Hijacked Hearings
Three women managed to derail a bill that would help protect children from traffickers. They hijacked hearings. How did they beguile the committee?
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
The Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee of the NH House of Representatives is made up of regular people. We have a true citizen legislature. These lawmakers are practically volunteers. They are friends and neighbors.
This committee heard House Bill 201. This simple bill sought to increase penalties for buyers of trafficked children in NH. When someone pays to exploit a minor in our state, they should be held accountable. I asked the members of the committee to pass the bill as originally written. Advocates called upon lawmakers to prove to traffickers and citizens alike, that we value our children. Parents and prosecutors asked them to vote Ought to Pass and deter exploitation.
Beguiled
Alas, the committee members were beguiled.
Rather than take turns, three women testified together, mystifying the Chair and members of the committee. Biblical principles apply for good or bad. Ecclesiastes 4:12 explains, one person may be easily overcome and two are able to resist, but a three fold cord is not easily broken.
The Chairman, had reprimanded a man who offered testimony that was deemed not germane just minutes prior. That is the appropriate action. However, when these women went off topic, they were allowed to continue without interruption. The tactic amounted to hijacking in my estimation. The pleasant looking women steered the entire committee far away from the intention of the bill being ‘heard’. They presented blatant subversion.
In essence, they told committee members that they were above the law, explaining that they regularly encourage illegal activity. Announcing to the room that they were entitled to do so with impunity. Regardless of the inevitability that children may be subjected to sex trafficking, as an extension of their ‘business’ they continued. One after another they extolled their personal achievements: one a lawyer, another a researcher and so on. After the first few seconds, none of what they said had any relevance to House Bill 201.
Dazed and Confused
Some of the members appeared dazed and confused as they listened. Their request? Disregard the deterrent of House Bill 201. Forget what they were supposed to be deciding. The women, who literally profit from sexual exploitation, asked the committee for an opposite direction: to study full decriminalization of prostitution.
There was no shock, no dismay from the members of the committee. Why? Because we are in a spiritual battle!
Decriminalizing prostitution, as I have pointed out on other posts would mean more trafficking and more exploitation of children. I have personal experience of the terrible affects of juvenile sex trafficking: the deprivations, diseases, dependence on drugs, infestations of lice, malnutrition, and injury from violence and rape.
Full decriminalization means no rules, no laws, no oversight, and no probable cause. Police would be reticent to investigate trafficking unless there was another crime to look into. Legalization is no better. The law is a teacher. If prostitution were legal it would be thought of as acceptable. Prostitution in inherently harmful.
It’s not dangerous because it is illegal. It is illegal because it’s dangerous!
Legalization would mean the government would be the pimp, receiving taxes and regulating prostitution and the sexual exploitation of vulnerable people. It also means that those few who profit from sexual exploitation would become many. Giving cover to traffickers and organized crime is not what we want for NH.
Who are these Hijackers?
That’s what I’d like to know. How dare they come into our state, ignore our lawmaking rules and circumvent our process to their own ends?! The profiteers of sexual exploitation are everywhere. It matters not, who these three women are. Although, it is a matter of public record.
It is important to recognize what is at stake. Prostitution and sex trafficking are two sides of the very same coin. Study, after study, after study, after questionnaire tell the same story of what sex buyers think. They do not see prostituted people as human beings with innate dignity and value, but as implements for their sexual gratification.
The harms of prostitution can be found in book, after books, articles and journals. There are so many more. Testimony from survivors of prostitution abound as well. Survivors of the sex trade sent an Open Letter to the NH General Court just last year!
Privileged Elitists
Privileged elitists are to blame. One of the young women declared her privilege, but most people involved in the sex trade want to get out. It is a choice of last resort. As I wrote recently, even in a pagan culture that honored her, Rahab doubly risked her life to get out of prostitution.
The majority of buyers are affluent white males. Affluent white women were arguing at the hearing.
The exact same thing has happened with abortion. Affluent white women, like Margaret Sanger opened the floodgates for the blood of innocent children to flow. Elitist, affluent men hijacked hearings and spewed lies to sway authorities, who did not have the knowledge that modern technology affords.
We have a new assault for those who make it out of the birth canal alive. Commercial sexual abuse of children is a severe form of trafficking.
Let’s not allow this. We can make a difference. Contact me to find out how.