We never know what’s percolating in the mind of children, okay? And when they demonstrate behaviors that raise red flags, we must do our duty. – Charles Maranzano
Many of you have probably seen the first video, of dogs reacting to a magic trick; in the second one, a magician performs tricks for cats instead. This isn’t the first dog/cat video dichotomy I’ve featured; look back to Links #160 for more juxtapositional fun. The three links above the first video were provided by Radley Balko, and those between the videos by Amy Alkon, Clarissa, Rick Horowitz, Kevin Wilson, and Eddie J Cunningham, in that order.
- There are 10 times as many mentally ill people in prisons as in hospitals.
- Cops murder man for trying to flee another, non-cop murderer.
- Shot in New York? Better go to a hospital outside the city.
- Never piss off the cook.
- The distant ancestor of Matter Eater Lad.
- Libertarianism happens to 8-year-olds, too.
- Somehow, I doubt she thought this through.
- Cop accuses 9-month-old boy of trying to murder him.
- Kid subjected to 5-hour psychiatric evaluation for twirling a pencil.
- US government now holds people responsible for their parents’ debts.
- New York wants criticizing people classed as “aggravated harassment”.
From the Archives
- Margaret Thatcher, Calvin and Hobbes, police state, politicians, tits, zombies, beavers, cats, nuclear power, Anonymous & Southerners.
- Secret to success at heterosexual male prostitution: don’t charge anything or expect much business.
- American states with “abstinence-only” sex education have the highest teen pregnancy rates.
- There can never be too many occasions on which to speak up for sex worker rights.
- The incredible hypocrisy and yellow journalism of the New York Times.
- Femen demonstrates its deep concern for women by attacking them.
- The Gender War was foisted on us by fanatics with lunatic agendas.
- Naomi Wolf’s analysis of the TSA’s true motivation is much like mine.
- Another article supporting disabled men’s right to see sex workers.
- Fetishists attack study because it contradicts “trafficking” dogma.
- It isn’t “trafficking” when a politically-connected company does it.
- More on Michael Weinstein’s campaign against an anti-HIV drug.
- Observation: missing drunk woman. Conclusion: Russian mafia.
- Why don’t journalists actually read what they’re writing about?
- Too bad Jezebel doesn’t stand up for sex workers more often.
- Neofeminist propaganda used to undermine abortion rights.
- In which Alice explains “burden of proof” to a large mouse.
- Another prohibitionist screed is debunked by Feminist Ire.
- Those who define sex work as criminality just don’t get it.
- Judgy Bitch’s excellent take on the “teen girl pimp” case.
- A look at actresses who have played whores in movies.
- Two girls drown while trying to escape their “rescuers”.
- What a sane, agenda-free sex work study looks like.
- Laura Lee on why the Swedish model is a bad idea.
- Women flee exploitative maid work for prostitution.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt on her show The Client List.
- I rolled my eyes so hard, I think I saw my brain.
- The truth about European porn ban proposals.
- Rapist-by-deceit charged with “sex trafficking”.
- The Swedish rot reaches South America.
- Joyce Arthur shows allies how to do it.
- Reminiscing about my favorite cousin.
- Young woman jailed for being raped.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on Gloria Steinem.
- Clay Nikiforuk appears to “get it”.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- An orangutan hooker?
- Are all women crazy?
Re: “Libertarianism happens to 8-year olds too”
I suppose this one strikes a particular chord because I knew the Air Force Colonel quoted in that story and my line of work is facilitating that sort of exchange with the media. I wonder what the actual Security Forces Squadron commander had to say, because he/she should be the one apologizing.
I’m not defending what happened to that family, however I again have to consider what would have happened had this been a civilian police force that conducted that stop. Sadly, I would wager it would have turned out much worse.
Again, without condoning what happened (because it was an overreaction, to put it mildly) I do note some differences between what I presume was a Security Forces Airman and a civilian policeman. This is just a hypothesis, but I’m putting this down to the more rigorous training a military member goes through, first just to get into the military, and then to become one of the few jobs in the Air Force where they are walking around armed every day they are on duty.
No shots fired (so to disagree the commenters on that article this was thankfully not an actual ‘shoot first’ situation), an actual apology (how often do we hear of civilian cops or their leaders apologizing?), and an invitation to come back (how often do we hear of civilian police inviting wronged citizens to tour the precinct?).
If I were the family, I’d take them up on that invitation, and ask for another public, personal apology and explanation from the Airman who pulled them over.
The story is incomplete. MP’s don’t have jurisdiction over civilians unless the civilians are on a military BASE. The museum may be on military “property” but do you have to go through an ID/Checkpoint to get to it? I’m thinking, no. If that’s the case then the officer in charge of base security should have openly questioned what his / her procedure would be if a disturbance arose involving civilians on that property.
Just because you HAVE legal jurisdiction – doesn’t mean it’s in anyone’s best interest for you to USE it.
If this is not in a secure area … were I the head of base security I would have questioned this …
“Let’s see – you say I own this piece of “quasi-base” property that has no check-point to gain entrance and it’s frequented by un-screened civilians?”
Sounds like a job for the local police to me – no matter where the property is.
Military police have enough to do (as evidenced AGAIN at Ft Hood last week) than to ensure the safety of museum pieces “threatened” by civilians.
I just googled around – this section of the museum is OUTSIDE the controlled perimeter of the base. It’s probably still military property – which means the military has jurisdiction **technically**. As I said though, it’s not in their best interests to exercise that jurisdiction when the facility is mostly being visited by members of the general public.
The military should function only as “bouncers” on that property, imo. In other words – you can ask people to leave but if they don’t – you call the cops. Also – can’t detain people unless you actually witness a felony being committed – and then you detain them only long enough for the cops to arrive.
I think this family should take the USAF to court and sue on the grounds that they were detained without authorization.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/02/ohio-newsapaper-army-civil-rights_n_5078580.html
Looks like I’m not the only person who’s familiar with The Legion of Superheroes. One of I-Mockery’s writers wrote a pair of articles on them:
http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/dork5/default.php
http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/dork6/default.php
Oh, and Jim Shooter is still alive.