"Tourist Very Good For Me. No Sailor.": In Pattya, civilians drive the sex trade
Dealey, Sam
for example, that he always speaks of believers who attend "church, synagogue, or mosque." He is the first president to utter the word "mosque" in an inaugural address. In Philadelphia last...
...Navy still makes regular R&R stops in Pattaya, causing the service a barrelhl of trouble from its antagonists...
...You sailor...
...is not protesting the part of the d t a r y budget that goes to support pedTHE AMERICAN SPECTATOR . June 2001 -ty in the Far =Young wrote last Navy regards any type of sexual exploits- The JAG spa* w'-= memDecemk...
...She was soon nestled on his knee...
...governor of New M&co...
...The asking...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR fl June 2001 19 Phnom Penh there's an entire shantytown of underage $2Vietnamese whores...
...20," she says, but I wave it away and move on...
...it's cheap and has clean sheets...
...Surin, she tells me, a poor province in eastern Thailand that hugs Carnbola...
...His Hotel is just off Beach Road in South Pattaya, in the heart of it all...
...Eighty-five percent of Mush voters, in a poll commissioned by Mush leaders, reported that they were aware of the leadership's endorsement...
...Young jumped at the opportunity to lash back and the Washington Post editorial page obliged...
...To appearances they were here just to get drunk, play a little grabass...
...But then, on June 29,1959, accorlng to local lore, several transport trucks of American G.1.s passed through on leave from a nearby base...
...New York chc, but her toes are splayed...
...But there are also clean-shaven professionals in company polo shrts, khalu Bermuda shorts, and Teva sandals...
...The Navy advises &ce men on the moral and heath rish associatedwiththesextrade, andakoworlcs with international organizatons opposing sexual exploitation...
...30...
...I protest...
...to I3oc)kq hv...
...Bangkok, she lies feebly, playing the cosmopolitan...
...It's a conclusion, not a question, made with a note of polite disbeliefin Pattaya, beer and girls are consumed together...
...Clautlmgthatwearewinningthewron drug by showing a dedine 6om the highest pint W t prove aqth&' The decline continued until the d y 1990s, but it has since rcrws6d...
...I ask...
...Not because of the roads-the wdl settle for $20...
...In Philadelphia last year, Talat Othrnan, chairman of the Islamic Institute, gave the first Muslim prayer at a Republican convention...
...Ah, drink beer...
...I nodded inconclusively...
...Having had a great time in Pattaya with the friendly residents," says a tourist brochure, "a new group of marines kept arriving periodcally and the vdlage geared up to cater to their every need...
...Just north of Sukhumvit Highway is a monument to Keynesian state spending...
...It's My Hotel...
...Fkrhaps one of these was rqonsible for the "Stop Child Sex Tourism" sign hangq in a public bathrwm in tiny Mae Sot, a smuggh' conduit for hill-trik &&en being shipped south for sex...
...They know hm there...
...Is that so wrong...
...Where are you from...
...Saffuri also brought to the GOP's attention the most important issue for the Mush community-the misuse of 'secret evidence" in immigration cases, allowed under a 1996 law...
...national to travel abroad and engage in sex with a minor...
...me survqs are spnm d by the Depamnent of Health and Human Services...
...Pongsat asked...
...Smup also quationed any suwey where the interviewer's p d l e goes sornehq like this: "I'm hm the federal government and I'd like to ask you a few qumiom about drug use in your household...
...Young attributes to U.S...
...Saffuri organized a series of meetings between Muslim and Republican leaders, incluhng a visit by Bush himself to an Islamic Center in Michgan...
...Have you been to Pattaya...
...But then he says he has a Fihpino girEiend &om Japan coming down next week...
...You...
...No, I lied...
...Seventy-six million Americans say they & 4 marijuana at some pint in their lives, accordang to the latat ment) figures...
...than civilism" But the kupst detemnt for sailoR seems to be d ofmouth (z the captain inYoung5 book says...
...You like her...
...Back in Arlington,V@, a spokeswoman for the Navy's Judge Advocate General claimed (improbably) that the agency d m not keep a database of prosecutions and convictions for overseas padophiha...
...She's supposed to be It is a federal crime punishable by up to ten years' imprisonment for a U.S...
...I find it strange that an organization that claims to uphold famdy values...
