Backpage CEO arrested! Lives in Frisco!

[NTXReggie]

“We cannot allow this evil to endure,”

“Making money off the backs of innocent human beings by allowing them to be exploited for modern-day slavery is not acceptable in Texas,”

said Attorney General Paxton

Embellish or hypocrite much, ye of your own current criminal charges and lackey for the walmart economy of underemployment and slave wages...

This is political year grandstanding. Bunch of cocks flopped out on the table, showing for power. Smug as he may be, neither this CEO nor backpage.com is the problem and all involved know it. He will likely walk after lining a few connected pockets one way or another--somebody gotta get payed! He was an unsypathetic and arrogant target in the wrong business at the wrong time. Shelf life of a few weeks through the election, if that...

But let's hope he walks. Nothing to do with the hobby, rather far reaching ramifications of freedom of information and speech if BP or CEO are forced to unlock client documents.

Of course while everyone feigns outrage and disgust and writes a song for the poor exploited women and children, the easy question which leads to the most humane and sensible solution never even gets asked: Why is bartering sex services still illegal? Fuck, our entire marital institution was born of Dad's bartering daughters to other Dad's sons. What's the difference between a tycoon purchasing arm candy for a few years with generous gifts and the laborer purchasing it for a few minutes with legal tender? (I know why and no, it is no different--rhetoric, sadly...)

Just one of the many benefits to no longer criminalizing hookers and johns is that the pedos would lose the vast wasteland of "consensual criminal sex" to hide out in. Not only would the truly nefarious be easier to track, but who would hesitate to roll over on scumbags when it was no longer a risk to your personal business or your privacy?

And Frisco is a frigging dump! That once great city was decimated when authorities tore down the beautiful mobile home communities along Preston and 121...to put in a parking lot!!! (Kidding...I'm sure there are some nice parts )

[Butch Cassidy]

Originally Posted by AlluringStacy

I'm sure he will hire a good attorney and brush that off.

Y'all's daddy might be putting bunk beds in, lots of new talent coming

[ultrad]

Just watched a news story on NBC5 how offices of backpage raided and CEO arrested at airport in Houston
Multiple articles posted on the web

[DollarBill]

So now I have to go to Trade Days in McKinney or random garage sales to buy crappy shit people don't want anymore....and prostitutes???

[philip mukoochie]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/backpage-...225411507.html

[canoodle]

Originally Posted by ultrad

Just watched a news story on NBC5 how offices of backpage raided and CEO arrested at airport in Houston
Multiple articles posted on the web

Still up and running today, both escorts and rubs!

They did it to Craigslist, now backpage! OH Well

[plove35]

It is just that same ol bs....hiding behind sex trafficking to make a statement. However if this saves one CHILD from a pimp or a molester then.so be it

[FunInDFW]

Originally Posted by darkmoonmaster

Nope, he is not an innocent poor guy, backpage makes more than $2 million per month.

So because it makes so much that means he's not innocent, too?

[Mojojo]

Meh, he's going to walk. This is all a pony show for November. He wont get convicted of any sexy trafficking.

[Guest110416]

Originally Posted by FunInDFW

So because it makes so much that means he's not innocent, too?

It does not matter how much he makes or if he is personally innocent. The CEO of ANY company is responsible for all the people under him as well as the company's action or inaction and making him a facilitator of those actions, hence, guilty as charged.

[ziggyburns]

It's interesting that this happened right before the OU/Texas game. I noticed there seems to be an influx of girls coming down from Oklahoma...
Perhaps it's juat the government is pissed because they can't collect taxes on sex so they call it trafficking.

[Chung Tran]

Originally Posted by marvelousntx

You can be arrested and your motel shut down for being a detriment.

I think the legal term is for being a "public nuisance".. which begs the question.. why has Chung Tran avoided arrest? LOL..

Originally Posted by Mojojo

Meh, he's going to walk. This is all a pony show for November. He wont get convicted of any sexy trafficking.

no, but there are smaller charges.. obstruction, abetting, and such.. he should have cooperated with Congress, and said the same shit as Hillary regarding the 30,000+ emails..

[rexdutchman]

First I am against any type of trafficking , however this is the old good vs evil campaign ,government control , political gain ( what 2 adults do behind closed doors is not the governments business ) ( oh there watching me now LOL)

[BLM69]

Originally Posted by davidfree986

It does not matter how much he makes or if he is personally innocent. The CEO of ANY company is responsible for all the people under him as well as the company's action or inaction and making him a facilitator of those actions, hence, guilty as charged.

Time to arrest gun shops for shootings and beer companies for drunk drivers, I'm pressing changes against McDonalds CEO for my weight gain over the years.

I'm sure tos are pretty clear on BP, this guy is going to walk and BP will get bigger with all this free advertising.

[ibupro01]

Originally Posted by Tony Gambino

...he will ultimately walk, there is a first amendment

That's cute! You think we still have one.