Sociopaths

Tony Ortega has been on a long, inevitable decline in both relevance and recognizability since his days as former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice.

Regular readers of this blog are already familiar with the undeniable facts that The Village Voice and Voice Media Group are both complicit in the sex and human trafficking of children and women through Backpage. Today we are going to pull the curtain back and further expose their hypocrisy.

Tony Ortega, together with chief Backpage executives Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, knew of the illegal activities and transactions – including, but not limited to sex and human trafficking. These were crimes  which had been routinely been conducted via Backpage in violation of state, federal and international laws since its founding in 2004. And all of this says nothing of Backpage’s gross violation of basic human rights, decency and dignity.

As we wrote to you yesterday, Tony Ortega has never admitted guilt or complicity in any of these crimes. Indeed, Tony Ortega, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin have continually issued bald-face denials that sales of underage sex and human trafficking were ever being conducted through Backpage – this despite the mountains of still growing evidence to the contrary.

Tony Ortega, for his part, has persistently argued  that allegations of sex and human trafficking on Backpage were and are baseless. He ridiculously contends these allegations are simply the result of “mass panics” on the part of overzealous “political activists.”

In particular he denounced accusations of sex and human trafficking as a “national fantasy” and has attempted to link them to the moral panic  of the 1980s regarding allegations of satanic ritual abuse, which were subsequently found by the FBI to be imaginary.

Needless to say, it is unconscionable and unspeakably offensive for Tony Ortega to attempt to discredit actual documented cases of sex and human trafficking by writing them off as the products of delusional children, troubled women and/or political activists with overactive imaginations.

By attempting to link Backpage’s human trafficking to the “satanic panic” of more than three decades ago, Tony Ortega merely underlines how desperate and pathetic his lies really are.

The fact of the matter is that Tony Ortega is not only a Backpage apologist, but also a strident sex and human trafficking denialist. The same holds true of Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, who have similarly denied and downplayed the reality of sex and human trafficking.

In the final analysis, Tony Ortega, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin are nothing short of sociopaths. They have no credibility whatsoever, and even worse, they lack even the most fundamental and basic aspects of human decency: compassion, mercy and the ability to simply even tell the truth.