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enhanced_deficit
05-26-2018, 03:34 PM
Apparently Obama and Bush had denied this pardon request.


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05/25/2018

Jack Johnson Was Pardoned, But Taboo Sex Is Still Being Criminalized

By Jenavieve Hatch

President Donald Trump posthumously pardoned (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/sports/jack-johnson-pardon-trump.html) Jack Johnson on Thursday, erasing the black boxer’s century-old conviction for violating the Mann Act (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88104308) — a 1910 law that prohibited transporting “any woman or girl” across state lines “for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose” — by driving his white girlfriend from Pittsburgh to Chicago.


All this has happened before

The Mann Act, also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, was enacted in response to public hysteria (https://archive.org/stream/fightingtraffici00bell#page/n5/mode/2up) about sensational yet unconfirmed reports of white women being kidnapped and trafficked by foreign men.

“There’s a huge range of things that [the act] allowed the government to punish and control,” Alexandra Levy, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told HuffPost. “It gave tremendous leverage to punish interracial marriage, polygamy and promiscuity.”

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, thousands of people (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88104308) were prosecuted under the act. Johnson’s conviction (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88104308) in 1912 was a prime example of the broad power of a law pitched as a way to stop what was at the time called white slavery. His crime was, essentially, being black and driving across state lines with a white woman, even though she went voluntarily and was his girlfriend.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jack-johnson-taboo-sex-criminalized_us_5b08718be4b0802d69cb376a




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Sylvester Stallone accused of forcing 16-year-old girl into threesome (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?516990-Larry-David-criticized-for-SNL-monologue-on-Jewish-sexual-predators-and-Holocaust&p=6554402&viewfull=1#post6554402)
November 16, 2017
According to the police report, the unnamed woman, who was staying at the hotel with her family, said she was given keys to a hotel room by the actor’s bodyguard, Michael De Luca. After having sex with Stallone there, the woman claimed that De Luca became involved in the encounter, at which point she became “very uncomfortable”. The woman said there was no physical force involved in the incident, but she felt “intimidated” into having sex with the pair. “She became very uncomfortable with the situation. She states she did not want to have any type of sexual contact with the bodyguard, but felt she had no choice in the matter,” the report claims.
Retired detective sergeant John Samolovitich, who was the head of Las Vegas police force’s sexual assault unit at the time of the alleged incident, confirmed to the Mail that they had obtained a “true” copy of the report.
De Luca, a former professional boxer, died in a 2013 police shooting in California.
The claims against Stallone come in the wake of allegations of sexual assault and harassment made against a number of entertainment industry figures.

Sylvester Stallone 'categorically disputes' sexual-assault claim from second accuser
Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY Dec. 21, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/12/21/sylvester-stallone-categorically-disputes-sexual-assault-claim-second-accuser/974418001/


Pardoning Michael Cohen This Early In The Mueller Investigation Could Be Trouble For Trump (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pardoning-michael-cohen-this-early-in-the-mueller-investigation-could-be-trouble-for-trump/)

enhanced_deficit
05-26-2018, 05:59 PM
Would this have any political impact on Trump's support?
On the surface, his action could negate the oft repeated media narrative that Trump was 'racist' .

Apparently The Mann Act is still on the books, not clear if Trump will work to repeal that also.



“White Slavery” and the Policing of Domestic Life

In the early 20th century, journalistic exposés, novels, and vice commission reports trumpeted fears about “white slavery” sweeping the country.


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Cover illustration from a 1910 book on human trafficking

Is the sale of sex a private manner or a public crisis? While many sex workers say online erotic ads (http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/11/new-sex-ad-bills-before-congress) help them conduct a consensual transaction with maximum control and safety, a powerful reform movement ties them (https://www.wpr.org/human-trafficking-evolves-so-does-wisconsins-approach-stopping-it) to fears of human trafficking.

A century ago, panic over human trafficking transformed the role of the government in “private” life (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40068272?mag=white-slavery-policing-domestic-life), as Christopher Diffee explains in an article focusing on a popular movie from that era.

In the early twentieth century, as women were moving into the urban workforce and public life was expanding, journalistic exposés, novels, and vice commission reports trumpeted fears about “white slavery” sweeping the country. The panic peaked in 1913, with the release of the hit film Traffic in Souls.