...You here for the girls...
...No, would it be cheaper...
...Governor Johnson, first elected in 1994, waited until he was reelected before bringing up the drug issue...
...But no country in the region or perhaps the world compares to Thailand.The World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children estimates there are at least 80,000 chdd prostitutes in Thailand...
...Knowing chuckle5 all round, and the silence returned...
...I polish off my Heineken and get up to leave...
...The American Family Association, a social conservative outfit in Tupelo, Mississippi, labeled the book "garbage," "trash-not far off the mark, really-and then "horror art,'' and waxed indgnant that Young had received a $5,000 grant from the Ohio Arts Council, whch in turn is only slightly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts...
...she asks...
...Underreporting is assured...
...As for claims that Muslims voted for Bush because Joe Lieberman is an observant Jew, Muslim leaders themselves cite Lieberman as one of the most Muslimfriendly Senators, praising his strong faith and co-sponsorship of a resolution aggression of the secular left has created a condemning anti-Muslim bigotry...
...One Mush man was held in prison for three years based on secret evidence that turned out to be a claim by his former d e (with whom he was in a custody battle) that he planned to kill Janet Reno.The wife had pulled a similar stunt on a previous husband...
...Apparently this association tion as morally abhorrent, and any bers charged with 4 aimes are amally . - has no problem with the hding of such behavio-ust with the bdmg of writers who want to expose it...
...she's a country girl...
...Her name is May and she is 18-another lie...
...servicemen every sexual deviance known to man...
...He rolled his eyes dramatically...
...good for me...
...And nowhere in Thadand is a town so wholly devoted to the sex industry as Pattaya...
...rn Evidently this was his 50th time...
...First time," I volunteered...
...Which is not to say they arc perfect gendemen.At the Hqh Eivw Bar, a sailor picked up a girI with the line "Nice tits...
...The peak year hr &cit drug use was 1979," Smup said...
...of the available alternatives...
...Bush, Speaker Denny Hastert, Chairman Jim Nicholson, and National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Tom Davis wrote letters in support of the Eid stamp...
...Since authorized, it d appear thls September...
...Pattaya is packed with Western men escaping the inconveniences of courtship...
...Skdmg nearby ws Keith Smup, who founded N O W in 1970...
...A, A ailablc for 1'1 for a f r c m S PO, tlox - A - t )I'[ I . i O I l I l [ l L rntal by %tail c or call: nd, Oregon 97520 then...
...Ernbay in Bangkok allowed that "every once in a while we'll get a call in the middle of the night" b m local Thai authorities about rowdy d o n . Shore Patrol will pick the boys up and read them the hot Act...
...No, before Bangkok...
...At one @ point, the Dutchman turned around to 4 . a - - . the American...
...subject m more punifhment...
...End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism, an Austrahan humanitarian group, puts the number in the 200,000 to 250,000 range...
...Outside Saigon's brothels beach Pattaya is just two-and- teenage girls chase tourists like dogs after a-half hours, but it seemed cars...
...He w s discus@ the government surveys purpo* to show a decline in drug use since 1979...
...In any other setting they would pass as comfortable professionals...
...The Democrats scrambled to invite a Muslim to speak to their convention two weeks later...
...A 1993 Time magazine article claimed 800,000...
...In Pattaya, civilians drive the sex trade BY SAM DEALEY P ATTAYA, Thailand-The bus Underage prostitution is not new in ride from Bangkok to the sex Southeast Asia...
...On the Miking Smt, a blocked+ff area of t;lteoo padon, cheap hotels, and bmthels, hur young servicemen were on the pm~l.~'I just want to see two gmh get it on," said a hapless 22-year-old d o r hm Austin,Texas...
...and protest a little too loudly when their budd~es inevitably dragged them away to the next watering hole...
...They have new allies for the has increased 25 percent since 1994...
...though, the madam hissing fbm behind the bar and the girl desperately tygmg at him to stay...
...Itisafedetaluimepumhablebyupm ten ym'hpimnment for a U.S n a t i d to d abroad and mpgc in sex with a minm...
...more ecumenical right over the past 20 The American Muslim community is years, with evangelical Protestants, Roman large and growing, thanks to both high Catholics, and Orthodox Jews worlung immigration and relatively large famihes...
