Scary Future for Cowardly Corporate Yes-men

Tony Ortega has been complaining about Kamala Harris, probably at the behest of his former Backpage bosses, James Larkin and Michael Lacey.

As it happens, Kamala Harris’s political rise was propelled by a year-long, high-profile campaign against known sex traffickers like the bosses who oversaw Backpage. And the fact that she helped throw pimps and their enablers in jail for selling illicit sex with coerced women and victimized children can’t come as welcome news for sex-peddling apologists or conspiratorial corporate lapdogs like Tony Ortega.

In what can only be seen as more bad news for lackeys like Ortega – who stridently advocated on behalf of the rights of multi-million dollar companies to make money directly from human trafficking – Harris is someone who fought for over a decade to make the sort of adult prostitution and child sex trafficking Backpage was reaping millions from, illegal once more in California. All of which set the stage for what was to be a federal full-court press against the human trafficking profiteers like Tony Ortega’s former bosses (after all that’s where Ortega’s salary came from).

Harris fought to bring Backpage.com to justice, the site that gave pimps a platform to advertise their victims to a potential client pool of millions of online perverts. Harris named Backpage founders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, specifically in her campaign to end sex child trafficking.

Indeed it was Harris who played a major part in having them arrested, parading them before cameras on pimping charges for all the world to see.

When Harris got to Congress, she kept up her crusade, becoming a big proponent of the 2018 law known as FOSTA-SESTA, which helped to curb sites like the many Backpage knock-offs which sprang up in its place.

What is certain, however, is that men like Tony Ortega are sleeping a little less easy knowing that the former Attorney General who helped bring the hammer down on Backpage may soon be in a position to bring down the full weight of the government on the heads of sex trafficking scofflaws and the cowardly yes-men who helped defend them.