Thailand’s pornography trade..going..going..bong

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Thailand’s pornography trade..going..going..bong
Why US pornmakers remain unfazed by Thailand’s ‘tough stance’ on the exploitation of women

This is American Tony Poer. He sees himself as smart and handsome, nay even a look alike of footballer David Beckham, so much so that he even had some personalised David Beckham cards printed.
And while he may not be a multi-millionaire on the internet he boasts a comfortable income of US$250,000 a year.

Poer, 41, is a major league sex tourist. He gets his sexual kicks and then makes mega-bucks by filming his girls and putting them on the internet……..And they pay the price.
He tells the girls that videos will not be seen in Thailand. That’s a lie of course. Bypassing government censorship is easy enough with a proxy server so his pornography is available to all. Country girls going to work in Pattaya’s nightlife can even see themselves on the covers of pirated DVDs.

When some girls discovered this they went to police for help. Today just what help they actually received is difficult to pinpoint.

Regardless of what people think of pornography Tony Poer should be in jail. When police raided his apartment in April this year, they found not only his videos and camera equipment, but, according to the local press, also drugs ( marijuana, raw opium) and a loaded gun – a Smith & Wesson .38 and an long out of date Thai visa. The last offence alone would normally result in detention then deportation.
The arrest at his room at 312 Spanish Condo, Sukhumvit Road, Pattaya, was carried out by the Women and Children’s Protective Special Force Region 2, according to the Pattaya Daily News and Pattaya Times.

-- Source: Andrew-Drummmond.com 2010-11-24

http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2010/11/22/thailands-pornography-tradegoinggoingbong/

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‘I am helping tourism’, says US porn man
Published by Andrew Drummondon November 28, 2010 in General News. 

American Tony Poer the pornographer whose arrest reports were wiped clean from all the newspapers in Pattaya claimed yesterday that women flocked to be filmed and his arrest ‘never happened’.

“The matter has been dealt with. As far as everyone is concerned it never happened and that was the agreement reached by everyone.
“Please remove my name from your article. It is all over the web.”
In a phone call in which Tony Poer suggested he was outside Thailand he said that girls flocked to his door to be filmed by him. All were willing and all were compensated well. They could make a lot of money he said. He added that he was helping tourism.
“I am not a foreigner with a beer gut. I am handsome, well educated, sophisticated and I dine with the best.”

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He added: “It’s not my fault that the girls’ are poor. You should take that up with the Thai government. There are people who want me to make films, rich people with resorts and hotels who see I am attracting people to Thailand.
“Why pick on me. There are Europeans and lots of other people out their doing this.”
On the question of sex without condoms Poer said he was trained in the business and did not put himself or other people at risk.
Poer was talking in response to an article published here and widely on the internet last week which showed how he and a series of U.S. pornographers had managed to evade serious legal repercussions after being arrested in the resort of Pattaya.

But he did invent this
Poer (insert above on the left) admitted he was the inventor of the ‘Beaver Bong’ and that it had taken him years to register the patent.

Comment: Mr. Poer did raised the following questions
How did I know he was not set up?  Answer: I think that is a given.  And secondly ‘How did you know I did not pay millions to go free? Well I might say that was another ‘given’ but obviously I do not know the details of his release, apart from making a shrewd guess, and may never as Poer insisted that he was sworn to secrecy. But obviously one of the conditions was that the newspapers  would be cleaned of this news. He further added that I was breaking the law by following up the case. ‘You cannot do that in Thailand’.
Mr.Poer was offered the customary full right of reply. He declined. He would be breaching conditions, he said.
I declined to make the removal he suggested as actually the major point of the story was that all newspapers in Pattaya laundered his name at the request of a ‘higher power’.

There is the major question of accountability at police press conferences.

As he has put his hands up to being the inventor of the ‘Beaverbong’ and put his own picture up on the net to promote it I do not know why his is so concerned. If of course, the drugs and gun, were added to make the case look worse of course, not beyond the realms of possibility, then those cases might concern him. He will not say himself.
So I am however happy to point out that he was acquitted of all charges, and that he does not own the websites where he places his porn, except Beaverbong of course, which of course he links to ‘Thai girls wild’, Thai Porn, Thainee, Lulusexbomb, Thaiteentussinee, Tailynn, and Asian Creampies.

Source:
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2010/11/28/i-am-helping-tourism-says-us-porn-man/