammunition. If the city orders an eviction, the landlord must pay for it — and can be cited by the city for maintaining a nuisance if he or she does not move to evict the tenant.
Troubling as it is, the law does not specify whether a tenant must be convicted or merely accused of a prostitution-related offense, stripping Oaklanders of due process. City officials rely on police records to determine which tenants to evict, meaning a tenant may have been arrested for a prostitution-related crime but never convicted. In a letter to the City Council regarding the amendments to the ordinance, Parker acknowledged that, previously, her office would have to seek a court order to demand that a landlord evict a tenant. The amended ordinance eliminates court oversight.
http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/23/oakland-will-now-force-landlords-to-evict-sex-workers
Can you send a link to the whole series with English subtitles? I can only find the whole series without English subtitles.
I haven't been in the country much the past year or so, so I'm very behind on whats going on. I know that it was just passed by the House of Commons, but are there any other entities that can strike it down before it is enacted? Or are we all screwed?
Also, assuming it gets fully passed, when will it start to be enforceable?
Also, assuming it gets fully passed, when will it start to be enforceable?
Complete radical feminist fantasy. What is so scary is that these radical feminists actually believed this stuff. It's like the feminist fringe that believes all men are potential abusers, rapists, pedophiles.
Remember the so-called repressed memory phenomenon of the early nineties when women from respectable families came forward with stories about having been raped by their fathers and so on? They destroyed lives, they destroyed families. Some men who were accused killed themselves. It turned out that non of this was true. The "victims" were having these "memories" implanted during therapy when they were highly open to suggestion.
It's a lot like the human trafficking stories. "We know they're out there, somewhere, we just can't find them. But we'll keep looking." When I was a kid it was called the White Slave trade and it was a complete myth.
Remember the so-called repressed memory phenomenon of the early nineties when women from respectable families came forward with stories about having been raped by their fathers and so on? They destroyed lives, they destroyed families. Some men who were accused killed themselves. It turned out that non of this was true. The "victims" were having these "memories" implanted during therapy when they were highly open to suggestion.
It's a lot like the human trafficking stories. "We know they're out there, somewhere, we just can't find them. But we'll keep looking." When I was a kid it was called the White Slave trade and it was a complete myth.
Here's an article by Maggie McNeil on the subject:
http://www.albanygovernmentlawreview.org/Articles/Vol07_1/7.1.057-McNeill.pdf
Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer should be congratulated for her open-minded, courageous and very public stand against Bill C-36. Please read her speech.
http://mobinajaffer.ca/senate-chamber/senate-speeches/october-21-2014-second-reading-bill-c-36/
She showed class when responding to Senator Batters ridiculous comments. How Batters et al still get away with their false claims (commonly known as lies) is mind boggling. Why will no one call them on this?
I come from Saskatchewan, a place where the average prostitute is probably a 14-year-old Aboriginal girl who has been beat up by her pimp that morning and is likely drug-addicted.
I indicated that if Bill C-36 means that the tiny minority of people who claim to freely choose prostitution as their profession cannot do so, then that is the necessary result of protecting the vast majority of vulnerable people exploited by prostitution.
Senator Frum: trots out the old saw about buying bodies
Do I extrapolate from what you just said that it is a human right for men to buy women’s bodies, or it is a human right for a woman to be able to sell her body? Is that a human right?
Senator Tkachuk: does he even know that we have a Constitution
I know part of the rationale that you used in your speech was that this will not eradicate prostitution. All the law does is say this is what society says about this particular act. It could be a speeding car or the thievery of a 7-Eleven.
If it wasn't so tragic it would be hilarious
http://mobinajaffer.ca/senate-chamber/senate-speeches/october-21-2014-second-reading-bill-c-36/
She showed class when responding to Senator Batters ridiculous comments. How Batters et al still get away with their false claims (commonly known as lies) is mind boggling. Why will no one call them on this?
I come from Saskatchewan, a place where the average prostitute is probably a 14-year-old Aboriginal girl who has been beat up by her pimp that morning and is likely drug-addicted.
I indicated that if Bill C-36 means that the tiny minority of people who claim to freely choose prostitution as their profession cannot do so, then that is the necessary result of protecting the vast majority of vulnerable people exploited by prostitution.
