“That is no excuse,” replied Mr. Brownlow…”the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.”
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is a ass – a idiot.” – Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Two new stories, nine updates and three metaupdates.
The Law is an Ass
Today in “Never call the police for any reason whatsoever”:
…Christina Marie Lopez [of Oregon]…pleaded guilty…to attempted use of a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct…in December…Lopez complained to police and media that a strip club had hired her…[then 17-year-old] daughter…Investigators later obtained surveillance video…”that showed Lopez in the club watching her daughter dance and providing her money”…[but] now 18-year-old Nicole Madril, said…”It’s not like she came in there and got 50 lap dances from me…She came in and gave me money so I could get myself something to eat”…Lopez was sentenced to 3 years in prison, 3 years of post-prison supervision, and must register as a sex offender. Lopez’s daughter told the judge the sentence was unfair and that it was her own choice to strip.
Lopez obviously forgot about the Law of Shazam; even if her daughter was at most four months shy of her 18th birthday, she was still the exact legal, moral and intellectual equivalent of a newborn infant, and therefore easily controllable by any adult.
Bullies With Badges
Police in riot gear and masks saved Houston from evil harlots Thursday: “At least six women were in custody…after prostitution stings at three…massage parlors…Investigators said most of the women who were arrested appeared to be under the age of 30 – some as young as teenagers…Investigators said…they were looking into whether any of the women may be victims of human trafficking.” News flash: Many Asian women look younger than most white women; those who “looked like teenagers” may have been much older. The “trafficking” claims were obviously to head off valid criticism of the incredible waste of this “raid”, but if they were sincere their actions are even more reprehensible, as pointed out in this must-read column from Radley Balko.
Updates
They Just Don’t Get It (April 12th, 2011)
What is wrong with journalists in Pennsylvania? Their fawning treatment of cops and other “authorities” reads like fellatio porn, and their feigned ignorance of anything whore-related is astonishingly stupid:
Prostitution has plagued any number of internet sites in recent years – notably Craigslist – but now the CBS 3 I-Team has found a new hideout for hookers on…Twitter…used by call girls all the time as a free way to advertise…some prostitutes right in your backyard are even setting up appointments over Twitter, which is used by kids of all ages…“It gives…that ability to reach their customers immediately,” says Rob D’Ovidio, a cyber crime expert at Drexel University. “If it’s a slow day, and they want to lure in customers, they can quickly get that blurb out there”…
Reading stories like this feels like looking into a dirty toilet; one wonders what sort of filthy mind could write it, despite the fact that “kids of all ages” could see it on TV. Apparently nobody told Mr. “Cyber Crime Expert” that we’re all “victims” now and that we’re the ones who are “lured” rather than vice-versa. Except, obviously, in Pennsylvania (where we’re still criminals) and Texas (where they ain’t sure).
Another Small Victory (July 16th, 2011)
A group of US Representatives petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court ruling striking down the anti-prostitution pledge; Congressman Chris Smith characterized agencies who provide condoms and testing to all women (without excluding sex workers) as “international groups that promote and enable prostitution and sex trafficking”. The mindless self-destructiveness of this position becomes evident when one realizes that people like Smith wrongly believe whores to be the major vectors of STIs, yet want us excluded from health programs anyway. He’s also ignorant on the ruling, which only freed domestic agencies from the ridiculous “pledge”; international ones are still bound by it, which leads me to wonder how this group keeps its funding:
A new NGO in Nicaragua aims to protect the rights of women who voluntarily work in the sex trade, raising the question of whether sex work should be seen as a legitimate job, or should be treated as a component of organized crime that is inherently linked to problems like human trafficking. Girasoles de Nicaragua…is backed by USAID [and] formed…to fight “stigma, discrimination and violence”…the organization has…deployed 25 employees across the country, reportedly providing some 500 women with health aid, literacy training, and legal support. It plans to partner with the police in investigating crimes related to the sex trade, and form alliances with other international organizations that promote sex workers’ rights, including Argentina-based network RedTraSex. The group argues that sex work should be recognized as a respectable form of self-employment…that allows women to support themselves and their families…
The rest of the article, as should be evident from the lede, devolves into the usual “human trafficking cartel” nonsense, branding the group’s statements to reporters “confused” and implying that they know less about their own field than lay people who read “trafficking” propaganda.
