I spent a lot of time learning about this topic before I was confident enough to write about it. I spent a lot of time watching documentaries, reading research and studies and speaking to people around me before I put my fingers to the keyboard.

The reason I am writing this is not because I have any type of desire to use the services of a prostitute but because I understand the hypocrisy and unjustness of criminalizing prostitution.

First lets have a look why it is illegal... I asked around and the only reasons I could seem to find was because it is, "immoral" and "degrading". So basically the reason appears to be religious moral conditions more than any actual real crime or harm being done to either the buyer or the seller.

What society has done by criminalising prostitution has allowed some very vulnerable people to become victims to some of the worst types of abuse. Females and males who work in the industry can be subjected to rape without any type of recourse from the law for fear of being arrested themselves.

So basically, because we are offended by the concept and idea of the type of work someone has chosen to do, we just sit back and allow their hurt and abuse to continue. I'm sorry, you cant take the moral high ground on this one. If you seriously think that we should continue to create victims because of some warped morality code than I cant hold any type of respect for you. You are committing a great crime by allowing these woman to be abused, then by legalizing the industry. Morality should not be legislated!

Now I want to move onto the "degrading" argument that was constantly thrown my way. I emailed and got into contact with a couple of people who work in the industry to get a more balanced view point on the topic, and get their thoughts on the criminalization of prostitution. The responses I got back where professional and interesting and to the letter, not one of them thought their job was degrading.

Most of the people I contacted in fact informed me that they loved their jobs and what they did and a couple even mentioned it was more than about the money. Their point of view seemed to center around the fact that they considered themselves sexually "mature" and did not see any type of sin or evilness with sex.

A couple of the people I spoke to appeared already to be the victims of society with no other resources available to them. One of the ladies explained how her husband had left her with three kids and they were basically starving on the side of the road before she entered the industry. Now she is able to look after herself and her kids, and is putting them all through school.

Another important point we have to look at is the crime associated with prostitution. Yes, there is a pretty large criminal element associated with prostitution but as studies have shown... that element is there because the act of prostitution is criminalized. Because prostitutes are considered to be committing a crime they are unable to use the protective services a lot of society has to offer, and so in turn, have to associate themselves with less savoury characters to get some type of protection from the sicker parts of humanity.

If you legalize it, most of the criminal element should leave with it. This has been shown over and over again when countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand and even an American and Australian state who have all started the process of legalizing it.

In the state of Nevada where prostitution has been legalized and is regulated, results have shown that the STD rate amongst the prostitutes in that state are lower than those of the general public. Also, because the woman are more educated in safer sex and are protected there has not being a single case of AIDS in the Nevada legalized prostitution industry.

This topic should be very simple for us. You have no right to tell someone else what they can and can not do with their body, and no one has the right to tell you what to do with yours. If you choose to sell your body services off as a toilet janitor, a politician or a prostitute that should be YOUR choice. Whether you are offended by the idea or not, prostitution has and most likely will always have a roll and to play and a part in our society. Even in countries in the Middle East where prostitution is punishable by death it continues. Sex is legal, money is legal, sex for money is illegal... unless its in front of a camera, and its just porn, and then its legal. You cant be serious?

Now we can choose to be hypocrites and allow this abuse to continue in the name of some imaginary moral conviction or you can do the right thing, and help protect these woman by decriminalizing the industry.

In the closing words of Penn & Teller episode on the subject of prostitution, if you think its disgusting and degrading. Don't do it.

I would like to point out, that I never had the desire or need to use the services of a prostitute.

I was busy watching episode 1 of season 10 of South Park called, "The return of chef" when I noticed (very quickly) that there was something different about this episode. The first thing that was out of place was that it featured the South Park character "Chef" who had recently quit the show because of the South Park episode on the cult Scientology called "Trapped in the closet". The next thing I noticed was the analogy between the "Super Adventure Club" featured in 'The return of Chef' and Scientology. The third thing that grabbed my attention was the strange sounding Chef, and it quickly dawned on my that they had spliced various audio recordings and put them together to make it look like Chef was in the episode... however they also made it pretty clear that it was spliced sound.

I am not going to go into too many details about the episode "The return of Chef", but a quick look on wikipedia should bring up any relevant spoiler information you might want to look up. To get a better idea of where I am going with this article I am going to first write about the episode, "Trapped in the closet". In this episode Matt and Trey show what Scientologists actually believe and have a good go at John Travolta and Tom Cruise's alleged homosexual tendencies. It also shows what Scientologists really believe:

Most of you out there may not have watched this episode as the cult Scientology was very very quick to move on it. After the first episode was aired the Scientologists managed to bribe/blackmail *cough* sorry.. bad choice of words... managed to convince a judge to throw the American constitution and the all important right of free speech out the window. The episode was never aired again publicly but luckily the Internet is the one place that free speech truly exists and bootleg copies are very easily available to download.

