For every action there’s a reaction. – Javier Ortiz
Here we are mid-month, and still few Christmas links worth repeating despite the fact that decorations have been up since before Thanksgiving. So to counterbalance the first video (in which a cop stupidly admits on record that he’s going to file false charges against a cop’s daughter who was uploading the whole incident to the internet as it transpired), I present more heavy metal Christmas music from Christopher Lee (courtesy of Michael Whiteacre). Nobody contributed more than one link, so I’ve collected the unattributed ones above the first video; those between the videos were provided by Cliterati, Jillian Keenan, Mike Siegel, Eric Barry, Rick Horowitz, Radley Balko, and Clarissa (in that order).
- The crime: street art. The penalty: run down by police car.
- We’re not at peak hysteria yet, but we’re getting close.
- What’s the DSM-V term for this particular psychosis?
- “Curses are laws that enforce themselves.”
- Sounds legit.
- In the footsteps of casinos.
- Couldn’t she just get her own?
- Another day in the police state.
- Another cop, another unarmed man, another murder.
- Ferguson orders its cops to increase predatory ticketing.
- Woman has an abominably poor grasp of how to do BDSM.
From the Archives
- Surveillance, propaganda, Prohibition, Calvin & Hobbes, puppycide, cops, Pearl Harbor, concentration camps, DNA and Manic Pixie Prostitute.
- Philippine cops & bureaucrats want immunity to lawsuits filed by sex workers who were “rescued” against their will.
- Fact: teen girl runs off with boyfriend. Conclusion: a giant worldwide conspiracy selling infants for snuff sex.
- Water, cops, Christmas, GIFs, Daleks, metadata, Shakespeare, government and cat poo.
- Cops and prosecutors imagine everyone to be as twisted and evil as they are.
- Two columns on governmental regulation of human sexual relationships.
- Just because someone made a movie doesn’t mean the subject is real.
- Censors selflessly devote their lives to watching porn so others can’t.
- How police privilege and anti-prostitution laws endanger all women.
- In the US, this story would be forced into the “trafficking” paradigm.
- Officials admit they knew a law they wanted was unconstitutional.
- Idiot calls cops to complain that a hooker shorted him 10 minutes.
- Aspasia explains to a feminist why many women aren’t feminists.
- Sydney cops raid brothel which won a judgment against the city.
- Why Kate Gould is opposed to criminalizing the purchase of sex.
- Lawyer says murder of transwomen should get lower sentence.
- The idea of North Dakota as a “sex trafficking hub” is hilarious.
- Xaviera Hollander is now a 69-year-old hotelier in Amsterdam.
- The European Women’s Lobby is totally detached from reality.
- Clearing sex workers from Louisiana’s “sex offender” registry.
- Yellow journalists describe anything to do with sex as “dark”.
- Can a sexually-inexperienced woman make it as an escort?
- Cops strike after Argentina shuts down their bribe stream.
- Why a gay activist is conflicted about same-sex marriage.
- American courts hate oil companies more than whores.
- No, you can’t take back gifts you give to a sex worker.
- New Bolivian law to regulate and recognize sex work.
- Cops try to pin Long Island killings on a non-cop.
- Frank Furedi on the myth of “modern slavery”.
- “Human trafficking” compared to other crimes.
- Joyce Arthur on language used by the media.
- Yet another thing you can’t be addicted to.
- Pardis Mahdavi on sex trafficking hysteria.
- Don’t confuse push factors for pull factors.
- Puritanism takes precedence over charity.
- How can I rid myself of sexual inhibitions?
- A typical German view of Alice Schwarzer.
- A delightful conversation about murder.
- New excuses for another Soho pogrom.
- A peek inside the mind of a bureaucrat.
- That’ll show them dirty photographers!
- Can men and women really be friends?
- Back in New Orleans, December 2013.
- A primer on the indexing of this blog.
- An Austrian sex-education kerfuffle.
- Jasper Gregory on feminist Utopias.
- Still another Friday the Thirteenth.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- More “sex ray” hysteria.
- December 17th events.
- Cops busted as pimps.
- More stand-up guys.
- Sex and Punishment.
1. Not so long ago, Belfast City Council—at the time dominated by protestant fundamentalists—used to chain the swings on Sundays in their play parks. Nothing to do with health and safety, though.
2. There a short news report in this week’s New Scientist about cops in the US and their “broken windows” style of policing:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429994.300-why-are-us-police-so-prone-to-violence.html#.VI2UTyeG5FV
As so often, where the US leads the UK will soon follow.
The dinosaurs thing…may want a warning sign for that one. Was not prepared for that level of stupid this early in the morning.
The curses thing might be a blessing in disguise. We change laws into curses, everyone stays home for a week while Congress is in session, let the curses weed out half the politicians. They then repeal 90% of laws to save their own skin and remove the curses after they figure out what a bad idea it it (read: it affects them, too). Freedom restored. Mazel tov!
Regarding the Native Americans, Casinos,Pot and related amusements; I keep waiting for the Reservations to announce that they aren;t going to collect tax on tobacco anymore. Tobacco IS a sacrament for most Native American Tribes (I don’t actually know of any for which it isn’t, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t so), and there’s precedent in the Prohibition era exemption for Jewish households.
Wouldn’t THAT sent the cat amongst the pigeons.