Sex Trafficking Victim Speaks Out About Super Bowl

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And every year, as if on cue, the city hosting the Super Bowl announces an awareness campaign to combat sex trafficking around what many in the media have referred to as “the biggest weekend for U.S. prostitution.” For example, Scottsdale announced a billboard campaign earlier this month, and the Phoenix police department recently revised its policy concerning prostitution.
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I am a victim of the sex-trafficking industry. I was trafficked for more than a decade in Minneapolis, Hawaii and Las Vegas. Based on my experience I can tell you that the Super Bowl is just another weekend for the hundreds of thousands of sex-trafficking victims in the United States.
That’s what it was when I was a sex-trafficked call girl in Las Vegas. The escort agency I worked for expected me to go on as many calls as I could fit in a 12-hour period, from 8 in the evening to 8 the following morning.
I would see between 10-30 different men a night. It didn’t matter how tired I was or how much money I made, I had to be loyal my entire shift for the entire weekend, or face a fine of $1,500. When I finally got home, as soon as I walked in the door, my pimp took 100% of my earnings.
Never mind that the tricks (the men that paid for sex) thought I was enjoying myself. Never mind they thought I was making great money, paying my way through college.
When you live in fear of the next beat-down (I was physically beaten more times than I can count by my pimp and by tricks), this is what you must do to survive. Pretend you are someone else. When I began my time as a prostitute, I chose the name “Fallen” for my fake ID. I was no longer the Annie I knew and recognized; I was “Fallen”—a victim of high-class sex trafficking.
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* Sex trafficking is a $32 billion a year industry in the U.S., victimizing between 300,000 and 400,000 American children every year according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
* Globally, the International Labor Organization estimates that there are 4.5 million people trapped in forced exploitation.

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Sex-trafficking survivor: The truth about Super Bowl and sex
By Annie Lobert

Published January 30, 2015

FoxNews.com

Security At Super Bowl Indicates Future of Freedom

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security at the the Super Bowl itself promises to make attendance at football's championship game an awful lot like spending several hours at a very cold TSA checkpoint
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At MetLife stadium itself, attendees will be happy to know that tailgating is banned (OK, you can party in your parking space, if you have one, without a grill), vehicles may approach the venue only once, and the list of prohibited items is...long. Two columns, in fact. No banners, frisbees, or umbrellas, for sure, so have fun and hope for clear skies.
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Fan screenings begin at 2 p.m. on game day. Fans will enter heated welcome pavilions at MetLife Stadium, where they can expect to encounter walk-through metal detectors, X-ray machines, K-9 dogs and pat-down searches. They are encouraged to arrive early to avoid delays and to speed up stadium entrance.
Shockingly, MetLife Stadium points out that hotel rooms remain available. You don't say.
This multi-square-mile, prison-style lockdown must be in response to dastardly threats, right? Nope. "As of this time there are no threats directed against this event that we're aware of," New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said just yesterday. This is all just in case.
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Noble, who was Undersecretary for Enforcement of the United States Department of the Treasury before he took the Interpol job, strongly suggested that letting people take responsibility for their own safety—specifically, he referred to "armed citizenry"—made more sense than what we're now seeing at the Super Bowl.
It also, incidentally, might also allow for a game that's more enjoyable to attend, and less like visiting a politician in prison.
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Once you're deploying surveillance cameras and an "amazing arsenal of security initiatives" for themed street fairs, you're only a step away from making that part of daily life.

http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/30/super-bowl-security-just-a-taste-of-amer

Is Crazed Super Bowl Security a Taste of America To Come?
Think of a TSA checkpoint that goes on, forever.
J.D. Tuccille
January 30, 2014

NYPD Will Use Radiation Detectors For Super Bowl in New Jersey

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Police will deploy helicopters with sensors able to detect radiation on the ground, trained dog teams, heavily armed Hercules squads, extra surveillance cameras — and even patrol boats — along with lots of uniformed cops.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/13/super-bowl-lockdown-looming-around-times-square/

Super Bowl lockdown looming around Times Square
By Andy Soltis and Jamie Schram
December 13, 2013 | 4:12am

US Rep. Sells Super Bowl Tickets for Fund Raising

60 Minutes reported in January 2012 that the NFL earns about $21 billion a year. The teams share their earnings. That is from advertising, clothing, trinkets and from ticket sales. But still they bleed taxpayers for subsidies for their new stadiums. There's two problems here. People continue to pay high prices so that the team owners thrive and the players get ridiculous salaries. But they also share the relaxed rectitude of the politicians. That is why they keep getting re-elected. If voters wanted honest politicians they would have them. Same applies to journalists who mislead taxpayers and voters.

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"To get to the Super Bowl, all Meeks has to do is pick up the phone. The NFL said it makes tickets available at face value — $800, $900 or $1,200 — to elected officials but refused to discuss who was buying. Television networks also provide tickets but were mum on purchasers.
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“Not only can we not call and get them, they won’t take our calls. A congressman obviously can get through to them, and that’s a perfect example of why it does create an ethical question,” said Jordan I. Kobritz,"

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HOST WITH THE MOST:
Rep. Gregory Meeks brings in cash and rewards donors with Super Bowl tickets.
Just helping the poor black folks get along.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/rep_super_oaker_zpvSAFfZNtbkW1gxIfmw2H

Queens pol resells cheap tickets to big-bucks political donors
Meeks sells off his cheap Giants tix to big donors
By ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:39 AM, February 5, 2012
Posted: 12:49 AM, February 5, 2012