RALI on DC SEX FOR SALE PUBLIC HEARING

Confrontation, council member bias against the President of NOW, from 10 am until midnight, there was nonstop testimony pro and con, for and against the proposed legislation that would legalize pimping, brothels, and commercial sex in the District of Columbia. For the full day of testimony on videotape click here

The broader politics of this are questionable, because as we all learned in the government testimony that came only at the end of this long day of hearings, … Muriel Bowser, the mayor of DC is firmly opposed. The government functionaries and lawyers testified against the legislative proposal. But that didn’t happen until nearly midnight. Firecrackers exploded in the morning and throughout the whole day and evening.

We heard first hand testimony of girls sold by parents, uncles, or step relations, from the age of nine. Ms. M. Mcleod, a constituent of Council Member David Grosso confronted him with real anger about the desolation in her neighborhood and how young children are threatened daily with violence. “I wasted my vote when I voted for you,” Grasso squirmed in his seat and finally was forced to become apologetic. But not once in this hearing did he ever apologize for proposing legislation that would facilitate and promote trafficking.

“In our country today as we sit in this hearing the President of the United States has been accused by some two dozen women of sexual assault. The news is also replete with stories of how the serial pedophile predator, Jeffrey Epstein, provided sex slaves to his friends and in turn was coddled and protected by his powerful friends prior to his jailhouse death. Numerous victims of Epstein have come forward with stories of how they were turned into sex slaves by him and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Despite the #MeToo movement, can any of us doubt that male privilege continues to uphold the systematic subjugation of women? Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, RJ Kelly, these are only the most prominent of men who claim a birthright entitlement to sexually abuse and subjugate women and girls.” Witness 150