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Brazilian Amazon Travel Agency Signs Agreement to Fight Child Sex Tourism

Seeded on Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:12 PM EDT
Read ArticleArticle Source: brazil mag dot com
world-news, royal-order-of-jesters, child-sex-tourism, philip-marsteller, ecpat, amazon-tours
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Amazon Tours owner Philip Marsteller recently signed an agreement with ECPAT to fight child sex tourism. He is the defendant in a libel/slander lawsuit who identified 19 Jesters (who are also Shriners and Masons) on a witness list to ask them about their first hand knowlege of sex with minors while on a sanctioned fishing trip to Brazil.

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In about a week, I will have the time to do a more detailed story about this signing as it relates to child sex tourism, ECPAT and those dignitaries attending the ceremony. The media seems reluctant to investigate or publish such stories, maybe because the topics are so repulsive that they will turn off viewers and readers, who then turn off the TV or turn the page to read something else.
This article is about how one person is fighting child sex tourism. He is also the defendant in a libel/slander lawsuit between two fishing tour operators who came up with the witness list that includes 19 Jesters who went on a sanctioned fishing trip to Brazil. These Jesters were called to testify about their first hand knowledge of sex with minors while on the trip.
This appears to be another allegation that, if proven true, could be added to a growing laundry list of Shriner/Jester crimes including tax fraud, theft, embezzlement, prostitution and human trafficking.
Again, oversight by law enforcement is no way to run a non profit organization.
Thank you,
Sandy

    Reply#1 - Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:28 PM EDT
    Seriously?-620718

    If you look at Philip Marstellar's track record, you can see that he has sued many of his fishing tour competitors JUST BECAUSE THEY COMPETE WITH HIM on the Amazon River! This entire ordeal is Phil's way of getting the public to attack one of his competitors based on a hollow claim of childhood prostitution. He is very clever because the topic of childhood prostitution is a very serious topic; however, it should not be used as a disguise for his real purpose which is to publish unverified information about his fishing competitor so that this competitor's business will suffer. Shame on him! It was a nice touch to have a link to Phil's "foundation" (aka tax shelter) so that people will go to his website and hopefully book a trip with him since he is such a saint!

      Reply#2 - Tue Oct 7, 2008 10:21 AM EDT
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