Senator Frum: trots out the old saw about buying bodies
Do I extrapolate from what you just said that it is a human right for men to buy women’s bodies, or it is a human right for a woman to be able to sell her body? Is that a human right?
Senator Tkachuk: does he even know that we have a Constitution
I know part of the rationale that you used in your speech was that this will not eradicate prostitution. All the law does is say this is what society says about this particular act. It could be a speeding car or the thievery of a 7-Eleven.
If it wasn't so tragic it would be hilarious
I caught the tail end of a panel including Elizabeth May and the rest were Reform party MP's and some other Bill C36 supporters on Global this morning. They are now referring to us as PayRapists along with perverts ect.... They were shouting down Ms. May and claiming how most are men not getting it at home and paying to rape young girls, it was sickening to hear and I only caught the last 2 or 3 minutes.
I read her whole speech + the Q&A. It was fantastic!!!!
She has been emailing with me & I'm so impressed with her ability to be truly open minded.
Senator Jaffer changed her mind. She looked at the issues and how they fit with her own views and beliefs... and she changed her mind! A very courageous thing to do. I wonder if a Conservative has ever changed their mind about anything. Or do they only change their minds if Harper tells them to. How I long for this vile regime to be gone. I want my country back.
I guess the fact that they had only one person who was against C36, there to be shouted down and ridiculed by the others speaks volumes of where Global stands on the issue. Although I am sure Elizabeth May has more intelligence and brains than all the others put together. This vile regime in Ottawa is destroying our democracy. These are dark days in Canada. 357 days to go. It can't come soon enough. I wish it was sooner.
An interesting read about Ireland/Nordic Model:
http://mymythbuster.wordpress.com/sworn-evidence-concealed-by-justice-committee-stormont/
COMPROMISING WITH THE NORDIC MODEL
ELLIOT RODGERS: TURN A DIFFERENT CORNER
EVERY CRAZY CHILD…
EXPLOSIVE!!!
IN THE EVENT OF SOMETHING HAPPENING TO ME
MYTH: ABOLITIONISTS WOULD HATE TO SEE ANYONE SHOT IN COLD BLOOD
MYTH: CHILD SEX ABUSE IS ALWAYS A SIMPLE ISSUE
MYTH: CHILDREN WOULD RATHER STARVE THAN WORK IN A SWEAT SHOP
MYTH: CORK FEMINISTA HAVE NEVER SPOKEN TO ANY REAL SEX WORKERS
MYTH: DENISE CHARLTON AND I HAVE NEVER HAD A LITTLE CHAT
MYTH: ERADICATING SEX WORKERS IS SERIOUS WORK
MYTH: FRENCH SENATE REJECTION OF SEX BUYER LAWS HAS NO IMPACT IN IRELAND
MYTH: I NEVER HAD AN UNWORTHY THOUGHT IN MY LIFE
MYTH: I AM GONE FOR EVER/NOT GONE AT ALL
MYTH: I AM NOT ANTI-TRAFFICKING
MYTH: I CANNOT WORK OUT MIA DE FAOITE’S MOTIVATION
MYTH: I FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO BUY SEX
MYTH: I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE IN DODGING JOC HEARINGS
MYTH: I MUST BE VERY BRAVE TO CHALLENGE THE THINGS I DO
MYTH: I NEVER CORRESPOND WITH PEANUT FARMERS
MYTH: I NEVER DO RACHEL MORAN ANY FAVOURS
MYTH: I PROMOTE SEX WORK
MYTH: I SUPPORT/OPPOSE ESCORT IRELAND
MYTH: I WAS SINGING A VERY DIFFERENT TUNE IN 2000
MYTH: I WILL BE VOTING FOR BRIAN CROWLEY’S RECOMMENDATION FOR MEP
MYTH: IS IT COS I IS GOD?
