I understand this is not a blog that has anything to do with Girls Gone Wild but in this case it does.  This blog stands advocates rights for everyone and this time we see a person who has been good to the gay community and an overall good person being kicked down for no good reason.  I have been flabbergasted from hearing the story behind Joe Francis the creator of Girls Gone Wild.  I was driving from Dallas to Austin so I had over an hour to listen to his side of the story and how the locals in Florida took advantage of him.

I heard one of the most amazing interviews on the XM Satellite radio last night on a conservative channel called AmeriRight.  I was channel surfing and stumbled upon it since it was next to Air America.  The Rusty Humphries show was the name of the show.  It was a show that Rusty said he normally would never have someone on so long and never takes the side of someone who owned something like Girls Gone Wild but in this case he did because of the corrupt judge and corrupt police officer in the Florida town where Joe Francis (the CEO of Girls Gone Wild) was arrested.

Supposedly Joe was jailed over a civil lawsuit (you are supposed to just be jailed for criminal charges) for not paying crazy amounts asked of girls that were 17 yrs old (one year from the legal limit in Florida) in videos filmed of them where they lied about their age and showed fake ID’s and the filming was not even done by Joe Francis.   He said the judge was friends and ex business partners of the lawyer for the girls or something to that effect.

Basically, its all a corrupt story in a Florida town and I listened to it for over an hour last night just amazed.  Joe was calling in from jail and you could hear the phone say “this call is being monitored…beep.”  Joe was treated like a murder and shackled up and cuffed similar to the way animals or mass murders are treated in a prison in Florida.  He  did not see daylight for 60 days and he’s still in prison but is now speaking out while hes in Reno so he does not get brought back to the inhumane Florida jail cell.   Both Rusty and Joe agreed that the lockup in Florida was worse than Guantanamo Bay treatment.

Most know him as the Girls Gone Wild CEO but he seems to me like a good person caught up with some shady girls and a judge that went wild on him.  I think this points out many reasons we should always send money to the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal , American Civil Liberties Union, and groups that seek to defend our rights.  You may check out more of Joe’s story here.