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<blockquote data-quote="Days of Broken Arrows" data-source="post: 1182954" data-attributes="member: 4258"><p>On the heels of FOSTA and SESTA, a new bill was drafted that makes it easy for the gov't to seize bank accounts for anyone it deems dealing in "human trafficking" -- a charge with a frighteningly loose definition.</p><p></p><p>The bill is called the <a href="https://govtrackinsider.com/end-banking-for-human-traffickers-act-aims-to-cut-of-access-to-finances-for-human-traffickers-a4af5df68bc6" target="_blank">End Banking for Human Trafficking Act</a> and it's already passed in the House. It was sponsored by Marco Rubio and Elizabeth Warren, so it has bipartisan support.</p><p></p><p>Why does this concern us? Because<a href="http://https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-67757-post-1773237.html#pid1773237" target="_blank"> as I wrote on the thread about actress Allison Mack,</a> the gov't can declare almost any sexual act it doesn't like as "human trafficking." </p><p></p><p>Mack was accused of helping some self-improvement "guru" pick up women. As I wrote, neither she nor the "guru" trafficked anyone. But since trafficking hysteria is in vogue, now they're hit with massive, trumped-up charges.</p><p></p><p>(In the early 20th century, the gov't came up with something called "The Mann Act" to combat the "white slave trade," which was as fictional and paranoic as the trafficking fears we see today. It just gave officials a reason to arrest men they deemed as troublesome for charges like "taking a minor across state lines." Huh? So you can drive a minor from Frisco down to San Diego and that's cool...but take her across state lines and you go to jail! But I digress.)</p><p></p><p>Reason Magazine, by the way, <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/26/smallville-allison-mack-nxivm-sex-cult" target="_blank">also came out with an article that states what I basically said</a>: The trafficking charges against Allison Mack are unwarranted. They might fall under the categories of fraud or harassment, but not trafficking. </p><p></p><p>But this is what happens when people get caught up in a craze. EVERYTHING starts to fall under the specific category of that craze. In the 1970s it was "cults." You don't hear about them now, though. Why is that? Guess the media and law enforcement moved on after they cashed in on that one. In the 1980s it was satan and daycare centers. </p><p></p><p>It's also worth noting that in the Preppie, clean-cut 1980s, we had the War on Drugs. Most middle class kids weren't addicts. This was just a way to fill prisons with poor people who couldn't afford legal representation. Those prisons are getting emptier with the legalization of pot -- just as officials are finding a way to fill them back up.</p><p></p><p>Anyone involved in the game community, the PUA scene, or anything of the sort should keep appraised of all this. When you combine this with the anti-male hysteria stoked by #metoo, it's looking more and more like we're headed into a New Victorian Age. If we're not there already.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Days of Broken Arrows, post: 1182954, member: 4258"] On the heels of FOSTA and SESTA, a new bill was drafted that makes it easy for the gov't to seize bank accounts for anyone it deems dealing in "human trafficking" -- a charge with a frighteningly loose definition. The bill is called the [url=https://govtrackinsider.com/end-banking-for-human-traffickers-act-aims-to-cut-of-access-to-finances-for-human-traffickers-a4af5df68bc6]End Banking for Human Trafficking Act[/url] and it's already passed in the House. It was sponsored by Marco Rubio and Elizabeth Warren, so it has bipartisan support. Why does this concern us? Because[url=http://https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-67757-post-1773237.html#pid1773237] as I wrote on the thread about actress Allison Mack,[/url] the gov't can declare almost any sexual act it doesn't like as "human trafficking." Mack was accused of helping some self-improvement "guru" pick up women. As I wrote, neither she nor the "guru" trafficked anyone. But since trafficking hysteria is in vogue, now they're hit with massive, trumped-up charges. (In the early 20th century, the gov't came up with something called "The Mann Act" to combat the "white slave trade," which was as fictional and paranoic as the trafficking fears we see today. It just gave officials a reason to arrest men they deemed as troublesome for charges like "taking a minor across state lines." Huh? So you can drive a minor from Frisco down to San Diego and that's cool...but take her across state lines and you go to jail! But I digress.) Reason Magazine, by the way, [url=https://reason.com/blog/2018/04/26/smallville-allison-mack-nxivm-sex-cult]also came out with an article that states what I basically said[/url]: The trafficking charges against Allison Mack are unwarranted. They might fall under the categories of fraud or harassment, but not trafficking. But this is what happens when people get caught up in a craze. EVERYTHING starts to fall under the specific category of that craze. In the 1970s it was "cults." You don't hear about them now, though. Why is that? Guess the media and law enforcement moved on after they cashed in on that one. In the 1980s it was satan and daycare centers. It's also worth noting that in the Preppie, clean-cut 1980s, we had the War on Drugs. Most middle class kids weren't addicts. This was just a way to fill prisons with poor people who couldn't afford legal representation. Those prisons are getting emptier with the legalization of pot -- just as officials are finding a way to fill them back up. Anyone involved in the game community, the PUA scene, or anything of the sort should keep appraised of all this. When you combine this with the anti-male hysteria stoked by #metoo, it's looking more and more like we're headed into a New Victorian Age. If we're not there already. [/QUOTE]
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