MYTH: IT IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO REFUSE TO SELL SEX
MYTH: IT IS NOT AS IF DENISE CHARLTON AND I EVER RUN INTO EACH OTHER
MYTH: IT IS NOT EASY TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
MYTH: LIFE IS ALWAYS WORTH LIVING
MYTH: MALE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT
MYTH: MELISSA FARLEY IS THE MOTHER OF ABOLITIONISM
MYTH: MY YEARS IN GIBRALTAR
MYTH: NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTER FOR JUSTICE FRANCIS FITZGERALD IS 100% ANTI SEX WORK
MYTH: NOBODY EVER GETS TO SAY “I TOLD YOU SO”
MYTH: RUHAMA DO SOME GOOD WORK
MYTH: SEX WORKER OF THE YEAR
MYTH: SEX WORKERS ARE NEVER ABUSED
MYTH: SEX WORKERS IN IRAQ ARE VERY DIFFERENT TO US
MYTH: THE DUP ARE ALL GOOD CHRISTIANS
MYTH: THE DUP NEVER DO ANYTHING USEFUL
MYTH: THE IRISH AUTISM INDUSTRY SUPPORTS AUTISTICS
MYTH: THE JUSTICE COMMITTEE IN STORMONT TREAT ALL WITH EQUAL RESPECT AND COURTESY
MYTH: THERE HAS BEEN A DEBATE ABOUT SEX WORK IN IRELAND
MYTH: THERE IS NO POETRY IN SEX WORK
MYTH: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CHILD SEX SLAVE
MYTH: THIS IS NOT A GRUDGE FIGHT FOR ME.
MYTH: TURN OFF THE RED LIGHT ARE TRYING TO SAVE CHILDREN
MYTH: WHEN IN DOUBT – BLAME THE CONSEQUENCES
MYTH: WOMEN ARE FORCED TO SELL SEX BY SEX BUYERS
NO MORE HEROS
PLEASE KEEP PUSHING THIS OUT
SEX WORK AND ME…THE SHORT VERSION
SUING FOR DAMAGES UNDER NORDIC MODEL
SWORN EVIDENCE CONCEALED BY JUSTICE COMMITTEE STORMONT
THE HELL TO PAY
TO WAKE OUR SISTERS
TURN A DIFFERENT CORNER: RELATING THIS TO SURVIVAL SEX WORK
WHEN IS A COMPROMISE NOT A COMPROMISE
Sworn Evidence Concealed By Justice Committee Stormont
Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Bill:** Consideration Stage
Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Bill: **Consideration Stage (Continued)
I have just sent this email to Justice Ministers North and South. It is my fault, when things upset me I cannot look at them, and I did not check.
Those depositions were signed and checked with the Peace Commissioner, there is no chance of a missing page. The deposition for Stormont went straight into an envelope before I left.
I also sent a scan of another signed deposition by email to facilitate processing by admin staff. I can prove that had all four pages.
Apart from being blatantly corrupt and vindictive the publishing of a sworn deposition without specifying that it has been excerpted or edited may well be seriously illegal.
But what is MOST sinister**are the contents of the page that was omitted…see for yourself. Whatever their reason for omitting that specific part let’s make it public and find out what happens.
**********
Dear David Forde,
**
Finally trying to read through Monday’s debate…it’s not easy…legislation based on propaganda rather than proof is a terrifying revival of the rise of facism in the 20s and 30s.
**
What makes it much harder is that I have a close friend within 20 miles of Belfast who is currently being cornered towards a straight choice between sex work and suicide by blatant and brutal failing in the system to claims to support and protect her. What I find most horrifying about abolitionism is that it creates a fiction of traffickers and pimps to mask the real failings in the system that will go on forcing women to sell sex perhaps even more than ever before without court of appeal or redress. Punishing the consequences rather than the cause of deeply wounding personal nightmares.
**
But that is not what is so urgent. It occurs to me that I am the only person who submitted *any* evidence to the Justice Committee under oath and legal obligation to tell the truth with legal penalty for lying. I sent your office the same signed deposition (not a photocopy actual signatures) on about March 3 2014.
**
The Justice Committee devised their own informal penalty for telling the truth by publishing that deposition (which was otherwise ignored) my full private (and isolated) isolated rural name and address and both phone numbers on page 1289 **of their report http://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/ju...fficking/Report-on-Human-Trafficking-Bill.pdf along with the name and landline of the elderly widowed peace commissioner involved. This would be an unjustifiable breach of my right to privacy under any circumstances, but I am a autistic recluse who is unable to even live near people, which is formally documented, and also 100% genuine (Not always the same thing but it is in my case).
