THEY'RE GOOSIN YOU - ARE YOU READY?

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By Corey Williams
Associated Press
Posted on: Monday, September 17, 2007
Casinos deliver jobs, services to Detroit






By Vernon Balmer Jr.
More Service Jobs. Can't you see what they've done for Hawaii so far? NARF! DEAL THE CARDS, PASS THEM BONES....DEM BONES! DEM BONES! DEM BONES!


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Nakashima's Teasing

When you start talking about casinos "winning", somthing is a little confused. When you talk about "luck" swinging the way of, or "favoring" the house, you're trying to get people in Hawaii to figure they can beat the houses in Hawaii. NO GAMBLING RYAN.

Posted on: Thursday, September 13, 2007
Nevada casinos' 'win': $1.146 billion


By Ryan Nakashima
Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Nevada casinos won more money from gamblers in a single month than ever before in July, raking in $1.146 billion as luck favored the house

Keeping It Real

You can’t champion equality for your own people when you tolerate discrimination against any people because of who they are. Freedom is indivisible. You cannot grant it to some and deny it to others. It is either for everybody or it is for nobody. -- Christine Chavez, UFW

Hawaii, The Conscientious PimP

Hawaii leads fight against drug-resistant gonorrhea


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Hawaii - Bass Ackwards, Or Just Insidious

Timing Is Everything



Posted on: Saturday, September 23, 2006
Sisters Offering Support closing
By Mary Vorsino
Advertiser Urban Honolulu Writer


As police battle a rise in prostitution on O'ahu, the only organization in the Islands aimed at helping prostitutes escape sexual exploitation for better lives is closing because of a lack of money.

Over the last decade, organizers said Sisters Offering Support has helped hundreds leave prostitution. It has also worked to prevent young people from being lured into the industry, promoted safe sex among prostitutes and helped federal authorities reduce sex trafficking
in Hawai'i."

It has been the most rewarding years of my life, being part of an organization that has helped hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals get out of an exploitative lifestyle," said Lorraine Faithful, executive director since 2001.

"For so many years, I've been helping to build the organization. Now, I'm having to tear it down." Residents and advocates for women say closure of the nonprofit is a loss to the community and couldn't come at a worse time.

In August, Honolulu police reported prostitution arrests were up in 2005 for the first time in four years. Last year, prostitution arrests jumped 51 percent from 2004, from 265 to 401 islandwide, according to police statistics.

The increase, along with a July homicide linked to prostitution, spurred an outcry Downtown, with residents calling for prostitution free zones and tougher sentences for prostitutes and "clients" who get caught.

Tom Smyth, Downtown Honolulu Neighborhood Board chairman, said bringing harsher punishments against prostitutes will likely decrease crime. But the best deterrent, he said, is to get prostitutes out of the sex industry.

"That, to me, is the most effective way to deal with the overall problem because it addresses the overall population," Smyth said, expressing dismay at the closure of Sisters Offering Support. "We definitely recognize their efforts."

The nonprofit will officially dismantle on Sept. 30, about a month after its board decided to shut down in the face of diminishing funds. Already, the agency's two employees have been laid off, a 24-hour crisis hotline is no longer manned and new clients are not being accepted. Worst of all, Faithful said, about 500 people being helped with counseling programs were told in mid-September they would have to seek help elsewhere.


Hale Kipa, a nonprofit serving at-risk youth, agreed to pick up the educational component of Sisters Offering Support. "That is the nice, positive spin to this whole story," Faithful said. "Some of our programs will survive."


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Hawaii's Latest Marketing Campaign - Next Gambling

Hawaii - Whatever Brings In The Money.


Legal pakalolo (Marijuana) could bring in $33M
By Craig Gima
cgima@starbulletin.com

Legalizing marijuana would generate up to $33 million a year in tax revenue and savings, according to a study by a University of Hawaii-West Oahu professor.

UH-West Oahu economist William Boyd analyzed enforcement and court costs of current laws and estimated that the state and counties spend $9 million to $10 million annually on marijuana cases.

Using cigarette and alcohol tax revenues, Boyd also calculated that the state could see between $4 million and $23 million in tax revenue if marijuana were legalized and taxed.

Submitted For Your Analysis - What Can Be Done In "Private"

CASE STUDIES: Hawaii
Lost to sex

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Tens of thousands of children in Hawaii and across North America -- many of them runaways -- fall into prostitution or are sold into the sex trade by exploitative adults, according to a study released yesterday by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study, "The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the U.S., Canada and Mexico," was funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, the W.T. Grant Foundation, the Fund for Nonviolence and the Research Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania. The report included profiles of juvenile victims and two adult sexual exploiters of children with ties to Hawaii. The profiles, published here, were prepared by Jayne Bopp and the Rev. Pam Vessels of the Life Foundation in Honolulu.




