Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. – H.L. Mencken
As I wrote in “Change a Few Words”, “all prohibitionism is the same. Oh, they’ll throw out all sorts of bogus reasons such as “morality”, “decency”, “health”, “public order”, “national security” and of course “the children”, but in reality they’re all based in one thing: a busybody desire to control the private behaviors of others because they make individual prohibitionists uncomfortable.” The most dangerous prohibitionists, however, are those who oppose no particular behavior or thing, but rather the very freedom of choice itself; these wannabe world-emperors demand control of everything and everyone they can see or know about. They are motivated by a deep mental illness some refer to as Anti-Life, the unnatural and perverted need to see all free will extinguished everywhere. Fortunately, they’re in the minority, so they can’t reveal their naked desire to rule the universe without being locked up as the madmen they are; instead they have to disguise it as a more typically-human obsession with something like “morality”, “safety” or “health”. But unfortunately, most people aren’t skeptical or perceptive enough to see through the excuses to the underlying lust for power, and therefore accept the rationalizations at face value.
One tried-and-true way to frighten the hoi-polloi out of undesirable behavior, whether you’re an archetypal sky-god or just a little tin one, is to threaten them with plagues. One year ago today I reported on an attempt to scare people out of having oral sex by claiming it causes cancer, but since there was neither widespread panic nor politicians vowing to “do something”, I guess the crypto-moralists felt compelled to try again:
A new study showing an estimated 7% of American teens and adults carry the human papillomavirus in their mouths may help health experts finally understand why rates of mouth and throat cancer have been climbing for nearly 25 years…The findings indicate that the virus is not likely to spread through kissing or casual contact and that most cases of oral HPV can be traced to oral sex, which many Americans mistakenly view as a safe practice…A survey released last year…found that about 90% of adults have had oral sex, along with 27% of 15-year-old boys and 23% of 15-year-old girls. “I don’t think people think of oral sex in the same way they do with traditional intercourse,” said Fred Wyand, director of the HPV Resource Center…”Sometimes younger people engage in oral sex so they don’t have to worry about pregnancy. They may not even make the link between oral sex and STDs.”
…Most oral HPV infections are harmless, and oral cancers are still relatively uncommon. But given the new information, doctors should encourage their patients to use protection during oral sex, Dr. Hans Schlecht…wrote in an editorial accompanying the study…HPV is best known as the cause of cervical cancer, which kills 4,220 women in the U.S. each year…The virus can also cause vulvar, anal, penile and various head and neck cancers. A study published in October…traced more than 70% of new cases of oral cancers to HPV infection, putting it ahead of tobacco use as the leading cause…an estimated 80% of Americans have contracted the virus…It usually produces no symptoms and is typically cleared from the body through natural processes…the overall prevalence of oral HPV was 6.9% — far less than the rate of genital HPV infection in reproductive-age women, which can be as high as 42% among women in their 20s…Among people who had more than 20 sexual partners, the prevalence of oral HPV was 20%. But the researchers found it in fewer than 1% of people who said they were virgins and in fewer than 4% of people who said they had never performed oral sex…
The sky is falling! Everybody panic! 7% of people have a common virus that we have a vaccine for and might, maybe lead to a comparatively rare type of cancer that kills 0.0027% of Americans a year. Call the Marines! Criminalize oral sex! Well, what if I told you that 100% of people are exposed almost every day to radiation that can cause a form of cancer which kills over 0.003% of Americans a year? It’s called “sunlight”. Fortunately, we don’t yet have the technology to attempt a ban on that.