Elephant in the Parlor (October 23rd, 2012)
Michael Wiener, a…[New Mexico] county commissioner …is being asked to resign after a picture of him posing with scantily clad women in a well-known red light district in the Philippines…[was posted by] photographer John Keatley…on his blog. Wiener…[wrote] that…”NOTHING untoward ever happened…The pictures taken are as innocent as any that could be taken at Twin Peaks or Hooters here“…[but] Keatley said “…It was very obvious to me that he was not respectful to women. He was there to have a good time”…
Because to the neofeminism-addled mind, “respectful to women” and “good time” are mutually exclusive.
Umpteen Thousand People Can’t Be Wrong (November 12th, 2011)
“A group of senators has introduced a resolution urging Village Voice Media to take down the ‘adult entertainment’ section of its classified-ads site, Backpage.com.” Blah, blah, blah. You know the rest.
Presents, Presents, Presents! (December 29th, 2011)
Darren Thompson sent me an Amazon gift certificate this week, which I used to get several small items: The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb, Pretty Baby and two discs of Warner Brothers cartoons that weren’t on my wish list. Thank you so much!
Sleazier Than Thou (January 30th, 2012)
Ashley Madison is well known for its lies, deception and sleazy advertising, but this is slimy even for them:
For the past four years, infidelity-based matchmaking site AshleyMadison.com has seen an influx of married women signing up for its services on…the day after Mother’s Day. According to the site’s founder, Noel Biderman, more married women join the site on that day than on any other…”If that day comes to pass, and once again what [women] experience is a lack of appreciation, affection and respect, that is when the idea of taking on a potential lover takes full form,” Biderman said…
Guys, very few actual living women sign up for Ashley Madison on ANY day. The majority of those who do are whores, and the rest aren’t being truthful about their age or weight; Biderman is a lying shyster out to take your money. That having been said, it’s probably best to be extra-sweet to your wife on Mother’s Day; yes, I know she isn’t your mother, and I agree…but she may not, and that could mean trouble.
Prudish Pedants (March 22nd, 2012)
And all it took was triple jeopardy and lying to the jury about the legality of nullification:
A jury today found fetish filmmaker Ira Isaacs guilty on five counts of violating federal obscenity laws. He’ll be sentenced on Aug. 6. It was the third…trial…The first two ended with mistrials…[the] federal prosecutor…said…that Isaacs’ goal…was solely to make money, but Isaacs’ attorney…said…that the case is about testing the First Amendment… Judge George King…told [the jury] that it’s their duty to weigh and evaluate all the evidence and decide the facts based solely on the law, reason and common sense and not their opinion or speculation…
Much Ado About Nothing (April 18th, 2012)
Agent Cheapskate has finally been unmasked as Arthur Huntington, who “lives in Saverna Park, Md. [and] is a married father of two whose wife leads Bible study in the neighborhood…the Secret Service has created new rules forbidding all foreigners but hotel staff in agents’ rooms and barring them from visiting ‘seedy establishments’.” In other news, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee admitted that the whores were just whores, not spies or international gangsters: “It does not appear that these guys were targeted. [It wasn’t] a foreign organization attempting to seduce Secret Service agents…There’s no evidence that any of the women have any involvement with narco-terrorists or any type of terrorist organization. Basically, they’re prostitutes.”
Which, of course, every hooker in the world already knew.
My Favorite Books (April 26th, 2012)
I think these folks are reading far too much into a discarded first draft, but it’s still interesting:
Newly-discovered draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince“…will be auctioned off later this month after a rare public viewing…The first page contains a piece of text that’s partly retained in chapter 19 of the published work. But the second leaf of the work is completely original…In 1943, the text turned from a scribbled manuscript by a relatively unknown author, into a literary phenomenon that has since sold 140 million copies, in about 260 languages. After The Bible, “The Little Prince” is the most translated book in history, according to the…Saint-Exupery Foundation. Sadly, the author would never know the extent of his book’s success: he died shortly after its first publication in a mysterious plane crash in 1944 while on active service in World War II…
Metaupdates
Shifting the Blame in The Beat Goes On (Part One) (January 18th, 2012)
Feminine Pragmatism in TW3 (#13) (March 31st, 2012)
“Octomom” Nadya Suleman, who filed for bankruptcy this week with $1 million in debts and $50,000 in assets, has agreed to do a masturbation video for Vivid for $100,000. She insists it isn’t really porn (which she has sworn never to do) because it’s a solo act; do you think I should send her a copy of “Little Boxes”?