By Vernon
"The first bold print should show why some people might care about privatley paid for sex."
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'Jenny'
Jenny was born and raised in Hawaii to a working-class family. She is of Portuguese descent and was raised in a single parent home by her father.

History of assault is unknown, although by the age of 12 she had run away about a dozen times. After running away again she went to her friend "Mary's" house in Waimanalo.

There, Mary's mother pimped both Jenny and her own daughter. At the age of 12 Jenny's virginity was sold to an off-duty police officer for $600. Mary's mother put ads in the PennySaver advertising the girls. Mary's mother introduced both girls to ice; by age 13, Jenny was a complete addict.

Between the ages of 12 and 14 Jenny worked at four different hostess bars.

Jenny reported that the owners always knew beforehand when the Liquor Commission or (police) vice officers were coming and would make her put on her clothes and leave during those visits.

The Life Foundation met Jenny through a local youth- outreach project. A trick she had been staying with brought her to the project's medical clinic because she had severe abdominal pain.

Jenny was diagnosed with an advanced case of pelvic inflammatory disease and was told she needed to be hospitalized.

Jenny begged the nurse practitioner not to contact her father, whose permission was needed for the hospitalization. Not knowing what to do the nurse practitioner contacted one of the Life Foundation's senior staff members who took Jenny in and later became her foster mother.

Jenny subsequently was accepted into a local high school and did well for about four months.

Eventually she ran away again and got back into drugs.

Today her whereabouts are unknown.


'Sara'
Sara was born in Canada to an upper-middle-class Caucasian family. The details of her history of sexual assault are unknown. At age 13 she became pregnant and had a baby who... was raised by her parents. At 14 she ran away and got hooked up with a pimp in Vancouver. Her pimp sent her all over to work including Seattle, Salt Lake, Las Vegas, Houston, Pasadena, San Francisco and eventually Honolulu.
While in Honolulu Sara was sent to Japan two times to work. The first time was for three months and the second time for about two months. While there she was "given" to someone else and worked in a hostess-bar-type setting.

Between trips to Japan Sara worked in Honolulu, Las Vegas and Canada. At age 23, Sara left her pimp and returned to Canada. She got pregnant again and had her second child. Today Sara is living with her family, working as a secretary and bartender and raising both of her kids.


'BG'
BG is an African-American male in his 50s. He has been a pimp all of his working life. He traffics girls between Los Angeles, Seattle, Honolulu and Vancouver.

He mostly recruits young girls in Vancouver, brings them to Hawaii and keeps all of their legal papers so they can't leave the country.

He drugs them; handcuffs them and then makes them have sex with his dog.

He photographs these sex acts and then uses the photos as blackmail, threatening to send them to magazines or family members.

Other methods of controlling the girls include locking them in a bathroom and making them drink water from the toilet and eat out of dog-food bowls, and walking up and down the "track/strip" while his girls are working -- with the dog he makes them have sex with.


'Tony'
Tony is a 50-year-old African-American male who owns several legitimate businesses in Las Vegas.

He recruits young girls and young professional women. He recruits young homeless girls from the Las Vegas area and sends them to Honolulu to work.

One of the girls the Life Foundation worked with was 15 years old and was forced by Tony to raise one of his children.

He had taken the child away from another one of his prostitutes as punishment for her drug use.

Tony is reported to traffic girls between Nevada, California, New York, the Bahamas, France and South America.




By Vernon Balmer Jr.
Seems the only two trafficers in Hawaii are black. This should make it easy to stop these animals and stop the trafficing in Hawaii. Oh, wait a minute...these guys don't own the strip clubs and bars the girls work at....Do They?


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Testimony runs
strongly against
hostess-bar tax hike

By Mike Yuen
Star-Bulletin

But she said in an interview that the bill is also discriminatory because it would target Korean and Vietnamese women who own nearly all of the hostess bars in Hawaii, said Burge, whose ancestry is Vietnamese.


“In all of the states throughout the US, Hawaii, which has more prostitutes per capita than any other state, has nearly no services available for the men and women who are trapped in that lifestyle.” I was shocked.

Hawaii, Just Like The Good Ole Days

By Vernon Balmer Jr.
From the U.S. military controlling prostitution, to the local police, and next the state of Hawaii. What a natural progerssion. Supported by 14 "Law Makers", "many" Women's organizations,including the Hawaii Women's Coalition, and what's that, 1 reverend.

