On the other hand, readers may be surprised to learn that not everyone is supportive of Vachss's war against the ultimate evil. There've been letters from pedophile groups, which I expect and is certainly not new in my business. There have been people saying things about me on the Internet, everything from that I committed suicide to that I'm a hardened murderer. Essentially, the backlash has been the carefully calculated attempt to say that by boycotting Thailand, we're forcing more people into the sex trade because we're cutting out legitimate sources of income. Of course that's an incredibly racist statement.
Nobody claims that poverty's forcing other nations into prostituting their children.
It's a hollow argument. The same argument we heard in South Africa. The poor, indigenous people who were allegedly being hurt by the boycott of South Africa are now voting. The answer's, 'Hmmm, umm, aaah. I'm not a boycott freak, but we're trying to economically strangle the beast.