I am back from Barbados and will have blog and pictures about that a little later. But now there are a few things going on deserving of some mention.
Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York and former prosecutor of Wall Street types has resigned his position because he was implicated as having availed himself of the services of a high priced call girl (prostitute). It appears he has been doing this for quite some time and spending large (+$80,000) – what did he have done?
Obviously, many politicos, etc. have been doing this for ever – its expected of them, so why the resignation. Well ole’ Eliot was a real pistol as a prosecutor. He was a holier than thou type and some say, went after anybody and everybody he liked without too much thought as to guilt or innocence. He also went after prostitution rings with gusto and quite frankly, if you paint yourself as a saint, you better behave like one or get the hell out of office- which he did.
I am a big proponent of legalizing prostitution and have been from the beginning. It is the world’s oldest profession and it will never go away because there is a need/demand for it. My suggestion has always been to regulate the profession, tax it and enforce strict health standards. Regulation would eliminate the abuse by pimps and “johns” would also be protected.
My suggestions are not new and some countries have had them in place for quite some time. In the U.S. it would be impossible to implement regulated prostitution because we are such religious prudes that we would never legalize something that we feel is a sin. This has not stopped the profession from thriving in this country and utilized by many of the same people that preach against it.
I am not sad to see Eliot get his comeuppance; he was a hypocrite big time and I have a problem with hypocrites – religious, moral or you name it!
I do have a problem with how this whole affair unfolded. I think he was set up big time. An article in the Wall Street Journal by Alan M. Dershowitz quotes Lavrenti Beria, Joseph Stalin’s head of the KGB, as saying “Show me the man and I will find the crime”.
Eliot Spitzer really did nothing wrong except use the services of a prostitute while aware that the act of prostitution is against the law; he paid for sex, if he received it for free it would be OK.
I think that someone that had his reputation ruined by Spitzer paid for retribution and got it. Some smart reporter will undoubtedly discover this fact sooner or later.
The fact that our government is involved in this whole affair makes me wonder who is really behind all this…
Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York and former prosecutor of Wall Street types has resigned his position because he was implicated as having availed himself of the services of a high priced call girl (prostitute). It appears he has been doing this for quite some time and spending large (+$80,000) – what did he have done?
Obviously, many politicos, etc. have been doing this for ever – its expected of them, so why the resignation. Well ole’ Eliot was a real pistol as a prosecutor. He was a holier than thou type and some say, went after anybody and everybody he liked without too much thought as to guilt or innocence. He also went after prostitution rings with gusto and quite frankly, if you paint yourself as a saint, you better behave like one or get the hell out of office- which he did.
I am a big proponent of legalizing prostitution and have been from the beginning. It is the world’s oldest profession and it will never go away because there is a need/demand for it. My suggestion has always been to regulate the profession, tax it and enforce strict health standards. Regulation would eliminate the abuse by pimps and “johns” would also be protected.
My suggestions are not new and some countries have had them in place for quite some time. In the U.S. it would be impossible to implement regulated prostitution because we are such religious prudes that we would never legalize something that we feel is a sin. This has not stopped the profession from thriving in this country and utilized by many of the same people that preach against it.
I am not sad to see Eliot get his comeuppance; he was a hypocrite big time and I have a problem with hypocrites – religious, moral or you name it!
I do have a problem with how this whole affair unfolded. I think he was set up big time. An article in the Wall Street Journal by Alan M. Dershowitz quotes Lavrenti Beria, Joseph Stalin’s head of the KGB, as saying “Show me the man and I will find the crime”.
Eliot Spitzer really did nothing wrong except use the services of a prostitute while aware that the act of prostitution is against the law; he paid for sex, if he received it for free it would be OK.
I think that someone that had his reputation ruined by Spitzer paid for retribution and got it. Some smart reporter will undoubtedly discover this fact sooner or later.
The fact that our government is involved in this whole affair makes me wonder who is really behind all this…
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