Q Anon: Preparation and strength test - The feds have seized classifieds website Backpage linked to child sex trafficking.
The United States government has seized Backpage.com, the controversial classifieds website. A notice informing visitors of the seizure was posted on the site, and a Justice Department spokesperson confirmed the notice.
According to the notice, the website and its affiliates were seized “as part of an enforcement action” by the FBI, as well as other federal and local agencies. The notice provides little other information, saying the Department of Justice will provide more at 6PM EST today.
This site was created after Craigslist got rid of their adult sections back in 2004 because of complains about possible prostitution and child sex trafficking using the site's adult section.
Backpage appears to have taken up slack with it being in the cross-hairs of congress as well as the CEO being arrested.
Backpage.com shuts down adult services ads after relentless pressure from authorities
Fighting accusations from members of Congress that it facilitated child sex trafficking, the classified advertising site Backpage.com abruptly closed its adult advertising section in the United States on Monday, saying years of government pressure left it no choice but to shutter its most popular and lucrative feature.
The decision came shortly after a Senate panel released a report alleging Backpage concealed criminal activity by removing words from ads that would have exposed child sex trafficking and prostitution. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is scheduled to hold a hearing on the report Tuesday morning. Backpage’s founders and executives will appear in the hearing but do not plan to testify, according to their attorneys.
In a related development Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lawsuit by three sex-trafficking victims who claimed Backpage promoted the sexual exploitation of minors.
It's one thing to have a webite that posts classifed ads but it's another for that website to cover up serious crimes of child sex trafficking. There must of been some serious criminal activity going on for congress to get involved and for lawsuits going all the way up to the Supreme Court. Makes me wonder how many Washington politicians used this website.
Backpage.com's CEO has been arrested for sex trafficking
The chief executive officer of Backpage.com, a portal for adult classified ads, was arrested yesterday on charges of pimping, pimping a minor under 16 years of age, and conspiracy to commit pimping, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.
CEO Carl Ferrer was arrested in Houston, Texas, after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam. He was arrested on a California warrant, after a three-year investigation there determined that many of Backpage's adult ads included victims of sex trafficking and minors. Authorities have also issued warrants for the site's controlling shareholders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/7/13206388/backpage-com-ceo-arrested-for-sex-trafficking
Three year investigation, so they spent some time looking into this. It seems like the authorities really wanted to cross their Ts and dot their Is before they arrested this guy. Note the date he was arrested, Oct 7th 2016.
Calif. judge rejects pimping charges involving website
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California judge tentatively rejected pimping charges Wednesday against the operators of a major international website that advertises escort services and was called the “world’s top online brothel” by the state attorney general, but gave both sides more time to submit briefs before issuing a final ruling next month.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman cited a federal law involving freedom of speech while ruling that the state attorney general’s office cannot continue prosecuting Backpage.com’s CEO Carl Ferrer and former owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin.
And about 5 weeks later charges were dropped. Can you say cover up? They claimed freedom of speech was the reason for letting him go. I call bullshit, you don't have the freedom to erase or alter words like "teenage", "rape" or "young" from the adult section and not notify authorities of possible criminal activity. I think these charges where dropped so fast because they didn't want the government investigating this company any further because they probably have some damning information on some political figures.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-judge-rejects-pimping-charges-backpage-com/
Q anon has been focusing on pedophilia for the last few days linking Hillary Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein and the problems with pedophilia in the Catholic church saying the Pope is going to have a bad May saying those who back him are going to be exposed. There's a lot of bad news coming out of the Vatican lately with Bishops and Monks involved in orgies and sexual assaults of minors.
Q commented on this Backpage website being taken down by the Justice Department and what's interesting is he said this is preparation. I assume for something larger to come out. Maybe the beginning of a larger crack down and some names to come out. He also said it's a strength test. Maybe to see how the public reacts or how government officials react.
Either way this company looks shady and the fact that charges were dropped so fast against the CEO after a three year investigation sounds to me that something bigger was going on at this company than just a site to host classified ads. My guess is that this company or at least high level people at the company knew child sex trafficking was taking place and covered it up. I can't wait to hear why the DOJ seized the website and if any charges are going to be files against employees.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17207838/backpage-com-seized-website-down-fbi
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Relevance:Q Anon
This is a huge straw man distraction.
Ya could be but what makes you think that?
I know that there are devil worshiping people who like to harvest babys in the abortion mills.
I know at the highest levels they are initiated with child abuse, and the final step is to murder a toddler.
I am against all these things, including the abuse and molestation of children. I am pro life, in the sense that I would call Roe V Wade, an atrocity.
However, the danger I see here is conflating Pedophilia with activities involving consenting adults.
Prostitution among consenting adults is mostly illegal in the USA and most of the world because it is used as a system of control.
I can not condone the prosecution of consenting adults when there are no children involved.
That is why I call this a strawman distraction. They are not going after the real corruption, and this backpage and craig list thing appears to be from my research to be exclusively targeting consenting adults.
Yup. Craigslist specifically says that on their site that its only affecting the personal section, which was supposed to only be for adults on to begin with. This is bullshit. The other day I was goin through some shit and really wanted to fuck a hooker. Had to resort to using dating apps to get off.
Yeah- Bring them down!!! I've been following Corsi's decoding of the posts. (Looking forward to seeing what happens with the Vatican too!)
this is really surprising, as a web page can be used for the abuse of menroes and this step is available to everyone
This makes me very impressed, nobody will do anything about it ?