Since the 1990`s Isaac Hayes the man who is the voice of the South Park character Chef has been involved with episodes that have insulted Jews, Mormons, Christians and just about every other religious group you can think of. When the episode "Trapped in the closet" aired he suddenly found the need to try take the moral high-ground and quit the show, claiming that South Park was to "intolerant and bigoted".... strangely he never felt that way with the other religious groups that were being ragged.

Now at this point I want to clarify the term bigot. Saying, "all religions are terrible and wrong" is not bigotry. Saying, "Your religion is wrong and mine is right" is bigotry. So Isaac Hayes had no problem at all with the South Park episodes that dealt with other religions, but all of a sudden was offended when it involved his own cult religious group. I am sorry Isaac...Matt and Trey are not bigots, like me they are equal opportunity offenders. You sir on the other hand are the real Mccoy.. a bottom of the barrel hypocritical bigot. If you are going on about intolerance, how about your own intolerance? Such as not been able to tolerate that South Park episode?

Now that I have got my opinion out the way of the silly Mr Hayes I am going to move onto the wife beating junkie known as L. Ron Hubbard who started up this stupidity. Where do I start? This guy has such a terrible record it would take an entire book to scratch the surface of his depravity, however I will go through a couple of the highlights just to give you a better perspective on what I mean and how I came to my reasoning, but first, lets talk about the man L. Ron Hubbard.

L. Ron Hubbard was born on the March 13, 1911 in Nebraska and it became clear from an early age that he had some serious problems. He was quickly reconised as a pathological liar and sociopath and when researching his life I felt like I was wading through a pond of scum where I couldn't quite get my footing. There was just so much information to deal with and as I mentioned before, it would take a book to cover it all. So for the sake of saving you time and my website space I am going to give you a couple of highlights.

Its pretty clear that L. Ron Hubbard himself recognised he was not a functional member of society and when he was in still in school he mailed the Veteran's Administration and begged for psychiatric help. He was unable to afford the help and in his letter to the Veteran's Administration he pleaded for free treatment. It can be safely assumed that the rejection for not been treated for free by the Veteran's Administration lead to his misguided hate towards all psychiatrists.

L. Ron Hubbard was a con-artist and a thief. He was arrested several times by both the local law agencies and the FBI for fraud and petty theft while trying to rip people off for his ever growing consumption of dangerous narcotics. It would be a drug habit that he would never throw off for the rest of his life. L. Ron Hubbard was an admitted racist and he often praised the old South African government for its Apartheid policies. If you have a look through his journal you will be able to clearly see his racist tendencies. Here is a quote taken from his personal journal while on a trip to China:

""As a Chinaman can not live up to a thing, he always drags it down." and "They smell of all the baths they didnt [sic] take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.""

Being a racist, a pathological liar, a thief and a drug junkie was not enough for L. Ron Hubbard, it appears there were still many laws and basic human rights that he still had to break. Ron seemed to have a sincere fetish for the occult and satanism and regularly practiced satanic rights with a "Black Magician" by the name of Jack Parsons.

A couple of years earlier Ron had married a lady by the name of Margaret Grubb but seemed to forget her and his children when he went galavanting around the world. So much so that while staying with Jack Parson and participating in "sex magick" he married Jack`s girlfriend Sara Northup. This bigamous relationship certainly did not last long and rather than file for a divorce he drove Sara to suicide with the use of regular torture and brutal beatings. Sara's divorce papers also accused Hubbard of kidnapping their baby daughter Alexis, and of conducting "systematic torture, beatings, strangulations and scientific torture experiments." It was suggested by the divorce court that Ron stay at a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment for paranoid schizophrenia.

Nothing I could find on L. Ron Hubbard could lead me to believe he was a decent human being. He lied about everything and to everyone. If he claimed to have a doctorate, my research would who show that he did not even finish university. If he claimed to be a nuclear physicist my research would show that he attended one semester on nuclear physics which he failed.

Its at this point I have to leave the life of L. Ron Hubbard otherwise this article would never come to an end. I just want you to consider this quote from L. Ron Hubbard Jr, "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." For those of you who do not believe any of the above claims I have made about Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (With a first name like that I can see why he went around calling himself Ron) and think I am making any of it up, I will be supplying a link at the end of this article which contains ORIGNAL court transcripts, police records, navy records and doctor reports all pertaining to Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Do the research yourself.

