This. Anyone who thinks they are targeting people visiting Amsterdam's red light district, or Nevada's bunny ranch, needs to read more. This is about people seeking underage sex in countries where it is more accessible than in Canada. Thailand, Vietnam, all of south america ... a single male with no family ties, returning alone from such countries should expect some attention at the Canadian boarder. They are looking for the pictures, the possession of which is a serious crime in Canada.
Not in my case. I'm for the decriminalization of sex work, among other things. I'm just against raping children and generally mistreating poor people because you think you can get away with it.
Keep it among genuinely consenting adults, and I don't care how many, what genders are involved, how you folks agree to get your freak on and yadda.
Terrorism, children, drugs, or sex; all excuses used for attacking individual liberty. Let's get real here, stuff like this is about control, not about security, and certainly Nota about morality...
That's just how politicians package it so the people swallow the poison pill.
That said, I feel like people vastly overestimate the similarity of governments of the US and the UKs vassal states like Canada, and that false expectation is part of why people get outraged. Once one understands this the authoritarian approach of the "Commonwealth" nations things make much more sense.
I answered a question about what is so bad about sex tourism and also responded to accusations that being against child rape amounts to puritanism.
If you want to narrowly define Puritanism as against child rape, okay, I will proudly accept that label.
Beyond that, I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I'm not here to discuss politics. I have very little to do with politics. If you think explaining the term sex tourism is some sort of political agenda, agreeing with a particular policy, etc, you are reading in a whole boat load of stuff that isn't there.
I'm a private citizen, not a politician. I'm engaging in discussion on a forum. That's the extent of that.
Please don't post flamebait like this again. It's flamebait because it's both inflammatory and unsubstantive. It's like spending your last dollar to buy spoiled milk.
> Terrorism, children, drugs, or sex; all excuses used for attacking individual liberty.
You've provided no basis for this claim.
> Let's get real here, stuff like this is about control, not about security, and certainly Nota about morality...
You've provided no basis for this claim.
> That's just how politicians package it so the people swallow the poison pill.
I take this as an expression rather than a claim, but still it doesn't teach us anything.
You haven't tied your point about sovereignty to the topic of discussion, and when commenters don't do that we get taken off into generic tangents.
This is not about holding controversial opinions. It's about failing to meet the standards of discourse here, and meeting them is a rather mechanical thing which all commenters are capable of.