Busybodies aren’t only against sex, though; they also oppose what the average man considers the second-greatest pleasure in life and the average woman considers the greatest: food. Since people have a distressing tendency to drop dead when “authorities” stop them from eating entirely, it’s a bit harder to control than sex. But that doesn’t stop the professional busybodies from trying, even if they have to lie to do so:
Mayor Bloomberg’s New York City health department has come in for repeated criticism…for crusading against salty and fattening foods through ad campaigns that manipulate viewer reactions in ways that border on the misleading and deceptive (“What can we get away with?” famously asked one official). They’re at it again. On January 9, Gotham’s for-your-own-good crew unveiled a new ad warning “Portions have grown. So has Type 2 diabetes, which can lead to amputations,” dramatically illustrated with a photo of an obese man with a stump where his leg had been. But as the New York Times reports, city officials “did not let on that the man shown — whose photo came from a company that supplies stock images to advertising firms and others — was not an amputee and may not have had diabetes.” Instead, they just Photoshopped his leg off, which certainly got the effect they were looking for…
Even the basic claim that yummy food leads to obesity and diabetes is suspect; a growing body of evidence suggests it isn’t the food, but the containers it comes in:
…Exposure to even minuscule amounts of synthesized substances…can scramble hormone signals…[tricking] fat cells into taking in more fat or [misleading] the pancreas into secreting excess insulin…Among the most ubiquitous…of these…endocrine disruptors is bisphenol A, better known as BPA…a common ingredient in plastics and food-can linings. “When you eat something with BPA, it’s like telling your organs that you are eating more than you are really eating,” says Angel Nadal, a BPA expert at the Miguel Hernandez University in Spain…the chemical triggers the release of almost double the insulin actually needed to break down food. High insulin levels can desensitize the body to the hormone over time, which in some people may then lead to weight gain and Type 2 diabetes…An estimated 90 percent of people in developed countries have [dangerously high levels of] BPA circulating in their blood…due…to exposures from leaching food packages…cash register receipts, dental sealants and toilet paper…
But banning a harmful chemical isn’t satisfying for control freaks, so we get this sort of insanity instead:
Sugar is so toxic it should be controlled like alcohol, according to new report that goes so far as to suggest setting an age limit of 17 years to buy soda pop. It points to sugar as a culprit behind many of the world’s major killers — heart disease, cancer and diabetes…A little sugar “is not a problem, but a lot kills — slowly,” says the report…by Dr. Robert Lustig, a [longtime anti-sugar alarmist]…and two U.S. colleagues specializing in health policy…”If international bodies are truly concerned about public health, they must consider limiting fructose — and its main delivery vehicles, the added sugars HFCS and sucrose — which pose dangers to individuals and to society as a whole,” they say. “We recognize that societal intervention to reduce the supply and demand for sugar faces an uphill political battle against a powerful sugar lobby…and will require active engagement from all stakeholders”…The report suggests governments introduce zoning rules to control the number of fast-food outlets and convenience stores in low-income communities and around schools. “Another option would be to limit sales during school operation, or to designate an age limit (such as 17) for the purchase of drinks with added sugar, particularly soda”…
Because “health experts” always know what’s best for everybody, especially those stupid poor folks, and as we know “end demand” laws work so well to program the masses…oops, I mean “educate” them. Luckily, most people recognize Lustig’s ilk for the lunatics they are, but stupid, unenforceable laws against consensual behavior get enacted all the time:
The Philippines Senate has passed a bill penalizing cybersex…defined as people engaged in “the willful engagement, maintenance, control, or operation, directly or indirectly, of any lascivious exhibition of sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid of a computer system.” Violators can be imprisoned for 6-12 years, or fined between $4,500 and $23,000…
I’ll bet you feel safer knowing that while you sleep, self-appointed guardians of health and morality all over the world are working hard to protect you from blow jobs, soda and dirty talk.
Second greatest pleasure for men? But … I thought that “grannie’s” advice was that the key to a man’s heart was through his stomach? Is there some other “key” to it!? 😛
But – about these “busy bodies” … they also want the government to have copies of all our medical records. In the workplace, we’re being assaulted by “Wellness Programs”. This is laughable. I actually had a “wellness volunteer” who was at least 40 pounds overweight hold up a rubber glob of fat as a prop to gross us out in a mandatory training session. He was, conservatively, about 30% body fat – I’m 12% … WTF?! I almost asked him to drop the rubber glob of fat and just take his shirt off for us – same effect.
