I hope one day you find happiness…though “Happiness” will probably be his prison name. – Canadian cops who think they’re funny
The ACLU really did care about civil liberties once, as you can see by today’s second video (provided by Brooke Magnanti); it’s a series of TV spots from 1974. Of course, it still does care when that caring intersects its other agendas, as in the link from Stella Zine immediately above the video. The first video demonstrates the concept of spontaneous order, meaning things humans choose to do together without threat or coercion; it was contributed by Mistress Matisse. Every link above the first video came from Popehat, and the links between the videos from Eddie J Cunningham (“signage”), Michael Whiteacre (“Canada”), Jemima (“coming soon”), and Angela Keaton (“never call the cops”).
- The NYPD fights “terrorism”, one parody Twitter account at a time.
- Just another day in a police state.
- To protect and serve.
- Punished for beauty.
- Blatant disregard of signage.
- “Just say no”, Canadian style.
- Coming soon to a police state near you.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- The ACLU can help you upload video of cops so they can’t delete it.
From the Archives
- Hitler, Hitchcock, the police state, prohibitionism, cops, Batman, the Founding Fathers, spontaneous combustion, guns & a horror short.
- Anyone who says that laws can make a major city “brothel-free” should be disqualified from office on grounds of stupidity.
- Adults’ obsession with adolescent oral sex isn’t at all creepy or perverse.
- Chimps, gazillions, guitars, spying, the first website and the police state.
- It’s time for people to get over their childish attitudes toward sex work.
- The Long Island Killer manhunt stopped when they realized he’s a cop.
- Basic arithmetic is not required for a government position in Brooklyn.
- New evidence that Japanese army directly managed comfort women.
- A reader’s story of his own encounter with “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Do politicians really just not get that whole first amendment thing?
- Yet another collection of prohibitionist myths vomited out by cops.
- Professor Higginbotham ponders a quandary named Bernadette.
- The descent of “sex trafficking” rhetoric into total mumbo jumbo.
- Prostitution charges are often based on nothing but a cop’s lie.
- American hypocrisy says it’s fine to pay people not to have sex.
- Why Rachel Moran could never have been a Dublin sex worker.
- The wholly-ridiculous claims of soi-disant “trafficking survivors”.
- Sting victims entrapped by “age-regressed” photos of adults.
- The first appearance of the magical pimp mind-control philter.
- Another bizarre “sex trafficking” rumor debunked by Snopes.
- Indian sex workers again demonstrate their awesomeness.
- The full implications of California’s new “sex trafficking” law.
- How laws and stigma against sex workers harm all women.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on “fallen woman” imagery in La Traviata.
- Women With A Vision responds to anti-whore propaganda.
- The problem with a state-sponsored “ugly mugs” scheme.
- How does one find an escort for lesbian experimentation?
- Kevin Wilson on the sheer badness of sex work research.
- How to create “sex trafficking” from ordinary hooking.
- The brutal murder of a young gay man in Jamaica.
- Interviews with Deon Haywood and Carol Leigh.
- The true face of Ashley Madison’s fake women.
- Why queers should care about sex offenders.
- Another serial killer of sex workers in Detroit.
- Why neofeminists hate sexy female hurdlers.
- Because whores look just like other women.
- We can’t find it, so it must be happening!
- He went home; she’s locked in a cage.
- Rescuing sex workers from “rescuers”.
- Rapist cops of the week…169 of them.
- The indiscretions of Mary Anne Clarke.
- My autographed copy of Paying For It.
- But what was she doing at a brothel?
- An example of the bottleneck effect.
- The problem of the “perfect victim”.
- A new twist on the “pigeon drop”.
- Giving up harlotry for love.
The police in Ferguson are not unusual. They are no different from the other lying, corrupt, brutal tax payer supported thugs across the nation, and the same story takes place again and again in localities across the nation.
The question is: How much longer will the tax payer continue to support this gang of thugs?
If, in my day, students had been sent home for being ginger, i’d have gotten no schooling at all.
… aaand today’s the day I finally come to the end of your ouevre, Maggie. (Would have been faster, but I read all the comments.)
It’s been quite a ride since I first read your piece in Reason more than a year ago, and henceforth became addicted to what my wife refers to as my “hooker blog”, but I’d just like to say that I’ve appreciated all of your work, even when our viewpoints have differed from time to time. It was often bizarre to see you commenting on “current” events months afterward so I’m glad to finally be in synch. Perhaps I can actually participate in the great conversations now instead of eating popcorn on the sidelines of a retro argument. Sorry I missed you when you came through Arizona on your tour.
Thanks again!
My pleasure. 🙂
Did someone else become me send you the signs link, Maggie?
It was you that tweeted that? Argh, my apologies for the oversight! I somehow neglected to make a note.
I am out of the country and FAR from any civilization … I JUST got a marginal amount of connectivity last night and it still took three tries and five minutes to get this page to load. I just found out about Ferguson.
Thank God I found this article on the affair by Mark Steyn – it’s damned spot on. So I’m not going to write an essay on what I think – an essay that will probably not upload to the prototype Alexander Graham Bell telco line that my MacBook seems to be connected to.
So I’ll just adopt Steyn’s comments as my own.
http://www.steynonline.com/6524/cigars-but-not-close
Police need automatic weapons … but not dash-cams? WTF???