Good News, Bad News in TW3 (#14) (April 6th, 2012)
Elena Jeffreys explains the probable effects of the sleazy political deal which could impose a version of the Swedish Model on Western Australia:
Adele Carles is no friend of the HIV sector, no friend of STI prevention, and her $5.5 million sex worker ‘rescue’ centre is going to cost the WA Liberals, and any future government, that friendship as well. What will it cost sex workers? Our ability to protect ourselves. Our health. And our dignity…The…centre is being horse-traded in Western Australia…for votes over Christian Porter’s anti-sex work Prostitution Bill. Doomed from the start, Porter authored the Bill by not listening to his own policy staff, ignoring sex workers and the sex worker movement, and thumbing his nose at the Liberal’s own ‘numbers people’…With a lack of buy-in from the industry, total opposition from the churches and zero support from both the ALP and the Greens, suddenly Independent MP…Adele Carles, has the power to call the shots…[Carles’ scheme would be funded by] gutting the existing sex worker service and building a new service geared towards the redemption, exit and retraining of sex workers out of the industry rather than the current approach of harm reduction for current sex workers…
One Year Ago Today
“May Updates (Part Two)” reports on harm reduction for untreatable alcoholics, junk science equating a vital food component with hard drugs, and government busybodies trying to “protect” babies from the scourge of mother’s milk.
Bullies With Badges – I can understand the masks, but didn’t they feel silly raiding a massage parlour in full assault gear? The girls must have thought they were about to be herded into a UFO for an anal probing.
Elephant in the Parlor – Keatley on his site says he felt “a heavy darkness” in Angeles City. Is that another name for the deadly sex rays?
Are men like him so pathetically needy of feminine approval that they will believe any kind of sh**t even when evidence to the contrary is all around them, or are they just playing to the market?
Wanna bet Octomom does a bukakke video next? It’s still not “real” sex.
Cops are little pussies, so I doubt they ever feel silly using excessive force against anything they can pretend is a “threat”. As for Keatley: yeah, I definitely think he’s one of those pathetic characters who feels the need to tailor his opinions to please others, whether women or “society” in general. I’ve never felt or understood such a need, so I’ve never been sympathetic to that sort of jellyfish behavior.
There’s nothing more threatening to cops than a scantily clad woman. Really.
Wow. $100,000 for a masturbation video? I was so underpaid. I didn’t get that much for gang bangs. But then, I didn’t make myself famous by having a lot of kids I couldn’t support, either. Silly me.
There’s no limit to how low cops will sink. I think any of us that have dealt with them know that. What irritates me is how brainwashed the public is into thinking that we must always respect these guys, and that we need them. Every time the cops do something totally egregious, someone has to pipe up with “Oh it’s just a few bad apples, there are good cops out there blah, blah.”
Rubbish. It’s a totally corrupt system. Any one who works in it knows that. “Good cops” are quickly required to become bad cops.
And they are shocked the women they grabbed won’t talk? Talking is just giving them the material they need to convict you. One of the big rules of doing any sort of illegal work is this- Once arrested, shut up. Don’t admit to anything. Don’t mention any names, don’t try to make any deals. EVERY THING YOU SAY WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU.
That “few bad apples” nonsense is so prevalent that Radley Balko’s recurring title for stories of police brutality is “Another Isolated Incident”.
I agree with you on everything but one point – can we at least say that motorcycle cops are “cool”? I mean, seriously. They are usually jolly-fat guys anyway and prolly the only reason they joined the force was to ride a Harley and get paid for it.