So now I would like to get back to Isaac Hayes formerly from South Park. I have to assume that Isaac Hayes left South Park for his respect and belief in Hubbard so I therefore have to assume that Isaac Hayes approves of all of L. Ron Hubbard's actions. Its very strange for me to think that Isaac Hayes ( a black man ) would have so much reverence for someone who clearly thought that anyone who was not a white male was inferior. To drive the point home lets take another quote out of Hubbard's personal journals,

""Unlike the yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part ... that rocks, trees, walls, etc., can give them attention" and "...so we see the African tribesman, with his complete contempt for the truth, and his emphasis on brutality and savagery...""

And how about Ron's comment about the forced relocation of black people in South Africa during Apartheid;

"Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence."

Clearly Isaac, you are more dumber than I thought... You do realize you are black and that Hubbard hated your people? I honestly can not imagine what kind of stupid you have to be, to follow the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard. If you want to find the most idiotic and gullible group of people in the world simply head over to your local Scientology office and have a look around. It should be dead easy to convince them to hand over their money if the Scientologists have not taken it all already.

L. Ron Hubbard makes Muhammad the prophet look like Jesus Christ, and I seriously can not respect anyone idiotic enough to follow his teachings. If Isaac Hayes is going to insist on following his current course of action then I can only say, "good riddance to bad rubbish" . There is still so much about Scientology that I want to share with you, and as soon as I have a moment I will write an article about what really goes on behind the Scientological iron curtain. To finish this article off I would just like to say something to Tom Cruise, "Its okay to come out of the closet Tom!"

Links for your own research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes
http://www.ronthenut.org/ (contains original court transcripts and FBI files)
http://www.lermanet.com (contains original navy records and police records)

And in the immoral words of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu;

""So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!""

On Wednesday night I was browsing a couple of websites and the news hit the wire that the eNaTIS website (http://www.enatis.com) has been hacked. I was pretty surprised at that so I decided to go have a look for myself and see if it had been hacked. When I browsed to the eNaTIS website it was very clearly shown that they had been hacked. I even took the following screenshot to remind me the event:

So wow, the ENATIS website was hacked by someone from Turkey (according to the message). I did a little bit more research and found out that the system had been hacked the day before this hack took place as well. At this point I wondered how wise it was for the traffic department to design their website on public content management system like Joomla. You would think that with the budget they blew that at the very least they could have paid a professional designer to make the eNaTIS website. You would be wrong.

I know websites get hacked all the time online. I have watched servers hosting thousands of websites all get exploited in a single night so I really did not think much more about it. About an hour later I decide to go back to the eNaTIS website to see if they have resolved the hack and fixed the situation. So I logged back onto www.enatis.com and saw right way that their website has been restored... but with an added message. Here is the screenshot I took of that visit:

Okay, I completely understand the difference between the eNaTIS website and the eNaTIS system so most of what was written there made sense. Though I love the propagandic attempt to play down the hack by using the choice of words, "This was apparently due to someone leaving a comment on a page of a section of the eNaTIS public web site (this site). ". The "part" of the site that was hacked was the index page, which means that any browsers would not be able to browse to any other parts of the site. That's a pretty big section if you want ask me.

I honestly thought the story would end there and that would be the last I heard about it (unless the website got hacked again) until I woke up this morning. Myadsl.co.za had published part of a statement released from the Department of Transport. about the hacks that stunk so much I just had to write about it. Before I continue let me show you what got me all worked up:

Once again I have highlighted the bullsh!t for you. You can clearly see from my collection of screenshots I have taken about this incident that Collen Msibi is a lying bastard. Collen Msibi is now claiming that the eNaTIS website has "NOT" been hacked! Even though earlier in the day he informed the press that he was aware of the hack and was investigating it.

This man is either way too dishonest or too stupid to hold his current position in public office. Since I am very familiar with how the current government mindset works I am going to lean in the direction of dishonesty with a dash of stupidity. Why do our government officials have such problems with telling the truth? Do people working in government not have any character beyond that of a petri dish of bacteria?

Collen Msibi, by saying the eNaTIS website was not hacked after it so clearly was is wrong. You have either lied to the public or are not educated enough to be releasing statements on behalf of the Department of Transport. But hey, what do you care?

Howzit Folks,

I am moving from Jozi to Slaapstad today so I do not know how long I will be offline for... I am working on a story to write about at the moment, but I am still waiting for replies from the South African NIA before I can complete the story.

Hopefully I will have it up within the week.

Hope you all have a fantastic time!

Seeya soon,
pickledbushman