Homeland Security Helps Nab 80-Year-Old Man for Paying a Sex Worker

Here’s your periodic reminder that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency charged with protecting America from terrorism and other serious threats, is also in the business of policing private sexual acts between adults.

There was an 80 year old man was recently arrested in Plattsburgh, New York, as part of an ongoing Homeland Security investigation into possible prostitution at a massage business. He was charged with a misdemeanor count of third-degree patronizing prostitution.

The arrest was made by Clinton County Sheriff’s Office deputies who helped Homeland Security Investigations obtain a federal search warrant on “an alleged prostitution business operating as a massage parlor,” according to the Sheriff’s Office. Press release. More information is expected to be released later. Buffalo field office Homeland Security Investigations.

The old man may not be the main purpose of this operation, but rather the bonus fiasco. But he is not the first person to face criminal charges because Homeland Security decided to deal with the issue of stopping sex between consenting adults. (Or suspected of controlling immigration under the auspices of policing gender.)

Homeland Security regularly works with local law enforcement to massage businesses independent of the policeWe are looking for signs of sex. The businesses targeted are almost always run and staffed by Asian women.

The feds say they’re looking for human trafficking. But again and again we see even the weakest evidence used to justify this suspicion; We see stings occurring again and again there is nothing else than license violations or, at worst, prostitution arrests.

Women working in these workplaces that Homeland Security claims to protect are often subjected to repeated close calls with local and federal law enforcement or their informants (a situation made worse if authorities believe they are actually victims of human trafficking). They are then arrested, unemployed, and forced into prostitution, giving massages without a license, etc. They face fines for this. They may also find that their savings are subject to asset loss.

For example, in “Operation Asian Touch,” Homeland Security agents at least 17 sexual encounters With women working in massage businesses in Mohave County, Arizona. Women who agreed to have paid sex were then arrested and their assets confiscated.

In the massage parlor shootings in Florida, where Homeland Security helped capture New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft for harassment, charges were eventually dropped against Kraft and many other men arrested for harassment. But women who provided massages and sexual intercourse were still being sued. have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for “encouraging” these men to engage in prostitution.

Workers arrested in these stings like that often taken Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

Even if immigrant massage workers are in the United States legally (and in most of the cases I examined, they are). May face deportation Lawful permanent residents of the United States, i.e. green card holders, for suspected sex work may face removal if they are found to have engaged in “moral turpitude” (of course, so can people with less permanent immigration status). Massage personnel may face deportation simply for providing massages if they are here on a type of visa that does not allow for paid work.

What is really going on here is a targeted attack on immigrant-owned businesses and Asian immigrant women under the guise of a national security initiative. Sometimes it traps weird old men who dare to see these women as consensual providers of services rather than as threats to the homeland.

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Japan has the most porn-friendly population: A. new survey A researcher from the Pew Research Center asked people in different countries whether they thought porn was morally acceptable. Around the world, women are more likely than men to say porn is wrong. Fifty-eight percent of U.S. women and 47 percent of U.S. men said this was false. The countries with the highest moral opposition to porn among women are Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico and Brazil; The countries where it is lowest are Japan, the Netherlands and Germany. Among men, the highest levels of disapproval were seen in Nigeria, Indonesia and Brazil, and the lowest levels in Japan, the Netherlands and Germany.

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The fight against allegedly inaccurate or biased information is leading AI companies to get into the “jawbone.” notes Jacob Mchangama Persuasion:

Recent efforts go well beyond combating clearly illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material. From Brussels to New Delhi, from Warsaw to Washington, authorities use regulations, threats and public shaming to shape the information, ideas and perspectives that billions of people can access through AI.

Dutch Data Protection Authority in October warned AI chatbots made by OpenAI, xAI and Mistral were described as “unreliable and clearly biased” as they produced voter recommendations leaning towards far-left and far-right parties ahead of national elections.

Regulator defended Such behavior could violate the EU’s new Artificial Intelligence Law, which requires robust models to mitigate ill-defined “systemic risks”, including “adverse impacts on society as a whole”. He referred the matter to the European Commission; The Commission may impose a fine of up to 1000 TL. 7 percent Global annual turnover due to non-compliance.

Poland in July 2025 the government reported xAI appealed to the European Commission after X’s chatbot Grok produced anti-Semitic content and offensive comments about Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Commission spokesperson he told reporters“We take these potential issues very seriously…we are in contact with national authorities and X itself.”

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Jennfer Huddleston of the Cato Institute has a very detailed thread covering the pricing of four online “security” bills introduced in the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week:

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• Mother Jones is examining How Homeland Security agents are using Mobile Fortify, “an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and interrogate them instantly.” [Homeland Security] Databases matching passport records, visa files and border entry photographs.”

• Is age verification done by app stores? App Store Liability Act This amounts to “little more than a change to the default settings for underage app downloading, providing false comfort to parents while imposing real risks on all Americans.” to write Max Gulker and Caden Rosenbaum of the Reason Foundation.

• History repeats itself:

• AI is less popular than Donald Trump, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom or ICE, according to a new survey NBC poll.

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