
So, you've had a bad day at work. You're tired, sore, and feel like drinking yourself to sleep. That's all fine and good, but wait, wouldn't you like a little lovin' before bed? We all would. Aww, but it turns out you're sad and pathetic and nobody loves you. Well, that's ok because you can just jump on Craigslist and order up some love. That is, until the government has their way, again.
Apparently out to ruin the lives of sad, lonely people with disposable income, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart (who apparently enjoys smelling tiny hands) has filed a federal lawsuit against Craigslist for their role in perpetuating prostitution. Evidently, "Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation," Dart said. "Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they're being pimped on craigslist." Ok. And?
Really, people? Are we so fucking ridiculous and afraid of personal responsibility that we have to waste our government's time and money on shit like this? How can anyone think this will accomplish anything? People will just find another place to go, and it seems misguided to alienate a site that is seemingly very cooperative with law enforcement. Hey, has anyone considered the fact that since, "Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation," it might be a useful tool in combating it? If we shut the erotic services section down, I suppose the result will be a fragmenting of these ads on to hundreds of other sites. So, that seems like a winning approach if the ultimate goal is to end prostitution. Give me a fucking break.
The best part simply has to be that, "The sheriff also noted instances of what he said was child neglect while parents were engaged in activity solicited on the Web site." Well, fuck. That's it. Game over, people. We better start filing lawsuits against Blogger, and Amazon, and Google, and eBay, and CNN, and all those twisted fuckers out there who have established attractive and useful websites with the sole intent of encouraging parents to ignore their children and spend time on the site. Basically homeboy is saying, "Fuck you, Internet."
I'm getting so tired of a culture that discourages personal responsibility and accountability. So you're whoring yourself out online? Oh no, not anymore. Fuck you, internet whore. We're taking your website away.
I think we need to start a movement to sue the government to shut down all sidewalks, hotels, bars, and nightclubs. Obviously the only reason we have problems with prostitution is because these things exist.
I don't know about the rest of you people, but I for one take comfort in the fact that I can go online and find a hooker any time of the day or night. That just makes good sense.

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I tried suing the internet for lost time and wages, but apparently you have to actually go to a court or something to do that, and I might miss some important "tweet" if I do that.
Next thing you know, people will be using the "Craigslist made me do it" excuse for everything.
YEAH!!!!
"The sheriff also noted instances of what he said was child neglect while parents were engaged in activity solicited on the Web site."
those WOW folks are in some serious trouble.
Let's see...what can we blame our fucked up kids on this year?
Craigslist...video games...rap...horror movies...drugs...Rock n Roll...
I wonder if assholes in prehistory were like this too.
"Fucking kids with their fires and wheels! They're poisoning our youth!"
The purpose of keeping prostitution illegal: keeping young women from being sold into the sex trade.
I don't know how arresting some lady for running her own massage parlor (so much for my happy ending), is a means to that end.
But I guess I don't know lots of things.
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