Harvey Weinstein faces rape and other sex offense charges in New York City. A Manhattan judge a few days ago arraigned Weinstein to inform him of charges against him. Weinstein posted $1 million in bail, surrendered his passport, and waddled out of court.
Federal investigators are reportedly checking if Weinstein arranged the transport of women across state lines for sexually abusive purposes. For those of you playing at home, such offenses are Mann Act violations.
Social justice bedwetters are acting as if it was their work Weinstein has been charged. Just like the leftist singers and actresses of the 1970s and 1980s hid or mocked while singer Connie Francis alone fought rapists and those who enabled them, today’s social justice bedwetters had little to do with Weinstein’s arrest.
Earlier this year social justice bedwetters whined because the New York Police Department Special Victims’ Unit boss Michael Osgood, who went after Weinstein, donated more than $2000 to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. Many of them want Osgood fired.
While Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, and other prominent leftists were committing rape, Trump as a businessman donated thousands of dollars to the NYPD so they could pay for posters identifying wanted rapists.
Sex offender Harvey Weinstein and woman beating sexual predator Eric Schneiderman
It’s up to you, New York, New York.
Osgood is an innovator in the policing of sex offense cases, and is responsible for the convictions of thousands of rapists, despite having to work with prosecutors in New York City who are leftist vermin.
Osgood’s men brought Harvey Weinstein in for questioning in 2015 after he tried to rape an Italian model named Ambra Battilana. Weinstein threatened the officers like the entitled pig that he is. Then his lawyer got ahold of the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (the son of Cyrus Vance the failed Secretary of State for the failed Jimmy Carter) and his minions in the Manhattan (New York County) District Attorney’s Office.
Per New York Magazine 3/19/2018, this:
“He (Weinstein) retained two lawyers with ties to the district attorney’s office, including Elkan Abramowitz, Vance’s former law partner and a donor to his campaign. To cement their access to Vance’s office, the lawyers hired Linda Fairstein, the former head of the DA’s Sex Crimes Unit and a close friend of Bashford’s.” (Martha Bashford is a chief sex crimes prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney.)
(How to be Your Own Detective teaching point: The writer looked up the backgrounds of the lawyers in the DA’s Office and their fellow obstructors of justice on Team Weinstein. Then the writer checked databases for donations Weinstein and his shysters made to the DA shysters and their political allies. The writer found out any relationships between Team Weinstein and the prosecutors. This is what you and I should do, and can. Especially follow the money and relationships trails when there are odd government official actions that fly in the face of justice.)
The DA’s people were so hateful to Miss Battilana (they essentially spied on her and asked her roommates if she was a prostitute) that Osgood and his men had to hide her out for several days from the leftist punks of the highly politicized Manhattan DA’s Office.
“Five days after he and his team sequestered Ambra Battilana in a hotel room to protect her from Vance’s office, she agreed to meet with Martha Bashford, the head of the DA’s sex crimes unit. Bashford didn’t inform the SVD, but Battilana’s lawyer did, and Osgood’s investigative team showed up at the attorney’s office before Bashford arrived.”
“During the meeting, according to Bock (a NYPD officer), Bashford grilled Battilana about her personal life — including one of the infamous sex parties thrown by Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi that she had attended. Battilana told Bashford that she and her friends had left as soon as the sex started. “The questioning was aggressive and accusatory,” Bock recalls. “Again, the victim was upset. She felt like she was under attack.”
Days later, Dem DA Vance and his pussy hat wearing prosecutor shysters decided not to prosecute Harvey Weinstein.
Osgood did not fold. Before and after actress Rose McGowan came forward against Harvey Weinstein late last year, he continued the investigation against the movie mogul perv. Since Ms. McGowan came forward, Osgood has investigated the cases of more than a dozen women who have come forward against Weinstein. (New York Magazine, 3/19/2018)
The social justice bedwetters remain silent about their leftist politicians. Vance and Ms. Bashford still have jobs, which the taxpayers of New York pay for. The social justice bedwetters, to include cop hater New York mayor De Blasio, are too busy attacking Donald Trump.
In fact, the social justice bedwetters were OK with former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman aka Eric Shysterman. According to a 5/7/2018 New Yorker article, one of his several victims was told to swallow it by other women she thought were her friends because they liked it that Schneiderman was also abusing his prosecutor powers to orchestrate multi-state lawsuits by crooked Democrat state attorneys-general against President Trump. Another of his victims kept quiet about the abuse because she also liked what he did as a politician.
How much is being said about Shysterman now? Crickets.