**
To add insult to injury while including my name and address they omitted the last page of the deposition (I was actually too upset and frightened to notice that until today), a decision that may be, in and of itself unlawful, as they concealed the omission **and went straight to the sworn declaration, I will give you the text of the whole deposition now to save digging for it, and I am happy to send a scan or even a second hard copy. (Omitted text in bold italic):
**
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**
-being aged 18 years and upwards do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :-
The only payment I have ever received for my work on the sex work issue since was a €30 – €40 phone credit as a thank you from a donor who is anonymous to me early in 2013** and an unsolicited £20 note from a Nun connected to Ruhama at their conference in 1994. I pay all my own expenses. This is important to me not only to show sex workers they are worth my time and effort but because payment compromises neutrality.
I sold sexual services on Waterloo and Burlington Roads in Dublin 4 between approximately June/July 1987 and March/April 1993.
Since moving from Connaught to Leinster in 1989 I worked there 5 or 6 nights a week (usually taking at least Monday off). I would usually arrive at about 9:30pm and work until at least 2:30am.
I spent most of my time on the streets either walking or in two places:
At the top of Waterloo Road by the corner of Wellington Lane
Near the corner of Burlington Road outside Dublin Institute of Advanced technology
In cold or wet weather I might also sit in my car either at the top of Waterloo Road, or on Burlington Road looking out on to Waterloo Road.
The sex workers and regular clients were a small community that could be compared to the regular clientele of a pub, we all knew each other, at least by sight and were very much aware of new people, unusual occurrences, or any form of crime or abuse.
Every woman I knew at that time worked independently, for herself, apart from two women who were in personal relationships that would have been abusive and coercive in any environment.** (I enabled one of these women to escape with her children.)
Anyone who seemed underage was prevented from working, sent home if possible and reported to Gardai. Many of the women had teenage children of their own and were not easy to fool in this respect, and this would be a very unusual occurrence.
Drug abuse was extremely rare and many women were actively involved in the “concerned parents” movement in their local communities.
At no time did I ever see, or hear of “Rachel Moran” author of “Paid For” and founder of “Space International” nor anyone resembling her, working in that area. In her book she claims to have worked near the corner of Wellington Lane from early evening until “the small hours”, which would have placed her within 15 yards of me for several hours most nights.
I have asked several people I retain some contact with, or could locate, from that time and nobody else can remember her, or anyone like her, not only there but in any form of sex work indoor or outdoor, at any of the times she claims to have worked, between 1991 and 1998.
Beyond this, in her book “Paid For” and online blog “theprostitutionexperience” she has described several people, but not one of them even resembles anyone I ever met or heard of.
Like any small community of people there was gossip. As a result we knew plenty about each other’s lives and were familiar with the known details of any abusive, awkward, or even interesting clients. She does not allude to anyone recognisable** to me at all.
At no time does she show any awareness of the terminology we used, nor even the material realities of our work.
She has also, at times, claimed to have been arrested for soliciting before 1993. Not only was this impossible, but also, one of the first things you would be told as a sex worker at that time is that you could not be arrested for soliciting. She did not even know that.
Rachel Moran is making money from her book and speaking engagements as well as seeking funding for “Space International”, aimed at exploiting any form of future criminalisation of sex work, and making significant input into Justice Committees both sides of the border through totally misrepresenting herself and that entire community and time. Meanwhile real sex workers are denied all safe access to self representation to refute through the callous exploitation of existing stigma (that not only threatens sex workers but also their children) and blatant stonewalling.
I understand that it is unlawful for a person to obtain financial advantage from deceit, but I am personally more concerned with the damage to vulnerable, voiceless people that Rachel Moran will do with her lies.** The idea of anyone so unscrupulous having any degree of control over sex workers’ lives in future, and particularly those who wish to leave sex work and are particularly vulnerable and unprotected, absolutely horrifies me.