I have a Harley – I don’t ride it much because my Honda is faster and more fun – but even when I’m on my Harley, I can’t be mad at anyone – I just fuckin’ smile. Kids pass by in cars and wave and smile – and you just can’t turn yourself into a bad person no matter how hard you try. I think motorcycle cops are cool. In fact, I’ll bet motorcycle cops love hookers and are some of the best clients in the business – I mean, think about it – you’re with an awesome chick and when you’re done – you jump right back in the saddle of that Harley!
No way a motorcycle cop ever arrested a hooker – I can’t see it happening. 🙂
As long as all they do is lead funerals, they’re okay…
Since when do Houston cops wear SKI MASKS?! … And – at the beginning of summer?!
Ira Isaacs … told ya they’d get him. Once the Feds are in your six you have lost. You will not shake them, they will not quit. Feds are like THE TERMINATOR.
They didn’t want to breathe in any of our whore-germs.
Since when do Houston cops wear SKI MASKS?!
Since police-officer stopped being an honorable job.
Well, they look like terrorists and, actually it’s a stupid-looking getup. They dressed me like that as a prison guard in this movie I’m working on as an extra. I feel totally gay walking around in that getup all day on set. Not to offend any gay people out there – it’s just that many have a tendency to prefer “flash and glam” styles over more practical wear.
So I don’t know how cops dress like that without feeling ridiculous – especially when rounding up a bunch of highly dangerous Asian whores!
Cops use force for the purpose of “making an example” of those bullied. That’s what terrorists do, too; in fact it’s the definition of a terrorist. The only thing that distinguishes the good cops we used to have from terrorists is that good cops would only do it to those hurting other people (and even then, wouldn’t go beyond what they needed to capture you, meaning punish, unless a judge ordered it).
I’m all for living within the social contract — but it goes both ways, and the cops have to honor it too if they expect our cooperation.
Well, I have to say that as a Houstonian, I feel much safer now. And I’m so glad my tax dollars are being spent on this instead of things like, oh I don’t know, street repair. I enjoy the fact that driving on any major street inside the loop feels like traveling inside a dribbling basketball. As for the ski masks, everybody wears them down here when its 90 degrees and 60% humidity. Besides, who wants to wait until Halloween to dress up in your badass ninja gear and pretend you’re part of Seal Team 6 going after Bin Laden.
“Prostitution has plagued any number of internet sites in recent years – notably Craigslist – but now the CBS 3 I-Team has found a new hideout for hookers on…Twitter…used by call girls all the time as a free way to advertise…some prostitutes right in your backyard are even setting up appointments over Twitter, which is used by kids of all ages…“It gives…that ability to reach their customers immediately,” says Rob D’Ovidio, a cyber crime expert at Drexel University. “If it’s a slow day, and they want to lure in customers, they can quickly get that blurb out there”…”
Reporter: “OMG! Whores know how to use social media?! No, they’re too stupid to figure that out. Must be their pimps and traffickers doing it for them. Up next, ‘Hookers in your backyard: The Orkin Man can’t fix this one!”
**eye roll** I think I want to send this reporter a dictionary so he can look up the definition of ‘hideout’.
You’ll probably enjoy my comment on that story.
I assume Christina Lopez was pressured into pleading guilty with threats of much harsher sentences. This sort of thing is happening way too often these days. We have to pass an amendment to require a jury trial for any felony conviction– with no exceptions. Even if someone is willing to confess, they have to be able to plead their case to a jury. The system we have now, with prosecutors bullying people into accepting convictions without trial, has taken over the justice system completely. And it’s made a mockery of our Constitutional protections.
Actually, all people need to do is start demanding the protections we already have; trial by jury is a right, and everyone who takes a plea bargain “willingly” gives up that right due to the monstrous threats of prosecutors. If everyone insisted on a trial, though, the injustice machinery would be overwhelmed and the state would have no choice but to either curtail the huge number of criminal laws or instruct the police not to enforce them. The problem, obviously, is getting enough people to cooperate, which will eventually happen when things get bad enough for widespread bloodshed…but by then it may be too late for a peaceful solution.
I don’t want to shock anybody, but I’ve heard that some prostitutes eat hamburgers. At McDonald’s. Where children play. Won’t somebody think of the children?!