I saw some ditzy blonde on Fox News who was against the government giving employers HIV information on their employees – but she was totally for them “ratting” out the employees on body fat and other metrics like cholesterol and blood pressure.
People need to wake the fark up here, this shit is getting crazy!
Have you seen this one yet?
I hadn’t seen it but, due to my poor acting skills, I can’t fake surprise.
Coffee is now a hazard?
Do you know …
That on a submarine – the head cook will get FIRED if he runs out of coffee on a deployment? Because of that – we used to load ludicrous amounts of the stuff on to the boat in HUNDREDS of 20 lb vacuum tins. We loaded them right on to the decks in the engineroom – not too far from the reactor actually.
Radiation from the S6G Los Angeles Class reactor imparted a gourmet quality taste to the coffee that would leave any man who consumed it in a state of gustatory bliss – as well as rendering him permanently incapable of siring male offspring. This is why so many submariners have families full of lots of beautiful daughters. 😉
http://forums.ivillage.com/t5/Daily-Buzzz/Why-submariners-have-girls/td-p/80389766
I thought that was from pressure changes, which also explains fighter pilots’ tendency to have girls. Of course, they get high radiation from flying, too…
Check this one out …
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/06/nugget-gate-teacher-suspended-indefinitely/#ixzz1oSrcY0lQ
Here is something the prohibitionists won’t tell you…
The head and neck cancers associated with HPV have much higher survival rates than the same cancers not associated with the virus.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025133743.htm
Yes, that’s right. A 100% survival rate for people with the HPV+ tumors.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that, Gumdeo!
Maggie,
OT but just in case you didn’t see it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110797/Anna-Gristina-MILLIONS-running-Manhattan-brothel-politicians-celebrities.html
Also. I sent you an email. Let me know if you did not get it.
I did get it.
A woman can kill a man and reasonably expect to face little or no punishment. But sell SEX to a man? Then she will be treated just like any male criminals including the big news story splattered all over the newspapers.
Its quite amazing because I don’t see Thou shalt not sell sex in the ten commandments but I DO see
1. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
2. Thou shalt not steal.
And both these seem very reasonable commandments indeed in keeping the peace and giving everyone a reasonable chance to make a living. Both these commandments are so routinely broken by women that they are barely given a second thought. But if a MAN breaks these two commandments he is in BIG trouble.
Though, I must say, I had a very good discussion with Robert Hay last week. Roberts view is that “thou shalt not steal” is one of the fundamental control mechanisms of the PTB. His argument is that by creating “private property” with this “commandment” the PTB were then able to accumulate “private property” and force the peasants into slavery on the “landLORDs” property. The monarchy claimed to own all land in a country as “Gods servant”. At one stage this was so entrenched that the Pope indicated that spain owned one half of the world and the Portuguese the other! As if the POPE being “gods servant” had the right to carve up the world despite the fact that there were non christian people living on it. I have come to see Christianity as one of the greatest lies and scourges of the last 2,000 years. And I WAS christian from 18 to 44.
It is an interesting theory on private property. Obviously we were not around to know. The originies in Australia also point to this as a sign of the evil of the commandment. Their view is people can not own land, they are of the land. The “crocodile dundee” joke put is as “people arguing over who owns land makes as much sense as two fleas arguing over who owns the dog.”
The flip side is that when people live in communal groups often it happens that men get more idle and refuse to work as hard. This can be seen in russia and the ukraine and other places. However it is also contrasted by many native cultures that survive ok when property is communal. But cultures with communal property do not “advance”. The “advanced” societies always have private property as a mechanism to get men to work far beyond their own needs in competition for females. The females select the man with the most property and most ability to support HER and HER children in the lie of marriage.