Justine Reilly, her partner in “Space International” (all reference suddenly removed from website in past few weeks) was discovered to be a convicted pimp in February 2013, after initially, putting herself forward in the media as a helpless victim. I have never observed her to show any remorse towards the women she exploited, while at least one of these same women has been openly chastised by Ruhama for “disrespect” for alluding to her convictions.
During consultations in both North and South of Ireland genuine sex workers have been treated as animals who cannot think and speak for ourselves while dishonest persons such as these have been put forward as speaking for us. Genuine sex workers have been abused, intimidated and excluded while blatant lies are treated with the greatest courtesy and respect.
Real sex workers are informed that we suffer from many kinds of trauma but no note is taken at all of the far deeper trauma of being silenced and misrepresented in this way. Often by organisations in receipt of significant public funds on the pretext of supporting us.
I hated sex work and desperately wanted a way out but sex work was, literally, the only way I had to survive at the time and that would still be the case in a similar position now.** I have spent decades learning this truth from experience.
Those responsible for my reality deserve to be punished and eradicated from our society for the common good. They are as follows:
The abusive family I was issued with at birth
The social services who ground my childhood and young adulthood remorselessly between the wheels of their personal dysfunction and corrupt internal politics.
The NGOs who added insult to injury by distorting and exploiting my desperation to further their own agenda while offering me nothing but exploitation, misrepresentation, intimidation and revictimisation over the past 20 years.
Everyone who ever stood by and watched me suffer, in any context, without attempting to protect or help me.
**
Similar factors are forcing women and girls into sex work all the time. They are the real criminals here and most of their victims meet far worse fates than having to use sex work to recover.
**
My clients as a sex worker gave me, not only survival, but a decent living, independence and self respect. I found that helpful and supportive and was thankful for it.
Sex work is never the problem, it is always part of the solution.
The Nordic Model serves as the indirect persecution of sex workers by striving to destroy the market their livelihoods depend upon made worse by openly acknowledging the fact that many have no realistic alternative means available. The Nordic Model is promoted, proposed and reinforced by a strategy of misrepresenting sex workers lives, motivation and needs while restricting all support and resources to those who comply with this misrepresentation and striving to penalise those who do not.
The Nordic Model is deemed politically desirable because it indirectly denies the true impact of austerity and** pays lip service to counterbalancing the elements of forced labour that are creeping into welfare provision.
The Nordic Model is popular with NGOs because it has the potential to maintain and increase their funding.
Once I truly believed that if anyone told people the truth about sex worker’s lives they would understand and feel remorse and, at least, leave us in peace, now I have seen, with my own eyes, that if anyone tries to tell the truth they are silenced, gagged, intimidated and shouted down while everything they have tried to say is pasted over with other people’s self serving and destructive lies.
The conduct of the “Turn Off the Red Light” campaign, and the resulting consultations, has left me finally incapable of faith in any aspect of the society in which I live.
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**
I believe this is significant suppression of sworn evidence.
**
Yours faithfully
**
Gaye Dalton
**********
See also:
When in Doubt – Blame the Consequences
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COMPROMISING WITH THE NORDIC MODEL
ELLIOT RODGERS: TURN A DIFFERENT CORNER
EVERY CRAZY CHILD…
EXPLOSIVE!!!
IN THE EVENT OF SOMETHING HAPPENING TO ME
MYTH: ABOLITIONISTS WOULD HATE TO SEE ANYONE SHOT IN COLD BLOOD
MYTH: CHILD SEX ABUSE IS ALWAYS A SIMPLE ISSUE
MYTH: CHILDREN WOULD RATHER STARVE THAN WORK IN A SWEAT SHOP
MYTH: CORK FEMINISTA HAVE NEVER SPOKEN TO ANY REAL SEX WORKERS
MYTH: DENISE CHARLTON AND I HAVE NEVER HAD A LITTLE CHAT
MYTH: ERADICATING SEX WORKERS IS SERIOUS WORK
MYTH: FRENCH SENATE REJECTION OF SEX BUYER LAWS HAS NO IMPACT IN IRELAND
MYTH: I NEVER HAD AN UNWORTHY THOUGHT IN MY LIFE
MYTH: I AM GONE FOR EVER/NOT GONE AT ALL
MYTH: I AM NOT ANTI-TRAFFICKING
MYTH: I CANNOT WORK OUT MIA DE FAOITE’S MOTIVATION
MYTH: I FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO BUY SEX
MYTH: I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE IN DODGING JOC HEARINGS
MYTH: I MUST BE VERY BRAVE TO CHALLENGE THE THINGS I DO
MYTH: I NEVER CORRESPOND WITH PEANUT FARMERS
MYTH: I NEVER DO RACHEL MORAN ANY FAVOURS
MYTH: I PROMOTE SEX WORK
MYTH: I SUPPORT/OPPOSE ESCORT IRELAND
MYTH: I WAS SINGING A VERY DIFFERENT TUNE IN 2000
MYTH: I WILL BE VOTING FOR BRIAN CROWLEY’S RECOMMENDATION FOR MEP
MYTH: IS IT COS I IS GOD?
