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Johnny2X2X

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53. That's not the point people are trying to make
Thu Mar 18, 2021, 10:31 AM
Mar 2021

These women weren't "making a living" through prostitution. They were likely the victims of human trafficking there against their wills. Calling them prostitutes is not the right word, they were innocent victims of human trafficking before they were innocent victims of a mass murderer.

bingo CurtEastPoint Mar 2021 #1
Yes and the women may have been trafficked. yardwork Mar 2021 #2
There's no "may" about it Johnny2X2X Mar 2021 #13
Thank you for posting this. yardwork Mar 2021 #36
I always suspected that's what's going on Percy Mar 2021 #42
Are you suggesting the murders may be justified then? Kaleva Mar 2021 #3
Why would you think that? hookaleft Mar 2021 #5
This sounds like a justification to me. Alpeduez21 Mar 2021 #8
That's really stretching - going out of our way treestar Mar 2021 #39
How is it relevant to the murders? Kaleva Mar 2021 #27
It doesn't matter.... hookaleft Mar 2021 #30
How on earth did you interpolate that from a serious question? CurtEastPoint Mar 2021 #6
+1 Celerity Mar 2021 #9
Freepers are really pushing this. The women were prostitutes so it really isn't s big deal. Kaleva Mar 2021 #28
Sure sounds that way to me. Kind of an offensive OP. It doesn't matter if the victims were shot ... marble falls Mar 2021 #32
Of course they were treestar Mar 2021 #40
You read it differently than most of us on this thread do. marble falls Mar 2021 #44
So the bandwagon argument? treestar Mar 2021 #47
Oh please. marble falls Mar 2021 #48
Yes, oh please. treestar Mar 2021 #49
It was reported that they weren't on the police radar for Vice a few times,, so I suspect not. Nexus2 Mar 2021 #4
Gosh, I wonder why? obamanut2012 Mar 2021 #56
thats exactly what I was thinking..even in the beginning i found it was odd he targeted just samnsara Mar 2021 #7
Perhaps being Asian wasn't so much the issue treestar Mar 2021 #43
"rub and tug" rampartc Mar 2021 #10
It's sexual slavery Johnny2X2X Mar 2021 #14
Some posts in this thread are enraging me obamanut2012 Mar 2021 #57
So what? Kid Berwyn Mar 2021 #11
It's more likely that he was angered because the women denied demands to service his addiction Marcuse Mar 2021 #12
On MSNBC this morning they were reported to be respectable businesses, Hortensis Mar 2021 #15
Lots of claims made in this post Sunsky Mar 2021 #16
None of this matters. He had no right. Stop trying to justify this or mitigate his crime. Srkdqltr Mar 2021 #17
He is a monster..... hookaleft Mar 2021 #19
Go find out. marble falls Mar 2021 #33
Many of them are offering more than just massages BannonsLiver Mar 2021 #18
So what if they are? TeslaNova Mar 2021 #64
One of the women shot was a customer mainer Mar 2021 #20
Who cares? CrackityJones75 Mar 2021 #21
If human trafficking is part of the story you don't care? BannonsLiver Mar 2021 #22
Are there facts to back up the claims people are making? CrackityJones75 Mar 2021 #23
The facts that matter malaise Mar 2021 #31
Correct! CrackityJones75 Mar 2021 #66
Also you are not going to pin on me CrackityJones75 Mar 2021 #24
This looks like victim blaming cause most sane people don't trust mass murderers word for anything. uponit7771 Mar 2021 #26
Then why discuss their race or sex? treestar Mar 2021 #45
You are playing into his defense. CrackityJones75 Mar 2021 #65
A USA Today article about it... Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #25
'Rubmaps' Celerity Mar 2021 #35
Those eight people including six Asian women malaise Mar 2021 #29
It is shameful to parse the depths of a crime based on the way the victim was making his/her ... marble falls Mar 2021 #38
1000000++++++ FlyingPiggy Mar 2021 #51
That's not the point people are trying to make Johnny2X2X Mar 2021 #53
That's the dirty underpinning that was the crime before the murders. I've commented on that ... marble falls Mar 2021 #59
This is the point people are making Johnny2X2X Mar 2021 #62
That's if one were to take a terrorist mass murderers word for anything uponit7771 Mar 2021 #74
You nailed it malaise Mar 2021 #63
+1 uponit7771 Mar 2021 #72
Why would that matter in any way? MineralMan Mar 2021 #34
I'm quite sure it's being investigated alongside the murders BannonsLiver Mar 2021 #41
No doubt this multiple murder thing will force an investigation MineralMan Mar 2021 #46
Rub & tug nt. Hotler Mar 2021 #37
No, trafficked women being raped obamanut2012 Mar 2021 #60
He chose to skip the non Asian aromatherapy place next door MoonlitKnight Mar 2021 #50
No, "Asian Massages" are not legitimate obamanut2012 Mar 2021 #61
The women who "work" there are trafficked obamanut2012 Mar 2021 #52
YOu need to edit this OP obamanut2012 Mar 2021 #54
I don't know ismnotwasm Mar 2021 #55
He did not have a sex addiction. He is a murderer. Self-diagnosis is no diagnosis Politicub Mar 2021 #58
+1,000 malaise Mar 2021 #67
+1 leftstreet Mar 2021 #68
THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 uponit7771 Mar 2021 #75
There are an awful lot of assumptions being made about immigrants JCMach1 Mar 2021 #69
Photo of one of the victims mainer Mar 2021 #70
According to people in this thread that murder victim is also a slaver mathematic Mar 2021 #71
Comment From one of her clients mainer Mar 2021 #73
People here assuming she must be a sex worker mainer Mar 2021 #77
+1 uponit7771 Mar 2021 #76
FYI blogslug Mar 2021 #78
Interesting. mainer Mar 2021 #80
You seem tired today... LanternWaste Mar 2021 #79
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