James Ivker

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If you are not in favor of the legalization of prostitution, you are not in favor of the Declaration of Independence and the creeds that America was founded on. This Declaration entitles all Americans to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness, not one person’s personal version of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Making prostitution legal will allow the act to be managed instead of ignored. Pimps and organized crime figures that regularly treat their workers on subhuman levels would no longer control working citizens. Legalizing prostitution as case studies such as Nevada and various countries show would prevent underground prostitution and the problems that it entails. If being a prostitute and earning yourself a healthy living is what will contribute to your “pursuit of happiness,” than who is the government to tell us otherwise. A fellow citizen is raped or sexually assaulted twelve times a year. I will not accept this type of mistreatment of a fellow American. This same citizen engages in unprotected sex three hundred times a year. I will not allow working members of society to be risking their health, when a healthy system is possible. Legalized systems show close to no violence towards these citizens and since 1989 not one prostitute has tested positive for HIV/AIDS in the regulated system of Nevada. The brothels resulting from the legalization would be privatized and in line with America’s free market. Prostitution as it stands is prejudiced against prostitutes as prostitutes account for 90% of the arrests and their clients for only 10%. Prostitutes are human beings too and they deserve rights. If the laws in place were equitable 50% of those arrested would be the clients. Cops aren’t interested in pursuing the clients however. Clients often have money and can defend themselves. Prostitutes Can’t. World-renowned economist Stephen Leavitt has shown through various studies that a police officer is more likely to rape a prostitute than to arrest one. Injustice? I think so!! I will not allow our country to turn a blind eye to the members of society cast into the shadows because of their lifestyle choice. The time has come to face up to the facts and to implement a policy that will benefit our society immensely. The time has come for the legalization of prostitution!

Think Youth Welcomes James Ivker!

Hello All,

My name is James Ivker and I am a 17 year old Senior from Wayland, Massachusetts. I have only recently become interested in the crazy world of politics. Last fall I joined a program called Youth and Government in which high schoolers run a mock government in the State of Massachusetts which culminates in a three day conference at the Massachusetts State House while students try to pass legislation. Through this program I have realized the beauty of the political system. I consider myself to be liberal but am open to ideas from any part of the political spectrum. I believe that we as a country should do whatever we need to ensure that our country can reach its peak in greatness. Thus said, I find that the majority of ideas presented to improve our country in my view come from the Democratic Party which is why I associate with them. However, after spending a week this summer in North Carolina at the Youth Conference on National Affairs I have seen that we are all Americans with the ability to compromise in order to better ourselves and our fellow countrymen. I sat with 600 high schoolers whose goal was to pass “proposals” that would improve America. It didn’t matter if you were a tree hugging liberal or a bible clutching conservative or somewhere in between, we were all Americans.

As Barrack Obama said in his address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004, “The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an “awesome God” in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”