Silvia och Madde nobbar Chuck Berry

Drogberoende och framför allt trafficking, människohandel, har varit de saker som hennes [Silvias] hjälporganisation World Childhood Foundation har arbetat med starkast sedan starten.
Att då ställa sig bakom pristagaren Chuck Berry som har dömts för just trafficking hade blivit inte bara konstigt, utan även stridit mot allt det som drottning Silvia har kämpat mot under så många år.

Enligt uppgifter till Expressen ville Silvia och Madeleine inte förknippas med pristagarens tidigare dom. Både drottningen och prinsessan var så sent som under går-dagen inplanerade att närvara vid prisutdelningen.
Men när priset delades ut fanns de inte på plats. Först senare på kvällen anslöt de till efterföljande middagen i Vinterträdgården på Grand Hôtel.
Den information som gavs till ansvariga vid Polarpriset var att Silvia och Madeleine inte kunde närvara eftersom de var på ett möte, enligt Sandra Nordin, presskoordinator vid Polarpriset.
Margareta Thorgren, informationschef vid hovet, säger under gårdagskvällen att hon inte har möjlighet att kommentera.

http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/silv...vagrade-galan/

Federal prosecutors might charge New York's Democratic governor, Eliot Spitzer, under a relatively obscure — and controversial — 1910 law that was originally intended to combat forced prostitution and "debauchery." Its official name is the White Slave Traffic Act, but it's better known as the Mann Act, named after its author, Rep. James R. Mann (R-IL).

In recent years, the Mann Act has been used selectively. But it has not faded into irrelevance. Last week, four people suspected of running the Emperor's Club — the prostitution service that Spitzer allegedly frequented — were charged with violating the Mann Act, among other crimes including money laundering.

Enacted during a time of great change and "moral panic," the Mann Act was originally designed to combat forced prostitution. The law, however, has been applied broadly over the years and, critics say, used as a tool of political persecution and even blackmail. In the past century, thousands of people have been prosecuted under the Mann Act, including celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chuck Berry and Jack Johnson.

Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion, was among the first to be charged under the act. In 1913, he was accused of ostensibly transporting a prostitute from Pittsburgh to Chicago. Johnson was convicted and given the maximum sentence: one year and one day. Critics, however, believe that Johnson's case was racially motivated — the "prostitute" was his white girlfriend.