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There was a conference on stopping child sex trafficking.\u00a0 So the Oakland branch of the Occupy Wall Street protested on the grounds that such efforts are \u201cracist\u201d acts of oppression against \u201csex workers.\u201d\u00a0 From Zombie, who provides photos, quotes, and commentary from the demonstrations (caution:\u00a0 bad language):<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one issue that unites Americans of all political stripes, it\u2019s the sexual enslavement of children. Whatever our opinions on other issues, we all agree that sex trafficking and the prostituting of children is an outrage and a tragedy. Thus, conference attendees included liberal, moderate and conservative politicians; progressive nonprofit organizations; law enforcement groups; religious leaders; and (according to the conference Web site) \u201csocial services, medical providers, mental health, education, probation, and community-based organizations.\u201d In short: Everybody.<\/p>\n

\nEverybody, that is, except Occupy Wall Street, who somehow found a way to oppose the abolition of child sexual slavery. In order to justify this seemingly incomprehensible and repugnant position, the Occupiers performed some of the most amazing moral gymnastics you\u2019ll ever encounter. . . .\n

After protesting on the sidewalk for a while, the Occupiers went berserk and staged a full-frontal assault on the conference. The security guards somehow managed to repel the invasion, as the Occupiers then hurled paint-bombs, bottles of unknown liquid, eggs and other projectiles at the hotel.. . .<\/p>\n

The Bay of Rage site\u2019s official announcement for the protest<\/a> clearly spelled out the Occupy position in this dispute:<\/p>\n

This is What Patriarchy Looks Like:<\/p>\n

The H.EAT. conference is a conference of pigs and their nonprofit lackeys to increase the harassment, imprisonment, marginalization and criminalization of sex workers. Fronting as a conference against \u201cchild trafficking,\u201d this conference brings pigs and nonprofits together to develop policing strategies that line their pockets while leaving sex workers exploited and disempowered. Pigs and nonprofits hide behind lies about \u201csafety\u201d and \u201cprotection\u201d while they profit off the incarceration and \u201creformation\u201d of sex workers. These pigs and nonprofits neurotically plug their ears to the fact they themselves are exactly the reason sex work can exist. Sex work, like all forms of work, can only exist within a society based on hierarchical economic systems like capitalism, which are protected by the police and patronizing reformist organizations that keep exploited people from revolting. The pigs are the enemies of sex workers, and of all workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

via Zombie \u00bb Occupy Oakland protests in FAVOR of child sex trafficking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re back to \u201cpigs\u201d as a derogatory word for police officers, just like in the \u201960\u2019s.\u00a0 So anti-police sentiment animates both the left and the right.\u00a0 We also see old-fashioned Marxism, as if the Berlin Wall never fell.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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