Looks like some fairly prominent members of the community got busted:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...le-businessman-charged-prostitution/31987431/
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...le-businessman-charged-prostitution/31987431/
Major prostitution sting in Polk County
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Sheesh. Where's the crime? Sure, I wouldn't do what they did and sure the heck wouldn't see the need to investigate. Underage or close involved and I'm on board.
They could better use their manpower busting drivers who are driving and talking on their cellphones. If their are drugs involved..or human slavery or sone such crime then bust them.
We'd be better off licensing it, regulating it and taxing the hell out of it.
We'd be better off licensing it, regulating it and taxing the hell out of it.
Why do stupid people think "tax the hell out of it" is a smart thing?
If you legalize pot, or prostitution or whatever else, it should simply be taxed as every other business or product.
Leftists are so clueless
Prostitution is a form of human slavery, especially of there is a pimp or coyote involved.
I'm surprised the Des Moines Chief of Police wasn't busted in this. He has a strong appetite for the street dingleberries, just sayin.
Among those charged was David Michael Greenspon, 58, an Urbandale businessman who was once briefly vaulted into national news for a backyard confrontation with President Barack Obama.
In Sept. 2010, media outlets including National Public Radio and Fox wrote about Greenspon after he questioned Obama's plan to let Bush-era tax cuts expire during an event in a Des Moines backyard. Greenspon was featured in a Fox Business report ahead of the 2012 Iowa caucus.
Greenspon is vice chair of the Iowa Finance Authority board, a branch of state government that works on housing and homelessness issues. Gov. Terry Branstad appointed Greenspon to the board in 2011. His wife, Tali Greenspon, is a West Des Moines school board member.
See what happens when you $&%* with Obama!!!
In Sept. 2010, media outlets including National Public Radio and Fox wrote about Greenspon after he questioned Obama's plan to let Bush-era tax cuts expire during an event in a Des Moines backyard. Greenspon was featured in a Fox Business report ahead of the 2012 Iowa caucus.
Greenspon is vice chair of the Iowa Finance Authority board, a branch of state government that works on housing and homelessness issues. Gov. Terry Branstad appointed Greenspon to the board in 2011. His wife, Tali Greenspon, is a West Des Moines school board member.
See what happens when you $&%* with Obama!!!
I guess my point would be that the families would be no less or more torn apart by a simple case of adultery.
Not if it was legalized, legitimized and taxed. It would be another business in town. Bars, casinos and betting parlors are legal. You may not like them but then you don't have to participate either.
Close the casinos and bars and the crime will disappear. We should use the ultra successful "war on Drugs" blue print.
It's not a question of crime or no crime, it is a question of black market or no black-market.
Why not just make it illegal if you are married?
Look I think this is immoral even if you are single. In fact I think all sex outside of marriage is immoral. But our prisons are already full. . . Putting single guys willing to put aside morality for an easy lay and women willing to put it aside to make money into prisons isn't real high on my priority list.
The fact that they make adultery easy doesn't mean a ton though. That was the intention of Ashely Madison. . . Should we put all 32 million of those people in prison?
You assume they are all married, I doubt the 20 year old is. For some it is probably just their life
Should something be illegal just because it is considered immoral? I am sure that a vast majority of society would say, if polled, that adultery is immoral. However, should that make it illegal? Is there a moral difference between picking a woman up in a bar and taking her to a hotel and picking a pro up and taking her to a hotel?
For the record, I think legalizing prostitution would make it more widespread, leading more people down a destructive path. In other words, it should remain criminalized, not because it is immoral, but it can lead to societal harm. While adultery is in the same category, I don't think it is right to criminalize that many members of society.
In the Bay area they put the John's pictures on billboards all around the area. That way just in case your neighbors don't know your name they will know your face.
European nations that have legalized prostitution havn't seen this societal harm.
I think you can legalize some vices and that doesn't mean that everyone is going to lose their mind and get hooked on them or even use them.
Just seems like a whole lot of money spent to police something that people do quite a bit of outside of prostitution.
That and I think it's hypocritical. A rich old guy can get a "girlfriend" 20 years younger then him and pay for her apartment, clothes, bills, food etc etc and it's perfectly legal even though EVERYONE knows that this is trading money for sex. But if a woman and a man agree on it for a 1 time deal it's suddenly illegal.
Seems silly. I just think legalizing it solves more problems then it creates.
