"None of Uncle Sam's Business"


Great article from National Review Online
Deroy Murdock pulls no punches with this article at National Review Online. Emphasis added.

Palfrey has made headlines because she faces prostitution charges. Since money changed hands, what otherwise would be mutually assured seduction instead is, literally, a federal case.

This never should have happened. As in so many places where police and prosecutors poke their noses, this is something else that should be none of government’s damn business.

There is an argument for discouraging scantily clad streetwalkers from tarting up their surroundings. This is exactly why discreet escorts, like Palfrey’s, who perform on private property, are preferable to hookers on street corners.

Again, if Palfrey’s colleagues simply trolled Washington, D.C., swapping drinks and dinner for massages and more, no one would notice. So why, then, does trading cash for intimacy merit handcuffs and indictments?

If coercion or minors are involved, please call 911. Otherwise, police, prosecutors, judges, and juries have more urgent concerns than oppressing those who profit by comforting the lonely.

A very libertarian approach. That's a great title too.

Hat tip to Wren's Nest, oddly enough.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - May 14, 2007 at 05:22 AM  Tag


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