It does seem overkill to shoot someone who is running away from you. – Cindi Keele
This week’s contributions were totally dominated by Popehat, who contributed both videos and everything above the first one, which the city of Indianapolis doesn’t want you to see (to the point of hinting it might issue a bumptious legal threat to the video’s creator). The second video is a 1971 NASA documentary for kids, and the links between the two were provided by Clarissa (“RIP”), Radley Balko (“balloons” and “another day”), Mara Dyne (“wishlist”), Rick Horowitz (“mayhem”), Cop Block (“blinded”), and Amy Alkon (“together”).
- Young teen charged with assault for bruising cop’s hand with his face.
- The law is the law. The court is only doing its job.
- Yet another reason I’ll never own a robot car.
- Just another day in Washington.
- R.I.P, H.R. Giger.
- The Fire Balloons.
- A universal wishlist, even for sex workers.
- Just the usual police murder and mayhem.
- Cop permanently blinds woman by firing directly into her eyes.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Another day, another cop shoots another unarmed man in the back.
From the Archives
- Space Oddity, science, the police state, barns, the drug war, shit, witchcraft, nutritionism, ancient monuments and dead fish.
- Irish authorities label everything from undocumented immigration to attempted rape as “human trafficking”.
- In India, cop abuse of whores triggers protest marches, but in the US cops sexually assault protesters.
- The strong resemblance between American and Ugandan prohibitionism.
- Fetishists tout “sex trafficking” nonsense; unintentional hilarity ensues.
- How the “trafficking” paradigm confuses those whose minds it pollutes.
- The “trafficking” narrative is largely an excuse for restricting migration.
- More evidence of the absurdity of the claim that few men pay for sex.
- Another incredibly-broad “sex trafficking” law based on the CASE Act.
- Dominican sex workers respond to government “end demand” noise.
- Federal court strikes down Florida law against walking while female.
- “We looked at sex addiction, but there was no science at all. None.”
- A course for German sex workers on how to handle disabled clients.
- Turkish brothels provide an example of the problems of legalization.
- US State Department urges Malaysia to violently persecute whores.
- Another female academic tells the truth about East Asian sex work.
- The real purpose and effects of the “Violence Against Women Act”.
- Organized persecution of Canadian whores continues to crumble.
- Zimbabwean politicians want women forced to be unattractive.
- “There’s no evidence whatsoever; we just want more power.”
- Scottish local governments resistant anti-sex business hype.
- HuffPo writer equates consensual sex with rape and murder.
- Compulsory “rehabilitation” is indistinguishable from prison.
- Spanish prostitutes build goodwill by doing street cleaning.
- Another would-be ally fails to check with sex workers first.
- Kelly Michaels on state abduction of sex workers’ children.
- A grotesque display of political pandering from New York.
- It’s not politically correct to tell the truth about condoms.
- Another rescue industry icon is exposed as a con artist.
- Sarah Woolley on why “objectification” is pure bollocks.
- The man who helped bring my favorite heroines to life.
- The tale of a bounty hunter in a dystopian near future.
- Cops accuse man of sexually abusing his pet peacock.
- The truth is nearly always somewhere in the middle.
- Dr. Laura Agustin at the Dublin Anarchist Book Fair.
- Baltimore woman charged with “trafficking” herself.
- Christopher Ryan on sex work and harm reduction.
- Neofeminists try to censor the name of a journal.
- South Australia moves toward decriminalization.
- Margo St. James and the early days of COYOTE.
- Elderly patron dies while getting a lap dance.
- Nobody will admit that the emperor is naked.
- Another criticism of “sex robot” foolishness.
- Busybodies simply adore dysphemisms.
- Harm reduction workers in Lancashire.
- We have met the enemy and he is us.
- The Wicker Tree and You Will Die.
- Thoughts on Mother’s Day.