MYTH: IT IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO REFUSE TO SELL SEX
MYTH: IT IS NOT AS IF DENISE CHARLTON AND I EVER RUN INTO EACH OTHER
MYTH: IT IS NOT EASY TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
MYTH: LIFE IS ALWAYS WORTH LIVING
MYTH: MALE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT
MYTH: MELISSA FARLEY IS THE MOTHER OF ABOLITIONISM
MYTH: MY YEARS IN GIBRALTAR
MYTH: NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTER FOR JUSTICE FRANCIS FITZGERALD IS 100% ANTI SEX WORK
MYTH: NOBODY EVER GETS TO SAY “I TOLD YOU SO”
MYTH: RUHAMA DO SOME GOOD WORK
MYTH: SEX WORKER OF THE YEAR
MYTH: SEX WORKERS ARE NEVER ABUSED
MYTH: SEX WORKERS IN IRAQ ARE VERY DIFFERENT TO US
MYTH: THE DUP ARE ALL GOOD CHRISTIANS
MYTH: THE DUP NEVER DO ANYTHING USEFUL
MYTH: THE IRISH AUTISM INDUSTRY SUPPORTS AUTISTICS
MYTH: THE JUSTICE COMMITTEE IN STORMONT TREAT ALL WITH EQUAL RESPECT AND COURTESY
MYTH: THERE HAS BEEN A DEBATE ABOUT SEX WORK IN IRELAND
MYTH: THERE IS NO POETRY IN SEX WORK
MYTH: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CHILD SEX SLAVE
MYTH: THIS IS NOT A GRUDGE FIGHT FOR ME.
MYTH: TURN OFF THE RED LIGHT ARE TRYING TO SAVE CHILDREN
MYTH: WHEN IN DOUBT – BLAME THE CONSEQUENCES
MYTH: WOMEN ARE FORCED TO SELL SEX BY SEX BUYERS
NO MORE HEROS
PLEASE KEEP PUSHING THIS OUT
SEX WORK AND ME…THE SHORT VERSION
SUING FOR DAMAGES UNDER NORDIC MODEL
SWORN EVIDENCE CONCEALED BY JUSTICE COMMITTEE STORMONT
THE HELL TO PAY
TO WAKE OUR SISTERS
TURN A DIFFERENT CORNER: RELATING THIS TO SURVIVAL SEX WORK
WHEN IS A COMPROMISE NOT A COMPROMISE
Sworn Evidence Concealed By Justice Committee Stormont
Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Bill:** Consideration Stage
Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Bill: **Consideration Stage (Continued)
I have just sent this email to Justice Ministers North and South. It is my fault, when things upset me I cannot look at them, and I did not check.
Those depositions were signed and checked with the Peace Commissioner, there is no chance of a missing page. The deposition for Stormont went straight into an envelope before I left.
I also sent a scan of another signed deposition by email to facilitate processing by admin staff. I can prove that had all four pages.
Apart from being blatantly corrupt and vindictive the publishing of a sworn deposition without specifying that it has been excerpted or edited may well be seriously illegal.
But what is MOST sinister**are the contents of the page that was omitted…see for yourself. Whatever their reason for omitting that specific part let’s make it public and find out what happens.
