-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Passing by the Route 66 café, I peeked in the window and saw a woman I had met in Thailand -- Stephanie. She was a gorgeous, tall blonde bartender who sported a large tattoo of the "All-Seeing Eye of the Pyramid," which adorns the back of the U.S. one-dollar bill, over her left breast. On her back was a tattoo of a large scorpion. I knew this because while vacationing in Thailand, all the European women who lived on my island of Phi Phi walked around topless. And, of course, I was always the puritan whom the topless ones were “afraid to offend.” I said hello to Stephanie. We hugged and talked about life and why I had come to Holland. She said she wanted to move to Australia, since it was “tropical and Western.” As we spoke, a 30-something Korean couple walked into the café and began handing out Bible tracts. The tracts were protesting, among other things, drugs, euthanasia in Holland and the “Mark of the Beast” chip they fear will be inserted into the hand of every human on the planet. They claimed this was a part of what they called the “cashless society in the kingdom of the coming Antichrist.” Then they added, “These people with all of these body piercings and tattoos, you don’t believe they will take a computer chip in their hand if the government mandates it?” Concerning Holland’s new euthanasia laws, Park Dong Min, the Korean evangelist, claimed that "more than one in five assisted suicides in Holland is done without the consent of the patient.” The Korean man’s wife, So Young, claimed that in the near future, computers would be making cost-effectiveness decisions regarding which elderly and sick patients would live or die and that suicide for teen-agers and, in fact, people of all ages would be made legal in Holland. “There is abortion at the beginning of life, now euthanasia at the end. Soon, the elites will begin to squeeze everyone in the middle of the life cycle -- just as the Nazis did. I have no doubt that Christians in the 21st century will be hunted and exterminated like the Jews were in the 20th century,” said Mrs. Park. I followed the Koreans to another pub called the Suits Bar. It was a high-class establishment where the traders, analysts and secretaries who worked on the Amsterdam Exchange would come for happy hour. It was at the Suits Bar that I met Stephen, a hulking Arnold Schwarzenegger-type and his girlfriend, Claire, along with their friend Alice. The two of them spoke of how they wanted to move to New York to get jobs in the financial sector. They also railed against the drug trade that had seized the streets of their fair city. “You can buy anything nowadays,” said Stephen. “If any of those drug dealers were to sell cocaine or ecstasy to my children, I would drown him in the canal.” Red light, green light Walking along the alleyways of the red-light district, which houses the prostitutes in their “offices,” was surreal. The area is so named for the red neon lights that mark the outline of their cubicles like so many mutant Christmas bulbs. Many of these rooms are situated directly across from centuries-old churches. Throngs of humanity moved in a line like a giant multicultural caterpillar as they filed past the various rooms of the prostitutes. The men were Arab and Asian, black, white and brown. So many languages were being spoken it was hard to take them all in. I heard Russian, Spanish, Arabic, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Greek, Italian, Japanese and Korean. Quite strangely, moving along with the rest of the “shoppers” were numerous male and female couples holding hands and walking past the women in the glass as though shopping at the Mall of America or engaging in some secret form of foreplay. When a group of British tourists began laughing at some of the prostitutes, I could not control my anger. “These aren’t animals in a zoo. This is a human tragedy. What’s wrong with you people? This is somebody’s daughter, somebody’s sister, somebody’s mother,” I shouted angrily without thinking. At one point on my walkabout through the red-light district, a black man -- a paying customer -- emerged from the room of a Thai prostitute. Alarm bells were ringing everywhere, and police were running towards the room of the Thai pro. (All of the rooms have emergency alarms.) Apparently, the customer was angry that the seemingly female prostitute he had paid was, in fact, a man. To any Westerner visiting Bangkok, the large transsexual population of that city takes some getting used to, and it is sometimes difficult to ascertain who is a male and who is a female in that particular line of work. “I have a man’s tool box, but I assure you I am all woman,” said the Thai prostitute to the man and everyone within earshot. I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed for the customer. This event seemed to embody everything that was wrong with the place -- nothing was what it seemed. In Bangkok, it is a daily occurance to see white Englishmen fighting with transvestite Thai prostitutes who they mistook for women. It appears this type of perverse confusion is common the world over. In search of Mary Magdalene Turning down another alley, I found another group of evangelists witnessing and handing out Bible tracts to anyone passing by. These folks said they were with a group called “Jews for Jesus.” They witnessed boldly about sin in general and prostitution in particular. “If you read the Gospel, you will see that Mary Magdalene is perhaps the most critical character aside from Mary and Jesus,” said the group’s leader, who identified himself as Nathan. According to some traditions, Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Others believe the repentant prostitute referred to in the New Testament was another woman, also named Mary. “You see, the Jewish religious leaders of that day wanted to stone a woman like Mary Magdalene to death. And Jesus said, `Let the one among you without sin cast the first stone.’ So, you see clearly that this prostitute was the wheel upon which Jesus changed the Law. Jesus changed it from the Old Testament law of wrath to the New Testament law of faith, grace, repentance, change and forgiveness.” Nathan then went on to say, “In Mark 16:9, we see how Mary Magdalene is remembered as a prostitute once 'possessed by seven demons,' which Jesus cast out of her. So, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene first after rising from the dead. Jesus did this because he wanted to show the world -- for all time -- that people can change, repent and follow him, and then have abundant life. Jesus showed us that there is a new law of belief in Christ, repentance and forgiveness, change and eternal life.” “Mary Magdalene bathed his feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. She stayed by Jesus both at the cross and while camped out at his tomb with the Roman soldiers – all the while unafraid. To me, Mary Magdalene is one of the greatest heroes in all the Bible. And we must accord to these women who work in Amsterdam as prostitutes a spirit of dignity which they deserve. Among them may one day emerge a great prophet or evangelist that may play a vital role in restoring Christian sanity to the world,” Nathan concluded. During my time in Amsterdam, I interviewed a large number of prostitutes, or “sex workers” as they like to call themselves. To be sure, there were many prostitutes who stood in the windows with dead eyes. These poor women looked as though a raven had been gnawing at their spirit for decades and finally had ripped out their souls and flown them away to some nether reaches of another world, from which they could never return. There were other prostitutes, however, who combined to form an interesting mix of women and defied all the popular stereotypes. These "sex workers" embody a new breed of whores, including the friend of a well-known Rwandan Marian visionary, stock investors, university graduates and aspiring millionaires from all four corners of the Earth ... In the next section of the article, reporter LoBaido interviews various prostitutes and delves into their motivations and secret aspirations – with surprising results. There's "Vanessa," the beautiful supermodel look-alike who says she's "too shy to be a model, to move in front of the camera," but not too shy to service her customers. Then there's "Melissa," the Dutch redhead who invests in the stock market and reads the Wall Street Journal between “sessions” with customers. 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