Speaking of charges, Mr. Trump also understands the other side of the coin. Just because someone is accused, it doesn’t automatically mean he or she is guilty.
A few days ago, President Trump pardoned legendary boxer Jack Johnson for a bogus Mann Act conviction.
Jim Jeffries vs. Jack Johnson, Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910. Jack beat Jim in a 15th-round TKO.
The Mann Act, named after Congressman James Mann of Illinois, was a Teddy Roosevelt era attempt to crush the trafficking of women and children for sexual acts. Many of the victims were immigrants from Europe and East Asia. Many of the perpetrators had political protection in the cities in which they operated.
One of the portions of the law concerned “transportation.” The Mann Act made it illegal to transport women and children across state lines for immoral purposes. This was aimed at stopping trafficking, but occasionally wives had husbands prosecuted if they took little cuties from say, Chicago to nearby Indiana for a roll in the hay, or from New Jersey to New York for a night on the town and in the sack. This was an unintended consequence.
Some officials misused the “transportation” clause of the Mann Act to punish black heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion, and many whites in America despised him. Johnson had a habit of taunting his opponents and bantering with spectators in hostile fight crowds, long before Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali was a gleam in his parents’ eyes. This made Johnson an “uppity nigger” in the eyes of the bigoted. Johnson also liked to consort with pretty white women, which drove the bigoted batty. So some lawmen were laying for him, waiting to arrest him when the opportunity arose.
In 1912, Johnson wired a white female prostitute who was an acquaintance of his $75 so she could get to Chicago from Pittsburgh by train and have some extra spending money. When she got to Chicago, she checked into a hotel and he had sex with her in her hotel room. Prosecutors said this coupling was a violation of the Mann Act; they had Johnson convicted in 1913. While his lawyer appealed the conviction, Johnson fled to Europe to stay out of jail.
During World War One, Johnson sought out Fiorello La Guardia, who was in Spain to expedite a steel shipment to help the war effort. La Guardia, a congressman from New York City, was also an Army aviation officer stationed in Italy at the time. Johnson told La Guardia he loved America and would volunteer for combat duty in exchange for the dropping of the charges. La Guardia could not get the feds to drop the ridiculous charge against Johnson and make use of his services. Johnson eventually came home and served time.
So President Trump did a charitable thing … something his predecessors the Bushes, the Clintons, and the Obamas did not do.
President Trump did it in the presence of Jack Johnson’s great-great niece Linda Haywood, former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, current heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, and actor Sylvester (Rocky) Stallone, who brought Johnson’s case to his attention. All of them spoke about the injustice done to Jack, and his legacy.
Linda Haywood, Deontay Wilder, Sly Stallone, and Lennox Lewis celebrate with Donald Trump as he shows the pardon of Jack Johnson. Media photo.
The incident reveals something else about Donald Trump. He has a wider circle of friends and acquaintances than any other president except maybe fellow New York City native Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy’s friends and acquaintances were from all walks of life, from the top of society to policemen, miners, cowpokes, soldiers, American Indians, female reformers, African hunters, and Brazilian explorers.
Back to the Mann Act for a moment. I covered it in my 2010 book “Ellis Island: When America Did Immigration Right.” Here’s what I said:
“Nowadays … the ACLU lawyers and other shysters of ill repute would argue against the legality of the Mann Act because “debauchery” is not defined. (Back in the Teddy Roosevelt Era, people didn’t need a formal definition to know what debauchery was.) These lawyers would hold prostitution, pornography, and other forms of commercial degenerate behavior (like trafficking young boys for sodomy) are not necessarily immoral purposes, because some people (like their clients and members) think these acts are okay. Or they would argue it was “selective prosecution” to charge their scumbag clients. After all, they would note, look at the government’s toleration of filth in movies and on TV.
The assault on “white slavery” by Teddy Roosevelt, the Dillingham Commission, James Mann, and prosecutors like Sims, had an immediate effect on immigration enforcement. From 1892 through 1907, immigration officials kept 199 would-be immigrants from entering America on grounds they were of the “immoral classes” — prostitutes, pimps, madams, traffickers, or others who made their living off of sex for sale. (Polygamists, adulterers, incestors, and other degenerates were labeled, debarred, and counted separately.) From 1908 (the first year of formal American participation in the “International Agreement for the Suppression of the ‘White Slave Traffic’ “) through 1910, immigration officials barred 1167 prostitutes, pimps, and procurers.
Slovak women at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman, photographer.
