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OK, thanks. The professionals working to end sex trafficking define any sex act with a person who has been trafficked as rape. So, if it is proven (or even highly suspicious) that the person who was servicing Kraft (or anyone on any of these videos from this massage parlor) were doing so against their will (sex trafficking), then the video won't be released.
I’m sure if they were minors that would automatically block it, and if they are sex slaves being held against their will that would block it too.
If the blowee is considered a victim surely it would be blocked. If the blowee is just an entrepreneurial prostitute I suppose it can’t be blocked which jives with the sheriffs comments.
 
Amazing, another admission from AJ that women may just be prostitutes and not sex slaves. He needs to stay up all night more often since he sees clearly now.
 
Amazing, another admission from AJ that women may just be prostitutes and not sex slaves. He needs to stay up all night more often since he sees clearly now.
I’ve never said anything contrary to that. You would know that if you could read.
 
This could go all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Our Bob

Your Polians and Irsays and whatnot can't say that.

If he wins at SCOTUS, I'm sorry, that's a banner! (No banners for winning in lower courts, that's a Colts move.)
 
Looks like AJ is finally starting to see the light and for first time admitting there is a possibility cops may have done something wrong. This in contrast to 1000 posts that said cops had probable cause, have no reason to lie and judges order is correct because, well he's a judge. He finally gets it. Wow
Wow you are obtuse.

I have never ruled out any possibility of anything.
I have said there is absolutely nothing available to us that said they have.
You clearly can’t understand the difference.

The cops absolutely had probably cause, because they went to a judge and presented their probable cause. The judge, who is the only one who can determine probable cause issued the warrant.
We have nothing available to us saying the judge was wrong. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t it just means it’s unlikely.
Clearly you don’t understand this thought process either.

See the difference here is I know that legal procedures were followed and until someone shows me they were done wrong I suspect they were done correctly. When more evidence comes available OBVIOUSLY my opinion will change based upon that evidence. Somehow you turn my approach of “based upon what we know” and refusing to accept made up facts as “I am certain” which is ridiculous.
On the other hand you want your speculation as to what may have happened that you have nothing available to you to back up and is simply based upon your wishes and bias, to be considered fact.

You literally have this exactly backward.
 
I'm imagining myself as a law enforcement official in this County. I see crimes (prostitution, cash business avoiding taxation) done in the open air under a cover everyone knows is BS ("massage parlor"). This inevitably erodes at the local economy and social infrastructure (drug use, STD's and a drag on the healthcare safety net system, etc.) as well as the reputation of my home town. It is routinely used and supported by a network of extremely rich guys who otherwise hang out at their mansions on the beach and pretend and promote their superiority.

Yeah, I think I'd lose my patience with this pretty quickly and happily find a way to take it down. So it there was any possibility that trafficking were underneath any of it, which is a form of organized crime and often connected to multinational slavery, I'd go after it with every weapon I had.
 
Wow you are obtuse.

I have never ruled out any possibility of anything.
I have said there is absolutely nothing available to us that said they have.
You clearly can’t understand the difference.

The cops absolutely had probably cause, because they went to a judge and presented their probable cause. The judge, who is the only one who can determine probable cause issued the warrant.
We have nothing available to us saying the judge was wrong. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t it just means it’s unlikely.
Clearly you don’t understand this thought process either.

See the difference here is I know that legal procedures were followed and until someone shows me they were done wrong I suspect they were done correctly. When more evidence comes available OBVIOUSLY my opinion will change based upon that evidence. Somehow you turn my approach of “based upon what we know” and refusing to accept made up facts as “I am certain” which is ridiculous.
On the other hand you want your speculation as to what may have happened that you have nothing available to you to back up and is simply based upon your wishes and bias, to be considered fact.

You literally have this exactly backward.
No Andy there has been enough information out there from the beginning that raised suspicions about this whole operation. You just refused to believe that it was possible that the cops lied or exaggerated to obtain the sneak and peak warrants.

You claimed there was enough probable cause solely based on what Sheriff said, no other facts, so you didn't know but accepted it anyway. Even as cops started to backtrack with we have to get girls to cooperate, no one is being charged with trafficking, etc. you maintained cops had everything they needed to do what they did.

When others raised the theory that the cops may have lied to capture big fish in the act via video you claimed they were idiots and morrons.

Honestly trying to have a discussion with you is a waste of time because you will either remain obtuse to the issue in question, gloss over questions, or simply change your position as you see fit just so you can't be perceived as being wrong.

By the way, no one here is a Kraft fan boy, nobody cares about him. This is all about 4th amendment rights, rights to privacy, which you have made it abundantly clear that you don't care about by taking the position you have.

I'm out. Let the legal process take its course, I'll just take out the popcorn, it's going to be good theater.
 