In communal societies the men have no greater or lesser value so all women tend to get a husband and all men tend to do just as much as is necessary to “get along” as there is no way to store “wealth” to pass to his children and no way to do “better”.
One famous experiment I read about on collectivism is this. Students in a class argued that collectivism was better than individual reward. They did so to the profs displeasure. So he made them a challenge. He said that the essence of collectivism was averaging out efforts so the bests efforts subsidised the efforts of those less willing. So he made the class a proposal. He proposed they choose for themselves. Reward for individual effort or the whole class to be given the average mark for the class.
The story I read said the class decided to go collectivist and accept the average mark. This was achieved, tellingly, by a majority vote. The majority ruled.
The results were entirely predictable. Over the year the good students saw that their efforts were not rewarded and they started working less. The less good students, believing they would be carried, also worked less.
By the end of the year disaster had struck. The students were ALL doing so poorly believing the good students would pull them through while the good students had decided to fail the exams in protest at not being recognised for their efforts.
The WHOLE class failed and were given no credits for the class.
Of course the professor had taught them all a valuable lesson. When you introduce collectivism you remove the desire of the exceptional to be exceptional. They can go along to get along. It is a VERY RARE man who will work hard when no reward is on offer.
So did the PTB introduce private property to ensure that they could enslave us or did they introduce private property merely to motivate MEN for everyones benefit…except the benefit of men of course.
And if it is the later? Why are we fed so many psyop TV shows that do not have private property apart from a small set of personal items…exactly like the originies in Australia?
The originies in Australia only had personal possessions as private property. The nations boundaries were demarkated by song lines and it was considered a crime to go into the next nation without their agreement. So the private property was at nation level and it was only the land and what was on the land. Nations co-operated in times of famine as they knew that the next famine could be theirs. So I am told.
Robert is one of the greatest thinkers of our age about all this stuff. I was honoured and quite surprised he asked to talk to me. He wanted to share with me his ideas about OATHS and we had a very extended discussion about OATHS. He gave me some ideas I had never thought of as to the true nature of oaths and the ideas of swearing an oath before god.
And I have had a big day. I was honoured today by getting a friend invite from Jim Corr on facebook. Jim is the most high profile campaigner against the criminals in the Irish guvment in Ireland. He was in the second most popular Irish Band, the Corrs. (I actually have everything they have released and love their music). It seems that my denouncement of the Irish guvment as not legitimate and my call to put all members of the guvment on trial in my 4 year battle with the Irish guvment has caught his attention is some way!
Jim has been amazing in rallying support to stop the criminality of the Irish guvment. Shame his three lovely sisters have not lent the same energy to the cause.
http://www.freedomfiles.org
http://www.jimcorr.com
you really seem to have a problem with women, a real dislike for us…
I doubt that it’s a problem with women in general. Some of that resonated with me. I still like most women but the modern femenist types piss me off.
Courtesans almost never fall into that category. (I’ve never met one that did)
I am divorced and the way family law courts treat men also pisses me off. So does the way men are portrayed in TV shows and commercials.
Comixchik,
it never ceases to amaze me women tell lies like that about me but I am really getting used to it. Western women just lie, lie, lie, lie and then lie some more. Why would you tell the lie that I have a dislike for women?
I have a problem with PEOPLE who condone criminal actions like perjury, kidnapping, extortion, theft and child abuse. In the english speaking world that is 99.9% of women and 99%+ of MEN. Indeed, I have been banned from many MRA-MRM sites because the poor little sweethearts cant handle the truth. And the TRUTH is that the problems of MEN are mostly due to BAD FATHERS. The ones like my father in law who actively participated in the criminal actions of his daughter. Or even MY father who actively participated in the criminal actions of his DAUGHTER in LAW.