A poster for 1913’s Traffic in Souls (via Wikimedia Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_in_Souls#/media/File:Traffic_in_Souls_poster.jpg)) In the film, a member of a white slavery ring seduces and kidnaps a young candy-store worker—a working woman depicted as irresponsible and too eager to go dancing with a man (https://daily.jstor.org/jane-addams-crusade-victorian-dancing-girls/). The girl’s older sister, Mary, heroically works with police to save her.

“Mary displays the energy and aggressive social concern of an expanded, transitional moral realm, neither a passive avatar of domesticity nor the liberated New Woman of the jazz age,” Diffee writes.

The movie’s plot mirrored efforts by real-world Progressive reformers, largely middle-class women, to “protect” young, working-class women from predators and from their own behavior. This entailed a mixture of social supports and punitive measures. The reformers helped create vice squads, reformatories, and a juvenile court system. Some tried to raise the age of consent to 18 or 21, and some pushed for a minimum wage law (https://daily.jstor.org/the-long-prelude-to-the-fight-for-15/), which they hoped would protect young women from having to resort to illegal sex work.

Cracking down on “white slavery” also meant the expansion of federal power. The 1910 Mann Act banned the interstate transportation of women for sex work or “any other immoral practice.” Over the next seven years, court cases broadened the scope of the law until it functioned to criminalize all nonmarital sex. Enforcement of the Mann Act fell to the fledgling FBI, which opened its first major field office and rose to national recognition on the strength of its anti-vice efforts.

https://daily.jstor.org/white-slavery-policing-domestic-life/

timosman
05-26-2018, 06:37 PM
Would this have any political impact on Trump's support?
On the surface, his action could negate the oft repeated media narrative that Trump was 'racist' .

Apparently The Mann Act is still on the books, not clear if Trump will work to repeal that also.

Isn't this a legislature job?

VIDEODROME
05-26-2018, 09:13 PM
Isn't this a legislature job?

I think a President can use their leadership position to set or encourage agendas for the legislature.

timosman
05-27-2018, 01:15 AM
I think a President can use their leadership position to set or encourage agendas for the legislature.

This is how you end up with Obamacare.

enhanced_deficit
05-27-2018, 09:47 AM
I think a President can use their leadership position to set or encourage agendas for the legislature.


This is how you end up with Obamacare.


Good points, POTUS influence over legislature is always a tool in the box and outcome would depend on how it is used.

enhanced_deficit
05-28-2018, 02:19 PM
Jack Johnson Was Pardoned, But Taboo Sex Is Still Being Criminalized

By Jenavieve Hatch

President Donald Trump posthumously pardoned (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/sports/jack-johnson-pardon-trump.html) Jack Johnson on Thursday, erasing the black boxer’s century-old conviction for violating the Mann Act (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88104308) — a 1910 law that prohibited transporting “any woman or girl” across state lines “for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose” — by driving his white girlfriend from Pittsburgh to Chicago.

All this has happened before

The Mann Act, also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, was enacted in response to public hysteria (https://archive.org/stream/fightingtraffici00bell#page/n5/mode/2up) about sensational yet unconfirmed reports of white women being kidnapped and trafficked by foreign men.

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Not clear yet if it's related news but activist TR has been arrrested in UK and Trump Jr has spoken out against his arrest:





Right-wing activist Tommy Robinson reportedly jailed after filming outside child grooming trial

Tommy Robinson was arrested Friday outside a court in Leeds, England. (Reuters)

U.K. right-wing activist and journalist Tommy Robinson was arrested and reportedly jailed Friday after he filmed members of an alleged child grooming gang entering a court for trial -- but the details of his purported sentence remain murky after the judge ordered the press not to report on the case.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05...ing-trial.html (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/26/right-wing-activist-tommy-robinson-reportedly-jailed-after-filming-outside-child-grooming-trial.html)


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enhanced_deficit
05-31-2018, 11:52 AM
Not clear on whose request this is being pushed but could happen:


Trump says he's considering commuting sentence of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
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Chicago Tribune (https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBggKMJT1VDC1wQw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
one hour ago

Trump floats Marth Stewart pardon, Rod Blagojevich commutation (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEPYzNYutfT1sPPEHOWHcE_4qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowocv1Cj CSptoCMPrTpgU)
(CNN) President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he is considering pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's ...
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