Holy false equivalence, Batman! Krafty Bob was visiting a massage parlor that was an undercover whore house, Richardson was sexually and racially harassing his own employees at their work place which was a NFL franchise. A bit of a difference, at least in my book.

Both parties infractions still are under the big tent of #Metoo.

Perhaps we break new ground on the severity of punishment with Kraft? Its happened before with other topics like race where the mere existence of a racial comment misinterpreted has been grounds for termination.
 
One of the differences here seems to be how to interpret the lack of public information about arrests for trafficking at this point.

Some are interpreting that to mean that there won't be any, and the case was a house of cards from the start.

Others are interpreting that to mean that the process is grinding along, and arrests will be forthcoming.

This one point seems to make a big difference. Kraft's PR team is making a big deal about it, but without evidence that their interpretation is correct. That's to be expected.
 
Jupiter PD wanted a big fish and now they're gonna wish they didn't catch such a big one. Kraft has enough money to discover and reveal all their mistakes. Citizens have rights, but most of us don't have the kind of money it takes to protect our rights. Bob does.

This seems to be heading for a "mutually assured destruction" scenario: The police threaten to leak the HJ video, the Kraft team threatens to show how incompetent the police are in court. Who blinks first?

Good old Bob

Showing his players whom he holds to the strictest of high standards on how to escape punishment if you happen to attract the attention of police and the court system.

Its the fish blaming the fisherman for getting caught.
 
No Andy there has been enough information out there from the beginning that raised suspicions about this whole operation.

No that’s the point there has not.
There has been speculation and what if. Your entire argument has been based upon that. Please show me any FACTS that you have used. Maybe the warrant was for trafficking and maybe they didn’t find any and maybe that means other crimes they find with that investigation aren’t prosecutable isn’t information or fact, it’s soeculation.



You just refused to believe that it was possible that the cops lied or exaggerated to obtain the sneak and peak warrants.
Yes, I refuse to believe WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE that they lied and exaggerated.
See this is the difference between us. I refuse to accept it until there is any proof. You make it up and argue as if it’s fact.
So if they didn’t you are wrong.
If they did, I reconsider my position because now I have information.
Again you have it exactly backward.

I base my judgment on what is known and clearly have always been open to new facts.
You make up things and speak as if they certainly happened.

You claimed there was enough probable cause solely based on what Sheriff said, no other facts, so you didn't know but accepted it anyway.

Of course I did because they took probable cause to the judge and he issued a warrant.
That means they were legally determined to have probable cause to proceed. It’s a fact.

Even as cops started to backtrack with we have to get girls to cooperate, no one is being charged with trafficking, etc. you maintained cops had everything they needed to do what they did.
They did. Because they got a warrant.
Do you actuslly understand how this works? If a police officer conducts a search he needs to justify it with probably cause it his search was not valid. If the police officer wants to eliminate that risk he goes to a judge, gets his probable cause authorized and approved and is given permission to execute the search and seizure. The cops literally did everything they needed to because the only entity that can determine that said they did.

When others raised the theory that the cops may have lied to capture big fish in the act via video you claimed they were idiots and morrons.
Actuslly no one ever raised the theory that they lied to get the warrant at least that I read or responded to so you are wrong here.
Please show where someone suggested that and I said they were an idiot or moron. Never happened.
Had that come up, I would have responded that it’s unlikely and there is nothing available to us to suggest that happened so it’s not a realistic argument until there is anything to back it up.


Honestly trying to have a discussion with you is a waste of time because you will either remain obtuse to the issue in question, gloss over questions, or simply change your position as you see fit just so you can't be perceived as being wrong.
Of course, because you are so triggered and don’t even read things that you respond to. You consistently make up and misstate what I say so it evolves into a back and forth where you are just making things up and I have try to redirect you to reality.
Literally everything you have describe about my position in this post is inaccurate. Every single piece of it. If you can’t read a list and understand it because you are so triggered that you can’t even accept that your making up facts and arguing they are proof is going to get disputed, it turns into this.


By the way, no one here is a Kraft fan boy, nobody cares about him.
That’s not true.

This is all about 4th amendment rights, rights to privacy, which you have made it abundantly clear that you don't care about by taking the position you have.
I probably care more about those rights than you do. Which is why I deal with the facts, not some made up what if.
The 4th amendment doesn’t protect against search and seizure by law enforcement investigating crimes, it protects against illegal search and seizure without probable cause of a crime. If you want to extend that protection to protect criminal enterprises where probably cause exists then you are pro-crime.

Again the difference between us.

If police suspect a crime and go through the proper process to investigate it I assume they did it properly until I see proof they did not, then I condemn it.
You on the other hand condemn it on principle before knowing anything was done wrong. That leads to protecting criminals and handcuffing the process of investigating, stopping and punishing actual real crime that is occurring.