**********
Dear David Forde,
**
Finally trying to read through Monday’s debate…it’s not easy…legislation based on propaganda rather than proof is a terrifying revival of the rise of facism in the 20s and 30s.
**
What makes it much harder is that I have a close friend within 20 miles of Belfast who is currently being cornered towards a straight choice between sex work and suicide by blatant and brutal failing in the system to claims to support and protect her. What I find most horrifying about abolitionism is that it creates a fiction of traffickers and pimps to mask the real failings in the system that will go on forcing women to sell sex perhaps even more than ever before without court of appeal or redress. Punishing the consequences rather than the cause of deeply wounding personal nightmares.
**
But that is not what is so urgent. It occurs to me that I am the only person who submitted *any* evidence to the Justice Committee under oath and legal obligation to tell the truth with legal penalty for lying. I sent your office the same signed deposition (not a photocopy actual signatures) on about March 3 2014.
**
The Justice Committee devised their own informal penalty for telling the truth by publishing that deposition (which was otherwise ignored) my full private (and isolated) isolated rural name and address and both phone numbers on page 1289 **of their report http://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/ju...fficking/Report-on-Human-Trafficking-Bill.pdf along with the name and landline of the elderly widowed peace commissioner involved. This would be an unjustifiable breach of my right to privacy under any circumstances, but I am a autistic recluse who is unable to even live near people, which is formally documented, and also 100% genuine (Not always the same thing but it is in my case).
**
To add insult to injury while including my name and address they omitted the last page of the deposition (I was actually too upset and frightened to notice that until today), a decision that may be, in and of itself unlawful, as they concealed the omission **and went straight to the sworn declaration, I will give you the text of the whole deposition now to save digging for it, and I am happy to send a scan or even a second hard copy. (Omitted text in bold italic):
**
———-
**
-being aged 18 years and upwards do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :-
The only payment I have ever received for my work on the sex work issue since was a €30 – €40 phone credit as a thank you from a donor who is anonymous to me early in 2013** and an unsolicited £20 note from a Nun connected to Ruhama at their conference in 1994. I pay all my own expenses. This is important to me not only to show sex workers they are worth my time and effort but because payment compromises neutrality.
I sold sexual services on Waterloo and Burlington Roads in Dublin 4 between approximately June/July 1987 and March/April 1993.
Since moving from Connaught to Leinster in 1989 I worked there 5 or 6 nights a week (usually taking at least Monday off). I would usually arrive at about 9:30pm and work until at least 2:30am.
I spent most of my time on the streets either walking or in two places:
At the top of Waterloo Road by the corner of Wellington Lane
Near the corner of Burlington Road outside Dublin Institute of Advanced technology
In cold or wet weather I might also sit in my car either at the top of Waterloo Road, or on Burlington Road looking out on to Waterloo Road.
The sex workers and regular clients were a small community that could be compared to the regular clientele of a pub, we all knew each other, at least by sight and were very much aware of new people, unusual occurrences, or any form of crime or abuse.
Every woman I knew at that time worked independently, for herself, apart from two women who were in personal relationships that would have been abusive and coercive in any environment.** (I enabled one of these women to escape with her children.)
Anyone who seemed underage was prevented from working, sent home if possible and reported to Gardai. Many of the women had teenage children of their own and were not easy to fool in this respect, and this would be a very unusual occurrence.
Drug abuse was extremely rare and many women were actively involved in the “concerned parents” movement in their local communities.
At no time did I ever see, or hear of “Rachel Moran” author of “Paid For” and founder of “Space International” nor anyone resembling her, working in that area. In her book she claims to have worked near the corner of Wellington Lane from early evening until “the small hours”, which would have placed her within 15 yards of me for several hours most nights.
I have asked several people I retain some contact with, or could locate, from that time and nobody else can remember her, or anyone like her, not only there but in any form of sex work indoor or outdoor, at any of the times she claims to have worked, between 1991 and 1998.
Beyond this, in her book “Paid For” and online blog “theprostitutionexperience” she has described several people, but not one of them even resembles anyone I ever met or heard of.
Like any small community of people there was gossip. As a result we knew plenty about each other’s lives and were familiar with the known details of any abusive, awkward, or even interesting clients. She does not allude to anyone recognisable** to me at all.