New York Public Library
From 1911 through 1920, a decade of much less immigration to America, immigration officials kept 4824 would-be immigrants from entering the country for connection to the sex trade. From 1921 through 1930, a decade of even more dramatic decline in immigration to America, authorities debarred 1392 people on these grounds. By the way, in 1910 – the year the Mann Act became law – American immigration officials barred 134 aliens from America for polygamy. This was by far the largest number of polygamists kept out of America in any year from the opening of Ellis Island to the present day.
There were no statistics on deportations for cause before 1908. But in those three years, federal officials deported 784 individuals on commercial sex charges, a rate of only about half as many per year as in the years afer the Mann Act passed. American authorities deported 4324 prostitutes, pimps, madams, traffickers, or others who made their living off of sex for sale from 1911 through 1920. They would deport 4238 such degenerates from 1921 through 1930.
The attacks upon those who exploited female immigrants were manifestations of concern of many good-hearted people. And the attacks were more than just sentiment, they were attempts to do something about this evil trade. It is easy to point out flaws in the approaches of these people, but at least they acted instead of merely wringing their hands.
Some losers who consider themselves sophisticated make fun of James Mann and the thought process behind the law that bears his name. But Mann tried to do the right thing. If it was paternal and unfeminist to put such laws on the books, so be it. The alternative was to allow human vermin to force thousands of girls and young women to develop only the job skills of a prostitute, and to submit to the daily grind of servicing sweating degenerates, usually males.
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft supported the efforts of the men and women who combated the sexual exploitation of immigrant women. By comparison, Bill and Hillary Clinton and their administration’s officials would fight against meaningful attempts to fight the new trade in sex slaves from the Orient, Latin America, and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union even though roughly 50,000 young women and girls from these lands were being trafficked into America for the sex trade each year.
Bill’s thought process was obvious – why would he want to lower the number of females available for sex? Hillary and many other feminists opposed fighting sex slave trafficking because they feared protecting women and girls from being used for prostitution would somehow interfere with keeping abortion on demand legal. And their Attorney General Janet Reno, according to some sources, has bought female hookers from time to time herself.
Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey was able to get his anti-trafficking bill passed in 2000 despite Clinton Administration opposition. Why? Because normal people and even most politicians saw it was the right thing to do.
Likewise, back in the day, certain citizens’ groups tried to uphold public morals and protect women and girls from lives of prostitution. The Vice Commission of Chicago put the blame on pornography posing as art and on the double standards the wealthier allowed for themselves. They noted:
“Certain theatrical managers in the city are inclined to present plays which are on the low moral plane. The advertisement of these plays, as well as of others, appear on many of the bill boards, and are offensive to the eyes of decent citizens, and suggestive to the young boys and girls.”
“Unfortunately, there are two standards of morality in Chicago. One standard permits and applauds dances by women almost naked in certain public places under the guise of art, and condemns dances no worse before audiences from the less prosperous walks of life. This same hypocritical attitude drives the unfortunate and often poverty stricken prostitute from the street, and at the same time tolerates and often welcomes the silken clad prostitute in the public drinking places of several of the most pretentious hotels and restaurants of the city.”
In other words, many leading citizens in this country in the early 1900s fought filth, no matter what palatable forms it took. Today’s movers and shakers patronize filth, and get the government to dole out taxpayer-earned grant money to generate more filth that would otherwise be unprofitable.
Any objective historical comparison would show the movers and shakers in the government, Hollywood, the media, and prominent community groups today are clearly grossly inferior people compared to Congressman Mann, Theodore Roosevelt, prosecutor Sims, the female agent who suffered a life-threatening beating while she was working undercover to save immigrant girls from sexual enslavement, the female agents who had to put up with sexual abuse while investigating steerage and immigrant homes, and public-spirited people like those on the Vice Commission of Chicago.
Protection of women and girls takes place when men act as fathers or brothers instead of as lechers or enablers, and when women work with men as fellow adults instead of against them as harpies. Protection of a nation’s girls and womenfolk succeeds when men and women serve this noble cause out of a sense of love and duty flowing from a real Judeo-Christian morality, not merely from snobbery or prudery or feminism.
Our imperfect predecessors did not apologize for trying this general approach to protect the vulnerable. The historical record shows that, because of these good peoples’ concern and their willingness to inconvenience themselves to do the right thing, sexual predators would pose much less of a threat to the average woman or girl in the Ellis Island era than they do now.”
(Another How to be Your Own Detective point – the end notes show the sources for my comments. Newspapers, government records, books, reports and other printed materials are good sources for statistics and for investigative research.)
