Prostitution In Northeast Kansas City

The heat outside is almost unbearable. As I drive up and down the Avenue I see an older woman leaning out of an apartment window in front of a fan sweating and trying to get some kind of relief from the heat. With the heat the streets seemed to be filling with more and more people. As you drive down the avenue in Northeast Kansas City you will most likely see women in prostitution. The uncritical perspective seems to believe that those of us who wish to stand up for these women somehow are pro-prostitution or want to see these women on the street. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are many in Kansas City who are actually fighting to help these women. Then there seems to be a group with disdain for these women who just want to rid the city of these people.

The dialogue on this has shown the exact same sentiment as we see in Arizona. There is one group that seems to look down on these people and wishes to make them vanish. This is the voice of the uncritical mind that accepts that “law” is good because it just is. There is no spine to the movement out of that they pay some police officer to pretend to have. The pious religiosity they have towards the words written by other men shows the lack of any defense outside of their want to hire men with guns to hide behind badges in order to enforce their will.

They have attacked other people with false claims. They call the opposition “outsiders” in some lie they have created that we who live in the northeast somehow do not and that should discredit what we say. They have repeatedly attacked Nick Pickrell online for not living in the Northeast long enough. The group that is actually out there working to clean up the very problem they complain about is the group that comes under attack. Perhaps if Nick Pickrell and those at Cherith Brook were using his guns to force those people into cages they would support them also.

I have strong feelings on the issue on multiple levels. First as a human-being, second as an anarchist . As an anarchist I am opposed to the power of the state especially the power of the police to enforce morality. I have an issue with human beings holding power over other humans so from the social-cultural aspect I also oppose the dynamic of the Neighborhood Association and the power they wield over others. The neighborhood association is closed to many people. If one owns a home they can partake. Renters and other people in Northeast Kansas City are excluded from any voice or power. This leaves out the majority of the minorities voices, and in Northeast Kansas City the minorities are the majority. It has become rule of the wealthy and privileged.   This shows the great cultural divide of the mostly white upper class and upper middle class asserting it’s rule and desire over the lower income people of Northeast Kansas City.

I did not ever intend to attack individual candidates in their race here in Northeast Kansas City. I do however wish to attack the power and rule the upper middle class holds and attempts to assert over other people in the Northeast. As a resident of Northeast Kansas City I live in Scarritt, and I wish for this neighborhood to one day reflect what I know is possible. I see the extremes here in the northeast. I see the women stuck in prostitution, the homeless and the so-called criminal element every day. I also see a group of people whose only solution to the problems of other human beings  is to get rid of the people who have these problems.

I also have a problem with the power of the johns over the women in this situation, but that is really for another article in that I am not debating the power difference in prostitution but in the power elites that create and influence local legislation.

In this area no Republican stands a chance at gaining the power here, so it’s mostly the local Democrat party who claims to be liberal. What kind of liberal wants to lock up people living in poverty? Oh it’s not someone that is truly liberal just those who use the title and associate it with their patriarchal party of power.

I will be voting in the Democrat primaries in August. I will at least try to stop the ones who have been most influential and outspoken with their crusade to further victimize the women in prostitution in northeast Kansas City.