...Guess I better change hotels Ac Dept...
...But they were traveling, alone, to a mecca for child prostitution...
...They cluster around the bars-garish dumps durnined by red fluorescent tubes, blasting last year's top 40...
...20," interjects the madam from behnd the bar...
...He stumbled out a half-hour later...
...His inability to h d a lesbian door show did give one the sense he could fall out of a boat and not hit water...
...Underage girls pass themselves off as 18-year-olds, and used whores on the other side of 30 insist they're 20...
...Halfwdy around the world, a &&rent picture emerges: It's cidhm who appear to be the problem, not U.S...
...It was the company: three white, middle-aged Unabridged Audiobooks men-a Dutchman, a Brit, and an -H eL,r ~ ~ L , r \ - o r - .. American-clean cut and with short hair...
...But the diplomat claims never to have heard of a senticeman bemg charged with pedophilra...
...Much of the credit for the strong GOP performance goes to Khaled Sa&ri, the founding president of the conservative, pro-6ee enterprise Islamic Institute...
...he asked...
...When George W. Bush condemned the use of secret evidence in his second nationally televised debate with A1 Gore, national Muslim groups decided to endorse Bush...
...Slim and tousle-haired at 48, Johnson cded the incarceration of marijuana I smokers "the biggest civil rights issue that I THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR . June 2001...
...In 1999 he called for the 1-tion of marijuana, and he was in town to addma the annual conference of the National 0-tion for Reform of the 1 Marijuana Laws...
...ness was a fresh joke.Women are men and men, women...
...Girls buzz and swarm like &es, ahghting on stools when a new customer arrives...
...Eight national Muslim groups &d so on October 23rd...
...She says he5 her brother, and the way he clasps her hand and hides behind her su- it m&t just be the case...
...The bars have names like the Sador Bar, P 72 and, more appropriately, the Cockpit...
...No response...
...senticernen...
...BY TOM BrmEU A 'i lcohol WIS the drug of choice at the Cato Institute's reception for Gary L Johnson, the Republican k...
...I always stay there...
...But, she volunteered, "the involvement by Navy personnel will not be tolerated...
...is the home ofdlebkckclap,co~np~resiseantm pemdhn'3 and the dm' own innate decency As a ru& pimp Wmg walletskpicturesof~ andgkkforsaleaold rw4'Twrist veq pod for me...
...After a few inquiries, I secured for $10 a mot0 driver with enough English to ferry me around...
...Management has decided that it doesn't want your head afrcr all...
...At the Royal ClSmort, where the d c e r s are billeted, a senior offid with the U.S...
...During an Apnl port dl, the 5,000 or so Navy personnel out for a good muse seemedalmosttolifthetcrwnfmnitsdesperation...
...Uncomfortable silence was the best Listen \\,'liilc ljriving...
...h "Tourist very No sailor...
...I was on the founding board of &rectors...
...At a bar whose name isn't suitable for publication, a spindly girl in a black vinyl dress wobbles precariously on five-inch platform sandals...
...How much...
...Walking along the beach, a young girl not more than 15 hawks a scrawny boy...
...half-century ago, Pattaya was just another Thai fishing vdlage...
...The U.S...
...He asked if I knew where I was staying...
...Robert Clark Young caused a dust-up with h s novel One ofthe Guys, a fictional account of his experiences as a civllian Enghsh teacher aboard two vessels in the Pacific...
...With the American military withdrawal from Indochina, Pattaya refashioned itself as a tourist destination, with luxury resorts and golfcourses and jet slus...
...together on pro-life, school choice, and The number of mosques in this country other issues...
...Some look the part-habitual castaways with glassy, bloodshot eyes...
...Then you should stay at my hotel...
...Saffuri also pned Republican support for the national campaign to have a postage stamp honoring Eid, the Muslim feast...
...Or less...
...And so it dewlved into a k c Beltway rumble of fmger-wapghg sanhony...
...b Puff Daddy Johnson New Mexico's governor 0119 for a drug peace...
...g&g and gibbering whde he drank with his pals...
...No sailor...
...Term limits prevent him fbm seelung the office again...
...Ih-1000, meester," they say, and thrust a hand into hls inner thgh and cackle, as if their direct"Sorry...
...70," they petulantly demand, but longer...
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