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Almost 47 years have passed since Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous “I have a dream” speech. The United states and the world have made major strides since that time, but human trafficking still has millions enslaved today.
Chair of the Flathead Valley Martin Luther King Day Community Celebration Reverend Darryl Kistler says, “27 million is almost a number that is beyond anything we can think about. That would be taking every person in Montana and multiplying us by 27 and that’s how many people are involved or enslaved by human trafficking.”
According to the U.S. State Department, trafficking exists in every single U.S. state and around the globe. Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are brought to the U.S. every single year under false pretences. Many are forced into prostitution, manual labor, and other services.

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If passed, the measure would increase sentences for human trafficking, improve victims’ restitution rights and mandate human trafficking training for police officers.
Trafficking people, often to work without pay at factories, private homes or brothels, is the world’s fastest growing criminal industry, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The State Department estimates that between 600,000 and 800,000 victims are trafficked across international borders every year.
In the United States, victims, most of whom don’t speak English, are smuggled primarily from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
According to the Justice Department,
90 percent of trafficking victims are women and two-thirds are younger than 25.
California, with its major ports and large population, is a hub for both international and domestic traffickers, Phung said. Sex slaves often are forced into massage parlors, underground brothels, or even mobile vans, whose whereabouts are advertised online.

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If passed, the measure would increase sentences for human trafficking, improve victims’ restitution rights and mandate human trafficking training for police officers.
Trafficking people, often to work without pay at factories, private homes or brothels, is the world’s fastest growing criminal industry, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The State Department estimates that between 600,000 and 800,000 victims are trafficked across international borders every year.
In the United States, victims, most of whom don’t speak English, are smuggled primarily from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
According to the Justice Department,
90 percent of trafficking victims are women and two-thirds are younger than 25.
California, with its major ports and large population, is a hub for both international and domestic traffickers, Phung said. Sex slaves often are forced into massage parlors, underground brothels, or even mobile vans, whose whereabouts are advertised online.

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Strippers and the Cuban embargo
Most of the warrantless financial searches the feds have ordered under the PATRIOT Act have had no connection to terrorism. Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation observed,
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The feds used PATRIOT Act financial sweep-search powers in 2003 in “Operation G-String,” an investigation of bribes involving Las Vegas strip clubs. Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) complained, “It was never my intent to have the PATRIOT Act used as a kitchen sink for all of the law-enforcement-tool goodies that the FBI has been trying to get for the last decades…. It is PATRIOT Act creep.” Berkley was especially indignant that the powers had been used in a tawdry public corruption case: “Never … did the FBI say we needed additional tools to keep this nation safe from strip-club operators.”

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Because Bono’s staff was largely drawn from the folks who had managed George H.W. Bush’s presidential race in California in 1988, some people assumed he had a tacit nod
from the officially neutral White House.
Draining votes
As another moderate — and a celebrity — Bono drained votes from Campbell. The final results showed 38.2 percent for Herschensohn, 35.8 percent for Campbell and 16.7 percent for Bono, who was elected to Congress two years later.
Herschensohn went on to lose to Boxer by 48 percent to 43 percent in the general election. He was hurt during the last stages of the campaign by the revelation that he had gone to a strip club.
Could Campbell have won a race against Boxer? It almost certainly would have been closer. For starters, the Silicon Valley congressman would have appealed to more moderates. He wouldn’t have been caught dead in a strip club.

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger demands tighter rules on club ownership
By Ian Ridley Last updated at 11:46 PM on 16th January 2010
Arsene Wenger has urged English football’s rulers to tighten ownership regulations to stop potential asset-strippers gaining control of clubs.
Wenger believes that Premier League and Championship clubs are vulnerable to businessmen or even groups of agents, who may have their own agendas for taking over clubs, and he wants the fit-and-proper person tests to be extended.
‘The Premier League must have an accountability of the guy who comes in,’ said Wenger.
Ownership: Man City were beaten by Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday
‘They have a responsibility to make sure a club is safe. There are more and more groups of people who have agendas other than making the club bigger than it is when they buy.’

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Some want Flanders to sell Playboy Mansion, Hefner’s home in Los Angeles, which is owned by the business and worth an estimated $40m. Flanders pulls a face. “Sure, Hef’s ready to move into a condo on Wilshire any moment. Ha, ha.”
There is another possibility: using it as a template for a string of global Playboy Mansion entertainment venues. He simply needs to find the right partners. “The Playboy brand is one of the true iconic brands built in the last 50 years. It’s just been under-monetised.”
Anyway, it’s time to go, so we finish our drinks. As we part, Flanders makes a little speech. “Please exercise all poetic licence to make me seem as substantive and articulate as possible. I promise I will not come back at you for that.”
Then he laughs. For a moment he looks like the bookkeeper with keys to the brothel — and that, as he says, is harder work than anyone thinks.

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CHICAGO – A suburban massage parlor owner and his associate, who allegedly conspired to extort thousands of dollars from a female foreign worker and threatened her in various ways, were arrested Wednesday on federal extortion charges. These arrests resulted from a joint investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.
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According to the affidavit, the alleged extortion victim, identified as Victim 2, came to the United States in 2007. She attended a massage therapy school in Chicago where she met Campbell in the summer of 2008. The following November, Victim 2 moved into an apartment with another alleged victim. Both women began working at Campbell’s massage parlor, the Day and Night Spa on Northwest Highway in Mt. Prospect, Ill., which was among several locations where ICE agents and Sheriff’s officers executed search warrants Jan. 13.

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Federal authorities file charges against owner of Mount Prospect massage parlor
After moving to Chicago from Eastern Europe in 2007, the young woman met Alex “Daddy” Campbell while attending a massage therapy school on the North Side.
Before too long, she was working at Campbell’s massage parlor in Mount Prospect, but things quickly turned ugly, authorities say. Campbell, an ex-convict, extorted her for thousands of dollars by threatening to expose a video of the woman having sex, threatened to work her seven days a week and tried to force her into a group of tattooed massage workers he dubbed “the Family,” authorities alleged.
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Campbell, who has an attempted murder conviction in his past, was arrested in 2008 in connection with a pandering case near a Chicago high school, investigators said. An informant told police that Campbell pulled a gun and made a threat to women working at another massage parlor he owned on Lincoln Avenue.

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The next pre-trial hearing is scheduled for February 19, 2010 at 8:30 am in the same courtroom (210 W. Temple Los Angeles, CA 9th Floor, Dept. 104). The judge seems to be attempting to get the trial started in the middle of May 2010, with each side estimating that it would take 8-10 days for each of them to present their cases.
Background on Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry:
Judge Perry presided over the infamous Los Angeles “Rampart Scandal,” in which he allowed every single crooked cop to gain clemency through giving witness testimonies against each other. These were cops involved in murders, shootings and vicious beatings, planting guns and drugs on people to get false charges, selling major weight of cocaine on the streets, prostitution rings and more, but they all got off except for Rafael Perez who was the original cop busted for stealing 6 pounds of cocaine from the evidence room. Questions had been raised on upwards of thousands of cases these cops handled, but the vast majority of the cases didn’t end up get looked at in the end because it was “old news.”

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