At no time does she show any awareness of the terminology we used, nor even the material realities of our work.
She has also, at times, claimed to have been arrested for soliciting before 1993. Not only was this impossible, but also, one of the first things you would be told as a sex worker at that time is that you could not be arrested for soliciting. She did not even know that.
Rachel Moran is making money from her book and speaking engagements as well as seeking funding for “Space International”, aimed at exploiting any form of future criminalisation of sex work, and making significant input into Justice Committees both sides of the border through totally misrepresenting herself and that entire community and time. Meanwhile real sex workers are denied all safe access to self representation to refute through the callous exploitation of existing stigma (that not only threatens sex workers but also their children) and blatant stonewalling.
I understand that it is unlawful for a person to obtain financial advantage from deceit, but I am personally more concerned with the damage to vulnerable, voiceless people that Rachel Moran will do with her lies.** The idea of anyone so unscrupulous having any degree of control over sex workers’ lives in future, and particularly those who wish to leave sex work and are particularly vulnerable and unprotected, absolutely horrifies me.
Justine Reilly, her partner in “Space International” (all reference suddenly removed from website in past few weeks) was discovered to be a convicted pimp in February 2013, after initially, putting herself forward in the media as a helpless victim. I have never observed her to show any remorse towards the women she exploited, while at least one of these same women has been openly chastised by Ruhama for “disrespect” for alluding to her convictions.
During consultations in both North and South of Ireland genuine sex workers have been treated as animals who cannot think and speak for ourselves while dishonest persons such as these have been put forward as speaking for us. Genuine sex workers have been abused, intimidated and excluded while blatant lies are treated with the greatest courtesy and respect.
Real sex workers are informed that we suffer from many kinds of trauma but no note is taken at all of the far deeper trauma of being silenced and misrepresented in this way. Often by organisations in receipt of significant public funds on the pretext of supporting us.
I hated sex work and desperately wanted a way out but sex work was, literally, the only way I had to survive at the time and that would still be the case in a similar position now.** I have spent decades learning this truth from experience.
Those responsible for my reality deserve to be punished and eradicated from our society for the common good. They are as follows:
The abusive family I was issued with at birth
The social services who ground my childhood and young adulthood remorselessly between the wheels of their personal dysfunction and corrupt internal politics.
The NGOs who added insult to injury by distorting and exploiting my desperation to further their own agenda while offering me nothing but exploitation, misrepresentation, intimidation and revictimisation over the past 20 years.
Everyone who ever stood by and watched me suffer, in any context, without attempting to protect or help me.
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Similar factors are forcing women and girls into sex work all the time. They are the real criminals here and most of their victims meet far worse fates than having to use sex work to recover.
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My clients as a sex worker gave me, not only survival, but a decent living, independence and self respect. I found that helpful and supportive and was thankful for it.
Sex work is never the problem, it is always part of the solution.
The Nordic Model serves as the indirect persecution of sex workers by striving to destroy the market their livelihoods depend upon made worse by openly acknowledging the fact that many have no realistic alternative means available. The Nordic Model is promoted, proposed and reinforced by a strategy of misrepresenting sex workers lives, motivation and needs while restricting all support and resources to those who comply with this misrepresentation and striving to penalise those who do not.
The Nordic Model is deemed politically desirable because it indirectly denies the true impact of austerity and** pays lip service to counterbalancing the elements of forced labour that are creeping into welfare provision.
The Nordic Model is popular with NGOs because it has the potential to maintain and increase their funding.
Once I truly believed that if anyone told people the truth about sex worker’s lives they would understand and feel remorse and, at least, leave us in peace, now I have seen, with my own eyes, that if anyone tries to tell the truth they are silenced, gagged, intimidated and shouted down while everything they have tried to say is pasted over with other people’s self serving and destructive lies.
The conduct of the “Turn Off the Red Light” campaign, and the resulting consultations, has left me finally incapable of faith in any aspect of the society in which I live.
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I believe this is significant suppression of sworn evidence.
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Yours faithfully
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Gaye Dalton
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See also:
When in Doubt – Blame the Consequences
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