I'm out. Let the legal process take its course, I'll just take out the popcorn, it's going to be good theater.
Smartest thing you have said and I suggest you do that, and actually allow facts to be known rather than make them up and toe yourself to a conclusion that is based upon ignorance.
 
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The prosecutors rejected it, not a judge. Kraft should just own it and move on, he’s going to get hammered by a Goodell either way. His smartest move would be to pass control if the franchise to Jonathan, take his punishment, and fade away.

Agree. His attempts to get off are actually worse than the crime. If he is the upstanding citizen he says he is, he'll take the shame and embarrassment head on, not try to avoid the criminal justice system because he's in a privileged position. And if he truly believes that the video should never have been taken, or the traffic stop not made, there are other ways to address improving law enforcement activity that don't look like you are just trying to avoid paying the price for something you obviously did.
 
One of the differences here seems to be how to interpret the lack of public information about arrests for trafficking at this point.

Some are interpreting that to mean that there won't be any, and the case was a house of cards from the start.

Others are interpreting that to mean that the process is grinding along, and arrests will be forthcoming.

This one point seems to make a big difference. Kraft's PR team is making a big deal about it, but without evidence that their interpretation is correct. That's to be expected.
I feel this is subterfuge.
The issue isn’t whether they were able to make a case to prosecute trafficking. An investigation that doesn’t produce arrests is not an illegal investigation.
The standard is probable cause not ultimate proof.
If in fact the warrant was based upon suspicion of trafficking which basically every report says it was the standard is that there was a reasonable judgment of probably cause to suspect trafficking. Not that ultimately that suspicion proved to be correct.
Trafficking has nothing to do with kraft, other than he was arrested as a consequence of an investigation and the basis of that investigation was trafficking. If there was enough proof that trafficking could be occurring the warrant is valid whether the investigation turns out to show trafficking or not.

If kraft were charged with sneaking in the back door and stealing a 20 out of the cash register because it was surveilled in the investigation, his case would also be contingent upon whether the trafficking warrant was legitimate because the evidence against him was a result of the trafficking warrant even though his crime would have had absolutely nothing to do with trafficking. The evidence is only available because of the warrant. Bad warrant=inadmissible tape.
 
Article says:

I don't think the attorney is surprised at all. Granting such requests is routine, but in this case the key weapon the prosecutor has is the threat of the tapes leaking, and of course they aren't going to voluntarily give that up.

You mean they are holding that tape over Kraft's head as a bargaining chip? You either need to remove that tin foil hat or you're just very lucky. One of the two.
 
Amazing, another admission from AJ that women may just be prostitutes and not sex slaves. He needs to stay up all night more often since he sees clearly now.

AJ was still right, you just got lucky.
 
I feel this is subterfuge.
The issue isn’t whether they were able to make a case to prosecute trafficking. An investigation that doesn’t produce arrests is not an illegal investigation.
The standard is probable cause not ultimate proof.
If in fact the warrant was based upon suspicion of trafficking which basically every report says it was the standard is that there was a reasonable judgment of probably cause to suspect trafficking. Not that ultimately that suspicion proved to be correct.
Trafficking has nothing to do with kraft, other than he was arrested as a consequence of an investigation and the basis of that investigation was trafficking. If there was enough proof that trafficking could be occurring the warrant is valid whether the investigation turns out to show trafficking or not.

If kraft were charged with sneaking in the back door and stealing a 20 out of the cash register because it was surveilled in the investigation, his case would also be contingent upon whether the trafficking warrant was legitimate because the evidence against him was a result of the trafficking warrant even though his crime would have had absolutely nothing to do with trafficking. The evidence is only available because of the warrant. Bad warrant=inadmissible tape.
Seems like that is what Kraft's lawyer is banking on which is judge who issued the warrant did not have enough justification to do so. Judges make mistakes but that seems like a 9th inning down to their last strike strategy...

I see Kraft's lawyer calling it a violation of the 4th Amendment.

Which is why I still ask why the FBI and DOJ did not want to be involved in this case (assumption is not enough evidence/proof of trafficking)

Interesting plot twists here.
 
The prosecutors rejected it, not a judge. Kraft should just own it and move on, he’s going to get hammered by a Goodell either way. His smartest move would be to pass control if the franchise to Jonathan, take his punishment, and fade away.
That's the title of the article link, I can't control what it said but you're right.

I disagree on strategy, Kraft and all the others need to fight this. I have property in Palm Beach, my kids live there and I'm not comfortable with cops using laws approved to combat terrorism to go on fishing expeditions and to video innocent people (because they did, not everyone was getting a hj) that expect the right of privacy.
 
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the law enforcement agencies who find sexual trafficking horrendous

Are there law enforcement agencies who don't find sex trafficking horrendous? You're so far off the reservation now it's embarrassing.
 
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