Teddy, the Donald, and Ronald Reagan have all been good at spotlighting American’s greatness, from the all walks of life. And despite their press antagonists, the three men made many nice gestures to people they didn’t have to make.
In President Trump’s case, his wife Melania and the White House staff made a very nice gesture to my wife and me last week.
Eileen (the name under which the woman I lovingly call “99″ writes) and I sent the Trumps some of our books. Eileen has written two whodunits – “Kris Kringle Crimes” and “Fatal Family Feud” for the First Lady to relax with when she needs some fun reading time. I sent my book “Ellis Island Scrapbook” for her to share with Barron, and “How to be Your Own Detective” for some reading for her and her husband.
We got back these notes:
We each got the same note. I stacked the envelopes behind one of the notes.
Melania Trump’s parents raised her right.
Etiquette may be dead in large segments of American society, but it is not dead here. Or in the White House for that matter, where the First Lady ensures thank-you notes go out. Just like our parents insisted when friend and relatives gave us gifts for Christmases and Easters, birthdays, or graduation. (Jewish parents did likewise for Hanukkah, Passover, and bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs.) “Sir,” Ma’am,” “Please,” “Thank You,” “You’re Welcome,” “Can I Help You?” and “God Bless You” are timeless marks of respect we should show for each other.
Since I am old enough to remember Memorial Day being a fixed holiday on May 30, I will talk a little about that solemn day later in the week. Thank you and God bless you!
SHERLOCK JUSTICE
WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DETECTIVE.
END NOTES:
Information sources on Jack Johnson include the book This Fabulous Century: 1900-1910 (pages 200-201), and La Guardia’s autobiography The Making of an Insurgent (pages 192-193). Another source was a legal brief written by attorney John Siegal in 2004 in support of pardoning Jack Johnson posthumously for the ridiculous conviction that sent him to prison. Siegal confirmed the brief to me in a phone interview in May 2006.
Congressman Mann’s intent wasn’t to punish adultery or fornication between consenting adults. His intent was to protect girls and young women from abuse in the sex trade. In ignoring Mann’s intent, the federal lawmen who persecuted Jack Johnson were as guilty of perversion of justice as were the federal and state authorities who misused the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act – designed to fight organized crime – to persecute pro-life citizens for protesting against abortion.
Recommendations come from the Dillingham Commission report (pages 92-93).
Statistics come from Historic Research Study, Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island National Monument, by Harlan D. Unrau, National Park Service, 1984.
Jack Thompson, who Janet Reno beat in the election for district attorney in Dade County (Miami), Florida, accused her of being a lesbian who on a number of occasions paid for sex with prostitutes. On one occasion, Thompson openly named a pimp, errr, escort service operator doing business with Janet, and named one of the girls he sent to her residence. Thompson said Reno was a “predatory lesbian” with a fetish for “aggressive sex.” He claimed organized crime members had videotapes of Janet in action with female prostitutes. Thompson also noted a police officer in nearby Broward County apprehended Janet Reno in the back seat of a car with a naked girl (female younger than 18), and a homosexual talk show host in the Miami area twitted about it on radio. (Queer Nation reportedly outed Janet as one of their own in 1988.) Thompson said he turned the information about Reno over to the FBI, and to the Clintons’ team of vetters (specifically Lanny Davis). Thompson also said he was the divorce lawyer for a 19-year-old Central American girl who was the wife of a child pornographer when Reno was district attorney. He said Reno had the woman stripped naked, and put on suicide watch in the county jail. He also accused Reno of visiting the woman 30 times alone while she was having her held in the county jail, and accused Reno of holding his client’s hand when she gave a deposition in the case.
Congressman James Traficant (D-OH) accused Janet Reno of treason for failing to call for an independent counsel to investigate the Clintons’ ties to China because she was a blackmail target. He also mentioned a videotape of Janet’s romp with a prostitute. Reno had Traficant prosecuted on corruption charges; George W. Bush’s Justice Department minions continued the case after Reno left office and had Traficant convicted in 2002. In my opinion, Traficant’s offenses compared to Reno’s and Bush’s and the Clintons’ offenses were like shoplifting compared to rape and murder.
Info on Thompson’s charges come from Geoff Metcalf’s 8/31/1998 article in World Net Daily, Dean Arnold’s 8/12/1998 article in ConservativeNews.com, an 8/8/2000 article in NewsMax, and Kenneth Timmerman’s 10/29/2001 article in Insight.
The Vice Commission’s quotes come from The Social Evil in Chicago (pages 31, 74).