My wife was stupid to start a war with me and her father and my father should have known better than to allow her to be that stupid. Bill has known me since I was 12. He knows that I will not tolerate crimes, not even if his daughter commits them. He was told, with absolute clarity, that if he supported Jennifers crimes he would bring his whole family into conflict with me making all his decedents valid targets for me. He did it anyway. So the FATHER is the MOST RESPONSIBLE party because we all know women cant be held responsible for their actions. They are children and demand to be treated like such. The evidence for the fact the vast majority of western women demand to be treated like children is overwhelming. Its called “the welfare state”.
When a stumbled across Maggies blog I had no idea as to the issues facing sex workers because I have never been involved in that area of life. I have been around LOTs of prostitutes in places like Manila, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur etc but never used the services of one. Seems way too expensive to me in English speaking countries and too dangerous to me in the asian countries.
So it was with great interest I read what Maggie and her commenters had to say. As I read over a few months I came to realise that the methods of oppression and victimisation of sex workers are the same as fathers. We have the same enemy. Might that not make us comrades in arms? And I have pointed that out many times here.
By the way. Did you miss THIS? Of the three people who supported me in the month I was suicidal two were women. One of them, a friend of mine in Dallas, ran into trouble in trying to keep her flower shop opened and I loaned her USD6,000 to help her. The shop went bust anyway. It will take her some time to repay me.
Another WOMAN friend of mine got fired from her contact a few years back and I loaned her EUR6,000 out of my own pocket and had to wait more than a YEAR to get it back. We have been friends for more than 20 years. Know what she said when Jennifer committed perjury? She said “I had a bad father so you deserve to get worked over in divorce” … she later said “my boyfriend got me pregnant and he promised to marry me and he ran away and my mum had a heart attack and it was all his fault so I have no sympathy for what happened to you”.
Are you women f***ing INSANE!? This is how my women “friends” treated me Comixchick. And I am hardly alone. If you talk to men of divorce you will find that they report they are HATED ON left right and center. So yes. I have a REAL PROBLEM with a woman who claims to have been my FRIEND for 20 years claiming that because she claims her dad was bad and claims that her boyfriend ran out on her that I should accept being criminally victiminised. I have a BIG problem with that. And YOU should too.
This is the sort of man you say has a real dislike for women and why it is just a blatant lie. I have published more than enough information to point out that I really like nice women. There are so few in the west that its not worth looking there. Other men are noticing too by the way.
OK, so we all know the first and second greatest pleasure a body can get, does anyone know the third? It is…..
“there is nothing more overrated than a bad shag, and nothing so underrated as a good shit”.
So Neo-Puritans and control freaks across the world: stick that in your phallic-shaped pipe and smoke it!
😛
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. – H.L. Mencken
But the stupid bastards couldn’t leave it at that. They had to add Deuteronomy, and Leviticus and the Talmud and the…
Thus setting the precedent that each paragraph of law shall generate no less than 8 pages of regulation.
It’s called “sunlight”. Fortunately, we don’t yet have the technology to attempt a ban on that.
Not that they haven’t tried 😉
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F#Part_one
And I think it only fair that I counter Mr. Bloomberg’s graphic with one from the FSM.
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
I’d like to go on record as rather liking BPA in certain contexts. Having spent a week in the hospital being fed intravenously, I can say that the BPA softened plastic hypodermic for the IV was a lot more comfortable than the stainless steel hypodermic used for the Ringer’s lactate. And much less likely to blow a vein.
“A survey released last year…found that about 90% of adults have had oral sex”
Did the survey also find that 90% of adults lie on questionaires?
I don’t find a 90% figure on oral sex to be that surprising, if it’s phrased as ‘ever’, and so as to include giving or receiving.
“these wannabe world-emperors demand control of everything and everyone they can see or know about.”
You made me think about “yertle the turle”. 🙂
One of my favorite Dr. Seuss books, actually. Here it is in its entirety.
I’m a bit skeptical about that container stuff. I can’t say that plastics and can-liners don’t have any effect, but I’d probably be a lot fatter if I drank sodas out of glass than if I drank water out of plastic. Calories do count.
George Orwell was right. If you don’t know what i’m talking about, read 1984.