ANY EXCUSE for one.
You aren't AGAINST CHILDREN, are you?
"Pimps arrested, children rescued; FBI sting targets Hub, other cities" by Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press | June 26, 2008
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.
The Justice Department says it targeted 16 cities as part of its "Operation
In Boston, a weekend sting by the field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation netted 14 on prostitution charges and removed one child from trafficking, said Gail Marcinkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the Boston FBI office.
"The FBI isn't investigating prostitutes and pimps - we're investigating children," Marcinkiewicz said. The FBI worked with the State Police and police from Boston, Braintree, Quincy, the Norfolk County Sheriff's Department, and the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council.
Many of the children forced into prostitution are either runaways or what authorities call "thrown-aways," whose families have shunned them.
Officials say they are preyed upon by organized networks of pimps who lure them in with shelter or drugs, and then beat, starve, or otherwise abuse them until the children agree to work the streets.
"We together have no higher calling than to protect our children and to safeguard their innocence," Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director, said yesterday. "Yet the sex-trafficking of children remains one of the most violent and unforgivable crimes in this country."
That's why we SEND THEM OFF to WAR based upon LIES, right, Mueller?
Nationwide, authorities arrested 345 people - including 290 adult prostitutes - during the operation that ended this week.
Targeted in last week's sting were Atlanta; Boston; Dallas; Detroit; Houston; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Miami; Montgomery County, Md.; Oakland, Calif.; Phoenix; Reno; Sacramento; Tampa; Toledo, Ohio; and Washington.
The problem of child prostitution has taken on a new urgency in recent years with the growth of online networks where pimps advertise the youngsters to clients. The FBI generally investigates child prostitution cases that cross state lines.
Yeah, about those ON-LINE sites?
See: Government-Hosted Porn and Porn On the Web
--MORE--"
Also see: Pervertsville, New England
Makes you wonder, where do the kids get these ideas, anyway?
WASHINGTON - Many of the nation's estimated 10.8 million underage drinkers are turning to their parents or other adults for free alcohol.
A government survey of teens from 2002 to 2006 said slightly more than half had engaged in underage drinking.
Asked about the source of alcohol, 40 percent said they got it from an adult for free over the past month, the survey said. Of those, about one in four said they got it from an unrelated adult, one in 16 got it from a parent or guardian, and one in 12 got it from another adult family member.
Roughly 4 percent reported taking the alcohol from their home.
"In far too many instances parents directly enable their children's underage drinking - in essence encouraging them to risk their health and well-being," said acting Surgeon General Steven K. Galson. "Proper parental guidance alone may not be the complete solution to this devastating public health problem - but it is a critical part."
Yeah, YOU PARENTS are the problem, so the STATE will have to be exerting more control!
Get it now, 'murka?
How come the French don't have problems? Or the Italians, etc?
The nationwide study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, being released today, tracks the social contexts involved in underage drinking, a problem leading to thousands of alcohol-related traffic deaths and injuries each year.
No one, and I mean NO ONE is FOR DRUNK DRIVING, 'kay?
About one out of five of those ages 12 to 20 - or roughly 7.2 million people - said they had taken part in binge drinking, defined as consuming five or more drinks, on at least one occasion in the past month, the survey said. Rates were significantly higher if they lived with a parent who engaged in binge drinking.
The study, which uses data from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, is based on a scientific random sample of 158,000 people ages 12 to 20 in the United States.
Over half of current underage alcohol users were at someone else's home when they had their last drink, while 30.3 percent were in their own home. About 9.4 percent were at a restaurant, bar, or club."One wishes the government and the authorities would be so concerned about our WOUNDED WAR VETERANS, 'eh?
Or the POTENTIAL ONES, huh?
You know, the kids who otherwise would get drunk.
Good thing AMERIKAN CULTURE doesn't GLAMORIZE such s***, huh?