No doubt, the "supporters" are linked to businesses that would profit from the legal pimping and further exploitation of the people they claim to represent, support and lead. Not to mention the increased business for all when Hawaii's new marketing campaign succeeds.

Nothing new, for the "Aloha State". The same ol MO for the establishment. Enriching themselves by riding on the backs of the poor. Let's just find a way to make people think it's a good idea, and their idea.

So maybe YMCA's that call their residences "Hotels" can get in on the action too. Maybe one in particular was ahead of their time, although I'm sure they can't be the only one.(See other blogs (Vernon Balmer Jr).

Let's get more churches involved in this, and hide behind Jesus Christ while we pimp and whore. Hey, since the reverend is so gung ho,(no pun intended)maybe the church could reinstitute shrine prostitutes. Aren't there "private" places in churches? Sanctuary!



Posted on: Monday, February 12, 2007
Bill to legalize prostitution looks for more support

By Mark Niesse
Associated Press

BILL BASICS

THE PROPOSAL:

PROPOSITION: A bill would legalize some prostitution in Hawai'i, including permitting sexual favors traded in private and designating areas where prostitution is allowed.

STATUS: It's unlikely the bill will get a hearing this session, but it has the endorsement of 13 co-sponsors in the House, one sponsor in the Senate and the influential Hawai'i Women's Coalition, whose members represent more than 200 organizations.


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The idea may not catch on this session, but a bill to legalize some prostitution in the Islands has the backing of at least 14 lawmakers and many women's rights advocates.

Supporters say they mainly want to start debate of the sensitive topic and explore ways to offer alternatives to decades of selling sex on Honolulu streets. The proposal has the endorsement of 13 co-sponsors in the state House, one sponsor in the Senate and the influential Hawaii Women's Coalition, whose members represent more than 200 organizations.

The prostitution decriminalization bill would permit sexual favors traded in private, and it would designate areas where prostitution is allowed.

"In general, talking about sex is scary for people," said the Rev. Pam Vessels of the United Church of Christ in Kalaupapa on Moloka'i. "We need to talk about it, not get excited about it and throw rocks at each other. Do we really care if consenting adults are engaging in sexual acts for money?"

Although it appears unlikely the bill will get a hearing in either the House or the Senate this session, its advocates hope more lawmakers will support it in time. A resolution may be introduced soon asking the Legislative Reference Bureau to study the proposal.

"It's one of those bills you do it for public dialogue instead of trying to get it passed," said Rep. Bob Herkes, D-5th (Ka'u, S. Kona), one of the bill's co-sponsors. "It helps to find out what the public thinks, and this is the way to do it."

Prostitutes have a hard time getting help if they're hounded by the police in addition to facing the dangers of their profession, said Tracy Ryan, head of the Hawai'i Libertarian Party.

Extensive arrest records make it difficult for them to find legitimate jobs when they want to get out of prostitution, she said.

Laws call for a $500 fine and up to 30 days jail time for soliciting prostitution.

"I've only found a handful of people who think prostitutes should go to prison, even though many people are concerned about prostitution," Ryan said. "By criminalizing them, you're only adding to their problems."

Honolulu police made 339 prostitution arrests in 2005 and 255 in 2004, accounting for less than 1 percent of total arrests, according to annual crime reports. Statistics for 2006 are not available.

Maj. Kevin Lima, commander of the narcotics and vice division, said he opposes the decriminalization bill because it would be more difficult for police to investigate child prostitution if paying for sex between adults were legal.

"There are some unintended consequences of that bill," Lima said. "It's probably not a good idea."

Honolulu has a long history of prostitution dating back to the whaling days, to the red light districts of Chinatown during World War II and streetwalkers in neighborhoods surrounding Waikiki.
Prostitution remains a significant problem today in part because Hawai'i is such a popular tourist destination, Lima said.

These women should be helped out of their situation, but legitimizing them isn't the answer, said Kelly Rosati, a spokeswoman for the Hawai'i Catholic church and executive director for the Hawai'i Family Forum.

"Oftentimes the point at which a woman is arrested is where help begins," Rosati said. "This is exploitation, and the woman deserves to be helped out of this industry."
But others argue that the real issue is that home and business owners don't want prostitutes in their communities, and they don't get much help in jail, said Meda Chesney-Lind, a University of Hawai'i criminologist and author of "The Female Offender."

"Maybe we can start having a conversation about being smart on crime instead of just tough," she said. "We don't criminalize other forms of victimization, so I don't think we should do that for prostitution."


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