Craigslist removal of Erotic section - Why do the stupid have so much power?

What?  You mean Craigslist didn't invent child prostitution???  Oh well ... the US Attorney General; Douchehole McFuckdinhed seems to think that the streets are much SAFER AND BETTER REGULATED for the control of prostitution and assosiated crimes that tag along with it than is financial records, phone numbers, locations and even pictures associated with the former adult section in Craigslist. 

Also ... some retard uses Craigslist to kill women.  Well...Blame the sidewalk if that's what he used to walk up to them with.  I live in Vancouver.  There is a fellow named Robert Pickton over here who slaughtered a ton of sex workers.  He didn't use Craigslist.  The hazards of prostitution will continue to exist - more so - if these women are forced out on the streets. 

So if someone was using Craigslist to run underage prostitutes...or...white slaves....or...bestiality baby burglars ... whatever.  Craigslist didn't invent these things.  That it exists to retain at least a minute amount of information regarding any of their clients SAVES LIVES.  This isn't about that.  Someone is saying that Craigslist has these unsavory things running through it's system and it should stop it right away (Waggling the finger).  Sound familiar?  That's right it's the fucking US Religious Right getting their fat stupid faces in morality issues too complex for them to begin to understand yet unhindering their ability to make judgements about. 

To spell it out to the Religious Right
   1) Bad things exist - Craigslist did not invent them
   2) ads on Craigslist  >  Women on Streets
   3) Information has a trail - Anonymous cash is hard to track

In case you think I am a former John with sour grapes about this decision.  I don't use the services of sex workers.  Personally I think the trade should be made legal; "Prostitution is legal but solicitation or living off the avails of prostitution is not"  Give me a fucking break.  MAKE IT LEGAL.  We can get the revenue...they get protection.  Better the government gets the money than some sleeze-bag, drug addicting pimp.  Ofcourse the religious right would enjoy sweeping it under yet another carpet.   Prostitution is a concept.  It's the world's oldest profession because it works with human nature...not against it.  To think of it as evil would be as to think of the rain as evil.  It's like declaring war on terrorism - Yeah that was a right wing concept...brilliant!