Wham Bam No Thank You Ma'am

Prostitution is often referred to as “the worlds oldest profession”.  It is a branch of the sex market that has a revenue of roughly $186 billion dollars worldwide.  Recently, more people have begun to feel less comfortable about the sex trade, or prostitution, being illegal.   Amnesty International is proposing that we should decriminalize the sex trade.  They claim that sex workers can be harassed, beaten, and sometimes have their issues ignored by police.  They seem, at first glance, to not be given the basic human rights that they deserve. 

Amnesty International  claims that legalizing sex work will lower violence towards prostitutes.  They state that if we legalize prostitution, the violence on prostitutes will go down because they will no longer be treated like criminals so women will feel more open to going to the police when a crime is committed to them.  However, many people are concerned that if we legalize the sex trade the demand for prostitutes will be raised, resulting in more victims of human trafficking.  Decriminalizing the sex trade may fix some problems but it has the potential of leading to countless more.  One of the many problems with prostitution is that it degrades women and makes them appear as objects available for men to buy, use, and then discard.  I am against the decriminalization of the sex because of the message that it sends about our society and about where woman stand with men.

A popular claim made about this subject is that if prostitution was no longer a crime, the amount of rapes would go down.  Using an example from our own country we can see that this is not entirely true.  Prostitution in Nevada is currently legal inside of a licensed brothel.  Even though this is a legal place provided for prostitutes to work, the state of Nevada is number 36 on a list for the most rapes in the country.  (50 being the worst)

I do not think that the government should get further involved in this business.  Prostituting yourself is not a job and I think that us, as a nation, need to treat it like the crime that it is.  

Democrats protect each other better than Republicans do

This article, written by Ed Rogers, is written for really anyone who can understand it, it is simply yet well written.  Ed Rogers has contributed many editorials to The Washington Post so he would surely be considered a credible author.  In this article Rogers claims that Democrats protect each other even if the act committed may be illegal.  He uses the example of the recent case involving Hillary Clinton.  Clinton admits to keeping important government emails on an unprotected server and personal email account.  This is controversial because  it is clearly against government protocol to keep classified emails on a personal server.  President Obama, who is a fellow Democrat, seems to dismiss this as irrelevant even though the FBI has launched a further investigation.  This isn't the first time Obama has done this for another Democrat.

  Republicans, on the other hand, seems to have no problem turning on each other.  I definitely agree with Rogers since his evidence is very sound. However, I think it would be nice to have honest, hardworking people running our government who neither put each other down or hide information, this is something we should strive for. 

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Immigrants are not the only victims of immigration restrictions

Are immigrants the only victims of immigration restrictions?  Ilya Somin would agree, Somin is a professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law in Virginia. He attended Harvard, Amherst, and Yale Law School.  He regularly writes for political blogs as well as focusing on constitutional and property law.  We should start by defining the term immigrant.  Somin doesn’t make a clear distinction between immigrants who enter our country legally, using our current immigration system, and immigrants arriving under the radar.  Somin claims that immigration laws effect the natives of a country just as much as the immigrants.  He says that because of the immigrants coming into our country it is placing unnecessary laws upon us.  I personally find it hard to agree with his view since he doesn't supply many examples to back up his argument.  Immigration laws are not heavily enforced anywhere in America.  Native U.S citizens are not, to my knowledge, being regularly harassed about their citizenship while going about their daily lives.  Somin compares the effects of immigration laws on natives to racial segregation laws on whites.  

It is hard to distinguish which side Somin is leaning towards because he appears to take many views.  Perhaps he is just trying to stay objective but it comes across as indecisive.  This article was written for the Washington Post, the most widely circulated newspaper in America, so his intended audience was probably conservative white males.  I think what Somin is trying to say is that we can’t increase the restrictions on immigration without negatively impacting American Citizens. 

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